The Gerry Callahan Show

A longtime Newsmax contributor, #1 rated morning radio host for over 20 years, and throat-cancer survivor, Gerry Callahan calls it like he sees it and offers sharp commentary on the news of the day. With an emphasis on politics, Gerry also brings his unique takes on major sports stories and cultural issues. He has covered The Olympics for Sports Illustrated, numerous World Series and Super Bowls and he offers conservative political opinions from Boston, the belly of the liberal beast.

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New York Turns Hard Left as Anti-Israel Radical...
- The episode opens with a warning that New York’s Democratic races are no longer fringe contests, but a live test of how far socialist and openly anti-Israel politics can move into Congress. - Several New York candidates are framed as outright radicals, with the show stressing support for abolishing ICE, rejecting deportations, seizing the means of production, and pushing anti-police, anti-border politics into the mainstream. - Dan Goldman’s race becomes a flashpoint for rising anti-Semitism, with the episode arguing that even a reliable liberal can become a target simply for being Jewish in today’s Democratic coalition. - The show ties the far-left surge to a broader culture of scapegoating Israel and Jews, calling out candidates and activists who praise Hamas, smear Israel as genocidal, and turn anti-Jewish hostility into a political litmus test. - Chicago’s Juneteenth weekend becomes the closing warning sign, with 40 people shot and 8 killed while city leadership responds by focusing on a “trans femicide” emergency instead of the gang violence tearing through the streets.
57 min
2
The U.K. Horror Explodes, Starmer Falls, and th...
- The episode opens by mocking anti-Trump activists who rally in support of algae at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, using the stunt to argue that media and Democrats now oppose even basic efforts to clean up and celebrate the country. - A major focus is the total media blackout around the U.K. grooming-gang inquiry, with the show blasting major American and British outlets for refusing to seriously cover the systematic rape and abuse of 250,000 British girls by Pakistani Muslim gangs. - The show also hammers the media for ignoring Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci bombshell, arguing that new documents expose Anthony Fauci’s role in gain-of-function funding, COVID deception, intelligence manipulation, and the broader pandemic cover-up. - Keir Starmer’s resignation is framed as another case of collapse driven by truth breaking through online, with the episode arguing that X and Elon Musk helped expose the scandals Starmer and establishment media could no longer contain. - Chicago’s weekend violence becomes the closing flashpoint, with the show pointing to 40 people shot and 7 killed as proof that Democratic leadership keeps tolerating urban lawlessness while refusing the kind of intervention that could actually restore order.
56 min
3
They Ignore Child Rape, Protect Illegal Alien F...
- The episode opens by blasting Juneteenth as a political creation and then pivots hard into a broader media indictment, arguing that legacy outlets bury stories that hurt Democrats while elevating trivial narratives that damage Trump. - A major focus is the U.K. grooming-gang scandal, with the show hammering British authorities and major Western media outlets for refusing to seriously cover the systematic rape, torture, and destruction of thousands of young girls by immigrant Muslim gangs. - The episode highlights a major Massachusetts welfare-fraud bust involving illegal aliens accused of stealing identities and draining public benefits, portraying it as proof that Democrats knowingly protect fraud, crime, and open-border corruption. - Barack Obama’s new Chicago center is treated as a grotesque vanity project, with the show mocking the opening ceremony, the media adoration, the cost overruns, and the unpaid black contractors left behind while elites celebrate themselves. - Tulsi Gabbard’s final day in office becomes a key moment as she publicly lays out Anthony Fauci’s role in gain-of-function funding, COVID deception, intelligence manipulation, and the broader cover-up that the show argues still demands criminal prosecution.
61 min
4
The Deal Is Messy — But It Just Crushed the Lef...
-The episode argues the Iran MOU is far from perfect, but ending the conflict fast is still the smartest move if it lowers oil, calms markets, and frees Republicans from fighting a summer-long Middle East war before the midterms. - Elon Musk’s trillionaire status becomes a cultural fault line, with the episode praising him as a builder, innovator, and job creator while mocking Democrats for responding with naked resentment and fantasies about confiscating his wealth. - The U.K. grooming-gang inquiry is treated as an unthinkable civilizational scandal, with police, social workers, politicians, and major media outlets accused of covering up the abuse of young girls because the perpetrators were immigrant Muslim men. - The episode ends by contrasting Scottish World Cup fans in Boston who party and clean up after themselves with New York sports crowds that riot, burn property, and trash the city the minute a title is on the line.
60 min
5
Britain Covered Up Horror for Decades — and No ...
- The episode argues the leaked Iran MOU is deeply flawed, but ending the conflict fast still matters more than dragging the U.S. deeper into another Middle East fight. - The newly released U.K. grooming-gang report is presented as one of the worst scandals in modern Britain, detailing mass rape, trafficking, torture, and decades of institutional cover-up. - Keir Starmer is blamed for helping protect the system that let thousands of predators escape real punishment while victims were ignored, criminalized, or sent back into abuse. - J.D. Vance’s appearance on The View is framed as a rout, with the vice president calmly exposing how weak and incoherent the anti-Trump media class looks when challenged directly. - Graham Platner is hit for backing a global wealth-tax plan that would coordinate with foreign governments, including China and Russia, to go after American wealth and taxpayer information.
55 min
6
The Terror Plot That Nearly Turned the White Ho...
- The episode opens with the revelation that the FBI thwarted a terror plot targeting the White House UFC event, with investigators allegedly uncovering plans for explosive drones, sniper fire, and a follow-on assault aimed at maximizing panic and mass casualties. - The White House UFC card is framed as a huge cultural and political win, with the event presented as patriotic, dramatic, and unapologetically American while critics in media and entertainment are portrayed as furious that it succeeded so publicly. - The show argues that Democratic elites and liberal celebrities increasingly define themselves through open contempt for the country, spotlighting Robert De Niro, Bette Midler, and other anti-Trump figures as examples of people who can no longer separate hatred of Trump from hatred of America itself. - Elon Musk’s trillionaire milestone becomes another flashpoint, with the episode casting his SpaceX success as proof that capitalism rewards innovation and job creation while Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and Graham Platner respond by attacking wealth instead of explaining how success harms ordinary workers. - MLB is accused of punishing religious expression after San Francisco Giants pitchers write Bible verses on Pride Night caps, turning a simple display of Christian faith into the latest example of selective tolerance in professional sports.
56 min
7
A Weekend of Bagpipes, Riots, and Left-Wing Mel...
- Tom Shattuck of The Maine Wire fills in for Gerry! - The episode opens by celebrating the Scottish soccer fans who flood New England with energy, humor, and patriotism, turning the World Cup atmosphere into a rare feel-good cultural moment. - That upbeat mood crashes into footage of Knicks-related chaos in New York and San Antonio, where fans riot, vandalize property, and assault people, turning sports celebration into pure mob behavior. - Elite media and progressive activists are mocked as increasingly detached and ridiculous, from Jim Acosta’s melodrama to Stanford walkouts and anti-Trump counterprogramming built around self-serious grievance politics. - Elon Musk’s success becomes a central dividing line, with the show arguing that the left now treats innovation, wealth creation, and job creation as moral crimes while attacking the people who actually build things.
52 min
8
Elon Musk Makes History — and the Left Melts Do...
- The episode opens on SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, framing Elon Musk’s leap to trillionaire status as a historic win for innovation, wealth creation, and thousands of newly minted employee millionaires. - Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are cast as reflexive enemies of success, with the show arguing they demonize the entrepreneurs, investors, and employers who actually build companies, create jobs, and pay the bills. - Graham Platner’s Maine Senate campaign takes another hit as a new former girlfriend says he knew his Nazi tattoo was a Nazi symbol, bragged about it, and lied publicly when the scandal exploded. - The episode warns that Tucker Carlson could become a major boost to Platner by treating him seriously, even as the show portrays Platner as a fake working-class candidate built on lies, extremism, and anti-American grievance politics. - The broader message is that elite institutions keep rewarding the wrong people, from politicians who excuse border chaos and lost migrant children to city leaders who tolerate crime and media figures who attack producers while shielding frauds.
54 min
9
From Knicks Bedlam to Maine’s Senate Disaster, ...
- The episode opens on San Antonio’s stunning playoff collapse, turning a near-certain win into a historic choke job that hands New York a wild comeback and fuels even more celebrity-driven sports hysteria. - Knicks fans flood the streets after the win, smashing cars, attacking rival fans, and treating public disorder like part of the celebration, with the city portrayed as unable or unwilling to control obvious chaos. - The Karmelo Anthony case remains a central flashpoint, with the show arguing that political and media voices keep twisting a clear murder into a racial grievance narrative instead of condemning the killing. - Graham Platner’s Maine Senate campaign is framed as a deepening political farce, with his support described as emotional, anti-establishment, and increasingly detached from the growing pile of scandals around him. - The broader theme is blunt: institutions across politics, media, and culture now normalize destruction, excuse violence, and elevate toxic figures while ordinary people are told to accept the breakdown as progress.
54 min
10
They Back the Killer, Defend the Radical, and P...
- The episode opens on the murder conviction of Karmelo Anthony, arguing that justice lands in the courtroom while a sick racial double standard explodes outside it through protests, fundraising, and media spin. - The show hammers race-based activism and political opportunism, accusing figures like Jasmine Crockett and Dominique Alexander of turning a clear murder case into a grievance spectacle instead of condemning the killing. - Maine’s Democratic Senate primary becomes the next front, with Platner’s nomination framed as the formal launch of a campaign built on lies, buried scandals, and a media effort to rebrand an obviously toxic candidate. - The broader argument is that elite institutions now protect the worst people on ideological grounds, from journalists softening Platner’s image to activists excusing violence when it fits the preferred racial narrative. - The episode closes by linking domestic disorder to a wider Western collapse, using unrest in Belfast and open-border fallout abroad as proof that leaders keep importing chaos and then punishing the public for noticing it.
53 min
11
Democrats Rally Behind a Walking Scandal — and ...
- Graham Platner officially heads toward the Maine Democratic Senate nomination as the episode argues a flood of withheld opposition research, leaked messages, and buried scandals is about to explode after the primary. - The show paints Platner as a fully manufactured candidate, hitting his fake working-class image, Nazi tattoo controversy, Predator-app messaging scandal, missing Marine witnesses, and mounting accusations from women who say he was abusive. - Maine Democrats and national allies are portrayed as morally bankrupt for standing by Plattner anyway, with the episode arguing that stopping Trump matters more to them than violence allegations, hypocrisy, or basic decency. - California’s Los Angeles mayoral race is framed as open election fraud, with late mail-in ballots, weak voter verification, homeless ballot harvesting, and statistical reversals presented as proof Spencer Pratt was pushed out by the Democratic machine. - The broader message is that Western institutions are breaking under corruption, media protection rackets, and open-border ideology, from legacy outlets burying bad facts to Europe absorbing the violent consequences of uncontrolled migration.
58 min
12
The Maine Senate Race Hits a New Low as the Lef...
- Graham Platner heads into the Maine primary as a scandal magnet, with the show arguing that the worst material is still unreleased and that Democrats are knowingly rallying behind a candidate they cannot defend much longer. - The New York Times and allied media are accused of slow-walking and softening the damage, protecting Plattner instead of fully surfacing the allegations, texts, and behavior that could end his candidacy. - Maine Democrats are portrayed as fully dug in, with voters and national figures like Ro Khanna willing to excuse almost anything so long as Plattner remains a vehicle for stopping Trump and flipping the Senate. - California’s late-counted mail ballots are framed as blatant election manipulation, with Spencer Pratt’s runoff slot slipping as the episode argues Democrats are using extended counting windows to manufacture the result they want. - The broader message is that legacy media and political elites protect favored candidates, dismiss obvious hypocrisy, and treat ordinary voters like fools while insiders decide which scandals matter and which ones get buried.
55 min
13
The Left Protects Its Monsters, Then Pretends N...
- The episode argues the New York Times does not expose Graham Platner so much as soften the blow, burying the ugliest abuse allegation deep in the story and helping him limp toward the primary. - Platner’s defense only deepens the damage, as he denies assault claims, offers a laughable explanation for his Nazi tattoo, and still looks like a candidate Democrats know is one revelation away from total collapse. - California’s vote count is framed as a slow-motion rig job, with Spencer Pratt’s apparent runoff spot slipping as late ballots keep arriving and the state gives Democrats weeks to change the outcome. - The show hammers elite media hypocrisy by contrasting hostile treatment of outsider reporters with the protection powerful Democrats receive, using Nancy Pelosi and legacy outlets as proof that journalism now serves the machine instead of challenging it. - The broader message is that the political and media class keeps shielding the worst actors — from scandal-ridden candidates to street-level racial agitators — while demanding moral standards only when it hurts the other side.
53 min
14
California’s “Runoff” Starts Looking Like a Hei...
- The episode opens by calling California’s vote count a month-long scam, arguing that Democrats are using endless mail-in ballot windows to erase Spencer Pratt’s runoff spot in plain sight. - Graham Platner’s campaign is portrayed as a dead man walking, with Democrats already dodging him, reporters chasing him, and new allegations looming that could finish him for good. - The show warns that the Democratic Party is not just drifting left but openly sending extremists into power, spotlighting both a radical Islamist from New Jersey and Scott Wiener in California as proof of what is coming next. - Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent are held up as examples of a far sharper Trump team, with Democrats repeatedly trying to stage viral gotcha moments and instead getting embarrassed on live television. - The broader message is that institutions across the West are rigged against ordinary people — from election systems and media propaganda to Britain’s anti-white policing and Democratic indifference to victims of violent crime.
57 min
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Spencer Survives, Platner Panics, and the Left ...
- Spencer Pratt makes the runoff in Los Angeles and Steve Hilton advances in California, turning the state into a live test of whether anti-establishment campaigns can finally crack the Democratic machine. - Graham Platner’s collapse deepens as Democrats dodge basic questions, reporters chase him through Washington, and allies suddenly look terrified of whatever drops next. - The show warns that Islamist influence is not coming but already here, pointing to New Jersey’s Adam Hamway as a deeply alarming example of a terror-adjacent figure heading toward Congress. - The murder of Henry Noak in Britain is held up as proof that multicultural politics has turned deadly, with police, politicians, and media accused of caring more about the approved narrative than the dying victim in front of them. - Jill Biden gets hammered as shameless and corrupt, using a book tour to cash in while still denying reality, ignoring her granddaughter, and proving yet again that the Biden family puts self-interest above everything else.
53 min
16
The Maine Senate Race Turns Into a Full-Blown D...
- Graham Platner’s Maine campaign keeps unraveling as new scrutiny over Kik, his fake working-class image, and his mounting scandals turns him from Democratic hope into a national liability. - The show argues the Democratic farm team is getting even more radical, spotlighting a wave of socialist, Islamist, anti-police, and openly extreme candidates rising in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. - Spencer Pratt is cast as the rare anti-establishment threat in Los Angeles, with his mayoral run framed as a direct challenge to the corrupt machine that profits from homelessness, decay, and public failure. - The murder of Henry Nowak in England becomes the episode’s most chilling example of institutional rot, with police, media, and politicians accused of ignoring an obvious injustice because the victim was white and the attacker fit the preferred narrative. - The broader theme is blunt: from America’s 250th celebration to immigration, crime, and race politics, the left keeps revealing that it resents patriotism, protects the wrong people, and punishes anyone who threatens its grip on power.
52 min
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From Predator App Scandal to ICE Chaos, the Cra...
- The episode opens on Pride Month by mocking Boston’s canceled “Trans Period Pride” event, using it as another sign that blue-city gender politics remain absurd, taxpayer-funded, and detached from ordinary life. - Graham Platner’s Maine Senate campaign takes another brutal hit as new reporting links him to sexting on Kik, forcing his wife into awkward damage control and deepening the case that Democrats are stuck defending a uniquely toxic candidate. - The show argues Platner’s scandal is no longer fringe gossip but a full national collapse story, with even major outlets now treating him as a liability and his allies going quiet or scrambling for excuses. - Anti-ICE unrest in Newark is framed as another glaring double standard, with violent agitators blocking roads and attacking law enforcement while Democrats and media figures still treat them as sympathetic activists instead of criminals. - The broader message is ruthless and simple: from Maine to New Jersey to California and Texas, Democrats keep elevating radicals, freaks, and failures — then expect spin, silence, and intimidation to carry them through.
55 min
18
The Summer of Rage Starts Early as Democrats Ra...
- The episode warns that a new “summer of love” is already taking shape, with violent anti-ICE unrest in Newark framed as the opening act of a broader season of left-wing chaos, intimidation, and media-assisted excuses. - Democrats are accused of openly prioritizing illegal offenders over public safety, with elected officials and media figures cast as defenders of detained rapists, killers, and traffickers while blaming ICE for the disorder. - The show hammers the double standard between January 6 prosecutions and the lack of consequences for anti-ICE agitators, arguing that left-wing street violence is tolerated because it serves the party in power. - Jimmy Kimmel gets hit for attacking Spencer Pratt instead of defending Karen Bass on the merits, turning the LA mayoral race into another example of elite Democrats circling the wagons around failure. - James Talarico is portrayed as a complete cultural and political mismatch for Texas, with his language on gender, abortion, borders, and “neighbors with a uterus” held up as proof that Democrats keep nominating candidates voters are primed to reject.
53 min
19
From Trans Period Pride to Public Prayer Politi...
- Boston gets cast as a symbol of blue-city insanity, spending public money on “trans period” programming and drag events for children while basic governance, taxes, and priorities keep getting worse. - New York is framed as culturally conquered and politically surrendered, with AOC publicly embracing Islamic symbolism while Mamdani projects power through overt religious and ideological theater. - Jill Biden is hammered as a ruthless enabler, privately fearing Joe Biden is having a stroke during the debate, then immediately shoving him back into public view and pretending everything is fine. - E. Jean Carroll is portrayed as the face of the anti-Trump lawfare machine, with the show arguing her case is built on fabrication, political funding, and media-assisted mythmaking. - The broader message is that Democrats keep nominating and empowering radicals — from Texas to Maine to Los Angeles — while expecting media spin to normalize ideas and people that voters increasingly see as absurd.
55 min
20
Another Rhino Falls — and the Democrats’ New St...
- James Talarico is cast as the Democrats’ latest self-inflicted disaster, with his rhetoric on trans issues, gender ideology, meat, climate, and borders making him look wildly out of sync with Texas voters. - New York’s Mamdani is framed as an unapologetic communist in office, openly moving toward property seizures and using city power to punish landlords and hand assets to nonprofits and activists. - The reaction to Jackson Dart introducing Trump is treated as proof that media and sports elites still melt down over even the mildest public association with the president. - California’s fix for boys beating girls in sports is mocked as an accidental confession: the system now quietly admits the unfairness while still forcing girls to share the spotlight with male competitors.
56 min
21
Democrats’ New Favorite Candidate Is a Walking ...
- The Texas runoff is framed as another purge of the old GOP guard, with John Cornyn cast as the next Trump-era casualty and Ken Paxton positioned as the movement’s chosen enforcer. - Maine’s Senate race is portrayed as the real political freak show, with Graham Plattner depicted not as flawed but as openly unfit, radical, and impossible for national Democrats to defend much longer. - Jeff Bezos and the billionaire class become the latest punching bag, with the episode mocking the idea that anti-capitalist rage is a serious answer to fraud, waste, or working-class decline. - Memorial Day gets recast as another cultural split-screen, with Democrats accused of honoring George Floyd while ignoring both fallen service members and the daily bloodshed destroying black communities in cities like Chicago. - The broader theme is blunt: media, activists, and party elites keep mistaking performance for power, while voters are increasingly drawn to people who fight harder, speak plainer, and stop pretending the dysfunction is normal.
54 min
22
The Mental Breakdown of the Modern Left Is No L...
- Tom Shattuck of The Maine Wire fills in for Gerry! - Maine’s Senate race becomes a live spectacle of Democratic collapse, with more grotesque material surfacing around Graham Plattner and the party still unable to walk away from him. - The Democratic postmortem on Kamala Harris is treated as proof the party still does not understand why it loses, because it keeps mistaking condescension, identity politics, and staged competence for real leadership. - Stephen Colbert’s exit is framed not as the end of a comedy institution but as the overdue collapse of a joyless political therapy session nobody actually wanted to watch. - The broader message is that ordinary Americans are done being told obvious dysfunction is normal, whether it is elite media self-delusion, radical gender politics, or public officials treating law-abiding citizens like the problem.
46 min
23
The Climate Scam, the Race Hustle, and the Cand...
- The episode opens by treating Stephen Colbert’s final show as the deserved collapse of a late-night empire that stops trying to entertain and turns itself into a nightly anti-Trump sermon. - Thomas Massie’s defeat is framed as a political execution of a once-useful maverick who drifts into anti-Israel obsession, anti-Trump alignment, and open contempt for the voters who once loved him. - Maine’s Democratic nominee is portrayed as an outright political disaster, with more disturbing material surfacing and forcing the party to defend a candidate cast as twisted, unfit, and morally grotesque. - Two major progressive grifts are described as breaking down in real time: race-based districting takes a legal hit, and climate alarmism takes a credibility hit as old apocalyptic claims keep collapsing. - The show closes on a broader contrast: while establishment Democrats keep excusing extremism and rewarding unserious people, outsider campaigns like Spencer Pratt’s gain traction by mocking the machine and speaking more plainly than the people in charge.
58 min
24
The Anti-Israel Obsession, the Candidate Chaos,...
- Thomas Massie gets routed in Kentucky after drifting from reliable conservative votes into anti-Israel fixation, Democrat-aligned outrage, and open conflict with Trump. - Maine’s Democratic nominee becomes an even bigger liability as new posts surface, deepening the case that the party is stuck defending a candidate who looks wildly unfit for office. - John Cornyn’s Senate hopes take a direct hit as Trump backs Ken Paxton, turning the Texas race into another purge of old-guard Republicans who broke with the movement. - Cambridge manages to turn gunshot detection into a racism debate, voting to ban ShotSpotter just days after a random gunman terrorizes the city in broad daylight. - The broader theme is that the left keeps normalizing extremes — from anti-Zionist prison fantasies to media excuses for cultural collapse — while voters keep rewarding the side that looks tougher and more coherent.
51 min
25
The Democrats’ Maine Problem Just Got Darker — ...
- The episode unloads on Maine’s Senate race, casting the Democratic nominee as deeply disturbed and politically radioactive as more old posts surface and force the party to defend the indefensible. - Luigi Mangione’s courthouse fandom becomes a symbol of cultural rot, with women openly cheering a murder suspect and treating an executed CEO-style killing like righteous politics. - Thomas Massie is portrayed as politically finished, with Trump’s backing of his challenger framed as the latest proof that crossing the movement now comes with a real cost. - Washington, D.C. street chaos is held up as another example of collapsing order, with promises to target parents after teen violence treated as tough rhetoric that likely never gets enforced. - The broader theme is blunt: from New York court steps to Maine campaign signs to Hollywood influencers, the left keeps normalizing extremism, excusing violence, and pretending obvious dysfunction is just politics.
50 min