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- 0:00Speaker 1: We have the Turning Point USA halftime show. But there's
- 0:02Speaker 1: also news about somebody else who was great on American
- 0:05Speaker 1: Idol that would be the first winner, Kelly Clarkson. She
- 0:07Speaker 1: is hanging up her TV show, which he's done for
- 0:09Speaker 1: seven years. And I took this opportunity to just show
- 0:12Speaker 1: some love to the Burleson girl, because not only is
- 0:15Speaker 1: she one of the great I mean since streisand one
- 0:18Speaker 1: of the voices do you agree with me? One of
- 0:20Speaker 1: the great voices of our time. And then she turned
- 0:24Speaker 1: around and did something I wanna say. It's harder, but
- 0:27Speaker 1: there are a lot of great singers, not too many
- 0:30Speaker 1: people who can do a TV talk show and do
- 0:32Speaker 1: it with style and skill and grace, and she has
- 0:34Speaker 1: done it. She's great. Love her, and she has given
- 0:38Speaker 1: me a gift to me. She went out on tour
- 0:40Speaker 1: after she won American Idol, and the new season of
- 0:44Speaker 1: Idol is underway and it's great too, so many narratives,
- 0:47Speaker 1: so many people, it's uplifting. Watch it with your family.
- 0:49Speaker 1: It's just a lot of fun. But coming out as
- 0:52Speaker 1: that phenomenon began, I said, Okay, this will be fun.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Probably not going to get any real big stars out
- 0:57Speaker 1: of this, and quite frankly, most of the winners remain obscure.
- 1:01Speaker 1: But after she won and became one of the biggest
- 1:03Speaker 1: stars in America, she tooled around and did some radio tours.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson was on the show with me like a
- 1:10Speaker 1: year after she won, and she was already selling millions
- 1:13Speaker 1: of records, and we had her do a liner where
- 1:15Speaker 1: you sit her down. It's like, hey, I'm Joe Blow
- 1:17Speaker 1: Whenever I'm in town. I listened to Mike Gallagher show, right,
- 1:20Speaker 1: So she sat down and said I got one, said, hey,
- 1:23Speaker 1: it's Kelly Clarkson. Whenever I'm back in town in DFW.
- 1:26Speaker 1: I listened to the Mark Davis Show on WBAP. He
- 1:29Speaker 1: said at one point that no big stars were gonna
- 1:31Speaker 1: come out of American Idol. How you like me now,
- 1:34Speaker 1: talk show Boy. That's where talk show.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Boy was born, the great Kelly Clarkson.
- 1:38Speaker 1: So anyway, good for you, know how hanging up the
- 1:41Speaker 1: show to do family stuff, So good for her.
- 1:43Speaker 3: You know how in life there are things that come
- 1:46Speaker 3: up that are painful. You know, You'll you'll see somebody
- 1:49Speaker 3: or a topic will come up and you get a
- 1:51Speaker 3: pang in your heart and you remember something that's awfully
- 1:54Speaker 3: painful of Kelly Clarkson represents one of the most painful
- 1:57Speaker 3: chapters of my life. And I'm not exaggerating that. I mean,
- 2:01Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson is the reason that I was and it's
- 2:04Speaker 3: not her, Incidentally, was all me. I was on the
- 2:07Speaker 3: couch for three days in the fetal position over Kelly
- 2:09Speaker 3: Clarkson because of something that I said on the air
- 2:14Speaker 3: with Chris Wallace years ago. Kelly Clarkson put on a
- 2:17Speaker 3: ton of weight. Of course, she had been she had
- 2:20Speaker 3: had a baby, I think, and she was really really big.
- 2:24Speaker 3: And Chris Wallace and I used to do a Friday segment. Chris,
- 2:27Speaker 3: of course back in the day when he was normal
- 2:29Speaker 3: and he was on Fox News before he broke, and
- 2:32Speaker 3: we had a great, great rapport. It's the fact that's
- 2:35Speaker 3: very much like the eminem experience is today. Great chemistry.
- 2:39Speaker 3: And it was different with him because he would let
- 2:41Speaker 3: us kind of let his hair down on Fridays and
- 2:42Speaker 3: he would he would cut up with me, and people
- 2:45Speaker 3: just loved it. They loved the Chris Wallace segment. Well,
- 2:49Speaker 3: he always made fun of my weight. He always teased
- 2:51Speaker 3: me about being overweight, and I made a joke about
- 2:55Speaker 3: I said, yeah, well, I had a Domino's pizza last
- 2:57Speaker 3: night and I ordered a whole I ate the whole pizza,
- 3:00Speaker 3: but the good news is I ordered thin crust, so
- 3:02Speaker 3: it should be okay. Well then for some reason, for
- 3:05Speaker 3: some unexplicable reason, I couldn't stop and I said, gosh,
- 3:10Speaker 3: did you see Kelly Clarkson last night? She was on
- 3:12Speaker 3: some award show? And I said, did you see her?
- 3:15Speaker 2: You know?
- 3:16Speaker 3: And I said, she really got big? And that was
- 3:20Speaker 3: all I mean. I didn't make fun of her. I
- 3:22Speaker 3: just pointed out because she was really really big. And
- 3:26Speaker 3: Chris made the unfortunate remark, yeah, maybe she should have
- 3:29Speaker 3: ordered the thin crust instead of the thick crust. Well,
- 3:32Speaker 3: you got in trouble? Oh did I get in trouble?
- 3:36Speaker 3: A fellow named Joe Kancha, who is a wanna bee
- 3:40Speaker 3: who loves to be on TV and he's a mister
- 3:42Speaker 3: contributor and Sean Hannity always says, I should have my
- 3:46Speaker 3: own show. He was writing a column at the time,
- 3:49Speaker 3: but media he was listening and he proceeded to blast
- 3:53Speaker 3: Mike Gallagher and Chris Wallace for fat shaming Kelly Clarkson,
- 3:58Speaker 3: and it took off it wound up in People magazine,
- 4:02Speaker 3: It wound up on TMZ angle to this, Well, what no,
- 4:06Speaker 3: that was a different controversy when she shouldn't have done it.
- 4:10Speaker 3: That was maternity. The let's let's can we do one
- 4:12Speaker 3: trauma at a time for me, because I got a hey, Tracy,
- 4:15Speaker 3: can you get my therapist on the phone please.
- 4:18Speaker 1: The women Mike has savaged in his free form commentation.
- 4:22Speaker 3: But it it slayed me because and then it hurt
- 4:27Speaker 3: because I knew with all the coverage that it got.
- 4:31Speaker 3: It got back to her and the thought normally, when
- 4:34Speaker 3: we pop off and we talk about a Kelly Clarkson
- 4:36Speaker 3: and we talk about a Katanji Brown Jackson or bad Bunny,
- 4:40Speaker 3: which we're going to talk about in just a moment. Yeah,
- 4:42Speaker 3: and I can't wait to talk to you about this.
- 4:44Speaker 3: Normally doesn't get back to those people. I mean, you know,
- 4:47Speaker 3: we got our audience, we're just talk shows and we're good. Well,
- 4:50Speaker 3: this got, I guaranteed got back to her. And I
- 4:53Speaker 3: was sick to my stomach and I and there was
- 4:56Speaker 3: a whole thing. It's kind of a fascinating story about
- 4:58Speaker 3: the art of an apology because I called and at
- 5:01Speaker 3: the time, interestingly enough. Chris and I both shared the
- 5:03Speaker 3: same agent, we both had the same manager, and I
- 5:06Speaker 3: called the agent. I said, I gotta apologize. I said,
- 5:08Speaker 3: this is insane. It's everywhere. Of course, not to mention,
- 5:11Speaker 3: I was getting a thousand emails a middle you know,
- 5:15Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson fans who were ready to and and literally listen.
- 5:18Speaker 3: I will tell you that the most I said was wow,
- 5:21Speaker 3: did you see or she really got big? That's all
- 5:23Speaker 3: I said. And that was in Joe Conscia's mind.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Christ did the thin crust line that seems.
- 5:28Speaker 3: Like right right anyway right, But it was two boomers
- 5:31Speaker 3: laughing and blah blah. It was awful. It was not
- 5:34Speaker 3: a good look. So and and Chris, for what it's worth,
- 5:37Speaker 3: did not want to apologize. He said, look, we apologize.
- 5:41Speaker 3: It's it's going to be open season. I said, Chris,
- 5:46Speaker 3: I know, well I did.
- 5:47Speaker 1: There will be things where you or I or Chris
- 5:50Speaker 1: will say something about somebody and it might be edgy,
- 5:52Speaker 1: and it might be observational, and it might be whatever
- 5:54Speaker 1: that that don't necessarily merit an apology. Sometimes they absolutely do.
- 5:58Speaker 1: This absolutely did, and it's a measure of the kind
- 6:01Speaker 1: of person you are that you did it.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Well. I wrote an apology that said, look as a
- 6:05Speaker 3: tubby guy, the last person in the universe who should
- 6:08Speaker 3: say anything about anybody else's physical appearances me, I am
- 6:11Speaker 3: profoundly sorry, and I didn't do one of those equivocal
- 6:15Speaker 3: unequivocal well anyway, and by the way, as soon as
- 6:18Speaker 3: I did that, all the criticism stopped. It was like
- 6:21Speaker 3: a biggot one well that it was turned on. Well,
- 6:24Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't know what was going to happen.
- 6:25Speaker 3: I thought maybe, and I wanted the apology. It was
- 6:28Speaker 3: really just for her. I wanted her to know how
- 6:32Speaker 3: sorry I was. That that would get That's good.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Listen, you made the initial comment publicly, it's good for
- 6:36Speaker 1: the apology to be known publicly.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Well anyway, Chris finally after two or three days, he
- 6:42Speaker 3: was not happy with me apologizing, and then finally he
- 6:45Speaker 3: was kind of prodded hinto apologizing two or three days later,
- 6:50Speaker 3: and that ladies and gentlemen marked the end of the
- 6:53Speaker 3: Chris Wallace experience on My show, because weeks later they
- 6:57Speaker 3: pulled the plug and they said that's no more Ris
- 7:00Speaker 3: Wallace on the Mikeallagher Show.
- 7:01Speaker 1: And so anyhow, it opened sixty seconds of an interesting thing.
- 7:06Speaker 2: What do you get to say? I mean that, let's
- 7:09Speaker 2: stipulate not that.
- 7:11Speaker 1: But there's another there's a similar issue, the women of
- 7:15Speaker 1: various ages who are getting work done and it's not good.
- 7:18Speaker 1: It's because I care about people, you know, whether it's
- 7:22Speaker 1: ninety year old Chaer who has drunk off her butt
- 7:25Speaker 1: and forgot to do the winners at her category, just
- 7:28Speaker 1: leave yourself alone. I mean, that's good work. She's got
- 7:31Speaker 1: the money. Is it Melanie Griffith who just got horrible
- 7:34Speaker 1: duckmouth and it was just just looked like she'd been
- 7:36Speaker 1: in a helustrial accident. Helen, Oh, my Lord, of course.
- 7:40Speaker 1: So the epigram means there were a couple of actual
- 7:42Speaker 1: watchable moments and when incredibly talented Post Malone and Slash
- 7:47Speaker 1: and Duff mccagan and Chad Smith do the Assie tribute
- 7:49Speaker 1: by doing Black Sabbaths Warpigs and they show in the
- 7:52Speaker 1: audience Sharon and Jack and Kelly and their hearts are
- 7:57Speaker 1: so full because that's their husband and Dad was deeply moving.
- 8:01Speaker 1: And this has been a little bit of a narrative.
- 8:03Speaker 1: What in the world is going on with with Kelly Osbourne?
- 8:07Speaker 1: I mean it's what the only two reasons. Number one,
- 8:12Speaker 1: I want her to be healthy and good. Have you
- 8:13Speaker 1: seen Ryan Seacrest? He looks like a skeleton all of
- 8:16Speaker 1: a sudden. Ye, I want people to be healthy. I'm
- 8:18Speaker 1: not going, eh gross like I'm twelve years old. It's like,
- 8:21Speaker 1: what is going on? And overall, esthetically, I am concerned.
- 8:25Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a mental illness maybe in
- 8:28Speaker 1: Hollywood or the highly visibil visible arts that people just
- 8:31Speaker 1: don't want age. Look a look at he You think
- 8:34Speaker 1: Helen Myren's had any work done. Maybe I don't know,
- 8:37Speaker 1: but that is a beautiful look an eighty something woman.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Leave yourself alone, Leave yourself alone.
- 8:44Speaker 2: And so I don't know. I guess anyway.
- 8:46Speaker 3: So well, according to Joe Kanca, observing that a young
- 8:49Speaker 3: woman who put on a ton of weight and all,
- 8:52Speaker 3: and that was really I mean, I'm not looking, I'm
- 8:54Speaker 3: not backing off the apology. I'm just sorry all that.
- 8:57Speaker 3: But apparently you're not even supposed to observe that you
- 9:00Speaker 3: just said, according to Joe Kanca, should be worthy of
- 9:03Speaker 3: getting crucified in a column at media height because you're
- 9:07Speaker 3: not allowed to, I guess remark upon somebody's a woman's appearance.
- 9:12Speaker 3: I don't think Joe would have minded if it was
- 9:13Speaker 3: a young guy. I mean, and again it was it
- 9:19Speaker 3: wasn't just a little bit of weight. I mean, she
- 9:21Speaker 3: was really big and and that's the fact that I
- 9:25Speaker 3: observed that at all, according to Joe. And I've never
- 9:28Speaker 3: you know, I ran into him years later on the
- 9:30Speaker 3: streets in New York City, and I've never I'll never
- 9:33Speaker 3: forget it, and I've never forgiven him. I really, I
- 9:35Speaker 3: really despise the guy.
- 9:37Speaker 2: I mean, I really do. Broadway.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Every time I see him, I just I cringe because
- 9:42Speaker 3: I think of and not because of what he did
- 9:44Speaker 3: to me, but because of what he did to her,
- 9:46Speaker 3: because his column that went viral, which he wanted, got
- 9:50Speaker 3: back to her and it hurt her. And I can't
- 9:52Speaker 3: stand the guy. So every time I see his sneering
- 9:54Speaker 3: face on Fox News, but oh look at me, I'm
- 9:58Speaker 3: on the big weekend show, look out special, I am,
- 10:01Speaker 3: you know, I'm with nine other people and look at me.
- 10:03Speaker 3: I'm a TV can't stand that guy. But I saw
- 10:06Speaker 3: him one day and I said, I told him, Hey, Mike,
- 10:09Speaker 3: how you been. He's all hell, he was all nice
- 10:11Speaker 3: to me and everything I said, Joe, do you remember
- 10:13Speaker 3: what you did to me? You remember the column he wrote?
- 10:15Speaker 3: He acted so stunned that I was even the little,
- 10:19Speaker 3: the slightest bit perturbed about it. It was like he
- 10:22Speaker 3: didn't even do it. I thought. So sometimes when we
- 10:25Speaker 3: do things, we don't really realize the impact we're having
- 10:28Speaker 3: on other people. You know. Anyway, forget about him. Not
- 10:31Speaker 3: enough of that. But that's thank you for for reigniting
- 10:34Speaker 3: my nightmares about Kelly Clarkson.
- 10:36Speaker 2: This is one of those em and ms man we
- 10:37Speaker 2: got two minutes go what else you got?
- 10:40Speaker 3: Well, well, I think i've I've identified the two people
- 10:44Speaker 3: in the cosmos who believe that Bad Bunny was picked
- 10:48Speaker 3: to be a unifier, Roger Goodell and Mark Davis. Mark
- 10:53Speaker 3: Davis and Roger Goodell. Dude, would I say that? Do
- 10:56Speaker 3: you think he was picked to be a unifier?
- 10:59Speaker 2: Heck?
- 10:59Speaker 3: No, you think he's going to be unifying?
- 11:01Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think he's going because unified?
- 11:04Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
- 11:05Speaker 2: Thing? For crowd out loud? Stop misquoting me.
- 11:08Speaker 1: What I have said is I think once the Bad
- 11:10Speaker 1: Bunny show is over, I think people are expecting him
- 11:13Speaker 1: to come out in a rainbow flag prom dress. And
- 11:17Speaker 1: give a double middle finger to Trump and say Ice
- 11:20Speaker 1: out on the Super Bowl stage. Watch him way then
- 11:24Speaker 1: watch him, No, watch him.
- 11:26Speaker 2: You think I mean well discussion.
- 11:30Speaker 3: When I heard Roger Goodell say this yesterday, I about
- 11:33Speaker 3: wrecked the car. Oh it was bad Bunny was picked
- 11:36Speaker 3: to be a unified unifier. Bad Bunny is a middle
- 11:41Speaker 3: finger to America. Bad Bunny is a guy from Puerto Rico,
- 11:44Speaker 3: who loads Trump, who hates conservatives, who's all about the
- 11:48Speaker 3: anti Ice crap, and and the last thing he's going
- 11:51Speaker 3: to be is unified. He'll pull a stunt, he'll do something,
- 11:55Speaker 3: he'll wear a pin, he'll put on a hat, and
- 11:58Speaker 3: he'll he'll he'll make some speech. It's just that's ridiculous.
- 12:01Speaker 2: I'm just seeing if you will mostly be on good behavior, because.
- 12:04Speaker 3: Well, we'll see. Time will tell. But I do like
- 12:06Speaker 3: what you said, and I'm glad you too caught Chris Degaal.
- 12:10Speaker 3: I'm so impressed with Chris's take, and I'm surrounded by
- 12:13Speaker 3: smart people like you, like Chris, who have such wonderful
- 12:16Speaker 3: takes on things. Chris said, all the same people who
- 12:19Speaker 3: are vilifying law enforcement, and that's all this is those
- 12:24Speaker 3: some people are gonna say ooh, I hope law enforcement
- 12:26Speaker 3: can find Nancy Guthrie. I hope law enforcement can really,
- 12:31Speaker 3: you know, figure out what happened to this poor woman
- 12:33Speaker 3: and give Savannah peace.
- 12:35Speaker 2: These caps because do we need your skills?
- 12:37Speaker 3: We need you yeah, yeah, yeah, because they're the same
- 12:40Speaker 3: ones that are gonna run to the police when they
- 12:42Speaker 3: need help. Don't forget these attacks on ICE are attacks
- 12:46Speaker 3: on cops. Don't forget. Never forget Tim Waltz's lie aside.
- 12:51Speaker 3: Ice is law enforcement, Border patrol is law enforcement. These
- 12:55Speaker 3: are law enforcement officers, and these attacks are our scurrilous, viole,
- 13:00Speaker 3: putrid attacks on the men and women who try to
- 13:03Speaker 3: keep us safe who cont And that's what Chris Stagall
- 13:05Speaker 3: was fired up about. And I'm glad you picked up
- 13:07Speaker 3: on as well, because you guys are right.
- 13:08Speaker 1: That's fa I can take fifteen seconds on something we
- 13:12Speaker 1: might spend the entire segment on tomorrow or someday. And
- 13:14Speaker 1: I don't I think this is going to backfire. I
- 13:17Speaker 1: think they're crusting too early, peaking too early, if you like,
- 13:20Speaker 1: If the midterms were today, all this anti ICE stuff,
- 13:23Speaker 1: that passion might hurt us.
- 13:24Speaker 2: And I don't know what's gonna happen in November. I
- 13:26Speaker 2: hope it's right.
- 13:26Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna run its course, and I think
- 13:28Speaker 1: it's going to start to backfire.
- 13:30Speaker 3: The argument is, we're.
- 13:31Speaker 1: May June, people are gonna go dude on people that
- 13:34Speaker 1: are trying to make our streets safe.
- 13:35Speaker 3: The argument, well, according to polling, and there's a brand
- 13:37Speaker 3: new poll just out Democrats in for a root Awakening,
- 13:40Speaker 3: a pull from the firm, signals shown that Trump's deportation
- 13:44Speaker 3: efforts continue to grow more popular with the American people,
- 13:47Speaker 3: not less. So we'll see. I mean, I hope we're
- 13:50Speaker 3: not losing the narrative. But don't don't let anybody lie
- 13:54Speaker 3: to you and tell you that this is an attack
- 13:56Speaker 3: on law enforcement. That's because it is all right, bad buddy.
- 14:00Speaker 3: I know you, Thank you so much. All that's Mike