00:08:27 Political Moves and Constitutional Concerns
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Very special market for me because this is really where I kind of started. Absolutely.
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1989.
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And I had a guy come up to me last night and say, Mike, I sent you over. You and your wife were over in a restaurant over at McAllister Square in 1992. And I said, that’s Mike Gallagher, the guy I listen to on the radio. And he goes, I sent you over a drink. And he jokingly said, you remember that? Yeah.
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He said, well, thank you. Maybe not.
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Thank you, sir. Remind me what I had for breakfast today.
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Oh, man.
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But think about that, Mark.
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1992.
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I know. He’s doing the math. What is that, 34 years ago?
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Yeah, nothing I love more than seeing people who are like 35 saying my dad introduced me to your show. That’s the worst thing. That is not a compliment.
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It’s the best thing.
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That’s the best. No, don’t tell us that.
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And don’t tell me you grew up listening to me. Don’t tell me that.
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I know. When you’re 40.
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Yeah, when you’re 70, I grew up listening to you. I was a kid back in the day.
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I remember listening to Mike.
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But it’s so fun to be reminded of this personal connection we have to so many people. And all throughout North Texas are Mark Davis fans who have been listening to you for decades. And it makes us feel so grateful that we get to do this for a living. I did say, though, I posted on X Today, there are mornings when I roll out of bed I log on to the X app. I see insanity, and I think, somebody slipped me crazy pills during the night, and I want to go back to bed, pull the covers up over my head, and call it a day. Did you know that if I said to you, Mark, are you out of your cotton-picking mind – That would make me a racist. Have you seen the drama coming out of the woman in Virginia? Have you followed this?
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Well, it rears its head every once in a while. Oh, let me share it. Oh, you haven’t heard this. What did somebody do?
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Oh, you haven’t heard about Jen Kiggins?
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No.
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Now, she’s a congresswoman. She’s facing calls now to resign.
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Resign?
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She agreed with the radio host because the radio host, I didn’t even recognize his name.
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Where is this?
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Virginia. The host’s name is Rich Herrera. Have you ever heard of Rich?
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I have not.
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Okay, me either, but he’s interviewing her. And he says, in a fit of pique, if Hakeem Jeffries wants to be involved in Virginia politics, then I suggest he does what a bunch of New Yorkers are doing. Leave New York. Move down here to Virginia. Run for office down here. You can represent us. If not, get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.
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Oh, man, it’s not even losing your cotton-picking mind. It’s cotton-picking hands, and it’s a black guy. We’re tempting fate.
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The congresswoman who represents Virginia’s 2nd District said that’s right. Ditto. Yes, yes to that. Now, here’s where the crazy pills are. Now, you cringed when you heard it. You know what I cringe at? What? The declaration that that’s a racist phrase.
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Well, of course it’s stupid. It’s just been baked into the language for a… Cotton picking is a modifier you can use. Lost your cotton picking mind? Get your cotton picking hands off this. Is it racist? Of course not. Well, of course not by intent. Is there a racial… Of course not by intent. What does that mean? Did that person mean anything racist by it? I have no reason to believe they did. None. He just said, get your cotton-picking hands out of here. Of course. But people are always looking for anything. Black hands used to pick cotton. This is what enables Serena Williams to stand in a hotel hallway in New York and look at kind of an old school, you know, historic themed hotel with a really beautiful glass vase with some cotton bowls and cotton plant stuff and go, this is a problem.
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But Mark, you should read about this story. Jake Sherman over Punchbowl. Oh, that’s a racist phrase. Of course, of course. Here’s a Republican agreeing with an obvious racist phrase. I mean, I’m reading this story here at Reuters that says the term. Now, here’s what Reuters writes. The term cotton picking is considered offensive. due to the U.S. history of slavery when cotton was picked by enslaved people. So now the congresswoman, now she’s got to fall all over herself apologizing. She issued a statement saying, the radio host… Stop laughing. I’m sorry. I mean, look, racism is real. I’m not trying to minimize this, but to make this an issue, here’s her apology. The radio host should not have used that language, and I do not, and I did not, condone it. It was obvious to anyone listening that I was agreeing Hakeem Jeffries should stay out of Virginia. Well, yeah, but why did you throw the radio host under the bus? That’s all he was trying to say, ladies.
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The proper response is cotton picking has been a modifier in the English language forever. There’s clearly not one racist or even racial intent that I had to it. Everybody should get on with your lives. And in fact, did slaves pick cotton? Of course they did. You know who else picked cotton? A whole lot of white Southerners. You know what one of them was named? Stanley Green Davis. My dad, my dad and his siblings were sharecroppers. In northern North Carolina, in Northampton County in the 1930s and 40s. Cotton, peanuts, and my dad picked a ton of cotton, thank you very much.
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I mean, what happened is they thought they got her. They think they’ve got her. And by the way, they may have. This may do her in. She’s in a tight race. Don’t give in to terrorists. Don’t surrender to terrorists. No, of course not. It’s the goofiest thing. I’m reading this this morning. I really thought it was the Babylon Bee. I thought, well, no, this is like – come on. There’s no way this is an actual issue. I’m going to try today on the show to find one caller who’s offended if I were to – I mean, what? If I’m talking about Elizabeth Warren, can I say we caught her red-handed line again? Yeah. I mean, is that allowed? Can you say red-handed?
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Indian giver?
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I don’t know. Do you remember the list? Years ago, somebody in theater gave me a list of phrases, things of the expressions that are now awful. Well, look, you can’t say master bedroom anymore if you’re a realtor. Or master key. You can’t say master key. And I remember when somebody kept calling it, and I had my house listed or whatever, the condo, and I kept saying, they kept saying primary bedroom, primary bedroom. I said, do you mean the master bedroom? And the lady said, oh, yeah.
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Racist, racist, racist.
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Dive, dive, fire in the hole. And the realtor just, she turned white as a ghost, pardon the expression. And she said, you can’t say master bedroom. I said, what do you mean you can’t say master bedroom? What do you call it? Why are you calling it a primary? I really didn’t know what she, I thought she had had a stroke. She said, master is a connotation of the slave master relationship. So silly.
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What? So very silly. Mark! Well, and the silliness is, there’s good news behind the silliness. It’s because they’ve run out of real racism to find. There’s not occasional patches and smidgens of actual racism. It’s a human flaw. You can find it. But the real problems are largely solved. So that means they have to fill their days with this nonsense in order to establish the false narrative that America is still kind of a racist hellhole, kind of a cauldron of prejudice that still requires their mighty hand.
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Well, and there are really unintended positive consequences to all of the insanity we’re witnessing. What they’re trying to do in Virginia, the latest scheme, oh, let’s lower the mandatory retirement age for all the Supreme Court justices in Virginia and get rid of them all and replace them with young progressives. And now they’re apparently backtracking off of that. Now even the wine mom governor, Spanberger, is saying, no, no, no, that’s a bridge too far. We’re not going to do that. But what’s happening is it’s demonstrating – they’re doing an unwitting service to the whole country by revealing how hostile they are to the most essential constitutional checks and balances. They don’t care about it.
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I hope it matters.
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I hope it matters. I hope Americans are paying attention, Mark.
