2025 Memorable Moments: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Kirk, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Schulz, Dave Portnoy, Tim Dillon
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Actor Charlie Kirk joins The Megyn Kelly Show to talk about his new movie, The Lost Bus, and why it s so important to have a good relationship with your kids. He also talks about how he s raising his own kids, and why he thinks it s a good idea to give them the same opportunities as their parents.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and Merry Christmas.
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Today we look back at the entire year of 2025 and bring you some of the most memorable interviews
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from the more than 200 episodes of the show. We had on Matthew McConaughey in September
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talking about raising kids and getting out of Hollywood to stay true to himself.
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Tulsi Gabbard, our director of national intelligence, came on for a special hour-long sit-down from the
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DNI headquarters. The comedians Andrew Schultz and Tim Dillon came by this studio for in-person
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interviews that were hilarious and deep. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy joining me at Sirius
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XM headquarters in New York for an in-depth conversation. And then there was Charlie Kirk.
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At the end of this episode, a fun conversation from his final appearance on this show in August,
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it's hard to believe, with some truly brilliant dating advice for young men and women. We are
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going to miss him so much and we already do. It's just a sampling of this very busy year made
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successful thanks to you. Enjoy. And we will see you next week for True Crime Christmas.
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In The Lost Bus, you have an interesting situation because you have your son. Your son,
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Levi, is starring in it, 17 years old. And I've actually, so I'm kind of drafting behind you on
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the childhood front because my kids are almost your kids' ages. They're 15, 14, and 12. And now that
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they're getting to be like real humans, you know, like we're, they're on the cusp of adulthood.
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I've asked myself this question about nepotism, the nepo baby. And, you know, when you're the
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mother of a kid who's, you know, through no fault of their own is born to you and you might be a public
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figure, it's hard to call it that, you know, as opposed to like, well, if my kid wanted my help
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getting into my industry, I'd probably give him an open door and then let him take it. And you were
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recently in this position. Can you tell us what happened? Yeah. And that nepotism question is a
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really good one because I don't want my kids to ever feel entitled. At the same time, do I believe
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with people in my own life, outside of my family, that if you want to know where the arrow is going,
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look at where it was shot from. So there's real practicality to that. My son, as I pitch films that
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I'm into my family all the time, my son comes to me and he, I knew that there was a role as a young
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boy to play my son. He says, how old is that kid? I said, he's about 13, 14, which was Levi's age at
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the time. And he goes, can I read for it? And I was like, kind of just straight faced him and walked
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off. I wanted to see how much he wanted it. If it was just a whim on, he comes up four more times
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over the next week. Can I read for it? Can I read for it? Can I read for it? And I said, okay,
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you want to read for it? Let me tell you what this acting thing's about. This is not just a little,
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hey, hey, what if, hey, I'm going to teach you something about this. You got to revere this craft and you
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got to work at it. So let's work on this character right now. We'll get a read. We did. I put it on
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camera. I saw on camera. I was like, oh, he's got presence. He can hold a frame. He's being honest
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in front of the camera. That's good instincts. Okay. I sent it to the casting director and I said,
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Francine, I think it's maybe good enough for a callback. What do you think? And she wrote back,
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said, I think it's good enough to send to the director. And I said, oh, okay. Will you do me a favor?
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Will you pull his last name off? Because I just don't want it preceding anyone's opinion.
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To help or to help her. And she goes, yes. Right. You don't want to send the message.
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I'm phoning in a favor here. Hey, you know, kind of, hey, it's playing my son. You do me a favor.
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I would not make that call. And I'm not going to make that call again, open the door. But once you
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get in the door, son, daughter, you go handle. But I did open a door. I had access to get his read to
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the cast director. Well, the director sees it and says, that's the kid. She goes, well, that happens to be
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Matthew's son. He goes, even better. So he got the role, which makes, I'm very proud of. And he did
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it on his own merit and his own talent. Okay. But now let me ask you about part two, part two. So
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then he, so he stars in it is it's about to launch. And now I think at this point in the process,
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I haven't yet gotten there. And none of my kids have said they want to go to media. I'm just saying
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like I would help them. I think I'd be living in, in terror of bad reviews of nasty internet trolls.
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It's one thing when they come for us, who cares? We're used to it, but come for my kid. I mean,
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that's the kind of thing I might toss and turn over at night. I have not tossed and turned and maybe
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that's because I said, get ready for it. It's going to happen anyway. I said, I said, your last name is
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going to get you praise in places. Maybe you didn't deserve it. It's also going to get you slammed in
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places you don't deserve it. So this is a rodeo. If you want to get into this, I'm not saying you
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got to have thick skin, but you've got to know what's important to you and you got to be ready
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to hit. Knives are going to come at you, whether you deserve them or not. Fair has nothing to do
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with this. So if you love doing the craft enough and you're good at it, you stick your, put your head
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down and do that. And the rest of that, you've got to have thick skin about, because that's going to
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happen. Fair has nothing to do with this. That's a great life lesson. I, I, in, in the book you write
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in poems and prayers, you write, I wrote it down. Your number one job is helping your kids become
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who they are, not who you want them to be. Shoot it into my veins. It's exactly right. So many people
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don't get it, Matthew. They think the kids are a do over. And you've come to the same realization
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that Doug and I have, which is that DNA thing has a lot to do with how they show up. And we just kind
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of fool ourselves that we're the big maestros about where it's going.
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But that was the biggest surprise to me about having children. I thought it was 90, 10 environment
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culture to DNA. And all of a sudden I was like, Oh, it's closer to the opposite.
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Yes, totally. But that's, I mean, I would imagine, especially in Hollywood, that's not a lesson
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everybody understands, you know, because it's a very hard charging ground for me to dump on Hollywood
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nonstop, though. I'll be honest, my audience can't stand Hollywood. Um, but it's a very hard
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charging group of people that have made it in a very competitive industry. Like they've made it
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at the top. So they've got to be somewhat cutthroat, but then you have a kid and everybody out there
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is probably facing a similar challenge, which is how do I maintain my kids' competitive drive,
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notwithstanding the fact that they've been born into a life of luxury and privilege,
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et cetera. Right. And like, I don't know. I think too many parents would default to I'll make him a
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killer as opposed to, I will sit back and figure out, like, let him figure out whether he wants to
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be a killer. Well, you know how it is. I mean, it's, it's, there's a lot of parents and you probably
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know them as well that for my money, I think become, or want to be friends with their children
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when they need to be parents to them. And that friend to their children is sometimes a bit of
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that do-over. Hey, maybe you can pick up where I left off and become a better version of me,
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which is, that's not what a child's acting, asking for early on. Um, you know, do-overs. I, I, I, I,
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I, I think that kids want us to be a parent to them early. Are you more traditional dad?
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I mean, I know you're married to a Brazilian woman and I, I have a lot of Brazilian friends.
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I know that they tend to like a more traditional man and you're from Texas. So I kind of feel like
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you'd be more of a trad dad, but are you? Well, look, I'm more, I go, I call it, and this is not a,
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a political term, but I call it conservative, very liberal late. I want my kids to know how to
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block and tackle, know your manners and graces and arithmetic and respect before we're going to
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go fly our freak flag and say, whatever. So I think art emulates life. I want them to learn who
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they are and who they are not in life before they're going off into imaginations. Now you can
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create whoever it is you want to be, but let's have a foundation that we understand about how we act
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and how we treat ourselves and each other before we go off into, you know, la la land of dreams and
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creation. Again, how I grew up, learned to deal before I learned to dream. That's how, that's sort
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of my look at it. I believe in consequences. I believe in discipline. I also believe that sometimes
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as I'm learning right now, I did not know Megan that I always thought you went from father to
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later on a friend. And I did not know that there's a bridge in the middle there called big brother
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as a father. And I'm able to be a big brother, especially now that my kids are teens and I can kind
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of put my hand on their back and maybe not judge them as quickly and go, I know what you're talking
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about. Let me tell you this story about when I was in high school. And the other great thing about
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teenage kids is I don't have to edit my good stories as much to them anymore.
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Now, which period of your life are the best stories from?
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Oh, I mean, I've got some starting back from when I was eight. I think the best stories were probably,
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oh man, every decade had a great story. I would say I could pick them out all over the place.
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There's things I look back at that I did when I was younger that makes me happy to be here
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and alive. But there's been some great stories, which I cataloged along the way and mostly in
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Greenlights and somewhat in poems and prayers. I think there's been some pretty good stories along
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Well, you don't seem risk averse. You've outlined it, leaving Hollywood and saying,
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I'm just going to do it differently. That was a huge risk. But your life philosophy does not,
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as reflected in poems and prayers, does not seem to favor safe spaces. It seems to favor,
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take the big risks and don't die in your bed saying, I never got hurt.
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Right. Well, that's a constant thing to measure, isn't it? Because especially after getting successful,
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having a family, things that I've built that I want to maintain, that I'm not going to be foolish with.
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All right. At the same time, I don't want to get complacent and safe and go, okay, this is it.
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Everyone just huddle up, put your, you know, keep everything else out. I still want to take
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risk. And that's also, you know, something that I know women, I'm sure they do too, but men go through
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in middle age, you're at the bottom of the horseshoe. Like, are we taking the risk anymore?
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How do we still take a chance with the, take the right kind of risk? And I still want to take the right
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kind of risk, but I don't want to be foolish with what I've built. Cause some of the stuff I've built
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is non-negotiably going to be on my table and in my life until I leave this one. You know,
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I have that passage in poems and prayers. I'm curious, you know, if, if, if, if, if it's God
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happier, if we take eight major risks in life and pull off seven of them, or is he happy when we take
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a hundred risks and pull off eight, you know, it's like a little bit of that money. You know what I mean?
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Right. I think he's saying if you didn't take enough risk, if you did, it would, maybe, maybe
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that's the sin. You know what I mean? And if you didn't, it's, it's, it's, you know, the sin comes
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from an archery term to miss the mark. That's what the word sin comes from to miss the mark.
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We miss the mark all the time. And I don't want to quit taking the chances to miss the mark. I want
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to make, I want to hit the mark, but don't want to go out going, well, I never shot.
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But it's even harder when you've reached your level of success because now you do have a lot
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to lose. So, you know, to keep challenging yourself, to keep making yourself go out there
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and take the big risks, it gets even scarier, right? It's one thing when you're up and coming
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is like, what the hell? Or even when you're on the middle of the ladder, but when you're
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at the top of the ladder with all the things, a lot of people would say, I'm going to stay.
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Um, I hope not. Look, I've, I've been told by many people that are close to me that my
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biggest asset is that I take risk. I also think that that's what I need to take more
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of that. I don't take enough. So as it is, what could that look like for Matthew McConaughey
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Um, putting my cards on the table of who I am in this big movie that I'm living. That
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was action was called the day I was born and cuts called the day I'm leaving this life.
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The documentary that I'm living, that we're all living, putting it on and going. And
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it's what I'm doing a bit up now and I still have a ways to go. I'm creating characters
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that I believe in and want to play in my own life and saying, what are you doing live?
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What's happening in the cameras rolling? It's been rolling since the day we were born. What
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do you, why do you have to go off to do someone else that something else, someone that something
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else wrote and is directing and is could in cinematographer and then editing, get rid of
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those filters. What's, what am I doing live? Who am I live in life? That's what I'm pressing
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myself on for the, mainly for the last six years more so, um, than any time. And I hope
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I'll continue to press on myself to do that. That, okay. That leads me to one of my favorite
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pieces in the book, uh, which is on page 77, it's good man. And you write as follows. There's
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a difference between a good man and a nice guy. A good man stands for certain ideals. And
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when those beliefs are contested, a good man is not a nice guy. No, I love that. Can you
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talk about how you came to that realization? Yeah. So, you know, I, I, part of it, I think
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the best example would be around that time I was doing nothing but the rom-coms, you know,
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those were, those are nice guy roles. They worked. I enjoyed them. I was getting paid
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well. They were easy to do. They felt like a Saturday. The nice guy roles and nothing wrong
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with that. But I was ready to do more dramas in life. I was ready to stand up for things
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that I believed in and stand against things I didn't in life. And I wanted to also find
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roles that I could do that in. That's when I started becoming more of a good man. And that
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does, that means you're going to run into conflicts. That means you're going to have
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to go against the masses at certain times. That means you're going to have to lead when
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you'd rather just sit back and watch sometimes. Um, that means you're going to have to run
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towards crisis instead of away from it. Sometimes that means you're not going to be
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proper. That means you're going to receive the, the, the blades in the back and, and,
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and it's okay. If you, it's easier to, I know for me, when my faith is stronger because I can
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slough those things off because I'm going, no, no, no, I'm playing an immortal game here.
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Stay, that's the game I'm playing. Don't worry about the mortal game. Worry about the immortal
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game. Um, so to have the courage to do that and what you stand for and don't stand for. And I always
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like say this to people that are, as we're finding ourselves, especially young people,
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it's harder to say, Oh, who am I and what I want to do? It's easier to go, well, let's define who I'm
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not and what I don't want to do and eliminate those people, places and things and habits that we have
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in our life that are not paying us back. Get rid of those. And by sheer mathematics, you'll have more
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things in front of us that do feed us. And Hey, we all got good wolves and bad wolves in us. It's our
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choice to which wolf we want to feed. I'm trying to do my best to feed the good wolf knowing that
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the bad wolf is still hungry. Okay. Speaking of the wolves, the wolf of wall street, how fun
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was that role? I've got to ask you. This is an amazing role. What can I bring for you on this
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glorious afternoon? Well, Hector, here's the game plan. You're going to bring us two absolute
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martinis. You know how I like them straight up. And then precisely seven and one half minutes after
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that, you're going to bring us two more. Then two more after that, every five minutes
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until one of us passes the fuck out. Excellent strategy, sir. I'm good with water for now,
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though. Thank you. It's his first day on wall street. Give him time. First time to work with
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Scorsese. First time to work with Leonardo. I'm getting called in for a day's work. I'm a little
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nervous. I get there. Really? But this character. Oh yeah. I always, I still get nervous no matter
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what I'm doing. I get nervous every single day at work. Just the right amount. I don't want to lose
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the butterflies yet. And I go in and one of the things I do, not only on that show, but on all
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shows is before I'll do a scene, I'll start banging my chest and find some sort of tune and I'll hum it
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out and everything. And it's to relax myself. I'll do it for interviews. Sometimes relax, get out of my
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head, find the rhythm, and then come into the scene. Well, I was doing that before the scene
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with Leonardo and Wolf of Wall Street. But then as soon as we go action, I'd stop and we do the scene.
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We do the scene four times. Got it. Funny. Perfect. Let's move on. Marty says, let's move on. It was
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Leonardo's idea. Leonardo raises his hand. He goes, hang on a second. He goes, what's that thing you're
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doing before every take? And I told him what I just told you to relax and get my voice down and
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everything. He goes, what if you did that in the scene? I was like, great. And the next take
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Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing. Well, that's a great thing about you. You truly do have range.
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I mean, it's not every guy who can do both the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, that scene in Wolf
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of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club, and True Detective, right? And speaking of True Detective,
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I got to ask, who is your best friend in Hollywood and why is it Woody Harrelson?
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Woody has been a great friend of mine for a long time. I mean, anytime I feel like Woody,
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I get younger. Anybody who's spent time with Woody, he's one of the last wild men,
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a perpetual eight-year-old, has no context of time. And I mean, he can frustrate the heck out
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of you. But if he may show up three days late, he may show up barefoot three days late to your
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wedding, but you can't get mad at him because if you showed up a week late for his wedding,
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he don't care. So Woody always like to say, hey, even if you're going to the Oscars,
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I can't imagine like the cast of characters that has been in and out of your life. I wondered,
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though, like thinking about, yes, who do you hang out with as friends? Anybody in Hollywood? Like,
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are you friends with the Hollywood people or no, you're friends with the Texas people?
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Well, I'm friends. I've got some, I've made some very good friends in Hollywood. I mean,
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but also some friends that I'm still friends with people that I was friends with in college. I've made,
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I'm still friends with my buddy, Cole Hauser was just in town. He and I met on Days Confused.
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He's having a great time now, career wise with his role as Rip and in Yellowstone.
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We're developing a project together. I still talk to Rory Cochran, who I met on Days Confused. And
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these are all friends of mine who are actors that I met in 1992.
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Cole Hauser was also in Good Will Hunting, which is like crazy that that was him.
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Yeah. Yeah. Young Cole Kinney, this red with the short red fro. So I made, I made friends along
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the way and met some wonderful people in the, in, in Hollywood as well. Okay. But here's,
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here's where I wanted to take it. Is there anyone in Hollywood who you really admire,
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like whose values you admire? I'm sure you admire, admire the work of many people,
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but like, is there somebody who's living in a way that you think, yeah, that's hashtag goals right
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there? Well, I always looked up to a way Paul Newman led his life as a, as a talented actor on
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screen, married to Joanne all that time. Um, the only marriage throughout, um, the way he was able
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to be completely in the spotlight, but also live his own life. I always admired that.
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Um, and like you also then gave a bunch of time and money to charity. Like didn't just rest on his
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levels. Okay. Gave over a hundred million dollars to charity. Thanks to Paul Newman.
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And made that, that was a part of his, his, his life that was on his proverbial desk every Monday
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morning in his life. He made that a part of his life and that was his choice. You know, people always
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go, yeah, but you've succeeded. You have the responsibility. I don't, I don't, I think that's
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an easy place to go. Don't go to responsibility. If you've got the chance, you have the choice
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and the ability, but choices, uh, give us a lot more ownership than saying, Oh, it's his
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responsibility. I ought to do it. But he did. He did. So I've, I've, I've looked up to his life.
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Um, you know, I learned something though from some people and I won't say their names. They were
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elder men in the business. Um, and this is when we first had Camilla and I first had children
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and I said to them, they had children. And I said to them, Hey, you know, you go on the road,
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you go to on set for three months, five months, whatever. Do you, do you, do you take your family
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and your kids with you? And they said this version of this, look, it's either their friends
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or their dad. And all of them that I talked to said they chose to let their kids stay back
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and they have their lives in their schools and have be with their friends and not come to work
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with that. And all of them said, if I could do it again, I'd have made them come with and choose
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to be with dad. And so when Camilla and I had kids before she pulled the goalie, she said,
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if we're going to do this one condition, you go, we go. And so it's been a real privilege for me
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You and I have talked before about how Hillary Clinton labeled you a puppet of Putin. You put a
00:23:39.820
Russian asset, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, shamefully said the same. And, um, I saw recently president
00:23:47.240
Trump withdrew Hillary Clinton's security clearance, which you had to do. Yes. I mean, that must've been
00:23:52.540
a little fun, right? Oh, just a little fun. I smiled. Of course you did. You're only human.
00:24:02.200
Yeah, I am. So yeah, that's over for her. Um, and a number of other people, by the way,
00:24:07.560
when you look at the 51 Mark Zaid, I love that intelligence officials who signed that Hunter
00:24:12.800
Biden disinformation letter, um, and, and never apologized for it, never held themselves accountable
00:24:18.280
for it. Yes. Mark Zaid, you had Letitia James and, and others. Why did she even have one? Well,
00:24:23.940
some of them didn't have clearances, but they had access to classified information. And so we took
00:24:29.080
away that access for those. Yeah. Alvin Bragg didn't have clearances. Yes. Okay. Um, and, and
00:24:35.380
there, there are more to come. And this is part of what we're doing in our investigative work
00:24:39.240
as we go back and look, for example, at Crossfire Hurricane and how there were assistant U.S.
00:24:45.440
attorneys who were knowingly using manufactured, uh, testimony that they would interview a witness,
00:24:53.900
for example, and know that the witness was lying to them either because they set up the lie or they
00:24:59.540
knew that the witness was lying, took that lie and used it as evidence to get a warrant, uh, under FISA
00:25:05.600
to go and surveil on Americans, uh, which is completely illegal. And so these are the kinds of
00:25:13.940
things, um, those types of people, those assistant U.S. attorneys or those FBI agents that were involved
00:25:20.800
in this kind of stuff, these are crimes that need to be prosecuted and these people need to be held
00:25:27.000
accountable. Will that happen? That will happen. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it's called the Foreign Intelligence
00:25:32.260
Surveillance Act. That's right. That's what it's supposed to be used for. Yeah, it's a good reminder.
00:25:35.220
Yeah. Um, on the subject of saving money, you're doing some of that right here. Yes. And in part,
00:25:41.540
it relates to enacting President Trump's DEI directives and pulling back on some of the nonsense
00:25:47.440
that I know you and all the other agencies were spending money on, not you, you, but the, this,
00:25:52.480
the intel community. Can you speak to a little bit of like what you found? Because you're doing your
00:25:56.520
own doge. You're doing dig. Yes. Um, so that's under you. You didn't out. So this is not one of
00:26:02.060
the areas that Elon and doge came into. You did it on your own. And I understand why there's a lot
00:26:06.120
of, they are helping us. They have incredible tools and a lot of lessons learned through the
00:26:09.960
work that they've done. Okay. And so they are helping us and allowing us the opportunity to be
00:26:14.200
able to apply those here. So we're not trying to reinvent the machine, uh, at all. And we're able to
00:26:18.620
get after the things we're looking for. So how much is going out the door on DEI programs and
00:26:23.500
hires and so on? Uh, so there was a DEI office that was immediately shut down and that alone was
00:26:30.440
a savings of around $20 million. But the thing that we just announced today, in fact, was the
00:26:36.040
closure of this, uh, office of human capital, completely different part of the organization.
00:26:42.560
Uh, and one that sounds like, okay, well, maybe this is like talent management. You're trying to go
00:26:46.960
out and see, well, where's the best talent and where are the gaps we need to fill, which is what I
00:26:51.200
thought. Uh, but it turns out that it was an office where the previous administration kind of
00:26:56.900
hid a bunch of their DEI people knowing that this action was going to be taken by president Trump.
00:27:03.100
And there was a slush fund there that they would use to fund people millions of dollars to go to
00:27:09.340
DEI conferences and talk to other DEI people. Uh, and so we shut that down at a savings of $150
00:27:16.040
million today. But the thing that I think a lot of people would be surprised by when people talk
00:27:22.340
about DEI and you hear, you know, whether CNN, MSNBC, they talk about DEI and they criticize the
00:27:27.580
president for his action and the actions that we are all taking to get rid of this claiming that
00:27:31.940
we're against diversity and all of this other crap. When I came in here, I was able to talk with
00:27:37.820
some of the people who work here. DEI was such a priority that, uh, it was baked into the incentive
00:27:45.300
structure for people to advance professionally here. And I would imagine it was very similar
00:27:50.480
across the federal government where some employees told me that they were put in a position where they
00:27:55.820
had to spend half of their time working on DEI initiatives in order for them to be able to put it
00:28:02.720
on their annual evaluation and therefore be noted as, Oh, well, you are more likely to get promoted
00:28:09.460
if you are spending this significant amount of time on this diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives.
00:28:15.460
And for me, I'm like, how in the world would you spend half of your time on that? Right. What were
00:28:19.660
you creating? Like I, and I don't really know the answer to that, but I do know the answer to our
00:28:25.120
national security on that question, because what that means is in the, the office of the director of
00:28:31.060
national intelligence. And we have people here who work from all across of these, uh, 18 intelligence
00:28:36.300
elements being put in a position where they're told, if you want to get promoted, if you don't,
00:28:42.140
if you want to advance in your career, the priority is not, are you delivering the best quality
00:28:47.340
intelligence assessments and analysis to best inform the president's most critical decisions?
00:28:53.540
No, you will advance professionally. If you show that you're dedicating half of your day
00:28:58.860
towards these DEI initiatives, your implicit bias. Exactly. Exactly. And so when we look at why this
00:29:04.840
was a priority for the president, this is not some superficial thing. There are national security
00:29:10.420
implications to what the Biden administration was doing in centering almost their entire
00:29:15.360
administration around DEI initiatives. You can take this towards any domestic agency. Look at the
00:29:21.180
department of education. Shouldn't they be focused on educating our kids? Well, wasn't there a group,
00:29:25.520
which Intel agency was it that had the people talking about transgender surgeries and non-binary
00:29:32.000
this? And this is the national security agency. Yeah. There's sex groups, polyamory. Yeah. I mean,
00:29:38.160
on and on. This is, this is a great example. So, so there was a, uh, uh, uh, someone who snuck into that
00:29:45.440
chat, um, that was not a part of, that was not an employee there. And they screenshotted what they saw and
00:29:52.820
leaked it out on X. Uh, and again, this is a chat group that was created and administered by
00:29:58.300
the NSA, one of the premier intelligence collection, uh, entities that we have. And, uh, it, it was
00:30:06.380
obscene. It was obscene. Yes. It was about all of those things. It was talking about sex toys and
00:30:12.660
sex tricks for people who had gone through, uh, you know, some kind of transgender surgery or
00:30:18.920
during the work day. This is, this is during the work day on an intelligence hosted work chat group.
00:30:27.260
Uh, and the supervisors, obviously, as soon as I found out about it, I said, anybody who's involved
00:30:33.720
with this is getting fired and getting their security clearance revoked, uh, which, which there
00:30:38.640
were some movies like, Oh gosh, aren't you like, that seems extreme. Like, no, imagine you're in any
00:30:43.480
office and you're having these kinds of sexually explicit conversations in the workplace. It is how,
00:30:49.680
I don't care what your sexual orientation or whatever your private choices are. This cannot
00:30:54.540
be happening in the workplace and it must not be happening in our premier intelligence, uh, agency
00:31:00.920
that has people who have the highest clearances, uh, that, that anyone can hold. The, the plot thickens
00:31:08.680
as many of the leaders feigned shock and surprise at this revelation, well, this chat group had existed
00:31:15.280
for over two years that this kind of stuff was happening in. And again, this is where transparency
00:31:21.220
and accountability matters so much. As soon as I made that announcement, uh, that we will be
00:31:26.740
investigating and holding these people accountable. I started hearing from people who were within the
00:31:30.720
workforce saying, I work at the NSA. I filed a written report with evidence of what was going on in
00:31:36.540
these chat groups a year ago, two years ago when this thing first kicked up. And basically because
00:31:42.340
of president Biden's DEI initiatives, they were essentially told, shut up. It's none of your
00:31:48.380
business. Wow. And then there was the coverup and then there was the leak. So this is one example of
00:31:55.020
many, how we can see, um, what the ramifications have been, uh, when we have in the last administration,
00:32:03.060
one that is seemingly focused on everything, but the most important things.
00:32:09.300
Speaking of the last administration, one question for you on SignalGate. As I heard you say this
00:32:14.200
recently, is this the first administration to use Signal for confidential chats?
00:32:22.140
I mean, you actually saw something that told you this was in fact being used by the Biden
00:32:26.540
administration who are out there all over X and other social media, ripping everyone who was on that
00:32:31.800
SignalGate thread to shreds. That is correct. So there's no question in your mind this was used
00:32:37.620
during the Biden administration by officials? I know for certain that it was to include national
00:32:42.520
security officials. Is there another way to communicate? Like do, are we stuck with signals?
00:32:47.400
So, so the main, the main means of communication for all of us, like this, in this building, this entire
00:32:52.520
building is a secure, uh, facility. That means that if you go outside of this lobby, there's a bunch of
00:32:59.780
lock boxes over there where you got to lock your phone in, you got to lock your, uh, Apple watch or your
00:33:05.080
aura ring, anything that transmits a signal gets locked up by everyone who works here and everyone
00:33:22.460
Exactly. But, but so, so the vast majority of the communication that happens is through secure
00:33:27.880
telephones and secure computers and things that are built in, uh, to our work environments. However,
00:33:34.340
I do have to leave the building at times and things have to keep moving and rolling. Same goes for
00:33:40.200
those who work in the White House and those who work across the administration. So at times for
00:33:45.160
practical purposes, you have to be able to communicate on the go. Signal, um, has been
00:33:50.540
recognized by the federal government during the Biden administration, by the way, in December of
00:33:55.160
2024, uh, as the, uh, preferred, uh, messaging app because it provides that end-to-end encryption,
00:34:04.840
uh, that makes it, you know, nothing is completely secure, but it is the most secure option if you need
00:34:10.780
to use it. You feel like it was unfair to Pete and Mike Walls? I mean, they, they took the brunt of
00:34:15.180
it. Yeah. I mean, you know, it shouldn't have happened. Uh, there are sensitive conversations
00:34:19.340
that, that, that occur in these signal chats. Um, but ultimately it was not at all what, uh,
00:34:28.300
those who are opposing the president's policies and those in the media made it out to be. And I can tell
00:34:33.980
you that there are some of the most vocal critics of that whole situation who also use signal and
00:34:41.340
communicate things that they would not want released publicly as well. Not surprised. Exactly.
00:34:46.620
As I've listened to you over this hour, I've had one thought recur to me over and over and over,
00:34:51.980
and it is first female president. That is what I like. I look at you and I see it and I know they
00:34:59.180
put you through the meat grinder, uh, the last time, but that was the other side.
00:35:04.460
Now you've crossed over. And so I just wonder. Thank you for not saying transition.
00:35:10.540
People use that where it's like, okay, that's one of those words that's like for a certain thing.
00:35:15.260
It's no, but notwithstanding how rough that was when you, when you ran for president the first time,
00:35:23.420
have you ruled out ever doing it again? Could we potentially see a Tulsi 2028 try?
00:35:31.660
Um, I will never rule out any opportunity to serve my country. Uh, I would not have, if,
00:35:38.700
if we had talked a year ago, uh, the thought would not have crossed my mind that I would be here and
00:35:46.300
that we would be having this conversation. My decisions in my life have, have always been made
00:35:52.860
around how can I best be of service to God? How can I best be of service to our country?
00:35:58.460
And, um, that, that is what has led me here. I'm grateful for this opportunity and I will continue
00:36:05.100
to chase those opportunities where I can make the most positive impact and be of service.
00:36:10.060
And now you and I sit here having done something the two of us back in 2016 never would have thought
00:36:17.100
we would have done, which was stood up on a stage and endorsed Donald Trump.
00:36:20.860
Yeah. Now you're working for him. Yeah. I endorsed him too. Yeah. And it was so great. I was there.
00:36:26.540
I remember it was, uh, it was such a powerful, it was such a powerful, uh, moment and, and speech
00:36:33.020
that you delivered because of your history with him. You are very generous to even mention that what
00:36:38.380
you did for president Trump was huge and seeing you up there and announcing like your partisan change,
00:36:43.740
you, you know, with Trump, it was this, that was like the team of rivals or the Marvel universe
00:36:50.060
coming together. The Avengers. Yeah. The Avengers. You're one of them. You're one of the most,
00:36:53.660
and the gray streak is part of it. It just works. But I wonder if you do decide to do something,
00:36:59.660
you know, in the future running for president or individual executive leadership,
00:37:03.980
what have you learned from him? What do you, what would you want to take away from the kind of leader
00:37:10.540
Trump is? He's a very bold leader. And as we see, he's making decisions, um, without care for what the
00:37:21.500
media chirps about him or what his, uh, so-called critics may say about him. And, um, and, and he's quite
00:37:31.340
masterful at it, by the way, um, you know, he's, he's been, uh, so effective at connecting with the
00:37:40.860
American people, uh, in ways that I think a lot of the, the politicians or the, the so-called political
00:37:48.140
pundits here in Washington, D.C., uh, never really understood. And maybe a lot of them still don't. Um, but
00:37:55.980
it really comes from a place of care, um, his care for the American people. He doesn't need to do this.
00:38:02.540
He didn't need to put himself through all this. He didn't need to put himself in a position
00:38:05.740
where there were two assassination attempts, uh, on his life. And, uh, the kind of bold change that
00:38:12.700
we're seeing happening now across the government, um, it's never happened like this under any other
00:38:19.900
president. So I really respect, uh, his boldness and his courage in doing things that sometimes
00:38:26.460
people don't other, don't understand or see what, uh, how it's going to turn out. Those are things we
00:38:33.580
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This whole thing is about your journey with Emma. Yeah. Trying to conceive a baby. Yeah. And
00:39:48.240
I mean, no detail is spared. Yeah. But so it's very personal. It's unusually personal. Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:53.680
Did you, did you run it by her first? So the thing was, is, uh, yeah, at first, like, you know,
00:39:59.580
this is the most like male thing, like, but it's, I assume that the reason why we couldn't is because
00:40:04.880
it was her fault. Right. And I talk about it in the special where I'm like, she was really concerned.
00:40:09.220
It was her fault. And I was really concerned. It was her fault. Like we were all really concerned.
00:40:12.580
Obviously her fault. Yeah. Cause like, man, we have this like confidence in our sperm that like,
00:40:17.220
there's no real reason why, but we just know, right. Like every time I've ever had sex with a
00:40:22.040
girl, I was like, Oh my God, this is going to be great. Like, what should we do? How do I,
00:40:26.140
you know, calling the next month? I know she's pregnant guaranteed, uh, which I now know is a waste.
00:40:30.660
And, uh, once we found out that her ovaries were perfect and my sperm was horrible,
00:40:34.740
um, it, it actually made it a lot easier for me to talk about. Really? Yeah. Because I think the
00:40:41.040
reason why like anybody who has fertility issues, one, it's very isolating because you're so protective
00:40:46.540
of the person that you love that you don't, a lot of women feel a lot of shame around this.
00:40:50.920
Yep. True. And, uh, at first I, I felt like real shame. I was like, does God not want me to have a
00:40:55.680
child? Like I was like, I didn't understand it. Like, I think I'm like a pretty good person and I'm kind to
00:41:00.100
people and I'm like, why is this happening? Like, what the fuck is going on? And, um, yeah,
00:41:05.220
so I get that. And a lot of women, if they are struggling, they're just like, it's, it, they feel
00:41:09.180
like it's a, I don't feel very stigmatized. Right. And, um, but once she was perfect and I was fucked
00:41:15.440
up, I could get on stage and it was really cathartic to talk about it. And then once I started talking
00:41:20.420
about it, I literally thought that I was like, this was like a one in like 10 million thing. Oh, wow.
00:41:27.120
And then the same thing I started talking about, all my friends start telling me that they're
00:41:30.420
doing IVF. Oh, wow. And like all these people in the audience would hit me up afterwards
00:41:34.800
and be like, oh yeah, you know, same thing happened. And I was like, what the fuck? Is
00:41:37.880
this like the last taboo subject? How did anybody ever get pregnant before IVF? Cause everybody's
00:41:42.780
doing it. Dude. It is like, it's unbelievable. It's, it's almost like, I was like, does anybody
00:41:50.180
really get abortion? Like, I'd like, it's so hard to get pregnant. Why is this an issue?
00:41:54.700
Like, how often do these athletes have unprotected sex that they have 20 kids? Like, like I couldn't
00:42:02.400
believe it. It was unfathomable. So, um, but then it became like, yeah, there as brutal
00:42:06.860
as it was, there was these kinds of funny moments. That being one of them, just that, that
00:42:10.340
the, the, the humility going into the room with the lady. Oh, we just talked to the audience.
00:42:15.300
You know, Doug came in to say hi to Andrew in the commercial break. And, uh, we were bonding
00:42:19.720
over our shared experience cause he and I did IVF with our kids too. And, uh, Doug joked
00:42:23.400
that after he had to donate the sample first, he said he was going to wear like a red crushed
00:42:28.620
velvet smoking jacket on his way in and on the way out. He was just going to be like,
00:42:35.120
Yeah. I was always thinking about like, do I make noises in there? Like how uncomfortable
00:42:38.740
do I make it for the other guys at the clinic? Like just screaming random things.
00:42:44.960
Just something crazy. But yeah, it's like, it was crazy.
00:42:48.720
It was like a walk of shame when you're walking by all the other guys there, everybody's there.
00:42:51.560
Oh God. I know what you're about to do. It's so humbling. You're just sitting in this room.
00:42:56.080
Like all of you are in there. You're like, so why did they make you go in to give the
00:42:59.900
sperm sample? I didn't think it couldn't. I did it from home once. Okay. The whole,
00:43:04.360
I don't even, I haven't even put like a lot of the stuff in it, but like the whole journey
00:43:07.360
was brutal. So the first one I did from home, which was like, I'm in the room. My wife like
00:43:12.020
hands me the thing. Like it's like homework. And she's like, okay, I'll give you 30 minutes.
00:43:15.900
You go do your thing. I'm going to go outside or I'm going to do the dishes. So like I hear her
00:43:20.540
doing the dishes in the background where I'm like being mandated to masturbate. And, uh, I'm like
00:43:25.960
on our bed. Like, I don't think I've ever masturbated on a bed. Like I'm just on our bed
00:43:30.780
and the bed is made perfectly. Like everything is like set up. And I remember at one point,
00:43:35.620
like, I'm just like, Oh, this is like so weird. And I like looked up and the TV was off. So it was
00:43:41.040
just a black screen. So it's a perfect mirror. Oh no. And I was just like, this is the saddest day
00:43:47.080
of my life. I'm sitting Indian style on my bed. We send that sample in, it comes back
00:43:56.640
and it's like, it's, it's not good. And they're like, not only are they not swimming, they're
00:44:01.440
like shaped weird. And I was like, I was like a little defensive. So I was like, well, could
00:44:06.140
that be from like the speed that they hit the cup? Like maybe, you know, it's the blunt
00:44:11.780
force trauma kind of warp them. The flow is just too strong. It was too strong. That's
00:44:16.340
what, that's what it is. And, uh, they're like, no, that's definitely not it. And I was
00:44:20.520
like, okay. And, uh, they go, uh, they go, well, why don't you do this for like a couple
00:44:24.600
months? Wear baggy underwear, ice your balls every single day. Yeah. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah.
00:44:30.280
Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's a big thing. Um, don't drink anymore. Don't smoke anymore
00:44:34.980
and take these pills and then we'll try it again in like a month or two. And I did that
00:44:40.020
and we tried it again and it got worse. And I was like, why do you think that is? And
00:44:46.920
the doctor was like, we've never seen this before. There's some pride in that. It's gotta
00:44:51.820
be a little bit. I'm setting records. I'm setting records. I told a story one time when Dave Rubin
00:44:55.280
was on, but Doug had the, this, the funniest experience there where, um, they make you ejaculate
00:45:01.620
like 24 hours before the real sample. That's going to be like your future kid.
00:45:06.280
Yeah. Yeah. They want you to clean the house. Yes. It's like, I can't remember if it's 24
00:45:09.500
or 48 hours before it. Yeah. Okay. So, but they want it to be 48 and they don't really
00:45:15.840
want it to be 46 or 44 because you need the amount of time to build up the new batch.
00:45:20.020
Yes. So like timing does matter. It just so happened that on one of ours, we were visiting
00:45:24.980
my, my Nana who was literally like 90 at the time and we were playing dominoes and
00:45:31.540
I was like, Oh, Doug, it's time. He was like, what? I'm like, you got to go in there right
00:45:36.960
now. My poor husband. And you know, it was like one of these older persons homes where
00:45:41.620
like there's five inches between the bottom of the door and the end of ground. He can
00:45:45.960
hear every piece of conversation. Dominoes, like your palm in the double five, you know,
00:45:51.060
and Doug's in there behind the door. So is he. Horrible, poor Doug. This is the thing
00:45:58.480
about this. Do what you got to do. It's a, it's the, this, the journey is brutal when
00:46:02.220
you're in it is the hardest thing that you'll go through in your life. Sorry, definitely
00:46:05.520
the hardest thing we went through. And, um, but after the fact it is hysterical. Yes.
00:46:12.640
Like there's. Can't believe what you've been through. Yeah. And like, there are so many
00:46:16.260
of these things that are so funny. And the beautiful thing about having a child is you get this
00:46:20.000
like amnesia for what you went through to get there. And I think that's actually kind
00:46:24.280
of like built into our DNA so that we keep making them. I totally agree. You know, like
00:46:28.020
same women have been saying that for eons because of the pain of labor and it's so, you know,
00:46:33.240
devastating. And then you forget all about it. I never had labor because I had three C-sections,
00:46:38.400
but my friends tell me it's extremely painful. Oh, my, Emma was in there for 24 hours and then
00:46:43.140
she had the C-section because the, uh, the baby's heart rate dropped. Oh God, that's scary.
00:46:46.840
Yeah. The whole thing is, is, is terrible. When you were doing the shots before to prepare
00:46:51.380
for the IVF, like, did you have any fun, uh, mood swings or anything? Oh yeah. I, I was
00:46:56.560
actually fine. I did not have weird mood swings, but it was very funny because Doug does not
00:47:01.980
like he, his mom got this terrible cut in her leg and it was so brutal. And Doug was right
00:47:07.300
there. He bandaged it up. He put the medicine on. I was like, I can't take that kind of injury,
00:47:13.340
but you pull out a needle and Doug is one of those like, Oh, so he, so he couldn't get
00:47:18.840
shots, but he had to in the beginning, as it turned out, he didn't have to, but we thought
00:47:22.680
he did. Yeah. Because in the beginning, they really make it up into a thing. Like you got
00:47:26.160
to mix the compound and it's like kind of back in a hard spot to reach. You got to ice
00:47:29.880
the area. Oh my God. Like our future family depends on this. Yeah. And Doug was in a hot,
00:47:35.320
like a cold sweat. And the superintendent of our building at the time, his name was Lance.
00:47:39.600
And they were like, it's very important that your wife have a partner that helps with it. And Doug is
00:47:42.680
like, this is going to be very hard for Lance. But he did it. He did it. He got it through.
00:47:49.880
But honestly, by the third child, you know, he, Doug was no part of it. I was like, I need
00:47:54.360
no ice. I'm good. Boom. We're done. Off to the races. It is crazy that they make you mix
00:47:59.100
it at home. So anybody who's not familiar, they give you these two, I guess, hormonal compounds
00:48:04.480
and you have to put them together in the syringe. In just the right proportions. I'm like,
00:48:10.540
why isn't this done at the lab? And then we just hit it. Like, you don't have to make
00:48:14.360
the Kit Kat, right? Like make the bar and then send it to me. And I remember like watching
00:48:19.120
my wife do these things, making sure it's the right amount. You've got to push a little
00:48:22.360
out so no air gets in there. Right. Right. So you don't give yourself an air bubble, like
00:48:25.880
life or death. Literally. And she's like, did I push too much out? Will I not get it? Is
00:48:30.580
this, but there, yeah, there was fun. I mean, Emma would get like, it would really get her
00:48:35.540
going. Would she get angry or just overly emotional? Oh, angry. Like, but we didn't
00:48:40.120
know that that was the cause. So like, I remember we got into it at a Japanese restaurant. You
00:48:45.800
don't realize how quiet those restaurants are until you're having like a loud blow up with
00:48:49.780
like, and you know, the only thing interrupting the blow up, cause everybody is already quiet
00:48:54.700
at Japanese restaurant. And then once you have like a verbal altercation, they're really
00:48:59.640
quiet. Oh, I love when somebody has a fight and I'm nearby. Oh my God. Doug and I, like
00:49:04.220
he'll start talking about it. Be quiet. This is too important to me. I'm going to lock
00:49:06.720
in. Everybody was locked in. They're just slurping Udon and watching us. And the only
00:49:10.460
thing that would interrupt it is like when a new person would walk in and you know, the
00:49:13.520
whole, the whole restaurant has to go. Emma would feel like they were interrupting our
00:49:21.480
argument. So, so, so we're fighting. Emma goes, are you kidding me? And then back to
00:49:27.160
yelling at me? It was just amazing. Well, weren't you, so you weren't that guy who was
00:49:31.640
like, she's going through a lot. These are just her emotions. I'm just going to, I'm
00:49:35.060
going to let, I'm going to let everything slide. I'm not going to get mad about anything.
00:49:38.060
We didn't know that it was the case. So we didn't know until literally that night I
00:49:43.040
go, Hey, did we do the shot? We did the shot today. Right. And she goes, Oh shit. And
00:49:47.380
we're walking down and we were on Kenmare Street. That's when you put it together that she's
00:49:50.920
hormonal. And then, and then she was also like, Oh fuck, I guess I'm like really
00:49:55.440
reactive to this. And then from then on, we stopped going to Japanese restaurants.
00:49:59.840
And then how about after she had the baby? Did she have like, cause you're sleep deprived.
00:50:04.260
You're very hormonal. It's the most insane thing. If you're, did you breastfeed?
00:50:08.040
Yeah. Okay. That is the, I think that this is, I think that is the most difficult part
00:50:15.660
of child rearing is the, the, if you are breastfeeding full time, like meaning every two
00:50:22.540
hours. Yeah. That is insane. Yeah. It's a lot. That is insane. Every two hours. So
00:50:29.160
you're waking up. I don't think a lot of people know this. You're waking up every two
00:50:33.560
hours in the night. You don't get more than an hour of sleep at a time. It's truly like
00:50:37.640
a, like an astronaut training situation. Yeah. No, it's brutal, but then, then it, it lets
00:50:44.480
up a little. When it lets up, it's this beautiful bonding experience that you have with your child.
00:50:48.240
And like, it's something even now, like Emma's still breastfeeding and it's just this thing
00:50:52.860
that she's like, she doesn't even want to let go of it.
00:50:54.860
Yeah. Well then you get to like the six month mark where the baby can start having like smaller,
00:50:59.060
like a solid food and they're still having breast milk. And you're at the point now where
00:51:03.800
like you're, you're producing the more, more milk than ever. And yet the baby's somewhat
00:51:07.640
getting a little independent and the weight comes shredding off. That's the best moment
00:51:13.380
where you're like, I'm making tons of milk. All these calories are coming off for free.
00:51:18.200
Oh, cause your body is burning calories. But your, your baby doesn't need as much milk as
00:51:22.440
from you as he needed it five months. Cause now he's starting to eat food, but your body doesn't
00:51:27.960
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started. I hear we have something in common and that is our mutual love for Megan Markle. Yes. I hear
00:52:44.820
you're ready to endorse her for president. I like her now. I've, I've come around on her because I,
00:52:49.980
since I'm a little kid, love con artists. I think they're great. I think they're fun. They're an
00:52:54.120
important part of America and the tapestry of our country. Um, they, to me exude, uh, a kind of
00:53:03.400
effortless humor. They're very funny. Um, and I find her to be a great con artist. One of the great
00:53:10.320
cons of our time, one of the greats, you know, this is someone who came to prominence,
00:53:16.820
marrying into the Royal family, um, claiming they were racist, claiming she wanted to dedicate
00:53:24.180
herself to uplifting, uh, young women around the world and is now, um, selling jam at Target.
00:53:32.780
Yes. That's beautiful. She moved to the richest and whitest area of our country. Yes. You know,
00:53:39.960
absolutely. And makes honey. There's nothing better than that from where she started to where
00:53:47.740
she is now. And that's what I think a lot of it is. I think a lot of people that claim to be
00:53:52.760
really evolved people who really want to help other people are just trying. She just wants a
00:53:59.320
line of consumer goods. Yeah. That's all she wants. She, we actually give it to her. We just looked this
00:54:03.720
up. So she, there was a soundbite of her saying she really wanted her merch that she's selling to,
00:54:09.960
to be prestige. Yes. Not prestigious. She wanted to be prestige. Yeah. But at like a price point,
00:54:17.100
everyone can afford. Yeah. So I, we looked it up. She's got a raspberry spread under the as ever
00:54:24.060
label. Raspberry spread. You can get it for $14 or you can get it at Walmart under the Smucker's label
00:54:32.420
for $3 and 47 cents. Right. Herbal lemon ginger tea as ever will charge you $12 or you can get
00:54:39.940
it from Yogi for $4 and 46 cents. Shortbread cookie mix as ever will charge you $14. My better
00:54:48.480
batch, which is high end, $7.99. Right. Then there's wildflower honey with honeycomb as ever,
00:54:55.000
$28. Yeah. Amazon, $11. Right. And then there's crepe mix, which you can get from her for $14 or you can
00:55:02.420
get it from new hope mills for $5. Yep. So you tell me whether this person has actually landed
00:55:08.900
the plane. Right. On prestige, but totally affordable. Well, what's brilliant about what
00:55:13.520
she's doing is she knows people want to spend money and spending money makes them feel like they're
00:55:18.020
getting something that's better, even though it might not necessarily be true. Um, and I think it's
00:55:23.640
brilliant. I, I, you can tell when you watch the show, she thinks people out just, we're all animals
00:55:29.760
and that's her view. She just thinks we're all monsters and, and we're all just kind of pigs in
00:55:36.280
the mud and that she's helping us with jam and honey. It's also very weirdly British, isn't it?
00:55:44.560
Yeah. Well, her little flower sprinkles, her garden. It's kind of oddly British for somebody
00:55:49.480
who went over there and realized it was just a racist, horrible place. There's a lot of jam and
00:55:55.040
tea and honey. And why is she using all the, like the Royal crown on her stationary? I thought she
00:55:59.920
hated being a Royal. I thought, I thought she wanted to eschew the Royal life and come back to America.
00:56:04.520
Well, it seems it's just very interesting and seeing it all happen in real time fills me with just,
00:56:09.900
it, it fills me with a, a record, like a, a, I recognize how, how much of this was the plan
00:56:16.780
the whole time. And you gotta, it's got, you gotta give your hats off to her. It's hard to
00:56:20.340
enhance your brand that quickly. Like get your name out there in a ubiquitous way. No one needs honey
00:56:26.220
right now. No one needs jam. There's not one systemic racist problem that she's, that like no one
00:56:34.320
needs jam. There's not one person wrongly accused of something or whatever, doesn't have money
00:56:39.820
for a lawyer. It's looking for elderberries or wildflowers or whatever the hell she's talking
00:56:45.720
about. The only people that are concerned with this stuff are people like she lives in an area
00:56:49.860
in Montecito that's so wealthy. They're not even on earth anymore. And it's a beautiful area. It's
00:56:54.700
great area, but they float around and they have tea and they pick flowers. They live in a fairy tale.
00:57:06.180
Yeah. She just, they kind of sit around in their backyards and they enjoy this and they smell
00:57:14.120
It's not how we're living. No, we're, we're in, we're sitting by our doors with guns.
00:57:21.800
Yeah. We're sitting by the door with a gun waiting for someone to come in.
00:57:28.840
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No one's making, if, if you have honey in your house, it's, you're
00:57:35.640
No, there's no local beekeeper. There's no gardens. They're all burned.
00:57:40.600
Well, I have a treat for you because in addition to her new Netflix show.
00:57:49.680
Yes. This one is about founders. Um, what's, how does she style it?
00:58:02.300
What are they thinking about these female founders?
00:58:06.460
She starts with herself because she now considers herself a founder.
00:58:11.800
When you are married to a prince, how do you start a business?
00:58:15.840
That's a real question because the struggle she had to go through being married to a prince
00:58:20.020
and being one of the most famous people in the world.
00:58:22.220
How do you start a business when you're rich and famous?
00:58:27.040
Your, your grandmother, your, your, your spouse's grandmother doesn't seem to really
00:58:33.420
I mean, like your one greatest connection is now out.
00:58:35.880
Thank God, because I want to know how this all happened and I want to get into the mind
00:58:41.460
Here's, here's this founder discussing, I think.
00:58:43.740
Remember when she pretended to like poor people?
00:58:48.020
Sex workers, I remember that with her inspo messages on the bananas.
00:58:55.280
Launching a business, it can be so overwhelming.
00:58:59.020
Even with the best of teams, it'll keep you up at night.
00:59:02.760
For example, a month ago, I was absolutely consumed with packaging.
00:59:15.380
And I would sit there doing the unboxing in my head.
00:59:26.060
And then someone says, but you don't want to brand the outside of the box because of porch pirates.
00:59:32.780
And then I'm sitting there and I'm like, does any of this actually matter?
00:59:43.020
I mean, it's, well, she's also, you know, she's kept up at night because she's, you know, half the staff quit.
00:59:54.240
On any given day, the staff will quit because she just, you know, launches into a tirade.
01:00:03.820
She's been accused multiple times of being a bullying abuser.
01:00:07.220
Well, she's throwing honey at people's heads and stuff.
01:00:09.720
So she's kept up at night wondering about what lawsuits will trickle in because of the abusive behavior towards the staff.
01:00:18.020
Didn't that sound bite just hit so many of the leftist boxes?
01:00:23.920
Well, what I like about her, I actually, I've gone the other way now because now that she's coming out as a monster, I like, like, I'm actually on board now.
01:00:34.240
I'm into it because now, by the way, she's no longer even, there's no longer even an attempt.
01:00:41.620
It's such a thinly veiled attempt to be this conscientious person who, you know, she's really just saying, like, I'm a founder.
01:00:51.720
I'm a founder and I'm a big business tycoon and it's tough for me.
01:00:57.220
Can I tell you, she's not the only extremely rich woman who, you know, in her case, it's questionable, but in a lot of these other women's cases, their husbands are multimillionaires or billionaires.
01:01:09.040
And then the women, like, open a charity or, like, give their money to somebody and then they're like, I'm an entrepreneur.
01:01:22.220
I see that your husband made billions of dollars.
01:01:30.300
You know, it was all about, in the beginning, it was all about, like, unwinding the systems of oppression.
01:01:39.920
It was like she would go to, like, a third world country and there'd be a bunch of kids dancing and she'd take a photo with them.
01:01:45.980
And now it seems much more about, like, she's looking at, like, Gwyneth Paltrow, what Gwyneth Paltrow did with her store.
01:01:55.460
And I think she's looking at that and going, that's what she wants to be.
01:01:59.040
Although what I found out after the fact was she launched her show with showing you how to make this one recipe.
01:02:08.260
And then everybody flooded Twitter with the fact that that apparently is a Martha Stewart recipe.
01:02:14.600
That's apparently very well known in Martha Stewart land.
01:02:17.360
So even the inaugural episode is cheating off of somebody else's recipes.
01:02:31.160
And we're kind of tolerant of however people want to reintroduce themselves in the moment.
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Better than I do or maybe you do because she gets it.
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And she's kind of assuming that role of going, this is who I am today.
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I like, honestly, what I saw there was Dr. Jill.
01:04:47.300
This overly aggressive younger partner who's in this, like, apparently, he looked infirm to me,
01:04:58.120
And all I could think was his family needs to do an intervention and get this woman off of his back.
01:05:01.420
But can you set the stage for us on, like, what's happening with this guy?
01:05:04.540
I'll start by saying I am a diehard New England Patriots fan.
01:05:21.360
I also watch that show, CBS Sunday Morning, with the interview.
01:05:29.680
But for the most part, that is a drink your coffee, eat your bagel, feel-good show.
01:05:45.840
I've heard people say, you know, is she taking advantage of him?
01:05:51.400
He's sleeping with a very attractive young girl, 50 years younger.
01:06:06.680
Like, every piece of Bill Belichick business goes through her.
01:06:11.640
Like, she is basically – she would act – like, if that was maybe not in a romantic relationship,
01:06:24.160
Like, that happens, I'm sure, a lot with celebs who are not going to talk about it.
01:06:27.560
Now, you combine it with Bill Belichick, who's gruff with the media
01:06:30.520
and generally always handles himself, it's just a very awkward situation.
01:06:34.740
The age gap is huge, clearly, but she runs the show.
01:06:38.680
Hard Knocks for HBO was supposed to do North Carolina.
01:06:47.000
So it's just a – it's such a juxtaposition of a guy who seemingly had no media savvy
01:06:56.240
but was always just straightforward, no time for the media,
01:07:05.580
I also know I'm going to run into probably them in Nantucket
01:07:09.520
and I'm going to be carrying my watermelon out of Stop and Shop,
01:07:12.100
and I don't want it to be an awkward conversation.
01:07:19.960
It's all – because it's just such a departure from how a sports fan,
01:07:24.960
Patriot fan, everybody thought of Bill Belichick.
01:07:27.840
So explain that to me because we watch – I come into this like at a left field.
01:07:35.420
But I don't follow his – I didn't know about the girlfriend and all that.
01:07:43.920
But I've never, ever seen him give an interview.
01:07:46.420
Yeah, so I've seen a lot of people like he's wearing a holy sweatshirt.
01:07:54.700
He generally, if he doesn't want to answer a question, he grumbles.
01:08:03.260
Him going on a book tour, which is what he was doing,
01:08:06.720
seems like the last thing he would ever do in a million years.
01:08:10.480
If she wasn't there, I would anticipate him just being like,
01:08:16.140
He's rarely conducting interviews that he has no interest in.
01:08:20.940
He just doesn't care for the media or what they think.
01:08:23.520
The thing that he said that was the most accurate is probably like,
01:08:36.500
Like if someone else is speaking for him, that never happens.
01:08:39.940
He speaks for himself loudly through his actions clearly
01:08:43.380
and is always like a general in the commander of the room, really.
01:08:48.360
So to see him basically give what appears to be control of his life to her is shocking.
01:08:56.580
Most of the audience has probably seen the clip by now,
01:08:58.500
but just in case they haven't, let's play it for them.
01:09:01.440
This is Bill Belichick on CBS This Morning with anchor Tony Dokopoul
01:09:05.440
and his 24-year-old girlfriend, who's 49 years younger than he is,
01:09:13.860
The other change for Belichick is 24-year-old Jordan Hudson,
01:09:24.100
Jordan was a constant presence during our interview.
01:09:30.740
Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.
01:09:33.580
They've got an opinion about your private life.
01:09:35.380
It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.
01:09:40.540
I've never been too worried about what everybody else thinks.
01:09:43.260
Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right.
01:09:51.260
It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.
01:10:01.360
And there are reports that she actually interjected multiple times.
01:10:04.780
CBS only chose to show the one just to give the audience a true sense of how this thing went down.
01:10:11.120
And to CBS's defense, that quote that she is the muse is in the book.
01:10:22.640
This is via the Daily Mail involving Belichick's daughter-in-law.
01:10:32.780
Some people were defending Jordan, the girlfriend.
01:10:39.860
Oh, former New England Patriots star Julian Edelman.
01:10:43.440
Stuck up for her, saying she was merely acting how any PR person would.
01:10:47.760
Comedian Nikki Glaser also defended Hudson, saying 100%.
01:10:57.320
And first of all, I'll tell you what Jennifer, the daughter-in-law, said.
01:11:03.560
I've both given as the subject of them and done, conducted.
01:11:11.640
The PR people will come to you before the interview, and they will beg you not to cover
01:11:21.240
As a journalist, and Tony Dokopoul is a journalist, you would say, thank you for your input.
01:11:29.120
It's literally considered unethical to say, I won't ask about that.
01:11:32.700
You know, at most I've ever heard somebody say is, we can't make you any promises, but
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you know, we're not that interested in that subject.
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But never, never has a PR person ever interviewed, interjected into an interview like that.
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No, we get people asking, if someone doesn't want to talk about it, we generally want,
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because people generally want to talk about what you are asking not to talk about, so we
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It's different rules if it's like a host, you know what I mean?
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If you're sitting to somebody who doesn't consider themselves a journalist, very different.
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And by the way, this is how talk shows get away with it all the time.
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I've been asked to go on a bunch of talk shows, including Tamron Halls, like five years
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ago, and her executive producer said, we'll give you all the questions in advance.
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So she got away with it because they consider that a talk show, but she's not, I guess,
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calling herself a journalist anymore, at least wasn't for that show.
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Weighs in and says, publicists act in a professional matter and do not storm on, storm
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I, this is all like, uh, and that probably tells you everything you need to know about
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There's a story that came out in the New York post.
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I think yesterday that she accumulated like $10 million of real estate very quickly.
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So I'm sure the family based on that quote is a little like, what is going on here?
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And it's just, this is a guy that is not a pushover.
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He has built his reputation on being like a gruff kind of guy who needs everything particular
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He's the guy Tim Walsh was trying to convince us he was.
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He was trying to, I think, be more like a gronk guy, but who knows?
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So he, you know about this because I saw you commented on it.
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So Bill Belichick posted a statement on the UNC, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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I agreed to speak with CBS Sunday morning to promote my new book, The Art of Winning.
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Prior to the interview, I clearly communicated with my publicist.
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So he's not even saying he told Tony Dokopoul or the CBS publicist.
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I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon & Schuster that any promotional interviews
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I participated in would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book.
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Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview.
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I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to
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the reporter, Tony Dokopoul, and the producers that I preferred to keep the conversation centered
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After this occurred several times, Jordan, with whom I share both a personal and professional
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relationship, stepped in to reiterate that point and help refocus the discussion.
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She was not deflecting any specific question or topic.
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I'm sorry, Bill, but she was, but was simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed
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Some of the clips made it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met,
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but we've been open about the fact that Jordan and I met on a flight to Palm Beach in 2021,
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and goes on for them saying these are just selectively edited clips, suggested a false
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narrative that Jordan was attempting to control the conversation, which is simply not true.
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Uh, in my years following Bill Belichick, I would say my knowledge of him, there's roughly
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0% chance he wrote that, but he just, he just doesn't care generally what anyone thinks
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So to go write that, that my guess would be Jordan wrote that the fact it is on the North
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Um, it's shocking again, it it's, I'm speaking to all Patriot fans, Boston people, this guy,
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like if you could have predicted this, people would say you're living in a bizarro world.
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It's just so strange in this long email, crazy, the public statement crazy, but I, I'm not even
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You'll tell us what it is, but I loved it so much.
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Women want to be able, they want to be taken care of.
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I know this is like super provocative, but like deep down, they want a man to be able
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Like what kind of a wuss beta male is splitting the check, but like, who are you?
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It's so, I would go into debt and like scrub dishes before a woman.
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I think that's, to me, I thought it was a great financial decision.
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And like, you have a really good financial discipline.
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If I, I, I, I, I find that to be like the greatest beta male, like humiliation.
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To like the idea that a woman that you're trying to court.
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Now, if it's like a friend thing or as a first date, you don't even know if she's like
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I would say, by the way, that money you save is not worth the honor that you compromise.
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Please explain what was happening there and who that was.
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Well, so first of all, those were, those are two great guys.
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Unfortunately, it's from the iced coffee hour podcast.
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They're up and coming in the podcast world, which I have a soft spot for as I'm sure you
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And they were, they, so they asked this question and they were, he was just so terribly wrong
01:17:25.560
And what was so interesting, I have multiple takes on this.
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The first of which is that the comments I got, the video went super viral, right?
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The comments from the women were so overwhelming.
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And then from the men, it's like, Charlie is wrong.
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Now, there were some men that agreed, but overwhelmingly the women were the ones that were driving this
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video, which is unique because that's not always the case for Charlie Kirk videos.
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Listen, a man needs to demonstrate leadership and the capacity to provide early on.
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That doesn't mean that you end up have to have that role when you up having a marriage, but
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from the outset, what it means to be a man is to take directive, to be leadership, to be,
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And not to mention the, the young lady that is there deep down, she wants to show that
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when all the crap hits the fan, the man can take care of her and that he will do the alpha
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move and that he's not going to split the check.
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And there's also a, I didn't mention this in the video.
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So I'll say this here, Megan, it filters out in gratitude.
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It filters out the character of the person you are courting.
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I learned this, that so many men came to me and they said, Charlie, when I pay for a lot
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of the first dates, the women never say thank you.
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I said, ah, yet another good reason to pay on the first date because you learn as much
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And I asked a group of women, a hundred women, I said, appealing or unappealing, attractive
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The man on the first date pays the check without you even knowing and goes to the mater
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D and hands the credit card while he goes to the bathroom.
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I said, so for men, I mean, I, for men, you're talking about a way that you could advantage
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Now they say, well, what if the date didn't go well?
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What if you think that it will never go anywhere?
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You have to, you have a role to play and on a date, the woman is there to be courted by
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And I think a breakdown of that has been so destructive, but to complete the point, so
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many of the men that pay for it, they find out a lot about the women.
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And so I could go endlessly about this, Megan, but I think I learned about that.
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This was happening by the way, in this podcast afterwards, I said, are you telling me that
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that men aren't paying for everything on the first date?
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They said, oh yeah, all the time that we're splitting it.
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I say, no wonder why male female relations have fallen down so much.
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We need to raise our sons to be men of honor, of character and leadership to look after the
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women in their lives, to say that, that women are not just beautiful, but they're honorable
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and they're sacred and that we provide for our wives and that we honor our mothers and
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That's the men that we want to raise in our country.
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They explore very nice guys that were so wrong on that, but they were sweet.
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And I'll tell you, I can relate to that even as a working woman who obviously can support
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But when Doug and I met and I was still working, I was at Fox News.
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He was making a lot more money than I was and he was running his own company.
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And I mean, if he had actually suggested that we split the bill or that I pay, he would have
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I mean, it wouldn't have even been a consideration.
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It was clear that he was taking care of me in that way.
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And then eventually, in the course of our relationship, just because media is what it is, I wound up
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earning more than Doug just because, you know, that's how it is.
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Still, he's in the alpha role in our personal life.
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And I'm more in the beta role in our personal life, which I love.
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Like, if it were something else, I don't think it would work.
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That's true, I think, universally for 99% of women, whether they're working women or
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not working women or women who work in the home, et cetera, they do want to be taken care
01:21:59.500
And they want to take care of their men in different ways, too.
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Yes, and also, this is very important, that the man, if he is not providing or if he is
01:22:10.940
not productive, then something happens to men that's really hard for us to sometimes
01:22:33.320
And sometimes you go on a first date, you know what?
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You have to have the pressure to provide on that first date.
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So many young men are in a pressure-free environment.
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So when all of a sudden, pressure makes the man, where you have to show up at 5 a.m.
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for work, that you have to make enough money to pay for rent.
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And then, yes, you also have to provide for a family.
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And I could say this as a married man with two kids.
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Something happens, the way God wired us once you get married with kids, where you just
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Because all of a sudden, you feel this biological need that I have to feed these kids.
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And the same thing happens, by the way, for moms, right?
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They are like, we've got to get the house organized, right?
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But for the man, it gives them purpose in their work.
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And it gives man a sense of contentment and satisfaction that is so missing from modernity
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with these young men, largely because we've taken them out of this kind of purpose-filled
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And I think, again, I would say, and it's so interesting you said what you said, Megan,
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that the women that are the prizes, if you split the check with them, there probably will
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And can I say the other thing that you're talking about that I think people need to be
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reminded of and I think is important is the man should be the pursuer in the early
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And frankly, I mean, Doug and I have been married, I don't know, for how many years
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Men and women are to, for the man to be the pursuer.
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He's the lion and you're the gazelle and he's like programmed to run after you.
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And if you upend that in any way, you're messing with nature, you know?
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So like men, young men should know you do need to make the phone calls.
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Even if she didn't call you back, you have to be the one to text first.
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It's, it's, it's like a, almost like a reporter going after a source in a way you're subjugated,
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You're doing it because you're the leader in the relationship in this way.
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It's actually hot and appropriate and part of the game and the turn on.
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And if you're a young woman, I have to say this, and you think that it's pervy or weird
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if a man is pursuing you, you got deep problems.
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Right. And I, and so young ladies out there are like, Oh, well, I think it's weird if he
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approaches me at a bar, get over yourself. Like that's nature. That's biological, right?
01:25:25.460
Have enough self-confidence. Be like, I'm not interested. Thank you so much.
01:25:28.980
Right. Don't go out alone. If you feel unsafe. And you talk about this all the time, right, Megan?
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But what has happened is this hostility. And I think men are overcompensating, but men have just
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retreated. They're like, forget it. We're done. You don't want to talk to us. You're going to
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use as a sexual harassment. I don't think that's the right reaction, but young ladies in some ways
01:25:47.820
have unintentionally created this kind of like, Oh, I can't believe that guy at work came up to me
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and he wanted to talk to me and ask me out on a date.
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And they will wind up alone. They will wind up rigid and alone.
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Exactly. And they wonder why they're alone. Exactly.
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And for the women, I think they need to remember, yes, it's his job to sort of be the alpha and pursue
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you, but you should stay playful. You can be somewhat elusive, you know, because men like that.
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Hello, but also playful. Like you have to be signaling back. I'm into you. If not always
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available to you, that is how it works. Yes. Men want what they cannot have. And they will keep
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on pursuing what they cannot have. If they think there's a chance. And there's that beautiful thing
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where it's like, so you're telling me there's a shot. You tell me there's a chance. Right. And so
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again, that, that for the women out there, you know, exercise class and piety properly understood,
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but you know, again, you could be playful. You could be artful with it. Don't, you don't have
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to be overly flirty, but you definitely can be classy in the way that you engage with it. Right.
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Because a man will also, you'll, women will find this, a man will improve himself, his income and
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his character to elevate towards a woman. And so you will find that men will do things that they
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will not do for anybody else in the pursuit of a woman. They'll stop drinking. They'll stop watching
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porn. They'll get a second job that like they will not eat for a week. They'll go to the gym. Like
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it does things to the male mind. And women don't always understand that. So I say, women hold yourself
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to such a high standard that the man wants to pursue you, that they have to elevate themselves
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towards that. That's right. That's exactly. I couldn't agree with this more. I think you and
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I need to start like a conservative dating service, Charlie, because you and I both know there are so
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many young conservatives out there who want to be connected with people, but are having a difficult
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time and maybe don't even know how to behave or what the so-called rules are anymore. But I think we
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could help them. Thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.