This fortuitous friendship with Gale was further cemented when Gutfeld met the frontman and his father in Dallas before an August 2018 book signing at the Lincoln Park location of Barnes & Noble.

two or three times a month, we’d have long conversations, but we’d text almost every other day.” “When you lose somebody who’s a friend, there’s always that part of you that goes, ‘What could I have done?’” tweet this “I would say. “We were doing something that a lot of people don’t do anymore, which is out the shared territory, and you move around within that territory, whether it’s decriminalization or police reform or whatever. “I don’t even know if he talked about politics, other than issues that we were on the same side ,” Gutfeld says. Gutfeld opines that Gale’s “CEASE & DESIST” tweet was sent in the interest of public theater and did not come from a place of anger, even though his political activism and critiques of the media were sincere. Indeed, Gale was an outspoken progressive, but he was known to have a mischievous and often tongue-in-cheek social media presence. Even though he did slam the network, it was not nearly as serious as people wanted it to be.” “We ended up laughing about it, and it wasn’t a big deal, and he was basically joking around. “I don’t think he was angry at all,” Gutfeld tells the Observer. 6, 2017, taping, Gale took to Twitter, saying, “Is this a joke?” Gale continued commenting on the matter, tweeting, “CEASE & DESIST” and “let’s get something straight: we wouldn’t be happy about being played on any major ‘news’ network, but most especially Fox.”ĭespite this ostensible vitriol, Gutfeld said during his tribute that after sending out the tweets, Gale immediately wanted to speak with him privately, so a two-and-a-half-hour phone call followed.

When he played the Dallas thrash metal band’s song “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” on a Dec. Gutfeld, who has garnered a reputation for being Fox News’ in-house music aficionado, has long been a fan of Power Trip. “I’m going to miss him,” Gutfeld said on The Five’s Aug. When news broke last week that Power Trip vocalist Riley Gale had died at age 34, many high-profile names expressed grief and paid tribute to the singer, including Greg Gutfeld, co-host of FOX News Channel’s The Five.

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