Amidst a backdrop of grim realities and media scrutiny, Mike Gallagher brings his characteristic optimism and critique along with tales from his travels. Hear his first-hand recounting of cultural wonders from London, from Ballet to the jaw-dropping ABBA Voyage experience that blends nostalgia with futuristic technology. As Mike paints a vivid picture of cultural shifts both abroad and at home, listeners will come away with a better understanding of the shifts in societal narratives and a glimpse at an uncertain future.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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It’s always good to get away, but it’s even better to get back to work. the nation watched in horror as an illegal immigrant burned a woman alive on a New York City subway. And then, of course, in the last 24 hours, we saw a monster mow down a bunch of innocent people celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans. We watched another monster blow up a cyber truck. outside of Trump Tower in Las Vegas, killing himself. Thankfully, nobody else killed. And President Trump took to social media today in a fiery post, ripping the United States as a disaster and a global laughingstock. in the wake of these attacks and the conditions that the country is in. You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about something today with all that’s happening in our country right now. Can you imagine the mental state we would all be in if this was happening on the eve of a Kamala Harris inauguration? Let that sink in for just a moment. I try to be an optimist. I try to be positive. And here’s a positive thought for you today. We could be getting ready for her inauguration. What do you think would be happening with terrorism and crime and illegal immigration under a Kamala Harris, Tim Walz administration? Boy, we got real lucky today. We are blessed. We’re fortunate. We should be grateful that there’s going to be a new sheriff in town. And the new sheriff in a truth social platform posted just moments ago, our country is a disaster, a laughingstock all over the world. The DOJ, the FBI, and the Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. Well, if this is today’s FBI, we understand why he said what he said. Let me give you Althea Duncan. She is described as the number two in the New Orleans FBI department. All right? The FBI office in New Orleans is evidently run, number two in charge, by a young woman named Althea Duncan. Here’s what she said. Now, you’ve got to remember this. Everybody knew this was a terror attack. Everybody saw that the guy had an ISIS flag. If you mow down a bunch of people on Bourbon Street with an ISIS flag, you don’t exactly have to be Scotland Yard to figure out that it’s a terror attack. But not to today’s FBI.
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We’ll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is their improvised explosive devices that was found. And we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
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If she was giving a class, if that was a presentation in a high school class, she’d get an F for her lousy grammar. You can’t help but notice the nose ring she’s got. even though the FBI prohibits nose rings. Now, later in the day, she finally took the nose ring out of her nose. I’m not kidding you. She’s number two in the FBI, Althea Duncan. And I am mesmerized by the insistence of our government, at least the woke government, to refuse to concede that a terror attack is a terror attack. For the life of me, I don’t get it. My friend Mark Davis says, well, it’s part of the woke mind virus. I don’t even understand what that means. Mark’s argument is that people on the left are worried that if we call a terrorist attack a terrorist attack, people will be accused of being Islamophobic. That, to me, is a very hard case to make. So I want to start right there with that. As we kick things off here in the Relief Factor studios, big thanks to Joey Hudson, Lee Elsie, filling in for me over the holidays. And I am just raring and ready to go, and I hope you are too. I’ve got the batteries recharged. I had a great, great amount of time spent in reflection and relaxation, a lot of sleep. A little bit too much food, but that’s why I’ve got Ph.D. weight loss to come to my rescue. But as I open up the phone lines at 1-800-655-MIKE, and I want you to join me, start with that question. Why would this FBI official think it would be important to say that it was not a terrorist event? Why? Why do they do this? The whole world, again, ISIS flag? But there’s got to be a reason behind it. What do you think it is? Let me turn it over to the smartest audience in the world and also the most generous. I’ve got to give you an update on our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree campaign. Holy cow. You talk about blessing us with a Merry Christmas. And most importantly, you blessed a whole bunch of children, thousands of kids, with your donations to our Angel Tree campaign. I’ll give you the total on that in a moment. But first, I want to open up our phone lines. 1-800-655-MIKE. 13 past the hour. Tell me why you think FBI official Althea Duncan found it necessary to deny that the terror attack was a terror attack. Why do they do this? It’s driving me crazy, but I’ll bet you’ve got some good answers. 1-800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Dillon.
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We’re in for a wild ride in 2025, and I am thrilled to be back to work after the holiday break. although I share the apprehension and the anxiety and the dread that many Americans have been experiencing over the last few weeks, maybe beginning with the woman being burned alive on a subway in New York City while everybody, including what appeared to be a police officer, walked by. This poor woman standing there on fire, apparently… ignited by an illegal immigrant, a guy who was not supposed to be in this country, which is of course the whole point behind The presence of a guy named Donald J. Trump. Welcome in. Happy New Year. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I had a roller coaster of a ride beginning with my trip to Los Angeles to visit my friend and colleague Dennis Prager at the hospital. I had a chance to visit with Dennis, and he is just as inspiring as you would expect he would be, despite the real catastrophic nature of his injury from a fall at his home. He is in good spirits, smiling, just amazing. He’s an amazing guy. And I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And I left L.A. and I went out in the morning and I flew back that day because I had to get ready to go to London for my Christmas vacation over in the U.K., which was extraordinary. I had a fantastic time. You know, I’m such a geek. I’m such a technical and entertainment geek. that despite the incredible events that I took part in, the ceremony of the keys at London Tower, that’s something my Denise and I did years ago, and I got to do that again, where you watch the beef eaters hand over the keys and formally lock the Tower of London, saw the English National Ballet production of the Nutcracker, which was, all of that was nothing compared to seeing Abba Voyage. Yeah. It was the wildest thing I’ve ever seen. I don’t want to get bogged down on it, but let me just tell you something. This industrial lights and magic company put together a production where I was convinced that the four people on the stage were the original members of ABBA from the 1970s. And it was all… A virtual avatar. None of it was live. The band was live, but they aren’t live. I don’t know how they did it. Because if you put me on a witness stand and I had to swear on a stack of Bibles that those were four people up there, I would have told you those were four people up there. That technology is extraordinary. And so that was my highlight, frankly, of the trip to London, even though that’s not the right reasons you should be celebrating Christmas. But I did get to have a chance to recharge the batteries and refuel. I’m at a point right now where I think we need to hold on for dear life for the next 18 days. At least 15 people were killed on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The victims are now being identified. They almost all are young people, young college kids, fresh-faced young people with their whole lives ahead of them. And some monster gets in his truck with an ISIS flag in the back and was a veteran. as was the guy that blew himself up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas. They both allegedly served together at Fort Bragg. There’s a connection there. I don’t think there’s a coincidence here. There’s something happening that it almost feels like the bad guys are taking one last crack at the U.S. before Trump gets inaugurated on January 20th because there’s a new sheriff in town in 18 days. And he ain’t putting up with any of this. He’s fired up. What do you hear about his truth social post today? over the New Orleans terror attack and the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas. I’m just astounded at the leadership, the law enforcement leadership in New Orleans. I’m watching this press conference last night thinking this has got to be a joke. The New Orleans police chief I don’t think that’s her exact title. They do weird things in Louisiana. I think it’s a different title. Isn’t it superintendent, I think? But she’s essentially the police chief of New Orleans. Her name is Ann Kirkpatrick. She’s got quite the history. She apparently ran people over herself with a car. Accidentally, of course. She was fired from a job in Oakland. She sued. She got a million and a half dollars. So she’s got quite the colorful story. Then she hands the press conference over to FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan. A woman, I kid you not, with a nose ring who looks all of about 21 years old. Now, maybe she’s older. I’m sure she is. She’s the number two in charge of the FBI office in New Orleans. You can’t make this up. You can’t believe this. When all hell is breaking loose and you’ve got to turn to law enforcement in a city like New Orleans, this is who they’ve got. The FBI, first the New Orleans police superintendent, and then the FBI number two in charge, Althea Duncan. This is extraordinary. Buckle up. Gird your loins.
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In order to conduct this, he was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did. Because of the nature and the indices that we have on the scene and enough information that the FBI will be taking over this investigation. And with that, I am going to be asking, this is the assistant agent in charge, this is Agent Duncan, Special Agent Duncan, and she has taken over this case on behalf of us and the FBI. As always, we will be in partnership with all of our partners, but Agent Duncan, if you want to have a few words for everyone.
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Thank you, ma’am. Good morning. My name is Alethea Duncan. I’m the assistant special agent in charge for FBI New Orleans. As Chief Kirkpatrick said, we’ll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is they’re improvised explosive devices that was found, and we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not. Wow.
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Okay, so it’s not a terrorist event. It’s an improvised… explosive device event, says the lady with the nose ring. I’m glad she took the nose ring out later in the day. She must only do the nose ring when she first gives a press conference initially, and then after the public gets a belly full, then she takes the nose ring out. So an FBI official with a nose ring, who you could hear grammatically can barely speak, you know, coherently, tells the media that a terrorist driving a truck with a big black ISIS flag killing at least 15 Americans is not a terrorist attack. Wow. Kash Patel, please get confirmed ASAP. Somebody sent me a text message on the MyPillow text line about the police superintendent. Grandma has no clue. The press conference is horrible, full of mixed messages, but don’t worry. The FBI is now in charge. Look, I’m sure that our enemies overseas are terrified of FBI agent Nose Ring and Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. I’m sure that they’re not at all inclined to do any more attacks on American soil, knowing that’s the best and the brightest. You know what President Trump had to say about it all? He’s livid. He’s livid. And believe me, you want some balm, some soothing oil for the soul? I’ll share with you President Trump’s message today. Just today on Truth Social. Welcome in. It is Thursday, January 2nd, the first episode of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios for 2025. It’s going to be a big year for us, too. We’ve got some big things planned for you, including plunging headfirst into the digital era. Oh, yeah. We’re doing TikTok. We’re doing Facebook. We’re all over X. We’re doing Truth Social. We, of course, got the Salem News Channel where you can watch the show from the comfort of your home 24-7. And, of course, hundreds of radio stations all over the country that air our show. I’m honored and blessed and privileged to get to do this with you every single day. So welcome aboard. Don’t forget the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE. President Trump’s response to the carnage in New Orleans and the terror in Las Vegas. And your calls at 800-655-MIKE. Coming up. There’s no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I’ve kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com, MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Gellerman.
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It’s so great to be back to work again after a nice, long, relaxing holiday break. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and Hanukkah and New Year’s. And here we go, back to work, rolling up our sleeves because we’ve got a lot ahead of us. 2025 is going to be a big, big year. There’s an expression they use on social media a lot. that I see, you don’t hate the media, the mainstream media enough. You don’t despise the mainstream media enough. And when I see the cover of today’s Washington Post, this is the Bible for the left. You know, the New York Times, the Washington Post, they have their bellwethers. They have their go-to publications. And the Washington Post is one of them. Now, you want to know what it says on the cover, but the big headline is about the New Orleans terror attack that killed at least 15, dozens more injured. If you’ve seen the surveillance video of the vehicle plowing down Bourbon Street, it’s horrifying. Bodies being scattered like bowling pins. The monster was evidently a veteran. clearly radicalized. The guy that blew himself up outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas was also an Army vet. This guy was described as a Master Sergeant Green Beret. So I guess he was radicalized too. Here’s the cover of the Washington Post. I kid you not. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. That’s the headline. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. The truck did it. It wasn’t the terrorist. It was the truck. It’s what leftists do with guns. They like to use the phrase gun violence. What the heck is gun violence? Well, the guns do it. It’s the gun’s fault. So it stands to reason that if a terrorist gets behind the wheel of a car and plows into a crowd of people killing at least 15, the truck did it. It’s not the guy driving the car. That is the honest-to-goodness headline, above the fold, Washington Post, truck rams New Orleans crowd. Now, I promise you that’s not an accident. I guarantee you that is not a mistake. That’s not something that they accident. You know that they’re sitting there saying, well, we’re going to get some pushback for this. Because, you know, it looks kind of stupid to say the truck rams the crowd. But this is the way the left sees the world. They blame inanimate objects for evil acts. It’s not the fault of the person pulling the trigger. It’s the gun. Now, they don’t seem to do this… If you notice, the one category that is exempt from this madness are knives. They never talk about knife violence. They only talk about gun violence. And now they’re talking about truck violence. The Washington Post blames the truck for the deaths of 15 people. Meanwhile, this guy, Army veteran, sources tell… The Washington Times that the 37-year-old Colorado Springs guy rented the truck in his home state and drove to Nevada to carry out the explosion that only killed himself and injured seven bystanders. None of them expected to die from their injuries. He served, according to the Washington Times, at the same Army base as the 42-year-old Texan who killed at least 15 when he drove his truck through the New Orleans crowd early Wednesday. In case you didn’t know it, the guy in New Orleans was killed in a shootout with police, and kudos to the police for proactively neutralizing the bad guy. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. We have a lot to keep up. And by the way, it was the Washington Post, just to clarify, somebody just texted, it was the Washington Times, not the Post. No, it was the Washington Post with the headline, Truck Rams New Orleans Crowd. I’ve got a copy of it right in front of me. It’s not the Times. The Washington Times, Texas, is writing about… the revelation that it was a Master Sergeant Army veteran who blew himself up in Las Vegas. So keep up, keep up. I know we got a lot coming at you, and I sometimes stay glued to the text line. which is to my detriment. But I appreciate the MyPillow text line. And as 2025 gets underway, I want to give you a heads up that some of our goals for 2025 are all over connecting you with us and us with you. We’ll be all over social media. We’ve finally taken the plunge into the world of TikTok. We’ll have the Mike Gallagher Show TikTok account. We’ll be all over Facebook and X, social media. Brace yourself. Gird your loins. And I love the text line because it does give me instant feedback even when somebody like Texas has it wrong and thinks that I was citing the wrong newspaper because I happened to be, this time at least, completely correct. So the MyPillow text line. 800-655-MIKE. Please never text and drive. Standard text messaging rates may apply. But, hey, however you get here, call or text us. It’s the same number. Same way, 800-655-MIKE. And incidentally, as Katie wrote from Morton Grove, Illinois, truck, rams, crowd. Truck rams New Orleans crowd. Katie writes, this is why they lost in 2024 and will continue to lose. We’ve got 18 days to go before Donald Trump gets inaugurated. I hope we make it that long. I hope we can last for the next 18 days before the new sheriff comes to town. Like somebody on social media put it, daddy’s coming home from work and daddy isn’t happy. 800-655-MIKE. Welcome in to the first edition of the Mike Gallagher Show in 2025. Glad to have you with us.
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I think I can make it now, the pain is gone. All of the bad feelings have disappeared. It’s going to be bright, bright, bright, bright sunshine in bed.
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Oh, ho, ho, it’s Mike Gallagher.
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It was magic, all right, that ABBA Voyage thing. This will be the future. You’ll see that. That’s going to happen in the United States, I would hope, because it’s so cool. Think about all the artists who have passed who could recreate concerts. Elvis. I kept thinking there could be an Elvis Presley concert, and you’d swear Elvis is up on the stage. Or the Beatles. Luciano Pavarotti. I mean, if you held a gun to my head and said, were those four people on that stage, I’d say absolutely. And the whole thing was done like virtually. It was all like they were all, I don’t know, AI. We’re in big trouble. We’re in big, big trouble. Twelve minutes before the hour. Got a lot to digest. The governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, is saying we cannot live in fear. You know, it’s an interesting idea that we let terrorists change our lives. They moved the entire Sugar Bowl from yesterday to today. I guess they just wanted to make sure there wasn’t any more, there wasn’t a threat to people going to the game. And now I guess one day is what they needed. And of course, you never can trust the first 24 hours of reporting. First they said, oh, we believe that the terrorist worked with other assailants and co-conspirators. Now they’re saying they believe he acted alone. Well, if he acted alone, what happened to all the supposed IEDs that were found around the rest of New Orleans? Trust nobody. Trust nothing you hear. Roberts in Michigan. Robert, you’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello.
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Hey, how are you doing?
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Good. How are you? Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year to you, too.
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Thanks.
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As for those first few hours of reporting, there are blurbs in there that are going to be consistently true if you study it. But I’d like to point out that I do not think that the attack in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas were terrorist-related. I think they were intelligence operations.
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Which intelligence?
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Ours? Ours. Why? Ours. Because it was directed at Trump, because it was one of his buildings, and it should tell him, don’t push us too hard.
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Well, look, there’s going to be a lot of theories and a lot of suspicions, and you can go down a rabbit hole. There’s a lot of weird coincidences to have both of them having served at Fort Bragg. One of them, the guy at Trump Tower, apparently a Master Sergeant Green Beret. What happened to him? What caused him to go off the deep end? And incidentally, are we going to know all about him? Because we know everything about all the people on January 6th, right? We know their occupation. We know where they live. What are we going to learn about this guy, if anything? You know, there’s an idea, too, and I didn’t get to this. There’s so much breaking news today, and I’ve done my best to keep up, and it feels great to get back to work. We didn’t have a chance to cover the squabbling between some of the feisty House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson. That vote’s tomorrow, right, guys? I think that’s tomorrow. And look, I’m going to say two things about or two things can be true at the same time. Number one, the Republicans ought to be unified right now. We are up against a formidable opponent. Democrats who seem to think it’s OK. To let millions of people stream across our border. and destroy our country. We’re up against a Democrat president who’s about to finally be replaced, thank the Lord, who’s giving an award to Liz Cheney. That’s right. Joe Biden, a world-class jerk, wants to stick it to Trump on the way out by giving Liz Cheney one of the highest civilian awards you can get. What, for what? For her January 6th debacle? For getting walloped by her constituents and fired overwhelmingly because people were so disgusted with her? You give her an award for what? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The witch hunt against Donald Trump. That’s why Joe Biden is doing what he’s doing. What a disgrace to give that woman an award. The Presidential Citizens Medal award. What an absolute creep. And the other one, Betty Thompson. He’s going to get an award. You know, Betty Thompson, the co-chair of that select witch hunt committee. That’s the guy that wanted to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection in order to get Trump harmed. And you give him an award for that? Is that what you’re doing, Grandpa Joe? So this is our political opponent. These are our political adversaries. This is what has to change. And it’s why Trump won. It’s why Trump won. So two things can be true at the same time. Number one, this is not a time for us to have these intra-party battles. We don’t need to have another coup of the House Speaker. I don’t agree with everything that Mike Johnson’s been doing. But I strongly believe that this is not the time to overturn the House leadership. We have to be unified. And there’s been all this battling about Elon and Vivek and how they talked about, you know, the American work ethic isn’t as strong as people from India and all. That’s fine. But here’s the second part that I think is true. And I always feel very strongly about this. I felt the same way about Matt Gaetz leading the uprising against Kevin McCarthy. You know, I wasn’t a big fan of that. But those voices need to be heard, too. The Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and the Thomas Massey’s and the Andy Biggs, these sharp elbowed red meat conservatives represent a voice in this country that has been ignored for far too long. So while I don’t like the idea of a battle over Mike Johnson, while I believe strongly that the timing of this is awful, In fact, I was listening a little bit to Joey when he was filling in for me this past week point out that if we don’t get our act together as Republicans, Trump might not get inaugurated. You’ve got to have a speaker in place, and it could completely disrupt President Trump’s actual inauguration, which, incidentally, we’ll be at. We’ll be broadcasting from D.C. Joey Hudson’s going to be there in the crowd with our reporting, and I’ll be at the anchor seat, and we’re going to go to some balls, and I’ll tell you some of the inaugural balls, and I’ll be giving you all kinds of updates from Washington, D.C. So, again, I don’t like… this squabbling. Let the Democrats eat each other alive. But on the other hand, don’t ignore their voices and appreciate the fact that some debate and some disagreement is fine. It’s not the end of the world. We’re probably not going to be marching in lockstep on everything. It’s okay. Let Marjorie Taylor Greene or Massey or whoever’s voices, let them be heard. And consider their arguments over why Mike Johnson hasn’t been as effective as he could have been, as he should be. And then let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. And let’s accomplish what Donald Trump is going to set out to accomplish with the mandate that he received, with his landslide victory over these dumb Democrats and their failed policies. Let’s take our country back and make it great again. It is great to be back to work again. Thanks for joining us. Great job to the team, Teresa and Eric and Christian and Tracy and Joey. Thank you for joining us. We’ll do it again tomorrow. Have a great day. Be safe. Keep fighting the good fight. I’m Mike Gallagher. God bless America. I want to welcome some brand new partners to the Mike Gallagher show like Equity Protect. And this is a big, big deal. Your home’s title is often the most valuable thing you own. Next generation criminal technology is more advanced than ever. I’ve been an identity theft victim. It is no fun. You got to have Equity Protect in your corner. If you own your home mortgage-free or you got a lot of equity, you got to have Equity Protect so that scammers do not steal your equity or title. For a limited time, Equity Protect is offering you a tremendous deal, 30% off your first year, giving you one year of protection for less than $12 a month. 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We have, boy, do we have stuff to unpack. Welcome back. And we’ve been talking during the holidays, as I knew we would. But listen, even without New Orleans, there’s a ton to talk about in the new year. And I so look forward to a year filled with 735 chats with you. And just, it’s my, my life is complete again. And back with my buddy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Look, Mark, we got a big year ahead of us. There’s no question. There’s a lot of stuff that’s going to be happening. And we have, like you said, a lot of things to unpack. First of all, though, can we stipulate, was this the longest break you and I have ever taken together? I mean, because I went a few days before Christmas. And I went out to see Dennis Prager in Los Angeles in the hospital, which was actually a very inspiring way to start the holiday because this is a man who has strength, who has courage, who is of good cheer despite what has happened to him. People know he had a terrible fall. And he suffered a very, very serious injury. I think it’s out publicly that he is paralyzed and is breathing with the assistance of a ventilator. You know, all of us are a little uncomfortable with getting too detailed because that’s that’s really Sue’s prerogative, his wife and the family. But look, he is a fighter. And he’s beloved and he knows the prayers that he’s getting from all over the world. And it was a joy for me to just be there and see his face light up when I walked in the hospital room. He’s, of course, still in ICU in the Los Angeles area. He always loves a joke that I tell, that Dennis could take a cruise to the black hole of Calcutta and get 900 people to sign up. Every time. And he always loved that. So I walked into the hospital room and I said, all right, he wants to go to the black hole of Calcutta. And we got 900 people signed up and he just his face lit up. He said, wow, wow, wow. He couldn’t believe that I slept out there from from Florida. And Sue was amazed because she said, this isn’t exactly on the way to London, but it was the opposite direction. I racked up those frequent flyer miles and spent some good time with him and then back home and then packed up and then headed out to London. And like you said, we, you and I stayed connected a little bit during the holidays.
SPEAKER 07 :
To answer your question, it has to be because my last show was the 17th and you were going to ride out the rest of that week. Mike texts me on the way home the 17th and said, look, I’m in tomorrow, but then I’m out of here. So I spent.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that’s because of you.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that’s because of you.
SPEAKER 04 :
I thought, well, if you can do it, why can’t I do it? Why am I working this week? I thought, I’ve got the days. And, of course, I noticed on X, and incidentally, 2025, heads up, it’s going to be a year of digital for the Mike Gallagher show. We’re going to embrace digital. Good for you. developing our TikTok presence today. I’m going to reinstitute our Facebook page. I’m all over X. I’m all over, you know, truth socials. We’re going to be digital out the ears.
SPEAKER 07 :
More Mike. I’ve always advocated for more Mike.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good for you. Brace yourself because we’ll be doing a lot of digital stuff. But somebody on X last night took a pot shot at both of us saying, well, I’m glad you’re going to be both back from your paid lengthy vacations. And I couldn’t help myself. I wrote the guy back. What are we supposed to pay the company to go on vacation? You want us to pay Salem? Maybe we can pay them. I mean, you know, you’ve got some years together. You get a little bit of equity. You get a little vacation time. Exactly right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And who knew that we would come back to this?
SPEAKER 04 :
And forget, oh, I know, we’ve got a lot to talk about what we came back to, but before we get back to what we returned to here in the United States, quick note about London and about going overseas. Forget the Tower of London and the Ceremony of the Keys that I saw. Forget that. Forget the Nutcracker from the English National Ballet, which I saw and I loved it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Forget Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey.
SPEAKER 04 :
Forget high tea at the Cafe Royal like I got to enjoy. Forget any of that. No. Abba Voyage is a life changing experience. And let me tell you why. You tell me to go see Abba Voyage when I go to London.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because a friend of mine, a friend of mine is in sort of the music production and licensing biz, was over there for a conference. He went and saw it. Couldn’t shut up about it to me. When I hear you’re going, I say, well, let me pass that recommendation on. You got to go see that sort of live action. You tell everybody what Abba Voyage is because I still don’t totally get it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know it’s hard to explain it, but see, I don’t have a clue going in what it is. I just know my friend Mark Davis, my buddy, says go see ABBA Voyage. I get tickets. I’m sitting there. It’s a concert theater. It’s the ABBA Theater. They’ve built an entire theater just for this production.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s outside of London, just about a 20-minute Uber ride. Uber, by the way, is fantastic over there. When you do Uber like black in Dallas or New York, Uber black is like a suburban. Over there, it’s a Mercedes S-Class stretch, brand new. It’s the greatest thing they’ve got. They got Uber down to a science over there. Anyway, I don’t know what I’m going to get. I know the show starts and up from on an elevator come four people that get risen up to the stage. Crowd goes nuts. Everybody’s cheering and I’m watching them. And there’s four. These are four people on stage. I’m convinced. They’re on stage as a band off to the side. They’re playing. I’m going crazy because that’s the soundtrack of my youth, as it is everybody else’s. We love the music. And I’m thinking as they’re singing and talking to the audience, they look like ABBA of the 70s.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anifred right there from the mid-70s.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it looks like them. So I figured, okay, then it’s impersonators. It’s people that look like them. And there may be lip syncing because it sounds just like ABBA’s original music. And I’m watching this and then I’m noticing it seems a little bit off, but not much. And I’m staring at them. If you had to put me on a witness stand and hold a gun to my head and say, were those four live people up there? I would say yes. Yeah. Show goes through. They do the whole performance. Then they take their curtain call. They walk off. And then out comes four of the four ABBA members in their 70s and 80s. They’re a little older than us now, but that’s how old they’d be. And they’re taking a curtain call, and they’re waving. I thought, how do they do that? Do they come every night for every performance and just do a quick bow? No. So then I get in the Uber at the ABBA Arena to go home. The whole thing is virtual. Everything I saw was what’s called a virtual, not the band, but the four performers are virtual avatars. And Mark, I’m not talking hologram like I’ve seen in Vegas with Michael Jackson.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you know it’s a hologram.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know right away it’s a hologram. It’s blurry. Yeah, it’s out of focus. It’s kind of two-dimensional. Mark. These are four people. If I had to go on the witness stand, I would have said those are four live people. They were not. And then I read about it. The four original band members in their 70s and 80s did the live motion with one of those suits, those goofy suits you wear.
SPEAKER 07 :
The motion capture thing with all the dots. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because it was done by, what’s it called? Industrial Light and Magic. Industrial Light and Magic. They did this, right? So they created the movements, but it’s with their younger selves. Man. Think about this, Mark. Look what you could do. Elvis? The Beatles. Beatles in their prime. Luciano Pavarotti. I mean, you could go on. Tom Petty. All of them. You could do all of them in their prime. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yeah. And you do not. Now, then I felt stupid because I thought, well, I’m clapping for a movie. I was clapping and cheering. There’s no one on stage. And there wasn’t anyone. Yeah, they weren’t even hearing me. So then I felt stupid. It was the most amazing, extraordinary thing. And I bet we’ll see more of that, I hope, in the United States. I bet so. Because they’ve got it down in the UK. All right. So we come back to the United States. I’m following over in England people getting burned alive on a subway car. People getting pushed onto train tracks. Terrorists mowing down civilians in New Orleans. I think a terror attack in Las Vegas. Chaos is the new normal here, Mark. And we got how many days to go? 18 before? 18, yep. I mean, because we got to hold on for dear life. Let’s start here. Did you see the press conference from New Orleans and the police chief and the FBI spokeswoman? Yeah. The two women. Yep. First of all, the police chief. Look, I’m going to this is my 2025 is my year of Medicare. It’s my 65th year. I want I want to be 100. I don’t want to. I’m not going to disparage old people. But this woman, she must be 80.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, this is Ann Kirkpatrick, the New Orleans police chief.
SPEAKER 04 :
She is an elderly woman who evidently was fired from another police department. Great. And she ran over two people with her car. sued, I think, the Oakland Police Department and got a big settlement. Anyway, she’s the police chief, like Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies, with the oversized police hat on. Then she hands off to the FBI agent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Althea Duncan. Yeah. With the nose ring. The assistant special agent in charge.
SPEAKER 04 :
Got the nose ring in her nose, which is a direct violation of FBI standards and guidelines. And talks like a sixth grader. I mean, even the diction. Have you heard the clip? Do we have one?
SPEAKER 07 :
There’s subject-verb agreement problems, and it’s enormously problematic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let’s listen. Let’s listen together. This is quick. What’s your name again?
SPEAKER 07 :
Althea Duncan.
SPEAKER 04 :
I give you Althea Duncan.
SPEAKER 02 :
We’ll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is their improvised explosive devices that was found. And we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so grammatical disasters aside.
SPEAKER 07 :
Devices that was found.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was found, uh-huh, with the nose ring in the nose. But help me with, and of course, you know right away people go, oh, Mike Gallagher, Mark Davis, they’re racist, you know, she’s a young black woman. Well, I don’t care what her skin color is. I don’t care about her race. I want to know why she would immediately say it wasn’t a terrorist attack.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because it is systemic. It is baked in. That is what the current culture of law enforcement, the current FBI culture says. Make sure nobody nobody says it’s terror, even if we’ve unfolded an ISIS flag on the street and we know it’s the guy.
SPEAKER 04 :
It had an ISIS flag in the back of his truck that was laying there that people were taking pictures of. And she goes to the podium and says, this is not a terrorist attack. But when you say it’s baked in, Mark, will you expand upon that? What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Why is that? Because the woke mind virus tells us that before we are honest with the American people, before we tell them, hey, listen, I don’t need her to say. Clear terrorism. This investigation is over. Just come out and say, look, we’re gathering evidence. We’re not concluding that it’s anything right now, but we’ll let you know when we have a conclusion. And of course, wound up being hours later. But don’t come out right out of the box and tell us that it’s not because that is because oversensitivity and woke ism and political correctness. She didn’t. I don’t blame her for this at all. This came from the top. You do not get out there and tell people it’s terrorism, even if we know that it’s terrorism.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I and I really don’t fully get that. I don’t know what what’s the what are you say it’s the woke mind virus. Yes. What’s the downside to calling a terror attack a terror attack?
SPEAKER 07 :
Because Islamophobia will spread across the land, which it didn’t even do after 9-11. They don’t trust us. They don’t trust us. And the close cousin to that is when we learn more about this monster. Look for us to learn that the military absolutely had reason to say this guy is a seething jihadist lunatic. And they were restrained from saying anything about it because of the fear of allegations of racism or Islamophobia.
SPEAKER 04 :
And speaking of the military, you’ve seen the connection that has already been made between the Las Vegas bomber, who incidentally blew up a cyber truck. And it didn’t really work because it didn’t even the windows weren’t even shattered. That’s a tough truck, man. It’s a tough truck. But that guy blew himself up inside. But they both both served. at Fort Bragg, reportedly. Now, this is all coming out now. Look, we got a big problem on our hands. We got a big, big problem. And I’m on the hunt for a woman that I’ve seen on social media, speaking of the new digital era of 2025, and make sure you follow me on X, at Gallagher Show. I don’t even know what we’re going to be on TikTok, maybe at Gallagher Show. I don’t know what they call it. Of course, the Chinese now will be spying on me, but that’s okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let’s deal with that. I’ll become a Chinese spy. Listen, Trump’s on TikTok. It’s everywhere. I mean, I don’t want to be numb to the fact that everybody knows where I am and who I am and stuff like that. But the world’s on TikTok. And so you might as well be too. More Mike, more Mike, more Mike.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and more all of us, and we’ll be connecting, but I’ve been following a woman named Sarah Adams. Have you heard of her? She’s a former CIA operative, and she has been sounding the alarm about this. And a year ago, she called it. She said 2025 is going to be a year because we haven’t had a lot of these truck bombings and suicide bombings in the United States. And look at what we just got in the last 24 to 48 hours. So, look, we’ve got big challenges. We’re headed to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration. We’ll be covering that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fly in early because the inauguration is what, a Monday, right? Yeah, Monday the 20th. And I know you’ll be in the previous weekend. Keep your Sunday night open because there’s a massive downtown Washington Trump victory rally on the evening of the 19th.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I got my tux polished off because I’m going to be hitting some balls. We’re going to go to the South Carolina ball. And it looks like we’re going to the Turning Point USA Bowl featuring Don Jr. and maybe the president himself and the great Charlie Kirk, who I am thrilled to announce we just renewed for another term with Salem. A lot of changes for Salem, too. Tell me about it. And we’re thinking about and praying for the people who are experiencing some of those changes for the negative because of some divestitures we did. But we also have new investors. And it’s going to be a whole new day for Salem Media Group. And we’re excited about that.
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