Full Transcript for Episode #123 |  Election expectations/ Future of Trump’s GOP/ What’s at stake

are never quite as big as the presidential year. But there's something about this one. It's the last two years. The stage is about to be set for the last two years of the most consequential presidency of our lifetimes. How's it going to go? What does this paint in terms of the path forward for the Republican Party? Is this more muscular? Yes, more populist. We talked about that this morning. But this Trumpified Republican Party, is it going to get a little bit of a smackdown on its way to the exit ramps? Or is MAGA going to get some wind in the sails moving toward 2028? And so much of it, it's not just about is a theme I've struck often. It's not just about the things we want to have happen politically, but it is about not just right versus left, but right versus wrong. I know that's glib, but I mean it. Are we going to value the unborn? Are we going to realize how many genders there are? Are we going to bring our country closer to God or farther away? My sweet wife sent me a little meme of something, and I'll finish with this and hand it over to you wherever you want to go. It is a father who has brought his daughter, I can't tell this stupid story. It is a father who has brought his daughter to the polling place today. Okay. And, uh, and all the way out, she says, who'd you vote for daddy? And he says, I voted for you. Oh, I'm so maudlin. 00:04:31 Speaker 4: This sounds so practiced, but I just, it ripped my heart out and laid it on the sidewalk because that is what it is. 00:04:41 Speaker 3: What is it? It is what it's about. We're doing this for our kids and for our grandkids. We're doing this for, I've never in my life seen such a stark contrast between the two political parties. Never in my life. I remember saying there were some aspects of the Clinton presidency I kind of liked. I could kind of get used to some of these economic policies that came out of there. I got used to the guy acting like he was reaching across the aisle. I know, I know. But I– look– But that I would long for the days of Bill Clinton compared. 00:05:21 Speaker 2: To Bill Clinton is Winston Churchill compared to today's Democrat. 00:05:24 Speaker 3: Totally. And so that's why to see it be to have these this these wins in our face right now. And this uphill battle to climb is mystifying to me. I'm mystified by the way people are responding. I'm completely baffled by the way a number of Republicans are behaving. I think there are Republicans who smell blood in the water of MAGA. I believe that they think, finally, we're going to be able to put this creature down. We're going to put MAGA out of its misery. And they think that we're going to go back to the days of John McCain and Mitt Romney. And it isn't going to happen. I don't know what's going to happen today. I don't know what's going to happen over the next two years. But I can guarantee you one thing. MAG is not going anywhere, Mark. 00:06:19 Speaker 2: No, the Trump is in for two more years. And whether it's Vance

or Rubio or God bless him, Ron DeSantis or whoever, Republican America is going to require a continuation of the kind of fearless... And unapologetic conservatism. And I know that Trump has brought a populist flavor of that. But from borders to gender sanity, to deregulation, to lower taxes, to pro-business policies, it has absolutely been Reagan on steroids. And we're going to require more of that. And for any of these establishment dinosaurs who think that we're going to be welcoming back the Casper milk toast methods of the past, they are going to be shown to be sadly mistaken. 00:06:59 Speaker 3: And speaking of stark contrasts, look at the contrast within the Republican Party. The future of our party is Brandon Gill, not John Cornyn. That's the choice that people are going to make going forward. The days of John Cornyn are gone. Tom Tillis, bye-bye. You're just not going to get the support you think you're going to get. And look, I know that like I know my own back of my hand. I know this audience. I know America. You do, too. And you've seen it. I shared, by the way, a personal anecdote about you and how. It hurt my heart to watch you betrayed by John Cornyn. That's such a powerful story. It really is because it kind of illustrates where we are right now sort of as a country and as a party and as a movement to watch these guys. John Cornyn didn't lift a finger to help Ken Paxton. And because it was worse, worse. 00:07:59 Speaker 2: It was not just a sin of omission, not doing anything. It was a sin of commission. He was mouthing off to anybody who would ask about, well, when you offer up terrible candidates, this is how a party dies. 00:08:10 Speaker 3: And it's like, shut up. That's what Trey Gowdy said last night. Trey Gowdy. I mentioned this to you earlier. Trey Gowdy is talking about acting as if the primary voters didn't speak. This one. Absolutely. I want to play this for you. This is Trey Gowdy with Brett Baer. And he acts disappointed that some and picture this. It's as if he thinks some backroom committee just picked Ken Paxton out of the thin blue air. 00:08:39 Speaker 2: A star chamber. You use the wonderful star chamber literary reference this morning. I thought was such a genius. This wasn't done to us. It was people who did this. 00:08:47 Speaker 3: Well, the voters did this. The vote. Well, here's Trey Gowdy on Fox News. 00:08:52 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:08:52 Speaker 5: Or Texas, a state I love. I was laying in bed the other night wondering, how do I blow $ 500 million? And it dawned on me, I pick Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, who 99.3 is how often John Cornyn voted with Donald Trump. 00:09:09 Speaker 3: So for. 00:09:10 Speaker 5: 7s, if you get Paxton, you spent half a billion dollars that could have gone to South Carolina, could have gone to Maine, could have gone to Nebraska, Kansas, but they're trying to drag Ken Paxton over the finish line when all you had to do was nominate John Cornyn. So that's what I'm looking at. 00:09:28 Speaker 6: But that said, do you think that Paxton will get across the finish line? 00:09:31 Speaker 5: I don't know. 00:09:32 Speaker 1: I don't know. 00:09:33 Speaker 5: My friends in Texas, some of them are not over... You know, Cornyn was the lead vote getter when it was three of them. And it looked like the president was going to endorse Cornyn. I don't know what happened. I've never asked the president. He might not tell me if I did ask. But Cornyn was the lead vote getter when there were three of them. So it's Texas. Do I think Tallarico is going to win? No, but it is unnecessary. difficult because they nominated Paxton. 00:10:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, they are with us. Okay. And you heard him. And did you hear him censor himself when he said some of them in Texas are not over? And then he cut himself off. He didn't want to finish the sentence. They're just not over corn and losing. 00:10:17 Speaker 2: Completely right. And they say, well, some of my friends. Well, that's just it, Ponyboy. They're your friends. They're the same establishment dinosaur losers that you're choosing to hang out with. Of course, your bubble is going to continue to bitch and fuss and moan because corn lost. And again, this mythology, this this that if only we had the golden boy of Cornyn, that we'd be up comfortably by seven. It would be a no brainer. I can't. We won't know this unless we have a time tunnel to go back and make Cornyn the nominee. But here's what I swear to you would happen. We'd be in exactly the same straights of a nail biting close race. may be worse because ken has his issues but being despised by the majority of texas conservatives is not one of them and that is that that's what we would have traded so it was going to be a kind of an uphill climb no matter what and that's part of what's so important to me and what i call operation prove them wrong please lord let this happen not just so that we can get results that i want and i don't want to do schadenfreude or be ungracious i'll be very gracious in victory tomorrow if we are blessed with it. But these know-it-alls, these establishment weasels, these smart kids, my Lord, they deserve a comeuppance. And I hope to God that the voters deliver them one. 00:11:29 Speaker 3: Well, you and I have been very, very good about steering clear of any kind of confident prediction. Because nobody knows. God knows. That's all. There's only one entity that knows how this is going to play out. and to sit around and pretend, oh, this is exactly what the early voting tells us, and this is what Kalshi says. Oh, Kalshi. Okay. Kalshi says that the Democrats are going to sweep all seven swing states. Where have we heard that before? 00:11:57 Speaker 7: Yeah. 00:11:58 Speaker 3: I mean, and Axios. I shared with you how Axios did a big article today all about the big blue wave, the big blue tsunami, and then kind of buried toward the end is, But the pollsters are haunted by the possibility that they haven't been

hearing from Trump. Yeah, haunted was the word they used. 00:12:18 Speaker 2: Sleepless nights. 00:12:20 Speaker 3: Marley's ghost. By the way, have you seen the previews for Ebenezer? Yes. 00:12:27 Speaker 2: And Johnny Depp is an insufferable piece of garbage. And I can't wait to see the movie. It's because it's going to be great. 00:12:36 Speaker 3: It looks so well done and spooky and dark. It's the way Scrooge ought to be. It's kind of the way the whole Christmas carol ought to be. And speaking of Christmas, can we stay there for a minute? 00:12:48 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:12:49 Speaker 3: I'm getting out the trees this week. I'm going to put up the trees this week. 00:12:52 Speaker 2: This is fun. Have you usually waited for Thanksgiving? 00:12:58 Speaker 3: Oh, I've been a stickler. It's crazy to do it a day before Thanksgiving. This is nuts. You've got to have the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. That brings in Santa Claus. 00:13:07 Speaker 2: And then there you go. 00:13:08 Speaker 3: There you go. Not anymore. I'm doing it tomorrow. I'm telling you. 00:13:11 Speaker 2: Why, because you're not, because I have a wonderful cousin. My, I have a cousin in Kentucky who's told, showed me, showed me a picture of her tree, put it up Halloween night. And because, because it was her dad, my uncle, it was my uncle Alton's daughter, BJ. She just said, my daddy loved Christmas. And, you know, what's a couple of months of Christmas? We make jokes about them playing Christmas carols at Hobby Lobby in August. And I know, not only does it not really bother me, open the door for a little more Jesus, I'll take it any day of the week. 00:13:40 Speaker 3: Why not? I mean, but when I say this on air, the phones light up and the text lines light up with people saying, absolutely, me too, Mike. What is it about 2026, Mark, that's making us. 00:13:54 Speaker 3: It's 2026 that's making us embrace Christmas. 00:13:57 Speaker 2: A thirst for more joy. Not that Thanksgiving doesn't bring joy. Listen, you know what? We're hoping we have a lot to be thankful for. We know we have Christ to be thankful for. And I'm just sort of being a little glib there. No, that's a perfect answer. That's not glib. That's the real answer. Speaking of joy, let's talk about the joy of blessing poor people with boxes of food. Food for the Poor is one of our big podcast partners here. You and I went to Guatemala with your beautiful family. We fed children. We held them in our arms. Food for the Poor has been doing this for nearly 50 years. Over 4.7 billion meals have been delivered. But how do they get delivered? 00:14:37 Speaker 3: Only through the love and generosity of our audience, only from people like you who are able to support Food for the Poor. Poor people are being fed. Naked people are being clothed. Needy people are getting education and homes. It's Food for the Poor, Mark, which is a beautiful Christian ministry. 00:14:57 Speaker 2: When we stood on those hillsides in Guatemala, seeing people provided for, because of course they bring food, they bring them things they can eat, but they also show them ways to grow their own food on the rocky hillsides of Guatemala. And for all this stuff, doing genuinely the Lord's work, you can do what we are called to do. As the approaching Christmas season would tell us, as we talk about Jesus, let's do something Christ-like. Let us send through this wonderful, wonderful group of people, 51555 to FFTP. Just text 515, text FFTP. to 51555. And that is what's going to help them continue to do this magnificent work. Food for the poor, united in God's work, the logo says. Text FFTP to 51555. And Mike, with the holidays on our mind, we've already taken care of Christmas and Thanksgiving and our holiday episodes. 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Like, subscribe, and thank you very much for interacting with us. Now, here's some interaction from Zin Shades. Now, listen to Zin Shades. Going to be very hard for Ken Paxton to win, unfortunately. Zin Shades goes on to say, it's just so hard. Trump is one of the most unpopular presidents. And it's a fact. And

we're going to, if we go down, Zin Shades says, I blame no one but him. Meaning Donald Trump. There you go. TDS. There you go. 00:17:56 Speaker 2: You know what I want to do in the spirit of Eminem extra? We want to take somebody who we clearly disagree with, but but but unpack it for 30 seconds because there is math here. It's not like the president has 70 percent popularity. So why is that? And you and I would say just conversationally and organically, Trump is not like unpopular in a way that Warren Harding or Woodrow Wilson were unpopular in a way that Jimmy Carter became unpopular. 00:18:27 Speaker 3: There's a hiccup. 00:18:28 Speaker 2: There's a war and affordability related problem. speed bump in the way here, but give me 60 seconds of Mike Gallagher logic on Trump and popularity, both in Republican land and in the country broadly defined. 00:18:42 Speaker 3: As usual, our 735 segment formulated the way I see a lot of this stuff. You and I talked about comparing Trump to Reagan. Because you described, you were describing Reagan, and I actually thought you were talking about Trump. But there's a big difference between the sort of statesmanship that Ronald Reagan engaged in. Ronald Reagan didn't give a whit. He didn't care about the mainstream media. Ronald Reagan was his own man. Ronald Reagan, you know, forged his own path the way Trump has. But Trump lacks that sort of genteel civility. that the Republicans were used to had. He doesn't have that. And I understand that that personality quirk that Trump has. And look, he is a bull in a china shop. We get that. It's what the zin shades of the world just can't get past. They don't get past his personality. They don't look at his policies. You couldn't say Trump is unpopular based on a sealed border. You couldn't say this is a president who's unpopular based on plummeting violent crime rates. 00:19:59 Speaker 2: Gender sanity. 00:20:00 Speaker 4: Exactly. 00:20:00 Speaker 3: You can't say he's unpopular. But Stephen Miller did a perfect job in explaining who Trump is because it goes even beyond policy. Let's talk for a moment about Trump the person. I don't know about you, Mark, but I don't know how many times I could get shot. and get up off of a stage with blood streaming down my face, thrust my fist in the air, and tell the audience to keep fighting. I'd be whimpering like a little baby and telling them to take me to the nearest hospital. Check out the way Stephen Miller laid this out with Sean Hannity last night and Zen Shades on our comment line. I dedicate this Stephen Miller clip to you. 00:20:43 Speaker 1: President Trump. 00:20:45 Speaker 8: since he came down that golden escalator, has saved America. He saved America from a corrupt political class. He saved America from open borders. He saved America from countries that want the American way of life to end, from foreign adversaries, from domestic adversaries. 00:21:01 Speaker 7: President Trump took a. 00:21:02 Speaker 1: Bullet for you. 00:21:03 Speaker 8: He bled for you. He faced life in prison for you. And what he needs from you tomorrow is your vote, your vote to keep producing American energy. Your vote to keep our borders secure, your vote to keep crime, violent crime and murder at all time record lows, your vote to keep men out of women's sports, to keep DEI out of our universities, to keep your taxes low, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, to keep our military stronger than it's ever been before, to keep the American dream alive for you and your children. 00:21:35 Speaker 2: That is up. 00:21:36 Speaker 8: Against a party. You gave the perfect comparison. Haley Stevens versus Assam Piker. The Democrat Party has said they don't want moderates, they don't want centrists like Haley Stevens. They do want extremists, pro-jihad, America-hating, 9-11-supporting monsters like Assam Piker. Do not force your children to grow up in a country ruled and governed by people like Assam Piker who literally celebrate the murder of innocent Americans. That is not who we are as a country. That is never who we can become. President Trump loves America. He loves this nation and he delivered more for us in two years than any president has in four or eight years. 00:22:24 Speaker 3: There he goes. 00:22:25 Speaker 2: I'm going to cry for the second time in the podcast. He's right. It's it's abs. And I know that people disagreeing with him who are not Trump voters may not see it exactly that way. I totally get it. But my gosh, it's why I do. And all these things that you mentioned about how good of a closing argument is that? It's fantastic. And sort of the Trump v. Reagan comparison thing. Reagan was a laser and Trump was a is a sledgehammer. There was a precision and an art and a craft and a statesmanly eloquence to Reagan. And Trump is a firehose, but he's exactly the firehose we need. His love for America is why I love him. And there have been moments where you and I just in the decade plus of Trump have said, oh, man, I wish he hadn't tweeted that or I wish he hadn't said that or I wish he had. But ultimately, I don't care. 00:23:15 Speaker 3: None of it matters. 00:23:16 Speaker 2: It's all a sideshow because what he has stood for, what he has done is That's what makes it the most consequential presidency of our time. 00:23:24 Speaker 3: And I want to address something you just said. I've been thinking a lot about this this morning as well, about the criticism that you and I get and people like us, how we never bag on Trump. And there's a reason for it. And I'll admit it from my perspective. Maybe you have a different take on it than I do, but I'll get started. Because there are things he does I disagree with. There was something he did yesterday I disagreed with. Okay, so be it. What good is it going to do for me to express my disappointment in a decision he makes? All about, I don't know, where he holds a press event. 00:23:59 Speaker 2: I was going

to say, was it a reflecting pool? 00:24:02 Speaker 3: So what good does it do for me to say that doesn't really make a lot of sense to me? Because all it's going to do is give ammunition to the people who are already tearing him down, who are questioning every one of his policies. In other words, it's just not helpful. And I'm not an objective journalist. I'm a partisan. I'm a conservative. I'm a registered Republican. You're honest. You're an honest person. And the thing about the stupid reflecting pool is it doesn't matter. All these things don't matter. If there ever is a Trump suggestion or a policy. That is something I actually disagree with over this legacy of things I have loved. I think at one point he and Bernie Sanders talked for five minutes about having government cap credit card interest rates. 00:24:47 Speaker 2: No, it's none of government's business. And I will say so. I think for five minutes he thought the red flag laws were a good idea. They're against the Second Amendment. So I will absolutely say those things. But all these other things that are that just don't matter. You have to ask the question with whether it's a reflecting pool thing or or some stupid Truth Social post that's not the kindest thing in the world? Does that change the fact that he is saving the country? from socialist ruin. If that's a no, then I'm prepared to ignore it and move on. 00:25:15 Speaker 3: You have to, because if we don't ignore it and move on, we become the distraction that they want for him. They want us to be distracted. They want us not to pay attention to the border policies that are sensible, to the crime and the law and the lawfulness, all these things, and the economy. Don't look now. Gas prices are going down. 00:25:37 Speaker 2: Do tell. 00:25:38 Speaker 3: Every hour I'm getting texts now from people sending me pictures of $ 3. 37 a gallon. That's awesome. $ 3. 15 a gallon. Last week it was $ 4. 00:25:47 Speaker 2: 50. 00:25:48 Speaker 3: I mean, the prices are coming down. 00:25:50 Speaker 2: If we get back to $ 2. 75 a gallon, should we have a Trump sticker going, I did that and him pointing to. 00:25:55 Speaker 3: The gas price? You know it's going to kill us. You know it's going to be the worst thing in the world. If we don't have a good day. And the prices continue to go down because of the policies that are already– Oh, no. I know. Oh, gosh. They're going to take credit for it. They're going to say, see what we did? We got– look what we did. We beat back those evil Republicans and it's going to be a lie. It will be a complete and– my gosh. Because the war will end. 00:26:22 Speaker 2: The war will end at some point and they'll say that they blew tsunami. Helped make it happen. 00:26:28 Speaker 3: Oh, my God. You know why the war may end pretty quickly? He may just turn Iran into a parking lot next week. He may just decide. Works for me. 00:26:37 Speaker 2: Finish the job, as everybody says. Hashtag finish the job. 00:26:41 Speaker 3: Well, can we follow this for a moment? I want to stay there for a minute. Sure. There's a lot of speculation in D.C. that he is going to finish the job after the midterms. Can you walk through what the thinking might be there? Why wait? Why did he wait if that's what's going to happen until after the midterms? What do you suppose? 00:27:03 Speaker 2: If his goal is to finish it with a level of violence necessary to get through to these people, why not do it a month ago or two months ago? That's a great question. So the first thing that occurs to me is, The thought that maybe it would go horribly badly. The positive of doing that is, hey, we finished the job. Iran finally said uncle and suddenly agreed. They've become more compliant because most of them are dead. The downside of it is we are not a warlike people. And we can sit here in our little towers and say, yeah, let's finish the job. But the notion of 50,000 dead Iranians because we did something so– and I'm not talking about nuking them a la 1945, I don't think– But there might have been a downside where the negatives outweighed the positives. 00:27:56 Speaker 3: Could be. That's a good question, and I think it's worth pondering. Now, by the way, we're going to be a little abbreviated today because we've got a big night ahead of us. 00:28:06 Speaker 2: Well, you've got three videos to get to, son. 00:28:08 Speaker 3: I know, and we're going to get to them. And I want to end on those three videos. That'll leave everybody with a good taste in their mouth. We're going to cleanse the palate with Rush, with Scott. And with Charlie. And look, we've got to get out here a little bit early because Mark has 11 TV appearances tonight. 00:28:28 Speaker 2: No, I think I'm largely, I'm gearing down. That's what the last week and a half has been. I'm all yours on Salem News Channel tonight, whatever you want me to do. But you told me yesterday, I am but a fraction of the stable of people. available at your beck and call for tonight's coverage. So just slot me in there somewhere. 00:28:44 Speaker 3: It's a good thing that the Mark Davis estate has a huge driveway because there's five TV vans that will be parked outside of his house tonight. And you're going to be going from one van to the other, from Will Kane to Chris Cuomo to Laura Ingram. Maybe you'll have a little time for a little old me because we're going to be here tonight. Make sure you're checking it out. We're going to be on Salem News Channel. We're going to be on hundreds of stations around the country. We'll be online. It's election night 2026. You'll join me for part of it. We're going to be joined by Larry O'Connor, Larry Elder, Hugh Hewitt, Kevin McCullough, whom I'm missing. We've got a whole bunch of– Joey Hudson is going to check in from South Carolina. Excellent. What a story. What a drama that's been with Darlene. 00:29:30 Speaker 2: Okay. We've been prediction hesitant. Darlene wins comfortably. 00:29:36 Speaker 3: I'm not

making any prediction. Not listening to you. I made one. 00:29:40 Speaker 1: One. 00:29:40 Speaker 3: I made one. Nope. Jury is ordered to disregard what you just heard. The internet is forever. That's true. 00:29:48 Speaker 2: There is that. I've said this about a number of things I've said because I've expressed a pretty good amount of confidence about it. Ken Paxton, too. And if I have to eat it, I'll eat it. If I do, I do. Because that will mean that will mean it won't mean that I like predicted something and saw it wrong. It will mean that something that I've seen forever has changed. And I either didn't see it or didn't want to see it. If my state of Texas elevates woke Opie to the United States Senate, it will mean my state has changed in front of my eyes. And I got to believe it to see it. And if I see it, I'll believe it and somehow try to deal. 00:30:27 Speaker 3: I interviewed Senator Darlene Graham yesterday. She was sick as a dog. She's got the same thing that I've been struggling with for about a week. Oh, yeah. You can hear me. You sound much better. You sound all right. Better than yesterday. I always thought I was going to die yesterday. I feel better today. Now, here's what my doctor, Dr. Feelgood, has me all set up. After the show today, after we get done, after we finish the podcast— I'm heading over to Dr. Feelgood. Dr. Demento is ready for me. 00:30:56 Speaker 2: Some chelation thing, some drip for six hours. 00:30:58 Speaker 3: IV drips. I got IV drips coming out the wazoo. I got nebulizer treatments coming in. I got IV drips. I'm going to get vitamin C injected into my body. Because I need it for tonight. We're going to have a big night tonight. And I cannot wait to hold down the fort with you, my friend, and join us. But before we do any of that, let's talk about storytelling. Years ago, I wrote a couple of books. My first book was Surrounded by Idiots, 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate, which became a New York Times bestseller. 00:31:33 Speaker 2: Classics. 00:31:34 Speaker 3: Book number two was 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate. I was greatly assisted by a master storyteller, Lee Habib. Lee was my ghostwriter, and Lee did a lot of the heavy lifting for my work. on print. And I've worked with him here at Salem Media for decades. He's a creative guy. He's a rock solid conservative. And Mark, he presents something on podcast called Our American Stories. 00:32:00 Speaker 2: The stories he has chosen to tell now are the stories of America's founding, its birth, its progress, its journey. And of course, we're a human society. There have been some hiccups, some flaws, some sins because we're a human society. but the best country in the history of the world. And our American stories actually tells it through that lens. And so you go to our American stories.com, hit the join button. You get a nifty newsletter. You can learn about it becoming a part of this growing storytelling brand. And every week with all these episodes, just check that when you're going to discover it today, and then just go back and do a big binge of all the past episodes at our American stories.com. The podcast again is called our American stories. It's the notion of history told by people who actually love the country and And it's refreshing, and it's great, and you will love it. Ouramericanstories.com to learn more. 00:32:46 Speaker 3: And here's a story worth telling. $ 28 a month, pennies a day, will save a baby every single month. When a woman sees an ultrasound and she's considering an abortion, she is twice as likely to choose life. That's the beautiful, beautiful mission of Preborn. We're so grateful that Preborn signed on as our title sponsor. I've had a great, great relationship with them over the years. You have too. 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I was blessed to work down the hall from him when I was hired to be the morning host. at WABC in New York, which sort of launched my trajectory into syndication. After that, you, Mark, were selected, and you talk about an honor of a career. And this has got to be one of the biggest crowning achievements of your accomplishments, to be able to be one of his guest hosts. 00:34:29 Speaker 2: From 2008 to 2012, the running joke was everybody filling in for Rush was named Mark. It was me, Mark Belling, and the great Mark Booth. 00:34:43 Speaker 3: Gosh. I remember Mark Belling. Who's the other one? Out of where? What Mark? 00:34:47 Speaker 2: He had kind of an Australian twang to him. 00:34:50 Speaker 3: Oh, Mark Stein. 00:34:51 Speaker 2: It's an election day brain fart. Excuse me. 00:34:52 Speaker 1: Mark Stein. 00:34:53 Speaker 2: Who also had some health stuff going on recently. I lift up a prayer for him. Me, Mark Stein, Mark Belling. 00:34:58 Speaker 3: But you bet. 00:34:58 Speaker 2: From 08 to 12, had the chance to do that, and it was an absolute joy. And do you find yourself thinking, what would Rush say today? If you were still around to see today's parade of events. 00:35:07 Speaker 3: Well, let's listen. Let's listen to something he did

say. And this was shortly before he died. But he had a message for the American people never, ever to give up on this great country. 00:35:18 Speaker 6: Well, let me just tell you, folks, it's never going to be time to panic because we're never going to give up. 00:35:26 Speaker 2: We're not going to give up on America. 00:35:28 Speaker 3: I'm not. I don't think most of you are either. 00:35:31 Speaker 6: America is worth fighting for. America is worth not giving up. I know the odds are, I mean, they're stiff and they're steep. The American left is made up of a lot of people that hate this country. Hate is a very, very destructive frame of mind. It's a Very, very destructive characteristic, and eventually it results in implosion. We just need to be patient while being vigilant and continuing to fight for what we believe in, knowing full well that we can prevail. 00:36:16 Speaker 3: We're not alone. You're not alone. 00:36:18 Speaker 6: You're not a singular individual all by yourself out there trying to fight these people by yourself. There are 74 million plus and growing. 00:36:27 Speaker 3: How about that? How about that? How about those words? 00:36:31 Speaker 2: Do you know what's coming up in February? We're going to go through the holidays. It'll be the fresh new year. And February of next year, it'll be six years since he's been gone. And I hear it. I feel, I hear, this again sounds very kind of maudlin because I don't literally hear a Rush monologue in my head. But as I course my way through what you do, what I do, and we've done it for, both of us have done it longer than Rush has, quite frankly. That's how venerated we are. But I constantly find myself thinking of the beacon that he provided. And he would be providing just that kind of upbeat perspective, just that kind of optimism, just that kind of determination. And I want to echo that with everything we do. 00:37:14 Speaker 3: And somebody who passed away just a few months ago, Scott Adams, who is the creator of the Dilbert cartoon. And he walked away from a lucrative career to become a political pundit in his own right. We lost him from this earthly plane, but here's what he said that applies today, just as Rush's words apply today. Here's Scott Adams. 00:37:35 Speaker 7: What I often say is that for reasons of ethics and morality, I never turn on my power of persuasion to full force. 00:37:46 Speaker 3: I changed my mind. 00:37:48 Speaker 7: I'm taking all the controls off to destroy the Democrat Party. This one's for Charlie Kirk. I sacrificed everything. I sacrificed my social life. I sacrificed my career. I sacrificed my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. 00:38:11 Speaker 3: If you're wondering if I'll. 00:38:12 Speaker 7: Get better, the answer is no. But when Charlie Kirk died, you could almost feel this massive energy being released. I feel like that energy just went into people. And suddenly tens of millions of people simultaneously said, what can I do? 00:38:33 Speaker 2: You could have a hurricane and. 00:38:36 Speaker 7: conservatives are going to crawl through glass to get to the voting booth. 00:38:42 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:38:43 Speaker 3: And speaking of that, hurricanes and crawling over broken glass, there's been horrible storm conditions here in Florida today. And yesterday, last night, Broward County and down in South, people are bearing through the storm. And they're voting. People are standing in line, getting drenched, and they're showing up. 00:39:05 Speaker 2: The weather story in Texas was that all last week it was going to be raining. And I thought it made me a little scary. It was going to be stormy, rainy. What are we counting on today? We're counting on the red vote, which can be some older folks. Some older folks get a little nervous. I don't want to be stereotypical here. But there are some older folks who won't vote if it's storming out. And the storms came through last night. We're all done by about four o'clock in the morning. It is a bright, sunny. beautiful day. And I hope that sunshine is metaphoric for a light that will shine on people with the logic to vote in a way that keeps Texas, Texas and keeps America, America. 00:39:38 Speaker 3: Here was a light that was extinguished by an assassin's bullet. This is the late Charlie Kirk and what he said about an election day like today. 00:39:49 Speaker 9: If you willingly don't vote, you are letting the Democrats win and you are a loser. Better never hear you complain about inflation again if you don't fill out that ballot. We win if we turn out. 00:40:00 Speaker 1: It's that simple. 00:40:01 Speaker 9: Choose to no longer be spectators this election. We together are going to do the work to save America. 00:40:10 Speaker 1: Have you voted? 00:40:11 Speaker 3: Why not? There it is. Have you voted? Why not? Can you think of a better way to end the podcast, Mr. 00:40:18 Speaker 1: Davis? 00:40:19 Speaker 2: I cannot. So let us send everybody out into your respective states, into your world to make it a better world, a better country, a better state where you live. I can't wait to watch you and consume your work and be a part of it. And just 24 hours from now, we both have radio shows tomorrow. Find Mike Gallagher anywhere along the Salem Radio Network. Find me at 660antheanswer. com. 7 to 10 Central tomorrow. 00:40:42 Speaker 3: Mike's on. 00:40:43 Speaker 2: We're on. We'll have radio shows to kind of have therapy for whatever we need. And I don't necessarily mean that negatively. Celebration or talking ourselves off the ledge. And then tomorrow's Eminem Extra, the Election Day morning after special. What do you think that's. 00:40:58 Speaker 3: Going to be like? We'll see you then.