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It is Monday the ninth day of March, 2026.

How we doing? Hope your weekend was good.

Texas springtime, in full swing. Hope your week is filled with blessings as we dive into it.

Lot going on. So uh, which war you want to talk about first?

The actual one over in Iran. We have a new supreme leader.

Yeah, what's the overrunner on this guy?

Um, much to Mike Hameini.

Uh, Ali Hameini's son.

Uh, don't know if that, uh, that a corn fell far from the tree.

Uh, President Trump has called him unacceptable.

So we'll see just how much say an American president has in who runs Iran.

It is not the same as Venezuela.

I don't think there's a delsy Rodriguez walking around in Tehran.

Uh, that reference, of course, is to, uh,

Maduro's vice president who once they won some American forces

ousted the big guy.

She, uh, she got smart in a hurry.

Uh, the Iranian journey may be somewhat different.

As so the, the other war, and in this case, it's metaphoric,

even though the battle is very real in political terms,

is in the Texas Senate race, the corn and the Paxton race,

the Taloriko nomination as democratic.

So much, so much has been said and so much has happened.

And so much is yet to happen on that front.

And I got thoughts about all of it because the key element moving forward

there is to know what you don't know.

And there's some things that are not completely clear.

Will Trump endorse at all?

If he does, would it be cornon?

Uh, would Paxton then get out if he sees the save act pass?

This, uh, we're going to talk to, uh, uh, Congressman Chip Roy

today in 835 who will have a thing or two to say about the save act

because he's in Congress.

He'll also have a thing or two to say about the attorney general's race

because he's still in it.

Uh, we had mega maze on, uh, last week.

I guess I was the morning after the, uh, uh, uh, the, the runoff results, right?

He had him on on Wednesday.

And I asked him, so do we have, like, is this 12 weeks of you calling

Chip Roy, uh, uh, uh, uh, backstabbing Rhino?

Pretty much.

So we'll ask Chip what he thinks about being called that and various other things

from the cauldron of advertising, which will continue in that race.

And in cornon v Paxton for another long 11-ish weeks

until the runoff date, which is May 26th.

And what of Brother Talleriko?

How is it going for him?

As he seeks to, with the great help of them, of a fawning media culture, uh, and, and long starved

Texas Democrats who long for what it must feel like to have somebody win a statewide elected

office for the first time since 1994.

I know I can feel I can taste how badly they wanted, but it's not going to happen this time.

In fact, here I will look, and I say that with an asterisk.

Or does it say in Maryland an asterisk?

And that is, uh, and that is that we're not stupid enough to hand it to him.

My heavy lifting from May 27th on will be in talking to the half of you or roughly half

whose guy didn't win.

In Republican Texas, it's probably going to be pretty close.

And unless it's not, I'll say, but there'll be a goodly number of people whose guy didn't win.

If Paxton wins this runoff and he's not getting out, he's not going anywhere.

You talk about know what you don't know.

I mean, I don't know it like I don't my own name, but that's just not, that's just not in the cards.

It's just not.

Ken Paxton has lived and breathed for the better part of the year to provide you

with a corn and alternative.

Some of you may take him up on that.

Some of you may not.

If the majority of you don't, then corn is the nominee, but hey, at least we had a choice.

If Paxton does win, then that's a whole another smoke.

And what he's done in these last couple of days is go feet first all in, crank it up to 11,

pedal to the metal with the Oppo research, opposition quotes.

I mean, I can't wait for the next time both these guys are on for Senator coin and god love him

for the next 11 weeks.

It's going to be, you know, how do you handle and navigate these things?

You absolutely did say these, these things that that you were begging on Trump and you weren't

a border warrior and you weren't a gender warrior and you went all in that stupid E. Jean Carroll

verdict and you went all in from Eric Garland and you're a Mitch McConnell toady.

You're what Senator Corning wants is for you to believe that he's way better now and he may be.

The Paxton logic is with me, you don't have to worry about it.

Look at me look on January 6th, I stood with President Trump, sharing the message that we'd

been screwed as that day wound down and obviously not very well at the U.S. Capitol and it's certainly

possible and I think the thing to do to say that was just a horrible day and that was not helpful

to the cause, but it was Senator Corning at a lot of other Republican establishment types who

went all in on the insurrection domestic terror thing and so the Internet is forever.

So what we have for the next 11 weeks is Senator Corning saying this is not this is a new me,

he's the same guy who has been dominant for 20 some years, but the sort of the Trump skeptical

profile has been changed and Paxton will be trying to drive a wedge into that every single

day, saying this doesn't change, this, this, these, these, these stripes don't change.

So now as far as the Trump endorsement and would Paxton then get out, that's a no.

But Mark didn't he say that he would? He said he would consider it.

This is the words mean things talk Joe and they do. So let's talk a little bit about the

Savak. The Savak is huge. It is so huge that there are people who are walking around saying that

without it, some are saying that without it, the election just doesn't matter and not they don't

mean that it doesn't matter. Of course, it matters. But if we don't have election reliability,

if we don't have election security, all of our efforts are for naught. If cheating is allowed

to run rampant, if another steel happens, then what good is all of our get out the vote effort.

What good is all of our organizing? What good is all of our fundraising? If we're just going to

get screwed by Democrat cheating again, the Savak exists as a guard rail against that. It means

everything. Apparently means everything to Trump who says I will not sign anything

until the Savak hits my desk. And this is designed to rattle the cage of hesitant, slow pokes

who have talked a good game, but failed to actually do anything. If the Savak is such a no-brainer,

why hasn't it passed? Some Democrat voices are saying, hey, this is like a non-problem.

They're on any illegals voting. Then why worry about it? If there's if it's if there's then what's

the harm? There is a reason every Democrat is against this. There is a reason the squish soft

Republicans are against this because they don't want it. Now under this pressure,

pressure brought by non-Senator Ken Paxson. Senator Corning is now listed on the whip list

is being totally in favor along with Ted Cruz of the standing filibuster,

nuking the filibuster, whatever you got to do to the filibuster to get to the 60 votes to pass the

Savak. And that is a wise move by Senator Corning. So let's say the Savak passes and it goes to

Trump's desk. President Trump, as you know, a week ago, had us all in a dither said, I'm I'm

always the way from endorsing somebody and I'm like, whoa, whoa, what? Well, number one,

because I'm the guy who's told you he's not going to endorse anybody because that is the smart

thing for him to do because no matter who Trump endorses, half of his Texas base is going to be

missed. Well, actually, most of them, we've missed if he endorses Corning because most of his base

is Paxson, maybe 55, 45. But you notice that hasn't happened. There has been no Trump endorsement.

And he's holding not just Corning's feet to the fire, but but John Thun, I really got to figure

out what I think about John Thun is Thun just Mitch McConnell with better, you know, mental acuity.

I don't know. We're going to find out because these these these slow pokes, these foot

draggers, these pussy footers, the light is shining heavily on all of you now to pass the

Flip and save act. So let's say it happens. Let's say they're smart enough to actually do it.

But Trump is holding this and oh, by the way, the the Thun McConnell, the the establishment

desperately wants Trump to endorse Corning because there is belief that that's his only hope.

I don't know that that's true, but you know how history goes that the more grassroots

staunch conservative folk tend to show up and run off more ardently than others do,

which would seem to bode well for Paxson who finished only 1% behind Corning on March 3rd.

Um, so if Trump is sitting there saying, all right, if I get if I get the save act,

then okay, Corning and everybody else delivered, you know, Senator Corning was part of that.

I'm now going to endorse John Corning. What happens? Is that of benefit to John Corning?

Of course it is up to a point, but this would not be your garden variety Trump endorsement.

There usually a Trump endorsement is is received by the public as, okay, that's who the president likes.

And I don't have a really of a dog in the hunt. So okay, I'll go the way the president to give

Trump the guy he wants. Would that be the case in Texas with a Corning endorsement? Up to a point,

yes, but only up to a point because this isn't the comptroller race. This isn't the Ag Commissioner

race. Every but well, not everybody 99% 98 out of so many people are dug in. They are dug in

the Corning people are many of them virulently anti Paxson. And if I hear one more person tell me

from the Paxson camp that there's simply no way they could ever vote for Corning.

Well, there's my job from May 27th on. But before I get to a home stretch, May 27th to November 3rd,

where I will tell everybody in the Republican losing side that you better not give a Senator James

Talleriko a little bit of the mechanics on how the runoff will go in terms of the passions that

exist even with a Trump endorsement. I'm going to give you I'm going to give voice to an opinion

and attitude a stance. And it exists in the hearts and minds of many, many, many solid red meat

Paxson base conservatives. And it goes like this. If the president they love endorses the other guy,

the attitude of most Paxson voter, the vast majority of Paxson voters will be.

Okay, Mr. President, we still love you. We get it. Corning help give you the Savak.

We're not changing our vote. Not for one solitary minute because history will record

that this entire mobilization of sudden Republican passion for the Savak happened.

Not because John Thune wanted it. But because Ken Paxson wanted it and offered to place

himself on the sacrificial altar saying, I'll think about getting out of the race.

So let's get to that to wrap up. Would he then get out of the race if the Savak passes?

Here's here's where you get to the thing that I don't know it like I know my own name.

But I know it in my heart and I know it in my brain. And I just it's this that I know it in

actually my gut would be the best place. It is the words mean things talk show.

Ken said I would consider it. And I think he would consider it. And then he would consider the

ad campaign he could then run saying essentially, hey, you like that Savak? I did that.

Do you think Corning would have flipped on the Savak? But for the pressure that I brought,

you think Trump would have endorsed him, but for the pressure I brought.

Say, do you want to spend the next six years wondering if Senator Corning is going to be

suddenly prodible and movable and malleable to do the right thing? Are you want me in there

where you know I'm going to do the right thing every single day? I'm good back.

Should I prove to this message? Those will be the ads he can run if he so chooses.

So ultimately what that leaves us with is Texans will decide. May 26th.

Nobody is getting out of this race. And that is as it should be. And after May 26th,

somebody's going to win. Somebody's going to lose. Somebody is going back to private life

because Ken Paxton's not going to be attorney general anymore. That's going to be either

May's middle center chip Roy and chips with us today, 35.

Or Corning will be done after nearly a quarter century as the United States Senator.

And on that day, on that morning of May 27th, there's going to be some folks

licking their wounds. I'll give everybody a day. Maybe a little more.

But and I and passions will run hot. There will be people who will say, I just I,

because you've heard you for the way that I phrased it, we are going to go through a couple of

months here of Ken Paxton saying that John Corning is a pretender and a phony and an opportunist

and not a real conservative and a fake Republican and a just all the things that imply that he is

an unfit warrior. And John Corning is going to spend the next couple of months telling you that

Ken Paxton is just a horrible human being. How do you heal up after that? And I've asked both of

if you lose, will you support the other guy? And the answer to both what the Corning answer was,

I will vote for the Republican. Oh, thank you. I don't think we're going to have the unity tour

with these guys class pinned in hand from Lubbock to Laredo. I don't, I don't think so.

But I will tell you, it is going to take more than just I will vote for the Republican.

Ken was a smidge, gave a smidge more latitude. He didn't talk about the unity tour either.

But he essentially said, of course, I will be about supporting the Republican to beat James

Tallerica. But man, they're going to need to know that there's only one way that woke Opie

becomes Senator. And that is if we in Republican Texas, and well, it's kind of funny. And that is

if you, you cause it ain't going to be me. If your guy loses and you are but hurt and can't get

it together to you to find behind the other guy, if there are enough folks throwing that kind of

tantrum. Now, and I listen, I know there, and they'll be so mad for a day. Well, that'll show them,

that'll show them. We'll give you a leave. You know, my guy didn't win. How you like at Senator

Tallerica thing, huh? You didn't know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You do not throw the state of

Texas under the bus. So because of your tantrum. But let's not get to the talk shows of June, July,

August, September, October, just yet. We have one today. Mark Davis, 724 here real quick. Lord,

we thank you every day for this blessed nation for your hand in creating it. Fill our hearts with

the energy to defend the freedoms that come from you, which our nation was founded to protect.

These are times filled with opportunity to improve our great nation. As we fight for what we believe

in, help us to carry a positive spirit, treating others as we would want to be treated. We know we're

always going to face challenges, lift us as we follow your word and work for a better America,

where our Constitution is honored, our borders work, our schools and public spaces are safe,

we protect the unborn, we fight for the definition of the two sexes you created,

and where we navigate our differences with honesty and goodwill, where our freedoms of speech

and worship are protected. As we face each day's problems, give us the clarity to look around,

cherish our many blessings in our nation, our great state of Texas, our communities, and our families.

If we follow you, Lord, we know we can get through anything. We ask these things in your holy name.

Amen. Mark Davis, good Monday to you, 724.

A two, a one, two, three, go.

Probably couldn't record this today.

Oh, the girls all get prettier and closer than that.

Mickey Gilly, wow.

Oh, they all began to look like movie stars.

Goodness, graces.

Oh, the girls all get prettier and closer than that.

Mickey Gilly born this date, 1936.

Second place.

It puts a glow on every day.

Wow. So uncomfortable.

I'm trying to remember was it Arlington Music Hall?

I think one of the last interviews Mickey Gilly ever did anywhere.

He was rolling through town in 2022, appeared, delighted to the crowd, and then not long after that,

promptly died. So, um, rest in peace, Mickey, but born this date, 1936.

Alrighty, always alive and kicking our talk.

Buddy, Mike Gallagher, what do what do we have coming off of this weekend?

Well, it's open up the M&M box.

Oh, topics of Michael join us next at 731.

I'm Mark Davis, good Monday to you, Mary Rose in the newsroom.

I'm a theme going today, Mike.

Okay, stuff you could not record today.

It is Mickey Gilly's birthday.

And I just did the girls all get prettier at close in time, which is a

wow. Okay.

And there, of course, now this is kind of funny, a very sympathetic thought.

I mean, you know what, the full name of that record is Paul Revere in the Raiders,

Indian reservation parentheses, the lament of the Cherokee reservation Indian.

Why would that be such a problem?

Since it certainly seems empathetic, because there's not a soul from the songwriter

to Paul Revere in the Raiders, not a soul who's an Indian there.

So it's probably cultural appropriation.

But Mark Lindsay in front of that band with great Paul Revere in the Raiders were great.

Uh, he's 84.

There you go.

You can't say Indian.

Did you either hear it?

Do I hear you say Indian?

You can say Indian.

You did.

Native American.

Native American.

Mike, I'm a Native American.

And so please, I remember, I remember once when my Denise called,

called the Nail Lady Oriental.

I said, honey, honey.

Can't say Oriental.

What's wrong with you?

What's funny?

I mean, what is wrong with it?

Is it just kind of, I can see where it's kind of archaic.

We don't refer to over there as the Orient anymore.

It feels very 1950s.

We still have story.

Orient expressed.

Does that still exist?

That train ride still exists?

I don't know.

Have you seen the clips around of all in the family and Archie Bunker

played by the great Carol O'Connor?

Yeah.

Somebody, there was one that went viral last week over the military action in Iran

and Israel's role and all of that.

And he's telling Meathead, the late Rob Reiner,

about what happens when you mess with the Jews.

He goes, if you mess with the Jews, it's actually very funny.

He says, now look, you know, if you're Italian,

you go running off there to the Christopher Columbus Society,

he goes, if you can't get the bus fare,

then you go over to see Frank Sinatra at the restaurant.

He goes, if you're on black, you go to the NCAAPPPP.

You know, that's where you ain't, he butchered all that.

He goes, but if you're Jewish, you mess with the Jews.

Oh, boy, he goes, they will come at you 10 ways from Sunday.

You don't mess with the Jews.

It was just so fit.

That show wouldn't survive in 2026, Marc.

The message that Archie threw out that you simply,

and how is it that 50-ish years later, more than 50 years later,

we are more buttoned up, more fragile, more

I know, because I use all in the family.

That's kind of funny.

You were 11 when it debuted, and I was 14.

I remember, did you eventually wander into a habit

of watching that when it was actually on,

watching it live all the time with my mom?

I remember, yeah, of course.

It's just a masterpiece, and I use it all the time,

because just six, seven years after the Civil Rights Act

passed just three years after Dr. King is killed,

and we clearly in the 60s were a country

that had a lot of racial progress to make.

Just a hiccup of time later, 1971,

bigotry and prejudice were something you made fun of.

And a lot of people go, yeah, but you didn't hate Archie Bunker.

He was still lovable.

Well, that's kind of exactly the point, but it was like,

look at that crazy guy with those crazy views.

Bigotry and prejudice were something that became the stuff of comedy,

which is the way that a society sort of shows

that it's being ushered into a cave.

And there was an acceptance of satire and comedy,

and even edgy comedy, I don't remember,

and I don't think there was huge pushback against the show.

I could be wrong, because it was right when I was young.

It was beloved.

I mean, it was first of all, it was the highest rated show

of its time, and it was a beloved sitcom.

Today, you know there'd be so many people triggered

and so many people who are offended, and you're right.

We've gone in the wrong direction.

Now, it feels like the Trump era has started to self-correct,

that maybe, just maybe, we know in the other direction,

but when you talk about bigotry,

the media coverage of something that happened in New York City

is so astounding.

Were these two apparently ISIS-inspired young men

through IEDs lit them right in front of everybody?

I mean, the video is everywhere.

You can see it everywhere on social media and all the news.

They lit these IEDs, and they were throwing them

at anti-Islam protesters who have been described

as white supremacists.

Jake somebody, I don't know who the guy is.

You know who the guy is that was a Jake Shields,

I think his name is.

Anyway, he's setting up a protest outside Gracie Mansion.

So, look, which is where the mayor lives.

And these two, they are bona fide IEDs

with a particular kind of material in it

that have been used in other terrorist attacks,

including the shoe bomber Richard Reed in that airplane.

Anyway, the media coverage was inferring

that it was the anti-Islam white,

you know, supposed nationalist protesters

who threw the bombs.

And the whole media coverage was slanted,

but along comes Zoran Mamdani,

and he puts out a statement condemning the attacks.

And he doesn't say anything about,

he never uses the word terrorism.

I mean, these guys were literally saying Alua Akbar

as they were detonating the, and thank goodness,

the fuses didn't work,

or tons of people could have been killed.

And yet to the left, it was the white protesters

who were the problem.

They're the ones that caused it.

Not the two terrorists would be terrorists,

or I shouldn't say would be,

I guess they are terrorists.

Actual terrorists.

So everything is upside down in Mamdani's world,

and in the city of New York.

And I, boy, I worry about my family,

my friends who live there,

because it's a different era now.

It is.

We talked about it as in the home stretch

of that election, we wondered how long it would take him

to destroy New York.

He said, look, it's not going to happen in six weeks.

It's not going to happen in six months.

It's just different.

It's a different feel.

Criminals are empowered.

You're going to get more weed.

You're going to get more misbehavior.

You're going to get fewer people incarcerated.

And then a slow kind of burn.

And I hope that's only a metaphor.

The city will simply feel different.

It's just.

Jake Lang is his name, by the way.

He's described as a far right influencer.

It was an anti-Muslim rally led by a guy

who was described as a January 6th rioter.

All right.

All right.

Can we, let's dive into something

you and I talked a little bit about over the weekend.

There was the very solemn, dignified transfer ceremony

for the six US soldiers killed in the current conflict

in the Middle East.

President Trump's appearance has been described

by the left leading media as widely criticized

because he was wearing his white USA baseball cap.

And he kept the cap on as the bodies were brought by the back

of the plane.

We've all seen this at Dover Air Force Base.

It's very solemn.

And it's called, as you said, the dignified transfer.

We've seen it in a lot of wars.

A lot of presidents there forming a line.

Trump is there in Melania.

JD Vance and Usha were there.

And the president, as you said, was wearing a white cap

that said USA.

Dick continued.

Daily Beast describes it as he made a bold accessory choice.

Headline Trump finds jaw-dropping way

to disrespect his own war dead.

All right, Mark.

I've thought about this.

OK, I will.

It'll be a story of a journey.

I found myself, it's a short journey.

Won't take about a minute.

And then I want to hear about your journey if you've had one.

Because I have a feeling that both of us

started thinking, oh, Lord, because what's one of my,

what's my first index card?

Don't give the other side something

to beat your brains in with, right?

And that still stands.

And I found myself thinking, oh, sir, could you not?

And I thought that for about a minute,

it will remain my favorite thing for everybody

to be hats off for the dignified transfer.

OK, but the notion that this president, whose reverence

for our military is so clear, whose enthusiasm

within the military is sky high, whose respect for our fallen

is beyond doubt, to nitpick and hand ring

about a stupid hat is a road I will not go down.

And you?

I mean, that's fair.

That strikes me as two separate issues to me.

I mean, on the one hand, his respect and his reverence

for the military is unquestioned.

There's no doubt about it.

It still goes back to, is it all that great an idea?

I remember when I first saw the video of him

getting out of the motorcade, he had the hat in his hand.

And I thought, oh, gosh, is he going to wear a baseball hat?

And he did.

And then I started, then there were some things

on social media about the commander in chief.

Because if you notice, the members of the military,

they've got their part of their uniform as the hat.

And they got those on.

They didn't take them off.

But that is the uniform in there.

They were following etiquette and they were following decorum.

And a baseball cap is kind of his uniform.

You know, I mean, so we might be trying to bend over.

Let me share a personal story that really resonated with me.

Let me tell you why.

Let me get her from you first.

I don't have an answer.

It's not my favorite thing.

But I'm with you.

But I'm with you because it detracts

from his complete loyalty to the military and his deep respect.

Again, two things can be true at the same time.

That's true.

But we know we have concern.

Your level of concern about the hat on 0 to 10.

Mine is about a 0.5.

Because the more I found people overreacting to it,

it's everybody that hates him.

I almost feel like you.

It's almost Roe reversal Monday, where I can hear you.

If I were to get all exercised about this,

here you say, don't do it, Mark.

Don't play into that.

Don't play into the game.

So I would make the same request of you.

I get that.

It's about a two for me.

It's not a 0.5.

It wasn't my favorite thing.

But that doesn't mean that I don't hate the guy.

I don't hate the guy.

I've got deep respect and appreciation for him.

He does what he does.

He's his own guy.

I mean, he is a, look, let's face it.

He is a quirky son of a gun.

And there's not a whole lot of American presidents

who are going to pop on and rock a white baseball cap

at a dignified transfer ceremony.

And you know it and I know it.

But that's who he is.

And it's part of the era we're in and you're right.

You got to be careful not to get sucked into it.

Number of years ago, I went to North Texas for a funeral.

And it was a heartbreaking funeral.

And people who know me and know you

and know where I'm from and Keller and South Lake

and all that know what funeral I went to,

it was the daughter of a dear friend of mine,

dear friends of mine, who died of an overdose.

And it was a heartbreaking, heartbreaking thing.

And I flew in with my kids from New,

I was in, I think it was in New York at the time.

And I decided because of this special young woman

who died, she was a very quirky, neat, wonderful young woman.

And she loved my Denise and Denise loved her.

They had kind of a special bond.

And of course by the end, Denise had been, had passed.

And so I go into this funeral and I have the bone-headed idea

that I'm going to go to this funeral at the church

dressed casually.

And I did it for her because she was that kind of,

she was a jeans and sweatshirt kind of a girl.

And I thought, you know, I don't know what I was thinking

and Mark wore like a sweater, how casually are we talking?

Sweater in jeans, sweater in jeans.

It was very casual.

I dressed down.

I walked into the church to see my dear friend

who was of course grief-stricken and heartbroken

and glad to see me.

Everybody in the church had a suit and title.

Okay, that was my next question.

I was the only, oh no, I was it.

I was like, I was like, when you'd have the Halloween

costume party, only it's not a costume party,

but you think it is, I was so mortified.

And to this day, I've always felt like,

I hope the family didn't feel that I was disrespecting her.

I was doing it because of my love and admiration for her.

And I thought it was what she would want.

So look, it might have been a similar moment for Trump.

We thought, hey, I've got the USA cap in the car,

I'm gonna pop it on, I'm gonna wear it,

and maybe, maybe not the greatest move,

because trust me, the day that I wore jeans and sweater

and a sweater to her funeral,

oh, one of my biggest goof-ups ever in my life.

The common thread though is intent.

It's always matter-

Right, sincerely in your heart.

Not only did Trump intent no disrespect,

it was the ultimate of respect to where the USA cap.

Yours was a show of specific targeted

deference to the young lady.

That having been said,

a funeral decorum is funeral decorum.

I know, I know, trust me.

Oh, it was a bad move.

So look, I can, I can get it.

Once again, I can say I'm Trump's doppelganger.

Hey, we both like Big Macs, we like diecoats,

and sometimes we have minor wardrobe malfunctions.

But we love you, and we love you both anyway.

Boom, strong fist.

We love you too.

All right, see you.

Have a good one.

My Gallagher ready to go, 10 o'clock,

ready to go on 6.60 a.m. the answer.

You know what the way, way, way, way back machine

does every once in a while?

Gives me a chance to unearth a piece of music

that you've heard of bazillion times.

And never knew what it was.

This has been a theme like for,

it's nothing the jeopardy theme,

but it's like the passage of time,

or, you know, just, just something, something,

know what it is.

It is called the syncopated clock.

By Leroy Anderson, he was the songwriter,

and he and his orchestra play it, Percy Faith

came back with a version of this in the 60s.

But this was a hit on the radio

in the spring of 1951.

If you're earworm of the day,

you'll be walking around this afternoon and going,

you're welcome.

Thank you.

All right, let's ride that syncopated clock

because the real clock says,

hey, get on out of this hour and into the 80 clock hour.

So let's do so.

Mark gave a 6.60 a.m. the answer.

Stick around. Happy Monday.