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Hey, good morning, everybody.

It is Wednesday the 18th day of March, 2026.

Glad you are here.

Little chilly this morning,

not as chilly as the last couple of mornings.

And by the time we get to the weekend,

we are in the mid 90s.

That's right.

The mid 90s.

Welcome to Texas in the spring time.

Welcome to today's program for a Wednesday.

We have a lot to do.

We're just going to continue to monitor the shutdowns.

Government shutdowns are weird.

They affect X number of people

and then don't affect at all,

usually a far larger number of people.

This one is absolutely savaging air travel.

And I don't know how to feel about these TSA folks.

God bless them.

It's all kabuki theater at this point.

I like a safer flight.

I don't want my plane to blow up.

But the whole notion of the hoops,

we have to jump through and get and felt up

and all that.

I don't know how necessary that has ever been.

But that's not their fault.

They didn't make the policy.

They're just there in the nice blue uniforms,

just doing their jobs,

except when they can't do their jobs.

And they can't do their jobs if there's no money,

which gets to the second ridiculous thing

about any government shutdown.

Government shutdowns are performative.

Government shutdowns are political theatrics.

Are you telling me?

Are you telling me that the United States government

doesn't have the money lying around somewhere

to pay these people so that you don't have to stand

in a security line for four hours

to get your family to the beach?

It's all just so stupid.

Now, at the third layer of stupidity,

and that is why the Democrats have done this.

Well, war couldn't do two to tango

or not tango as the case may be.

Yeah, Republicans are saying,

fund DHS, which TSA is part of,

and the Democrats are saying,

no, we're not going to fund DHS

because we don't like ICE.

We don't like immigrations and customs enforcement.

It is a Democrat tantrum,

and America is less safe in a dangerous world

because Democrats have decided

they don't like strong immigration enforcement.

Now, if there's some ICE revisions

in the manual that need to happen

and some procedural changes

and strategic editing, fine, we can do that all day.

Whose job is that?

The president because ICE is all part

of the executive branch.

But obviously, Congress funds everything.

So they have the power of the purse,

and that's what they're using.

The purse is zipped closed,

meaning your flight is a disaster.

This has been one of the worst weeks

in recent airline history.

It's spring break.

So some people had spring break last week,

some this week, some next week.

So that's additional fun.

And all of this is part of a stare down

because the Republicans insist

that funding contained money

to keep our borders safe, money to keep our country safe,

money to keep our skies safe, money.

And listen, we have had terrorist attacks

in the last few weeks.

We have noticed those, haven't we?

Evidence that the world is sufficiently dangerous

that it is reckless and ridiculous

to hold up ICE funding.

That's what the Democrats are doing.

So there's there's shut down 101 for this morning.

All right.

Save America Act.

I have a little clip of so-called leader, John Thun.

I said yesterday there are going to be some commercials running

in the Paxton versus Cornon race.

Well, there'll be plenty of commercials running.

I got one to talk about that.

Cornon put up yesterday.

It all depends on how this whole shut down thing goes.

If leader, so can you hear me do the air quotes?

Leader, if leader, John Thun can lead

and get this thing passed.

And John Cornon is one of his key lieutenants

is an MVP of this.

Then that'll be a really big feather in Cornon's cap.

And it will help him working toward the May 26th runoff

with Ken Paxton.

If not, then shame on all of them.

What is this about?

When John Thun was running for Senate Majority Leader,

as John Cornon has run to keep his job,

it's all been about, hey, where the guys who know,

we know how the field is striped.

Where the leaders, where the seasoned veterans of the game,

don't let these new whipper snappers,

don't let these punks like Paxton

and other insurgents in here.

You'd have to show them where the bathroom is.

Where the guys who know what it's about,

we've got the wisdom, we've got the cred,

we got the mojo.

Hey, that's why you need us.

I am.

Show me something.

Show me something this week.

And it was Paxton's gamble that that would not happen

and it has paid off in spades.

Ken Paxton isn't even a senator yet

and has done more to draw attention to the Save America Act

than anybody who is a sitting senator.

Because what he did is he said,

look, I'll think about getting out.

If you guys pass the Save America Act,

he knew like he knows his own name.

Then that would not happen

because John Thun doesn't want the Save America Act.

Senator Corden says he does.

I can't read minds.

He does not have exactly a history

of being a warrior on borders,

a warrior on gender, a warrior on election security.

So can people change?

Yes, has he?

I don't know.

Meanwhile, the Paxton point is,

hi, remember me?

With me, you don't have to wonder.

I wonder about the Corning Camp strategy.

I'm scrolling social media yesterday afternoon.

Hey, what's new?

What can I use for tomorrow's show?

And then ding, ding, ding,

hey, brand new Corning ad.

Now, obviously working toward May 26th

when we Texas Republicans will

and we will get the choice

because nobody's, I told you nobody's getting out.

Yesterday was the deadline for pulling yourself

out of the race and thus off the ballot.

I still will believe a Trump endorsement when I see one.

I've said for months,

the smart thing for President Trump to do

is not to endorse at all.

Just smart.

Obviously, if you're solidly in for Corning,

you want him to endorse Corning.

If you're solidly in for Paxton,

you want him to endorse for Paxton.

I totally understand that.

I'm just saying in Trump's best interest,

don't do something that's going to hack off millions

of your voters and your fan base in Texas.

Stay out of it.

We'll handle this, sir.

Thank you.

I'll believe that endorsement when I see it.

And he was indeed going to endorse Corning there

for about five minutes because he had filled his head,

and listen, no sin and mis

with sort of the conventional wisdom

that Corning was the stronger November candidate,

which using usual Earth logic, he might have been,

but this year's different.

Corning's favorability among Republicans

is down substantially.

The opponent, an actual opponent for the first time

in John Corning's primary history.

I mean, an actual viable, well-funded, popular opponent.

His Corning's never, never broken a sweat in the primary.

Closest anybody ever got was Steve Stockman, 40 points.

40 points.

And this 2014, I guess.

Anyway, now it's Ken Paxton.

And the Paxton voters, very, very, very, very many of them.

And I don't know how many it is, but they have made clear.

We, we will, we will make you suffer

through Senator Woke Opie.

We will, we will give you Senator James Talleriko.

If you deny us the change, we demand.

If you don't give us Paxton, we're staying home.

Now, that's not my favorite thing.

And those are talk shows I, you know, hope I don't have to do.

But they've made, and listen, if I'm only able to talk,

you know, half of y'all out of that point of view,

because it will be time to unite,

no matter how this goes on the morning of May 27th.

There's, there's some who just ain't gonna do it.

And what that does is it creates a factor

where the usual logic of the, the candidate

with the broader appeal, maybe the more moderate,

maybe some independence, maybe the occasional

confused Democrat voting Republican,

or actually not confused the ones in the process

of coming to a census, that that's just off the table.

There's no longer any argument that could be made,

that Cornyn is absolutely automatically

the stronger general election candidate.

I think it's a wash.

And the good news is either one of them will beat

James Talleriko, one hopes if we don't have a unity problem.

So all of this is against the backdrop of the Safe America Act,

which some people want, some people don't,

and the ones who don't want it,

and the ones who are obstructing it are a problem,

and we're gonna find out who they are,

and there will be Cornyn ads running.

There'll be, or excuse me, there'll be ads about Cornyn running,

or ads about the Safe Act running in the coming days,

and it's just a matter of, will they be Cornyn ads,

or will they be Paxton ads?

There'll be Cornyn ads if this thing passes,

like, hey, look at me, I did that, I helped you that.

If not, there'll be Paxton ads saying,

what told you?

Now, about the ad, the Cornyn campus running yesterday,

ding, brand new Cornyn ad, can something be clever

in the short term, clever in a microcosm,

and yet ultimately really stupid?

If so, then I guess this is an example.

So over in the Cornyn creative shop,

they said, hey, first of all, the thing they decided

is let's continue to hammer Ken

on personal life issues.

And so they put together this, I mean,

it's a little, almost two-minute, little movie

that features someone playing Ken,

and it's to the tune, but do they have to get licensing

on this?

It's to the tune of the B-52's Love Shack.

Uh-huh.

Little old place where we can get together,

I think you know where I'm headed.

And it has all kinds of imagery of the AI actor

whenever playing Ken, tooling around, you know,

picking up a carload of mistresses

and heading all over God's creation.

To the tune of the B-52's Love Shack, okay?

Props for marginal cleverness on the execution of that theme,

but the continued whipping of that theme

is just unbelievably dumb.

And it's dumb for two reasons.

Number one, the voters have made clear

not that they don't care.

We would all love for all of our standard bearers

to be boy scouts, choir boys, squeaky clean,

blemish-free, all of that.

We had a president like that, name was Jimmy Carter.

It was terrible.

So, you know, our most admired Democrat one

of our most admired Democrat presidents, Bill Clinton,

had a whole lot of problems.

Our current president, who can serve as love,

Donald Trump as a past, to be short.

So those are connections that people make

in varying degrees.

What ultimately matters is what kind of senator

are you going to be?

What kind of votes are you going to cast?

That's it.

That's what matters more than anything else.

And that means the corn and people

have been coming out and saying, well,

I'm here to tell you a character matters.

Okay, fine.

It does, it absolutely does matter.

It is, it is something of importance.

No doubt.

There have been multiple hazards to that

from the corn and perspective.

One, it tells every Paxton voter,

you don't care about character.

It says that the only way to have you as a voter

care about character is to vote for me, John Cornett.

Is that going over so well?

And here's the ultimate really done thing

about continuing to flag this subject matter.

Not just that it doesn't seem to be working.

I mean, they just keep heaping it on and heaping it on

and heaping it on and heaping it on and can still leads

in most polls.

It's just not working.

Definition of insanity, right?

Doing the same thing, which is just a funny quote.

Did that ever really, did anybody ever really say that?

Because it's not really a definition of insanity

and there are all kinds of examples of people persisting

and doing the same thing like, you know, I'm like,

I keep coming, I'm not, anyway, persist.

Anyway, that's, I think that's a weird quote.

I rarely use it.

Anyway, there can be ill wisdom in continuing to pursue

what is a proven failed path, right?

And the reason that it's failed and the reason

that it's dumb is that what it looks like,

if that's just the well that the corn and add people

keep coming back to again and again and again and again

while Ken talks about record and Ken talks about

corn and quotes, some of them admittedly old,

but he did say these things, those anti-Trump moments.

Hey, they are, they are the internet is forever.

It makes it look like corn and doesn't want to talk

about his record.

And guess what?

Maybe he doesn't.

I mean, he does, he keeps giving you that 99,

voted with Trump 99% of the time.

And that's mostly judges and confirmations and tax cuts

throughout history has Senator Corning,

been a border warrior, been a gender warrior,

been an election security warrior in the way

that Ken Paxton has in the way that Trump has.

No, so it's just dumb.

It's just dumb.

So anyway, all right, it is 721.

Let's pause.

When we come back a couple of minutes leading into our,

Mike Gallagher's back fresh, fresh from the colonoscopy.

Just one way to put it and we, and he's polyp free

as we would all love to be.

So we'll check in with him about that.

And when we come back, who the heck is Joe Kent

and what vaulted him into the news?

He is a man of great honor

who has served this country with profound distinction.

And as it turns out, unfortunately, also a nut.

Details next, 722.

Little record released, New Year's Eve, 1965.

Wicked Wilson Pickett.

I'm gonna wait till midnight.

Born 85 years ago today.

I love those summer lilies.

Has to wave back in O6.

You do not have to wait till the midnight hour to hear Mike

and me yammering at each other.

Eminem coming up here in 735.

One of the things we will talk about is the curious,

curious case of Joe Kent.

I had heard the name when his story burst into the news

right after the end of yesterday's show.

He heads up the National Counterterrorism Council Center,

National Counterterrorism Center.

It's part of a DNI, it's under Tulsi Gabbard.

So this guy, he had run for Congress

a couple of times unsuccessfully is very mega,

very Trump friendly, very national security

and was a green beret.

So there's his something to admire in his service.

His wife also served and was killed in an IED attack in Syria.

He's a gold star husband, things to admire

on top of other things to admire.

So I guess it's kind of easy to see

how he might have been handed the brass ring of this title.

Maybe without checking too hard into what his views are or,

or maybe there was no need back when he was appointed to this job

to say, hey, Joe, real quick, if we decide to take action

against the most noxious terrorist regime in the world, Iran,

you gonna be okay with that?

Or are you going to whine that the evil Jews made Trump do it?

Are you going to argue that Iran is not really a threat?

You surely, surely you wouldn't do that.

Would you, Joe?

Because that's exactly what he did in his resignation letter.

And first of all, Joe, there's the door, my man.

You know, enjoy life on the Candace Owens podcast

where you will be booked as a guest before the weekend is up.

Or Tucker or whoever, just the latest weirdo

from this blame the Jews, Iran's not a problem.

And it's funny, Mike, and I have talked about what to do

about these people.

They can't be ignored.

And my favorite quote, father of modern psychology,

William James, there is wisdom in knowing whom to ignore.

But you can come close.

And what I mean by that is this is a faction,

and it's not even a faction of conservatism.

There's an isolationism in this.

There's some weird new alt-right self-absorption

that makes this happen.

And I think it's just got to be beaten into submission

in the public marketplace of ideas.

Do these folks get to speak out?

Of course they do.

And those of us who believe in the president,

believe in the mission, believe Iran was a threat,

believe in our alliance with Israel,

we get the right to speak up as well.

So here comes a little bit of that I'm guessing.

In our segment with Mike, where we'll talk about all kinds

of other things as well at 731,

I'm Mark Davis, Mary Rose in the newsroom.

You're the top, you're the calcium, you're the top.

Let's see if, coming off his procedure,

Mike is on his game.

Your amality from a show.

First name the show, what's the show?

What's the show?

Anything goes.

That is correct.

That's in whom I that name?

Who might that name?

It's interesting, because Ethel Merman played it originally.

Oh, then it was a bunch of real viral.

This is about 10, 15 years ago.

On Broadway.

So that would be, that would be.

Having a little poem?

No, no, no, even a little more recent.

Somebody else in Boston.

There you go, Sutton Foster.

And so, and who, by the way,

at Broadway, birthday, Sutton,

the great Sutton Foster is 51.

Can I tell you, can I tell you a funny Sutton Foster story?

Of course.

I hope he doesn't get embarrassed.

Do you know how much I love and have worked with for years,

lyric stage in Dallas, right?

And Stephen Jones was the founding producer

and he is such a visionary.

He was actually on the school board there for a while

and Irving did a great job.

He's a great guy.

Rock rib, solid conservative.

Knows theater as well as anybody.

He doesn't like Sutton Foster.

It's the weirdest thing, he thinks she's kind of overrated.

And I think she's brilliant.

Every time I talk, every time she comes up,

I always feel awkward, because I'm like,

Stephen, I mean, and I always call him Doc.

Dr. Jones, because he's actually a by professiona dentist.

Dr. Jones, how can you not love her?

She does, she's a triple threat.

She's, she's a wonderful, wonderful Broadway performer.

So, by the way, speaking of Broadway,

can I get this off my chest?

And kick it off with the, with the M&M experience

and your wonderful audience.

We're doing our food for the poor campaign.

And I thought, you know what would be kind of neat?

How about a trip, a Broadway weekend?

I know with mom Donnie, there's going to be probably

some people tease me about it,

but it's still Broadway, it's still New York.

Yeah.

I got an offer.

I got an offer for a couple who wants to do a getaway to New York.

Tease us, Mike.

Don't tease us.

Can I tell you what you're going to get?

We'll, we'll fly it in New York City.

We'll put you up in a luxury hotel in Times Square.

I'll take you to dinner personally, to Tony's Denapoli,

my favorite Italian restaurant,

right there on Times Square.

And I'll take you to a big blockbuster Broadway musical,

a big show, and I'll bring you backstage

and meet some of the cast.

You'll get a behind the scenes look at a Broadway show

that is a killer.

It's a legendary show.

I'll take you backstage all for the bargain basement price.

You ready for this?

That is $1,000,000.

No, but it's worth $18,000.

Absolutely.

A completely tax deductible donation.

Yep.

And it's to food for the poor to provide clean drinking water,

$18,000, you can, you can, you in a guest,

a weekend in New York with Mike.

If you're interested, you can call Tracy right now

at 800, 655 Mike.

Call Tracy.

And she's going to be standing by,

one eight, I'm waving at her like a lunatic

and she's not even looking up.

She's just staring at the screen.

Tracy, hello, hello, Tracy.

Hello, hello, hello.

Unbusy of the lines, 800, 655, 6453.

Very.

And if you're interested, or email us,

mic at miconline.com.

And we've done this before.

Some people, last time we did, it was $25,000

a couple, we did a weekend in New York.

It's a bargain.

So I think 18,000, it's discounted for inflation

or 18,000 for the, for the two of you.

So if you're interested,

it just call 800, 655 Mike.

That is cool.

So if you want to do well,

or email mic at miconline.com.

Let me tell you a quick finish up,

my column out of the column out.

Yeah, let's move from Sutton Foster,

singing you're the top to mic talking about his bottom.

To my, to my intestines.

You know, I find this a first of all,

first of all, great news, no polyps, which is great.

I feel like I got a new lease on life.

I was, and I had to admit, I was a little worried

because I didn't want to get too morbid.

But three and a half years ago,

they found two precancers.

But I think people, a lot, they find those a lot.

And they snip them out, boom, boom, they're gone.

And you're all, all you're all set.

Okay.

So this time is a little bit apprehensive.

No polyps at all.

Isn't the fast, isn't the process

when they knock you out with the prop of fall?

I am fascinated.

I have always been fascinated by anesthesia.

Always knows where you're just out.

It feels like you're out for three seconds,

but it's been, you know, 30, 45 minutes.

And it's like, you're in one room

and then you wake up in another

with no awareness of what it's, what it's like.

With no awareness of what happened

for the last half hour hour or whatever.

And I didn't, and I have, in the past,

have had a very nasty, nauseous experience

to general anesthesia.

Well, as the guy explained to me,

even though this is proper fall

is technically general anesthesia,

it's an anti nausea med.

He said, it is, it is literally anti nausea.

So that's why people tolerate prop of fall.

And it's an envy.

You remember who used prop of fall?

Michael Jackson.

Poor guy.

He died because the doctor was overdoing it with him.

So here I am on the table on my side.

I know TMI.

I'm looking, I'm looking up at the lady.

I'm looking up at the lady.

I know I was ready to go.

Why would you do this to me, Deami?

That's right.

So I look up at the lady, the lady is going to give me

the prop of fall.

And I see that it's the milky white substance

that's going to go into my IV, right?

You can go.

And well, me being a big mouth, I have,

I'm start talking to her.

Yeah.

I said, you know that prop of fall?

Michael Jackson used, right?

She's looked down at me as, as she's given it to me.

And I'm talking to her as I'm about to go under.

She says, yeah, and of course, didn't work out too well for him.

I said, no, or his doctor.

I think he's still in prison, don't you?

I'm talking her.

And then I start doing a play by play.

Because I can feel it starting to knock me out.

I'm saying to her, it's coming.

It's coming.

I can feel it.

See, I go, I go, I go, here I go, here I go.

Now she's looking at me thinking,

I have a lunatic on my table.

I have got a stone cold asylum escapee.

Because I'm doing this whole play by play.

Here I go, I feel it now.

And then before you know it, I'm waking up.

Mike, Mike, everything's great.

Wake up, wake up.

So that's anyhow, all good.

And look, quick medical advice from your big mouth talk show.

But everybody do get it done.

Get it done.

It's the easiest.

Well, I mean, it's not easy.

The prep thing is awful.

I need to get up and sleep in the morning.

It's less awful than it.

I, this, the, I was filled with all kinds of things

that you did just didn't have to do that.

There are other ways that, you know, I didn't have to do it.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

What's plan B?

Well, tell me what the other way.

I think I started slugging, I started slugging the stuff at five, four or five or something.

And by the time I, five, five p.m., by the time I had to get up at 11 or something,

I was done.

It did.

I didn't think you did.

But now I have to get up in the middle of the night.

I got up in the middle of the night because, you know, nature had called to finish the

process.

But I didn't have to wake up and spend another hour popping a regimen of pills.

It's three and three.

And water in the morning.

They, they make you take 12 pills at two o'clock in the morning, then they make you

drink 30 minutes of water an hour later.

Then you make it, they make you do another 30 minutes of water, another hour later.

So you're up all, so you're up all night.

Didn't have to do it.

Didn't have to do it.

Well, doctor, my doctor, doctor, uh, Spachem and doctor feel good, I guess.

Give me, let me in the wrong way.

Anyway.

Get this off my chest too.

I, I am on my egg game.

I'm feeling great.

And thanks for all the support I got to, and Joey filled in for me yesterday, but he

played my version of Danny Boy, which was fun.

I love that.

I love that.

He's day.

He bet.

That's right.

And I had a little bit of luck the Irish with the good news on the polyps.

Yes.

So last time, talking to a colleague and Charlie Kirk and the podcast wars come up.

And we're talking about Candace Owens.

And now we got this Joe Kent, Joe Kent, by the way, is going to run right into the arms

of Tucker.

Shocker.

He's, I mean, this guy has betrayed Trump.

And frankly, and look, no one's taken away anything from him regarding his service, his

sacrifice.

He's his old star husband, his loss, his first wife, who was killed by the, by, in Syria.

I mean, but he's blaming Israel for everything.

Now he's going out, going out with a, with a, with a bang, uh, anti-Israel.

It's a, you know, we're, we're, we're beholden to Israel.

Iran.

Iran wasn't a threat.

Iran was no imminent threat to the United States.

And of course, that plays right to the folks in our, on our side, who are uncomfortable

with what we're doing in Iran.

And Mark, we can't ignore those people.

They're, they're part of our coalition.

And there are plenty of people, Mark.

They're plenty of people who say, do we really want to be doing this?

How long is this going to last?

Those are not unreasonable questions.

But it is unreasonable to blame everything on the Jews.

Blame everything on the Jews in Israel.

Is their anti-Semitism coursing through it?

Perhaps.

I don't know.

I'm talking to a reasonable, reasonably intelligent person, colleague yesterday.

And somehow, I, and I mentioned, you know, I think Charlie's death, and, and this person

knew Charlie pretty well.

I said, I think Charlie's death kind of like popped the cork off some of this stuff that

a lot of this is bubbling over after Charlie's assassination, Candace Dovin, she wanted

to make a, a big narrative out of it.

And it feels like we've kind of gone off the rails.

And I don't, there's not going to be, there's never going to be another Charlie Kirk.

And that's what makes it such a dark chapter right now in America's history.

She says to me, well, you know, and you know, of course, Tyler Robinson didn't kill Charlie

Kirk.

Hello.

I said, excuse me.

She goes, well, you don't think this kid got up on the roof and shot Charlie Kirk, do

you?

And I, I was stunned.

And I'm talking to her and I'm thinking, who do you think she killed him?

She's bringing up the Mossad, she, what she's doing is she's, she's following Candace.

And Candace, of course, has created this alternative universe.

And, and is brilliant because look, we can go back to the Kennedy assassination.

You can say there's more to this story than meets the eye.

It wasn't just Lee Harvey Oswald, how could it have been all the way through Charlie's

assassination.

But it reminded me, and I wanted to bounce this off of you this morning.

It reminds me that Candace and the others, perhaps Tucker, go down the list, Megan, they

have a lot more influence than people give him credit for.

And they're impacting people, Mark.

People's hearts and minds are getting changed by some of the stuff that's coming from their

podcast.

I don't know, I don't know.

I don't know.

I think that when you phrase it that way about parts and minds being changed, I think

they are finding a way to smoke out and root out and bring into the light, people who

are inclined to feel this way.

Anyway, folks who had this odd isolationism, folks who had this weird America only,

a way of going about things, people who are looking to, and a lot of it, a self-absorption

on the part of the Candace and Tucker, it even, even Megan Kelly trilogy now.

No, I don't think they're having that, I think they had this much influence already.

Whatever corner of conservatism, if you even want to call it that, whatever corner of

the opinion spectrum, held these views, they are shining light on those views.

I don't think that every day there are thousands more people who blame the Jews, thousands

more people who think Trump is wrong, thousands more people who think Iran was not a threat.

I think they've just, there's been a light that's been shown on them and my gosh, do we

need to pay attention to it, sure?

But only in as much, only in as much as the time it takes to combat it on the marketplace

of public opinion and identify it as the BS that it is.

Yeah, we definitely have a responsibility to have a counter narrative, but I just fear

that your position risks ignoring a snowball that's building.

It's not a snowing.

And the longer and these guys continue to expand their influence, they continue to grow

and, and incidentally, I'm with you too.

I think we both agree.

It's all about the clicks, it's all about the engagement.

It's all about the monetization because that's how they make the money, but it's, but

don't poo poo their influence, Mark.

I'm telling you, we can't, we just know if I thought it was of no influence, I would

ignore it.

And I've said that it can't be ignored, true, but I'm also not going to pander to it.

I'm not going to cater to it.

I'm not going to give it an ounce of quarter.

I'm going to identify it as the nonsense that it is and believe me, when I went off

on Joe Kent yesterday, oh, I got all of this in return.

I said, he's decorated this and he lost his wife, sorry, giving us all the reasons to

admire him.

And he served this country with distinction.

The guy is a hero in so many ways, but something, some twig in him snapped and he became a lunatic

and nothing in his praiseworthy past changes that.

And the truth is, he didn't, and the truth is, Trump didn't change.

He did.

He's the guy that just a few years ago was talking about the need to take out Iran.

So what changed?

So now you got a president who actually did it and now he goes out and blaze of, and now

it's a problem.

Give me, you know, do you believe the reporting that he was leaking, that he was the one

leaking information, saying they, that's a little too easy, I don't know, that's a little

too easy.

I think kind of a little too tidy, but, but nothing's impossible, can't, can't, nothing

surprises me anymore.

Maybe that, that, that maybe the byword of everything we do, nothing is impossible.

All right.

All right.

So no takers yet.

I'm feeling good.

But hey, again, you would weekend for two in New York.

I would love to take somebody from the Metroplex, eight hundred six, five, five, Mike, and

what a show you're going to get to see backstage.

You're going to meet the cast, Tony's Denapoli, get the chicken parm, call Tracy, eight hundred

six, five, five, Mike.

If you're interested or email, mic at miconline.com.

Love you.

Have a nice day.

Take him up on it.

Love you.

Glad he's back.

It's Mike.

He's ready to go Wednesday at 10 o'clock on 660.

Let me answer.

In to the way, way, way, way, way back machine to very late 1939, Tommy Dorsey in the orchestra,

Jack Leonard in the microphone, Indian summer, probably can't call it that anymore.

It's going to feel like real summer this weekend in the mid-90s.

Too much fun.

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