The discussion becomes riveting as we delve into iconic photos that shaped the media landscape, particularly a photograph of Trump, and the controversy surrounding its recognition. From here, the conversation transitions to the debate over Real ID laws and privacy concerns, reflecting on government overreach and the public’s mixed reactions. To wrap it all up, political landscapes are examined with a cheeky overview of interviews and media representation, providing critical insights and a touch of humor.
Wow. That is a fine act. You ever catch Seeger in the Silver Bullet Men there? Yeah, good stuff. Good stuff, not bad. And it’s funny, because with a career that really started to crest in the late 70s, you think, how in the world is Seeger almost as old as the Beatles? He had like seven or eight albums before Night Moves, which is when everybody went, ooh, who’s this guy? Kind of like Debbie Harry of Blondie, who was, I mean, she was like, not everybody gets instant fame when they’re 22. But anyway, so happy birthday to Bob Seeger. We’ll be doing a lot of things with his today.
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I’ve got I’ve got a housekeeping announcement to make. Did you know that we do the Eminem experience every day live on X? Did you follow that?
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I know you post.
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Does that involve you posting it or does it just happen by magic? I mean, were people right to Gallagher show? you guys at gallagher show right now we’re live the and we do it every single time at 7 35 central 8 35 look at that and you could watch and and you should you guys should be doing the same thing at mark davis bad boy right now so thank you with gold and i’ll go do that well the gold is if you follow me i might follow you back and i’m gonna whine and beg for you to follow me because i need more followers how many followers do you have on x you got a lot you got 15 like Well, I want to get – I mean, Charlie Kirk has two trillion. How did that happen?
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He’s more popular than we are. I mean, I totally get it. I don’t know. Here we go. Boom. Reposted. Can’t retweet it anymore.
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Not tweet. Repost. Repost on – twitter i just do i know weird i miss a letter i kind of miss twitter all kinds of syllables twitter formerly x i don’t know i went kind of crazy i went kind of crazy on x this morning yeah because i and i retweeted charlie because he pointed out that the Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci took a photograph of Trump after last summer’s assassination attempt in Butler. You tell me if there’s a more iconic photograph you’ve ever seen in your life. The blood down his face, the American, the bright blue sky. Well, because it made Trump look good. The Pulitzer Prize Committee refused to give it the award for best breaking news photograph of 2024. We do know that. Who stepped forward to say because of that, we denied him the prize? Oh, no. What do you think is more iconic than that picture? I totally know. What do you think would be a better picture? Come on. Absolutely. What did win? Do we know what did win? Well, as somebody posted, they would have given a Pulitzer to a blurry iPhone picture of Greta Thunberg sipping oatmeal. before they would honor the most iconic image of the decade. Trump didn’t just break the media, he made them irrelevant. Here’s another good comment. That photo captured raw history. Trump bleeding, defiant, unbroken. And winning the election that day. That did at that moment. When he survived it, I remember thinking to myself, he won. There’s just no way. And if that had happened to Joe Biden, if that were Joe Biden in that picture, it would right now be on every classroom wall in America. That because it elevates Trump’s strength and reminds America who the real fighter is, the Pulitzer crowd snubbed it. This wasn’t about journalism, Noah Christopher wrote. It was about narrative control. The media cannot stand it. And I love this line. The media cannot stand it when truth favors our side. Go ahead.
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And there are various institutions, the Nobel Peace Prize, even the whole Nobel organization, you know, will help you in a hundred different ways. Right. Various that are supposed to be merit based. I don’t lie awake and I worry about the Nobel Prize. But gone are the days when those are based on merit. They’re often a political. All right.
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Let’s let’s get into the real ideas, because tomorrow’s the day, you know, tomorrow’s D-Day. Nearly half nearly half the country. Yeah, well, I don’t know. Every three days, you better have a real ID. In fact, I’m supposed to go back again to New York this weekend. I just got back from there, and I don’t want to go back. And it’s like I’m supposed to see it’s an obligation. But, yeah, I mean, I’ve always had that little gold star, as far as I know, on my driver’s license. And I don’t remember doing anything special for it. Do you? Well, I think…
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I guess it happened automatically. I think my last driver’s license renewal was two, three years ago, and it just happened. There’s my little white star in the gold circle or the other way around or something like that.
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Well, you could opt into it, though, right? You opted into it.
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I didn’t have to do anything.
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I think they ask you when you renew it. You may not have remembered. Maybe not. Who wouldn’t do it? Okay, here we go. You want to open up your phone lines? You want to open up your text line? Hey, Mike, Mark, what are you, government spying on us? The government, why would you give them that? People go nuts on this issue.
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I don’t know.
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Do you think they don’t fly very often? Well, the people who are against it?
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No, I think it is like a lot of other things. Take a base coat of healthy cynicism about government, a long track record of government doing all kinds of things that are intrusive and unnecessary, and then project that forward and create an atmosphere of cynicism and suspicion around everything. And there you have the real ID protesters. I agree. Listen, if there’s anybody who’s going to look for government overreach or government impropriety, it’s you and it’s me. I can’t find doodly squat that’s a problem with a real ID driver’s license.
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And I almost had to look for it because I never want to not reflect what a big segment of my audience believes. But on the other hand, look, if you really – good luck. Go live off the grid. Go live in a cabin somewhere on the mountains, on a mountain. But other than that, they know everything. What don’t they know already? You’ve got a social security number.
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We do. Isn’t that a de facto national ID? Do you remember, was there ever a time, it seems like it’s about 20 years ago, maybe more, because we’ve done this a long time, where we could have filled the lines with, well, I’ll tell you what, Mark, we’re going to work on getting this national ID number. I remember thinking, so? And then I got some pretty good answers as to why, because you don’t want to be that trackable or something like that. And as far as privacy and the information we give, here’s something that is charming in its… Retroactive stupidity. Grocery stores, you know how you can have like a little discount or something or other? I’m at Tom Thommer Kroger, and it’s like 1997, and they said, hey, if you give us your phone number or your email address, what was it you had to give them in order to get special discounts on stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn’t do it, and I told the audience, we must rise up. We must stand up. You cannot have our personal information in order to get a 30-cent biscuit on a gallon of milk. I lost that argument in a millisecond. People were just wanting to save money at the grocery store. And so, whatever.
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By the way, we’re getting a bunch of texts from Texas on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE. Look at all the ways we let you connect with us. The text line…
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your text line and now X look at what we’re up to 293 viewers come on we can do better than that go to go to Gallagher at Gallagher show and watch you get credit for a viewer that watches because they watched on my mark famous probably I don’t think I do I think you get the credit I don’t know how any of this crap works I hate it all go to mine go to mine good it’s like go to either one of us at mark davis how many yeah how many do you have let’s see how many viewers you’ve got are you are you’re doing it now are you did you repost it so it’s the same oh so i don’t think it’ll go i don’t think you’ll get the credit i think i get the credit exactly so three how many do we have i’m looking at 376 right now oh mine says 293 see none of it works it’s a it’s a giant conspiracy the whole thing doesn’t work But here’s what Texas is saying. Texas went to the real ID in 2016. They just give it to us. We don’t have a choice. That’s kind of interesting. Well, I know, but shouldn’t you at least have the option? No. Well, some people might care.
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There’s a lot of things that I want an option for. You know, is my kid going to get a radical sex education in fifth grade or they’re going to, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I wonder if I get the real ID, the driver’s license. I don’t care. And I don’t know why anybody would.
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No, I don’t really get it either. What I do care about is watching the meltdown over, oh, I don’t know, Alcatraz, $1,000 to self-deport.
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We talked about this yesterday.
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I have.
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You’ve been to Alcatraz. Isn’t it one of the coolest tours you can take? I mean, it just instantly takes you back to Al Capone’s time. You can imagine being incarcerated and then trying to get out.
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And I instinctively knew what he meant. The media is mocking him because he’s saying, look, Alcatraz is a scary, terrible, beautiful, iconic symbol. And, oh, look how incoherent he is. How could it be terrible and scary and wonder beautiful at the same time? Yeah, well, it is. I mean, but it’s also what he’s saying is it’s a it’s a symbol of, you know, a fortress of of what happens when you do bad things. I get it. I got it. And of course, right away, they’re mocking him. And they’re and they’re shooting that down, too. Now they’re shooting down the idea of a thousand dollars to self-deport. Is there anything? Of course it does. But you know what the scheme is. There is a scheme going on. The due process thing is a total scheme. And the scheme is this. It’s real simple. They know we can’t have 50 million trials. They know that, and that’s what they want. They want to gum it up, and they want to keep these people in America indefinitely, and they know that if they screech… They didn’t care about due process when the border was wide open. This is such a joke, and everybody’s… There was some Democrat on the border saying, well, yeah, border’s closed, and he’s not getting any credit for that whatsoever. What they’re freaking out about, though, is every other thing that he’s doing, everything that he’s accomplishing… Let’s go into a territory that’s going to get me in a whole bunch of trouble. Did you see what Mike Pence said about President Trump yesterday on CNN?
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The reason that answer is no is because there is great wisdom in knowing whom to ignore. As soon as I saw that Mike Pence was going to be on CNN, I made other plans.
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If you can tell me, I can only imagine. And let me tell you why it affects me personally a little bit. I want to like this guy a lot. Every time I’ve met him, he is this warm, gracious. And every time I’ve met him, he… That’s what I love. You know, he knows the business. He was a talk show host from Indiana. So he asks me about last time I interviewed him, you know, how the ratings, how are your numbers, how are your revenues? He knows the business. And so I and so I’ve I’ve got a soft spot for this guy. Why? So he goes and gets an award, some profile and courage. You know what that was? I mean, that’s for what?
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for refusing to do what there was an absolute foundation for doing, getting a pause button on the tabulation of a flawed electoral result.
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Correct. And so he gets an award from the Liz Cheneys of the world who are just slobbering all over him. But he doesn’t mention Trump by name during the ceremony. He’s got his little tux on and doesn’t. So then they took him to task for not mentioning. So he runs to CNN the next day and he attacks Trump. And he attacks Trump for pardoning people who were violent against police. And you know what? We could have that debate. I get it. That’s all right, I guess. But of all people, why doesn’t he just sit this one out?
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Why do people… No, two things I can help you with. Number one, it’s perfectly fine for you to harbor your fondness for Mike Pence. I have it too. He was a really great vice president in many ways. He helped Trump win. I will always have fondness for that.
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Me too.
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He is a snake, and he is attempting to carve out for himself a lane. These people, the Nikki Haley’s, the GOP establishment denizens, they believe that there’s going to be this. At some point, we’re all going to get sick of Trump. At some point, the bloom is going to come off the rose, and we’re going to come lunging toward a Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence-style person. They’re just waiting for that moment.
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Guys, that moment will not be happening. It’s not going to happen. It’s just not going to happen. Don’t hold your breath. Look at this, 527. You think we can crack 1,000 before the segment is over? At Gallagher’s show, incidentally. There’s no way I’d say no. But I got 6. How many do you have?
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666.
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Oh, no. No, quick. Somebody follow me quick. Get off that number. You know, that’s like 9-11. You know how many times I see 9-11 on my watch? It’s so much faster. Get behind these, Zayton. It’s just a weird thing about numbers.
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The most unfortunately named car in the history of cars, the Porsche 911. Who in the world?
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That’s true.
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Only the Dodge Pearl Harbor ranked as high as a really unfortunate car.
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Final text on the MyPillow text line. Mark had a terrific interview on Real Texans. I’ve heard about this. Did they do it? Did they profile you or what was this about?
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Ben Sullivan, who runs all kinds of conservative operations in the state, brought his film crew in here. It’s the Real Texans podcast. Wow. You can see a half hour of me talking about all kinds of stuff here.
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Wow. Did you mention me? Did you mention that I’m the reason for your success? Look at the time. Time to go. It’s time for the… Here’s Don McLean in American Pie, everyone. I love you. Happy Tuesday.
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Happy Tuesday. Mike Gallagher, ready to go as soon as we’re done at 10 on 660 AM.
