Meghan Markle's "Founder" Absurdity, Michelle Trashes Barack Again, and Launching "The Nerve," with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1052
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1 hour and 40 minutes
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181.0895
Summary
Maureen Callahan is a columnist for the Daily Mail and she s also here to promote her new show on the MKM Media Network, The Nerve, which launches on Tuesday, February 5th. She s also the host of The Meghan Markle Spoof Show.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
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Okay, this is going to be the greatest show we've ever done.
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I just want you to know today is going to be the greatest show we have ever put on the air in the history of The Megyn Kelly Show.
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Well over 1,000 episodes, and if I'm a liar, you can email me.
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We're going to nail this show, and I know because I've already seen half of it.
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And by the way, check out my hour-long sit-down with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary.
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You guys know him from Johns Hopkins and from being a COVID contrarian in the best sense,
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a man of sense who is, for that reason, elevated to run and reform the FDA by President Trump.
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And we had a really good sit-down together yesterday, and he went over some of the things he's encountered at FDA since taking over 17 days ago.
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And some of the swamp creatures who came out to try to snare him when he was named.
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But now, we told you we were going to do this, okay?
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Maureen Callahan came on a month or two ago when Meghan Markle's As Ever series dropped.
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And, you know, we deconstructed it, you may recall.
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Now, Maureen is a columnist for the Daily Mail.
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And she's also here to promote her new show on the MK Media Network.
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You can find it wherever you get your podcasts for free.
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And it's called The Nerve with Maureen Callahan, The Nerve.
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You know, Megan, I've said this to you before, and I mean it, truly.
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And you, that was your idea, by the way, I'm just going to give you full credit for it, to do the Meghan Markle spoof show.
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And we got, I think, to act out a lot of our frustration.
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And I think we are absorbing a lot of communal energy.
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Because the response, just even to the trailer that you put up last night, has been like a huge catharsis.
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I'm going to show it in a minute, but before we get, and Maureen hasn't seen it.
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Okay, I intentionally withheld it from Maureen.
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We're going to keep the sound down here on the set as we watch it, because we don't want to ruin it for you guys with our laughter.
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But before we get to that, I do want to start with the trailer for The Nerve.
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You all love Maureen, and I love this trailer because it really does give you a feel and a flavor for who she is, because a lot of people don't know her yet, and they're about to.
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When Ben Affleck moves out of the $65 million marital home he shared with J-Lo in the metaphorical dead of night while she's off in Europe, we're going to analyze it like the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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When Meghan Markle drops yet another mediocre show or podcast, we're going to take it all apart like a pinata.
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We'll also be covering true crime in real time.
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Diddy, Luigi Mangione, Brian Koberger, all those trials and what they say about America.
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We're your home for all things pop culture, including fashion, TV, movies, books, social media, and the new health and wellness space targeted particularly at women.
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And I promise you, you'll never guess what we're about to say next.
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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan, launching Tuesday, April 22nd.
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Support her and make sure we get her voice out there.
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And while I have your attention, Joseph Massey, who is on promoting his poetry book, America is the Poem, has now risen not only well past Maria Shriver on the number one under poetry, but his book went up to number 18 in all books in America on Amazon.
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We have single handedly the audience of this show uncanceled Joseph Massey.
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And that's, you know, we were doing a dress rehearsal yesterday for The Nerve and we were saying, you know, this is like, this is the place where you can't get canceled.
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Well, it's apt right now because I am more nervous than I've ever been in my entire life.
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I am having physiological, but I will be ready to go in that chair next week.
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Which camera am I supposed to be looking at, Steve?
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So this is like an Oscars red carpet situation for Maureen and yours truly today.
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And the reason is we did the shoot and we created our own version of her terrible Netflix
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And, uh, I had this extremely talented producer who I've worked with for years come over and
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And I think you're going to love it as much as I do.
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You'll be seeing it along with Maureen for the very first time, uh, installment one of
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And I decided to elevate my day and yours by having Maureen come over so that everyone
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can really love me and see the real me, M, as I am, at home, in my actual kitchen.
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Thank you so much for having me to your beautiful, incredible kitchen.
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I'm so glad to be renewing our lifelong friendship.
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I thought it might be nice if I made you a special gift basket.
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Because, you know, you stay in somebody else's house.
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And I just wanted you to know when you're upstairs alone in the other wing by yourself
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that we are thinking about you and we've given you enough things to help make you stay
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Most people would just phone it in by going Orville Redenbacher.
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What we are going to do is just plop them in there.
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We're going to pop that baby in there for about two minutes and let the good times roll.
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My company's called As Ever, products that you can't get anywhere else like jam.
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Like, we know each other so well, and still this takes me by surprise.
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We're going to put it in one of these special cellophane bags, because what is a fancy food
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So now, what's important is to make sure that there's a bow on everything.
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We're just going to have to do a little cutting.
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And make sure that it looks absolutely perfect.
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I really like to cut my ribbons in a diagonal, because I'm not a barbarian.
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And by the way, I really hope you're noticing all these beautiful, fine finishes I'm doing
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I have some more little baggies, and that's because I have more little treats for you.
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I've pretty much exhausted myself on the corn and the cob.
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But these are amazing, and you're going to absolutely love them.
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This, we're just going to put into a different bag.
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Where are you getting all these, like, mini brainstorms?
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I mean, you have to be a founder to really understand it fully.
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But maybe in the next wave of our friendship, I'll try to explain it to you.
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Now we're going to use a different color ribbon because we want everything to feel special
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It's just so fun sharing my love language with my friends.
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I mean, this is what friendship is all about, really.
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This special time of bonding and me asking you lots of questions about yourself.
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Because you really come alive when you talk about yourself, Megan.
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I don't know if we're supposed to maybe mention your marriage, which seems like the love
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And I have my pretzels as yet another token of the high esteem in which you hold me.
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I didn't even have like a scene breakdown of anything.
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And I don't know whether to be proud of us or feel sorry for us that we are so well versed in what Meghan Markle or her supplicant would say at any given moment that we could just ad lib all day long.
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My favorite thing, my favorite part of the whole thing is like the one layer down boiling rage I have for you and everything.
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And one layer down if that obvious like subservience and fear you have for me.
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Well, I told you after that to me, like my inner child really came out, my inner child who spent 12 years being tormented by nuns in Catholic school, right?
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So the instinct is just defer and run the other way, right?
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So that's all I had to do with you is just defer, defer, defer and get out of there.
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It's so exactly, if I do say so myself, we really nailed especially like her and Daniel, the way she was with guest number one.
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And kind of Mindy Kaling too, they're obviously all afraid of her hair trigger and she's like, she could snap at any moment.
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Snap at any moment, like turn on the charm just a little bit or like, but I did tell you, you were slightly terrifying that day.
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You were very, very, very good as Meghan Markle.
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It's a, that's how I see her in my, in our parody of her and her ridiculous show.
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And you can't, for the listening audience, you definitely need to go watch this one on youtube.com slash Meghan Kelly.
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I mean, truly, if you can see the graphics, he's laid in all these pictures of me as a fake royal with a tiara.
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Those are all AI photos, which is, it looks amazing.
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Photoshoot, that beekeeper thing with like the sun hitting you from like every, and this beatific look on your face.
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And me is like, um, with, with my roast turkey and with my chickens, look me with my tiara and my chickens that I clearly raising and getting eggs from.
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And, um, he, he's laid in these little, there's yours truly and Doug in our royal carriage.
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Um, the, the, the headlines, like the slate in front of the scenes include, um, how to make microwave popcorn, how to put pretzels in a bag.
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And the other thing you don't get when you're just listening to it is Maureen's expert side eye to the camera.
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It was, I mean, it was really easy to play straight man to you because the absurdity, like, again, you didn't even have to take it up a level.
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Like we were just doing what she was doing on the show.
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Like when you were like, I'm going to, first of all, this is how much I adore you.
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You would like, it's so nice to be here in your kitchen, which is exactly what we do with friends.
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You sort of berate them for not slicing things properly or getting ice together.
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Or my favorite bit was the faucets and the water.
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You were criticizing the way I was like turning the faucet on.
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And, uh, this is part two of two, although there is a part three that, you know, we'll
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Um, but for today we have two parts and, um, I think you're going to enjoy this just as
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I'm going to keep this on hand just for life in Connecticut.
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I think this is the earliest that I've had alcohol in a long time.
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I'm a common girl and I don't have people do it for me.
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I think people are happier when they're around me if they're intoxicated.
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It's very important of me to put a little fruit in my bubbly.
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Megan, tell me where you got that gorgeous bracelet.
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You keep saying Megan Markle, you know I'm Sussex now.
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My dearest friends know it's Megan, like the month of May.
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If something gets on your white clothes, you can just give it to your maid and she will
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I think it's important that we elevate our ice cubes.
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I feel like too many people foam this portion of the day in.
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If you could just learn like I have to elevate the ice cubes, you'll have more friends and more
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But it's not just going to be regular ice cubes, Maureen.
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We're going to put flower petals into the ice tray.
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And then we're just going to drip them into the ice tray.
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We're just going to pop them right into the freezer.
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We're going to get rid of the little Lipton signs.
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Can I ask you, is there a reason you're not using British tea or American tea?
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I'm going to let you just follow what I've written down, my instructions, while I...
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So you're well on your way with the dog biscuits.
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On a lightly floured surface, we're going to roll out the dough.
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Someone got left alone in the kitchen for another costume change.
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Since you already know this because you made them, they can be eaten by humans too.
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Summon substance of coming to Megan's house for fun.
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You're going to eat dog food and you're going to like it.
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I mean, also, Strudwick, really, I think, the secret weapon of that entire bit.
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Because Megan's dog, I believe she probably sedated that dog.
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He sat perfectly in his little perfect doggy bed and Strudwick was like, what didn't make
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the cut, and I hope you show online or something, is Strudwick escaping to the pool.
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Like trying to get Strudwick out of the pool while the sun tea is still brewing.
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And I was like, your pool guy must think you have lost your mind.
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I just wear black formal sparkles during the day.
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There's another scene that we'll get to in which we are...
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We elevate the outfits even more and we go black tie.
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And that's why we then have fur on in this latest scene.
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But yeah, Strudwick was his typical terrible self, which will come to the surprise of no
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And for the listening audience, you could see him at the end.
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And Jake had the cameras rolling and caught Strudwick, of course, immediately jumping
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up and eating all the stuff that we had prepared.
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And the little headlines in this one were, how to put fruit in champagne.
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This is the stuff you get from Meghan Markle's show.
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And then the edible flowers was a whole story in and of itself because Jake, the producer,
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he went to like five different stores, grocery stores and flower stores to try to find edible
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And what they said was at the grocery stores, they were all like, oh, we got rid of those
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And that the floral shops, they said, you should never eat flowers.
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And so that's why they have that little sticker on those flowers, like do not eat, not edible.
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And so she's trying to market these edible flowers, which I guess, are they grown in
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her garden with no pesticides and no toxins whatsoever?
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I don't know, but you cannot buy these as a real person anywhere.
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So they come in this, they come in, I guess the packaging for her crepe mix, maybe.
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The crepe mix, which she tells us, by the way, is French style.
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Because crepes are actually a French invention.
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So they are, by definition, French style, Megan.
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And then there's this little cellophane baggie.
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Now, as you and I have previously discussed, I've never consumed street drugs.
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I know people who have, and it looks like a little drug baggie.
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And inside are these like flakes, these multicolored flakes that you would never go, those are fruit
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They look like hard pieces of lint, like that you would pull out of the dryer.
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And also, until you, when, so we were, I was deputized, thank you, Megan, to pick the
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And it said non-edible, which, by the way, whenever I purchase flowers, I never think
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like, should I look and see if this is an edible item?
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It's so, so hopefully we'll get to in the third installment, all the cooking we did,
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because we actually did a fair amount of cooking and chopping and mixing.
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I thought it was maybe sort of a threat that would not be made good.
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You were berating me for washing fruit too hard.
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We finished that up, and I had to do AM update.
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I had to tape that early that day, because we had plans that evening.
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So I'm like half in the bag from all the champagne we had.
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And then I had to do this hour and a half long thing with Stanford Business School.
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You guys have no idea what I spent my afternoon doing.
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It's funny too, because then, of course, the next day I'm sitting with Marty McCary, and
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I'm like, I have the most bizarre variety in my job of pretty much anybody I know, like
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sitting down to the FDA and pretending to be Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex the day
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Drinking champagne with just constantly piling fruit in, which we both acknowledge was actually
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Um, but really just guzzling, guzzling, guzzling, because it was partly in character and we're
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And then when it was all over, just sitting and like having a moment to take all of our
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We really, we really, really, really worked hard that day.
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The truest line I think was spoken in that segment was, um, this was me in the character
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of, of Ms. Markle saying people seem to like me a lot more when they're intoxicated.
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And why I kept topping you off to try to like blunt some of that mean energy coming my
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She probably has no idea why people are like, yes, for the love of God, get this champagne
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Now on the subject of the weird photos of, you know, the AI photos of the princess version
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Um, Jake, he was asking you and me if we had any photos of ourselves when we were little
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And, um, no, of course we, we were never in the kitchen.
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Like, do you, do you have little picture pictures of you cooking as a kid?
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But honestly, I was not an attractive child, so it's fine.
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Um, but Jake ran, uh, our actual, uh, like our present day photos through this AI generator
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And let me tell you something, Maureen, it doesn't work like that.
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Let's start with the one of Maureen and put it on the board.
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Oh, it's nothing compared to what you're about to see, but stand by.
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It is an adult picture of Maureen's face and Maureen's kind of hair on like a little body.
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You look like like a magical, mythical creature.
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But now I definitely look like a little person.
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But this is like, this would be you at like, that would be me at maybe two.
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It's me with my current hair and my current face, but smaller in like a little person's
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Something about this is incredibly disturbing and creepy and the kind of thing that you'll
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Um, it's very Meghan Markle with your hair falling right into the food that you're creating.
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And do you know, I found this out later that in a real kitchen, chefs are not allowed
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So it's like all this stuff she's doing with like her big lashes and on their lip gloss.
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It's like, okay, you might want to be careful before you touch that much food and
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hover over the, the, the pat, the pot and the pan.
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And, um, what's the other thing about, uh, how we, how we shot it.
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Anyway, the whole thing where he was so much fun.
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I don't, I don't think it's exactly excoriating.
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There's some healthy mocking, but let's face it.
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And I think the, the, the real loss is really only going to be Meghan Markle's because as
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we've discussed before, she has zero sense of humor.
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And if she could laugh at herself at all, she might really, really see the humor in that.
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And especially the interpersonal dynamics that she has with her great friends who come over
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the, so the line that killed me was when I, I asked you about your mini brainstorms of
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decanting and repackaging in multiple plastic containers.
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And you said, and I'm guessing you had the, like in the next wave of our friendship, I'll
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Like you could unpack the microaggressions in that one statement for days.
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It's like, there were so many things that were just flying by my head.
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And you're like, you know, yes, that's what our friendship's always been about me asking
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You really seem to come alive when you talk about yourself.
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And it's like, in some of the other clips, which I'm sure we'll get to, um, it's Maureen.
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Anytime she tries to say anything about herself, I talked over her.
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She, she was, she was really good at asking me an, a barbed question, like an insult, right?
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And then you, and then I try to answer in a way that will like recover some dignity and
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you just cut me right off onto your next, you know, back to you, back to you.
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I'm sure, I'm sure everyone is more interested in me.
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Oh, this just in, this just in, we've been renewed for a second season.
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When you're a founder, good things just keep finding you.
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You know, I, there is so much truth in that basic aphorism.
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We're not leaving her quite yet because, um, she's in addition to this show launched
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I've been dying to talk to you about this because I was on, I was commuting on the train
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I mean, even listening, like even when we were talking about the Netflix show, I said, I
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It's a, it's, it's like mountain gets harder to climb every time.
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Now I would never have been able to tell you her name.
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So like, again, where's the Gwyneth's of the world, right?
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This entire episode, it was like, it was like watching a toothless child try to eat some
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It was just like conversations about intentionality, making space, giving oneself permission to
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Like, tell me how any of this is applicable to building an actual business.
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That's we were getting at some of that in our little bit, but if you listen, you know,
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to this podcast, like the earlier one, it's all like, she's overly therapized.
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She's classic, like this younger generation that has spent too much time online trying
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And she said something to the woman I heard in episode two, who did, um, girls who code.
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Um, and the reason of course she's honest, because apparently Megan Markle put some money
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And so this was a chance for this woman to be like, you're so amazing.
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Well, so the, the Whitney, the bumble woman episode was notable for a couple of things,
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I guess this really private, sacred piece of information.
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And by the way, the way they met was like, Megan invited her and her husband over for
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a new year's Eve party, which is really like how you get to like forge, you know, some
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intimate bonding when you're having people over for a huge holiday party, whatever she
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So I'm, I'm in the airport in Ireland and I go into, you know, one of those, like,
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Like a Hudson news, like a new, like they're okay.
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So I'm in there and I'm looking at the, at the racks and you are on the cover of every
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And I said to myself, how does this woman deal with all of this attention?
00:37:39.760
And it was just like, Megan was just like, I know.
00:37:47.240
It's all secretly a cover for her that the Netflix show that we just parodied this podcast,
00:37:52.260
like she was talking to this woman of girls who code.
00:37:55.060
And of course the woman referenced 10 times being a woman of color, a woman of color, how
00:38:04.020
They're like at the top of the echelon and income and academic achievement.
00:38:11.580
I'm just saying like, you're not really high on the oppression scale.
00:38:15.180
Um, and Megan's like, she said something like, you know, and, and that, that cut deep
00:38:21.640
and Megan's like, yes, were you cut or were you cut open?
00:38:32.920
That's, that's why founders get ahead because they look at life's crises in that manner.
00:38:38.780
The other thing I loved, uh, she talked about being consumed with her packaging, which
00:38:44.620
is someone who got the packaging, the items, it's really cheap stuff.
00:38:53.640
We played it once before that my team is telling me, but it's still good.
00:39:00.380
It can be so overwhelming, even with the best of teams.
00:39:07.140
For example, a month ago, I was absolutely consumed with packaging boxes.
00:39:19.720
And I would sit there doing the unboxing in my head.
00:39:23.520
What about the packing peanuts, but they're biodegradable.
00:39:30.380
And then someone says, but you don't want to brand the outside of the box because a porch
00:39:37.040
And then I'm sitting there and I'm like, does any of this actually matter?
00:39:49.700
She's never seen any of those videos that go viral of people stealing.
00:39:55.860
Also, I can tell you there's a million, there are not a million, but there are significant
00:40:04.540
You actually went to the website and ordered my special jam.
00:40:13.000
But so she's talking about her perfectionism and her struggles.
00:40:23.400
So the Bumble woman tells Megan, she reassures her by saying, listen, the most important
00:40:30.980
It doesn't matter if you succeed or fail, but did you give it your all?
00:40:36.420
That's actually the entire point of this enterprise because nobody wants to lose money on their
00:40:44.560
Is that what you're going to tell your producer on your show?
00:40:50.560
And to me, it's this sort of like post COVID Gen Z general philosophy in life, which is like,
00:41:10.640
When she confesses the secret of every successful woman.
00:41:17.640
We're going to talk about what's behind every successful woman.
00:41:21.060
What's behind every successful woman is self-awareness.
00:41:24.180
There comes a point where each of these women on their journeys has such a tremendous sense
00:41:30.140
of self-awareness and the desire to dig deeper that is unflappable.
00:41:43.200
It's almost like she's talking to herself about her...
00:41:48.400
But because she doesn't know herself, she has no idea that she doesn't have self-awareness.
00:41:52.720
I think she thinks of these things as like items you almost pluck from a shelf.
00:42:02.380
What's behind every founder is such an odd question.
00:42:09.740
That they feel they have to create or express, right?
00:42:22.160
Truly, this is what's true about her and her business.
00:42:27.460
They only have a nickel between them because he's a royal.
00:42:34.700
She was doing fine as a D-list actress on Suits.
00:42:38.640
I'm sure she could pay her monthly rent in Toronto.
00:42:41.980
But she was not living in Montecito with the mountain views and the huge mansion and the
00:42:51.060
The reason they got that money from Netflix and Spotify is because he is the grandson
00:43:01.880
But she wants us to listen to her like she's a founder.
00:43:05.900
Because she took all that money and launched her stupid ass lifestyle brand with jam.
00:43:15.040
And it's if you open when you open the jar, it's just like there's no center to it, which
00:43:21.620
I think is like it's the personification of the Meghan Markle brand.
00:43:30.980
It's just sort of is like nothing in the middle of the jam jar.
00:43:33.620
Well, like I mean, like a kind of like scent, like something that keeps the jelly gelled.
00:43:39.600
Like you don't it would be like me spilling a bit of this water.
00:43:43.960
So it's like and the packaging you were showing me is very cheap.
00:43:50.600
And she oh, and by the way, we're never supposed to see the children or talk about the children.
00:43:54.360
But we do talk about the children on the packaging.
00:43:59.900
That's why you're not allowed to talk about them elsewhere.
00:44:04.480
And she talks about what she loves to do with her children, which is I don't even think
00:44:09.660
How like how how much time do you think it took her to shoot those episodes?
00:44:18.620
She didn't bang that out in four hours like we did.
00:44:22.000
Because she also can she can't talk to anybody.
00:44:25.880
It's all so stilted and everything has to be perfect.
00:44:30.020
You can see, you know, she gets upset when like that we were playing off of it.
00:44:34.320
But when like Daniel tasted the food and it was not time to taste the food.
00:44:39.120
And right cut his fingers like she doesn't like when things go wrong.
00:44:45.100
And this is why I was trying to overplay like how important friendship is, because we all
00:44:49.500
know that her reputation is that she bullies women.
00:44:55.540
The only people she's getting on this podcast are people who kind of owe her one because she
00:45:00.200
used some of her royal money to seed their business so she could call herself altogether
00:45:06.380
Here's one more where she's talking about her favorite title, Sat 31.
00:45:20.620
It is the thing where you're like, oh my gosh, I just need a break.
00:45:24.120
And the second that you step near the room, you go, oh, but where are they?
00:45:27.340
Let me just let me just let me scroll through pictures of the endlessly on my phone.
00:45:31.680
And then you just my husband's like, my love, can you just give yourself a minute?
00:45:38.420
I'm like, I know, but I just want to cuddle through it's the, it's the parenting paradigm
00:45:43.040
where it is so full on and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
00:45:57.800
Do you like, you're telling me you have three kids that when they were little, you were like,
00:46:02.040
oh yeah, please just be all over me every minute of the day.
00:46:04.480
And then when they left the room, I immediately had to go to my photo app and look at photos
00:46:09.060
of them until Doug came in, D I mean, and said, my love, please go take a bath.
00:46:18.080
You don't spend enough time at all thinking about yourself, right?
00:46:28.780
First of all, mom is my, it's my most important title.
00:46:31.180
So why are we not looking at the credits, Megan, mother of two, instead of Megan,
00:46:39.800
We are the Duchess of Sussex first and foremost.
00:46:46.420
She's like, I think she meant the parenting dilemma.
00:46:50.800
She just like takes these garbage words that come out of like C-suite, like guidebooks,
00:46:58.260
Well, didn't she, I mean, like she's of course overly important and she refuses to drop that
00:47:04.540
She's very proud of that, even though she did absolutely nothing to earn it other than
00:47:08.380
But she just came to New York and she was spotted at the Broadway play Gypsy and she had like
00:47:17.940
She went in there like she really was Princess Diana and made sure that got in the paper.
00:47:23.340
Of course, here, look at this, look at this motorcade.
00:47:29.920
We have stars far bigger than Meghan Markle coming into New York and going to Broadway.
00:47:36.980
Presidents go to Broadway without that kind of stuff.
00:47:40.560
And, you know, I was reading like Taylor Swift at most will have like a motorcade of two.
00:47:46.420
You know, people who are far, far and again, great environmentalist.
00:47:50.260
We've got four huge cars running just for hours on end so she can go backstage at a performance
00:48:00.560
She's wearing a loud houndstooth floor length again.
00:48:04.520
And they ate at Polo Bar, which is a wonderful restaurant, but it is not someplace you go if
00:48:10.660
And like one of the hardest reservations to get in the city.
00:48:28.360
And then she and we didn't see her with a friend at Broadway either.
00:48:31.380
I know they said that she was there with friends, but I didn't see pictures of them.
00:48:35.000
And some of the ones who I saw, like when she got married and they had it was maybe
00:48:44.580
And there was Taryn Toomey, who started The Class, which is an exercise program that
00:48:58.740
And that's what this woman who she had on episode two was too.
00:49:04.020
She's picking these props who were there to tell the right stories about her that make
00:49:08.560
her look good and also say the right narratives.
00:49:11.140
Like this woman who was on episode two, this woman behind the Girls Who Code, Reshma Sojani,
00:49:17.340
ended the interview by talking about how she doesn't think we've advanced at all on women's
00:49:22.300
And she's convinced she's going to die with fewer rights as a woman in America than she
00:49:27.160
It was an obvious reference to Trump and Republicans.
00:49:30.360
Of course, no pushback because this is their worldview.
00:49:33.200
Even though she's in Montecito at her castle, she's and whiter than I am.
00:49:38.040
She's black and oppressed and so are the people on her podcast, even though they're founders.
00:49:42.160
Even though they're founders and never forget, Megan was the most oppressed within the royal
00:49:45.180
family and had to expel herself from the entire continent just to find some personal
00:49:51.560
But she's got to use that label of the family she hates so much that are disgusting viral
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Before we leave the wonderful world of people's podcasts, Michelle Obama is still at it.
00:51:23.620
And in this particular soundbite, she's got thoughts on relationships.
00:51:31.280
Relationships are long and there are also ebbs and flows, right?
00:51:35.040
So I think sometimes people who date don't realize that, you know, in long-term relationships,
00:51:40.620
you're going to have deep, deep dips and you're going to have-
00:51:46.280
I tell people and folks think that this is harsh.
00:51:51.380
You know, I mean, I've been married to my husband for 30 plus years.
00:51:55.680
I mean, the truth is, if you add it all up, even the year-
00:51:59.640
If the odds were you're going to be married to your partner for 50 years and 10 of those
00:52:16.600
I've been married for 17 and a half years and not one was bad.
00:52:28.340
I can't think of anybody I would go to for advice less than Michelle Obama.
00:52:34.020
She really doesn't know what she's talking about.
00:52:35.900
First of all, she loves to tell us she hated Barack for a good decade.
00:52:40.060
Please teach me how to have a successful relationship-
00:52:43.200
...with someone that you clearly respect and admire.
00:52:45.980
Every time she's on the air, it's like, I'm dragging this ball of dead weight behind
00:52:55.080
I'm trying to elevate myself with, like, these things on my head.
00:53:01.080
These two big balls on the left and the right of her head.
00:53:03.300
Like, what kind of midlife crisis is she in the throes of right now?
00:53:08.520
You see the other one where she had the three balls on the back of her head?
00:53:12.860
And I think it was Benny Johnson was calling it her stegosaurus cut.
00:53:19.100
I think that her- Do you remember Meghan McCain used to go on The View with those?
00:53:25.840
And everybody's theory was that her styling team, like her glam squad, must be working
00:53:32.100
Because, like, anyone else would be like, no, no, no, not for today.
00:53:36.540
And she's also Michelle- So she's constantly, like, hitting that wound of, like, are we divorcing?
00:53:45.120
You know, I'm just trying to be an independent woman over here.
00:53:56.800
Like, every episode, you didn't tell me you were having marital problems.
00:54:00.640
Like, he has to explain to her a million freaking times, hey, I was trying to work out my marriage.
00:54:06.140
And if they did work out and I told you what the problems were, you would hold a grudge
00:54:17.020
Every word she says about Barack Obama is negative.
00:54:19.620
I can't think of her sitting there just waxing poetic about him, complimenting, he's brilliant,
00:54:26.300
he's a great dad, he was the greatest president, whatever a normal wife of Barack Obama would
00:54:32.440
Every time she opines, it's something that reflects poorly on him, how he's insensitive,
00:54:37.840
how he's not a talker, how he doesn't know how to relate to people, he doesn't keep the
00:54:42.940
And now we're talking about that you can have a bad decade in a marriage.
00:54:48.220
I think that's a very unhealthy position to take or to advise other people to gut it out
00:54:55.940
I mean, first of all, what that would do to you physically alone, I would never want to
00:55:00.300
And secondly, does she not realize that by talking shit about her partner of decades,
00:55:05.740
first black president of the United States, she's talking shit about herself.
00:55:12.280
And we would never know who you are if it hadn't been for him.
00:55:18.700
He would never have been president if it hadn't been for her.
00:55:22.220
She was the strength and the force behind the man.
00:55:26.640
We just actually saw a video of him speaking on the campus of Harvard Law School in favor
00:55:36.640
Like, he was obviously a star in the making from a very young age.
00:55:40.780
I'm sure she thinks it's her, but I think it actually was him.
00:55:44.020
And some of his ex-girlfriends talk about how he made a choice to align with, like,
00:55:49.160
this strong black woman as opposed to the white women he'd been dating.
00:55:55.840
And so, like, to get him the street cred he needed with Chicago voters where he started.
00:56:02.540
And yet now she's doing a podcast, which we are only listening to.
00:56:10.700
That's the no one listens to a former lawyer from I think it was Jenner and Block do a
00:56:14.780
podcast on with her brother on her thoughts on relationships.
00:56:25.620
And aside from the lawyer, didn't she get like didn't Valerie Jarrett give Michelle Obama
00:56:32.040
like a no show administrative job at a Chicago hospital like 600K a year while they were all
00:56:38.540
They were all grooming Barack to be president, right?
00:56:41.140
That young of an age, the Chicago political apparatus knew this guy could go to the White
00:56:47.440
So they were like, let's take care of him and let's take care of the wife and like, let's
00:56:53.320
I also really do think the root of her rage is that he is a natural star.
00:56:58.380
He was born with many gifts that through self-esteem and great education, he allowed himself to
00:57:14.420
You're like, why am I listening to this woman bitch and moan and complain?
00:57:17.980
I've got better things to do with my free time.
00:57:24.420
She does not have the gift of the spoken word that she's led us to believe she has in these
00:57:36.340
So Barack, I think, I think he got his oratorical skills from the churches.
00:57:44.900
Yeah, that cadence and that way of bringing a crowd up and then taking them down.
00:57:48.660
She, I think, prior to Harvey in the clink, I think he was hooking her up with like the
00:57:55.160
Meryl Streep's or her acting coach or whoever and getting her really like, you know, up there
00:58:02.780
But you're absolutely right because whatever charisma she's able to display at like a DNC
00:58:11.960
Long before I ever saw you in person or spoke to you, I was reading you.
00:58:17.680
And one of the things that made me fall in love with you just on paper is just how witty you are.
00:58:22.300
And I love the acerbic pen, you know, against the right people.
00:58:27.500
And I've said this to my audience about you when you're not here.
00:58:29.700
It's just like you always say something different.
00:58:31.580
You don't comment any story with the same talking points that we hear everywhere else.
00:58:35.940
And then I meet you in person exactly the same.
00:58:40.980
Even on your T's for the nerve, like I will be studying it like the collapse of the Roman
00:58:47.140
You can see it's the same person who is writing and speaking.
00:58:49.580
And it's exactly the opposite with her because she's a phony.
00:58:54.280
And yes, I always want to come at something from a different angle, just like you do.
00:58:59.880
It's just like I get tired of hearing the same people parrot the same talking points or the
00:59:05.380
same observations when I'm thinking differently.
00:59:07.960
And instead of going, I should shut that off because like I think differently, I want to
00:59:13.780
express that because I think and suspect that more people than not feel the way I do.
00:59:19.120
They just can't say it because now it's not the thing you say.
00:59:29.400
There is not an original thought rattling around in that head.
00:59:33.460
She's having conversations that like tweenagers have.
00:59:38.900
The only person who has fewer watchers and listeners is Chuck Todd and the Chuck Todd cast,
00:59:43.500
which I think might be up to like maybe he's got 2000 now.
00:59:47.280
But, you know, big splash in The New York Times.
00:59:58.660
So speaking of women who think they're all that in a biscuit, I haven't gotten you to
01:00:04.060
weigh in on our newest astronauts and their accomplishment.
01:00:29.860
Because she went up in a flight that achieved zero gravity, which is all they did.
01:00:35.340
And by the way, she was up there for 30 minutes, not three.
01:00:40.180
I boarded a Boeing 727 aircraft called GeForce One and experienced what astronauts feel when
01:01:05.380
Martha Stewart, in case you spaced out, in 2007, Martha has always been ahead of her game.
01:01:12.220
This was tweeted out underneath her Twitter account, which has got many millions in the
01:01:16.820
It's a complete troll because everyone's trolling them now.
01:01:22.880
We played it the other day, but I'd love to hear your response because Gail King is getting
01:01:27.320
very annoyed with the people who don't realize, number one, she's an astronaut.
01:01:40.120
Whenever a man goes up, you have never said to an astronaut, boy, what a ride.
01:01:44.960
You know, we duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day, pretty
01:01:53.060
It was called a journey because a ride implies that it's something frivolous or something
01:01:58.860
There was nothing frivolous about what we did and the machine that we were on and what it
01:02:05.740
took for the people to get that machine up and running.
01:02:11.200
So, you know, I'm very disappointed and very saddened by it.
01:02:14.280
And I also say this, the what it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please
01:02:21.840
I've had so many women and young girls reach out to me and men too, by the way, men too.
01:02:27.660
I never thought I could do that, but I see you doing it at this stage of my life.
01:02:36.720
Everyone now thinks that they can go up in Jeff Bezos's nipple shaped spacecraft because
01:02:43.260
It's still not going to make her anything less than Oprah's best friend.
01:02:51.900
I mean, I thought journey was also now a diminution of sorts.
01:02:55.160
Like, isn't journey something we apply to the new season of The Bachelor?
01:03:00.400
Third, my favorite thing is, so her, her outrage is in direct disproportion to actual
01:03:10.120
Which this is not, this is like a vanity project.
01:03:12.620
And you know, it's bad when other celebrities come out and mock you like that almost celebrity
01:03:17.900
on celebrity violence almost never happens, but we're witnessing it right now.
01:03:21.240
So she goes, she, I think she was talking to entertainment tonight on the red carpet and
01:03:27.000
she, you know, clapping back at her trolls and critics.
01:03:30.240
She says, I mean, the unmitigated call, Megan, she goes, when you go to space, when you take
01:03:36.340
that, then you come back and you talk to me about it.
01:03:40.140
Once you, once you, me, the little people like, oh, anybody can do this?
01:03:43.600
All you have to do is be wealthy or famous enough to befriend Jeff Bezos and his sex doll
01:03:51.420
Make sure that when you go up there, you can have full glam that Gail's wig alleged is a
01:03:57.700
fixed, that the fake eyelashes aren't falling off in zero gravity.
01:04:02.440
That the enormously enhanced boobs don't float off on their own.
01:04:05.680
Don't float off on their own that, uh, Katy Perry, I read, spent more time looking at the
01:04:11.980
camera with her daisy for her daughter than outside at the moon.
01:04:16.560
There was nothing frivolous about this flight, this mission, this journey.
01:04:20.960
Well, what about when, uh, was it Lauren Sanchez?
01:04:24.120
They were, they were recording themselves going girl power girl.
01:04:29.920
So cringe, uh, going, oh my God, you guys look, we're seeing the moon.
01:05:04.420
You guys, I have to tell you, look at the moon.
01:05:25.360
She's really trying to move tickets, which is not happening.
01:05:28.800
It's just like, it's like, this is like end times kind of like, you know, the rich and
01:05:39.200
It's like space colonization is a really serious thing.
01:05:48.460
And these three are up there taking selfies and spouting inanities such as take up space.
01:05:54.900
Something Meghan Markle would say, take up space, but you're in outer space.
01:05:57.480
Like, like comparing yourself to Alan Shepard, comparing yourself to heroes who, when they
01:06:01.740
first went into space, weren't sure they were going to like just disintegrate up there.
01:06:15.680
Here's part of what you were talking about with Gayle King responding to the haters.
01:06:20.860
Have you been, if you've been, and you still feel that way after you come back, please
01:06:31.120
Have you been, so you can't criticize her unless you have been to space for three minutes.
01:06:44.760
Should we get some like laurels for what the, I mean, I can't.
01:06:48.600
Like you can't understand the profundity of what I went through.
01:06:51.840
But meanwhile, it's like, no one really would have been mocking you if you hadn't been so
01:06:55.460
foolish in your behavior up there, your outfit, you playing up your training of two days, learning
01:07:01.360
how to put, buckle your seatbelt literally and get in and out of the craft.
01:07:04.480
And then your self-talk when you got back saying things like, I'm so proud of me and
01:07:14.240
That's the stuff that leads us to, to mock them.
01:07:16.880
And she's on the air like, these are my friends.
01:07:26.140
And it doesn't help your sinking morning show, which is like circling the drain.
01:07:31.620
Why are there no questions, by the way, as to how an alleged journalist can be so close
01:07:36.940
with one of our foremost billionaires and take a joy ride into space and not ask any critical
01:07:43.380
questions or do this in any way that resembles something approaching journalism?
01:07:49.740
So she, speaking of that morning show, one of the reasons it's failing is because they have
01:07:54.620
They had on the actual first black female astronaut, Dr. May Jemisin.
01:08:01.600
You heard Amanda Nguyen tell me in the interview that she's conducting science experiments on
01:08:06.780
this voyage, which I don't think a lot of people knew.
01:08:09.120
They thought it was just six women going up into space for a joy ride.
01:08:17.800
But he's speaking to the perspective and some of the narratives that are out there that
01:08:24.420
And I'm glad that you're here to help me correct that narrative.
01:08:26.920
Um, so explain to our audience why even a trip like this one, all the trips that we
01:08:36.120
Uh, so it benefits humankind and I'm going to keep correcting the mankind and the man made
01:08:41.940
and the man missions, because this is exactly what this mission is about is expanding the
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Like we're not like, and I also thought like, I think Gail King is having some weird
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crisis because did you see those images of her before she got on?
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That's why Oprah was so proud of her because she conquered her fear of flying.
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Because this is the same thing as flying, I guess.
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Fear of flying is when you're on the plane and it's making all sorts of weird motions
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and quick drops and you're scared shitless that your plane's going to fall out of the
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In Jeff Bezos, the billionaire's gazillion dollar craft that multiple people have gone
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I have to say, even I would not be that afraid.
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Same way as like you're far less afraid when you're on the 747, you know, Boeing airliner
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The little puddle jumpers or, you know, sometimes we'll fly private if whatever, you know, I
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Every time I'm on one, I'm like, I'm never doing this again.
01:10:11.700
Anyway, but on Jeff Bezos' craft, that's really not, it's going up and it's coming right
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But you're still in space and like, it's still like a new form of, I always, I often think
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of like people who started traveling by airplane almost as soon as commercial aviation
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And I kind of think the demeanor and the behavior of these ridiculous people, notwithstanding,
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like I thought it was, I'm like, I'm sure Oprah got that invite to go up with Gail because
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I think there were lesser tier known people on that flight.
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And I often also wonder, like, so Katy Perry's in this cohort.
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Like, what do she and Orlando Bloom have in common with Jeff Bezos?
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Like, what are those four getting up to together that has forged such tight knit?
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I mean, isn't Lauren Sanchez friends with the Kardashians?
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That's who she, but again, she's choosing to befriend.
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That's an interesting question about what the connections are between these women.
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And then you had like the also rands of like somebody who actually does have some space
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And then there was somebody else who was like more serious person.
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But we don't know their names because who cares, right?
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Who stole all the airtime and then kissed the ground when he came back.
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Like they had just gotten off, like, you know, man, fly to the challenger.
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They're literally on a stop the oligarchy tour.
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And it turns out the free beacon reporting and others now confirming they're taking a private
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It broke first within the, I think it was the post showing AOC was flying first class on
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I guess that was because she was leaving Bernie and the jet, but they have spent, he spent,
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I guess it now comes up over a couple million dollars from his campaign in 2020 on private
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jets and they spent like $221,000 on private jets going from place to place to bash the
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I love the continued implosion, the hypocrisies, uh, you know, apparently democracy is dying,
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AOC and Bernie are going to fly private or first class.
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Don't you dare put them back in coach with the rest of us.
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I love these sort of self-appointed for, so I also just love that like people are talking about
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Like her message is very, it's, it's very specific.
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He's like, we tried the Bernie thing twice and failed.
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And then people see this and everybody who pays the slightest bit of attention knows
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She is a very well-off girl from like Westchester, New York, had a great education.
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This is the kind of stuff, again, like when people can barely make their weekly grocery
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runs without trying to rob Peter to pay Paul in their own bank accounts, you see this stuff
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You get already rich, multimillionaire celebrities like Gayle King saying, I'm inspirational.
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If you have to tell people that you're inspirational, you're not.
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And then you've got AOC and Bernie bashing the rich as they clearly are them.
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Like actual people are looking at this and recoiling.
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I got this from Adam Carolla on whose show I went recently and he played the soundbite and
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my jaw dropped because listen to her talking about her own bio.
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Because when the system is stacked against you, it's hard to feel like anything you do matters.
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It's hard to feel like we matter in this democracy.
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And I can tell you, I know that when I was waitressing and struggling to put food on the
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I tried to just keep my head down, work my shifts and accept that this is just how things
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What I do know is that we don't have to live like this.
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As you point out, she attended Boston University where she double majored in international relations
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She then moved back to the Bronx, reading here from Wikipedia, became an activist and
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So she wants us to believe that after she got her degree in honors, double major at Boston
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University, she struggled to put food on the table, leaving open the only question of whether
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she meant she actually physically struggled to put the food on the table as a waitress.
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Or whether she actually wants us to believe she couldn't eat, notwithstanding her well-off
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And somehow she dug up the tuition for BU, which I'm going to gather was probably 40,
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Well, we never hear her talk about student loans, do we?
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So her parents clearly financed that four-year ride.
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The only thing that really shocks me about that little clip you played is that she didn't
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code switch into her working class Latina accent, which working people love nothing more
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And I also think this is such a toxic, bad message for people.
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You can start from nothing and build your way up through dint of hard work, determination,
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But really, you can do or become anything you want.
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And she's spouting the message that this country is stacked against you and that you are fated
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to be nothing or to be less than the things to which you aspire.
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I don't get why the Dems think that this is a winning message.
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She talks about her time waitressing like she was poor and panhandling and was almost on
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A lot of us waitressed, a lot of us did blue-collar jobs when we were young and in our 20s like
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Was that where you were like, I could do broadcasts?
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I did it for a summer and then I kept it rolling for a while.
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But I don't talk about it like I was in the dregs and almost didn't make it and couldn't
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My mom helped me with my, sadly, my dad's insurance money after he died with college.
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But I paid for my own law school and I paid for part of my college.
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And I don't talk about it like I was like this lowly person who could barely pay her bills.
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Yes, I was very much in debt and I was doing a blue collar job to pay the bill.
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In her mind, it makes her special because she that's the one thing that she that I think
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that's the one part of her bio that she thinks gives her bona fides with the working class.
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She makes it sound like she was in some hellhole dive bar.
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It would be like you telling the telemarketer story like you're in a third world call center.
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Like I worked retail like I don't it's not a badge of honor.
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It's like what you do when you're a certain age and you have only certain you've no experience.
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Literally, our 15 year old son has been working as a bus boy, which you're allowed to do.
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And it's it would be like him who comes from an obviously a family of privilege going out
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there and being like, I struggle to put food on the table as a bus boy when I was working
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It's like, OK, but who do you think you're kidding?
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You know, I think it's teaching him a lot of important lessons, but he would never talk
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And Bernie should stop railing on the rich as he boards his private Bombardier, whatever
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jet that talks about how it's got extra wide mid cabin and, you know, long leg seating,
01:18:54.660
leather seats and probably some flight attendant on board it to waiting on him hand and foot.
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There's a lot to get to because we spent a lot of time on Megan was worth it.
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And when we come back, we've got to talk about what happened in the Carmelo Anthony case yesterday,
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where this is the guy, the 17 year old who's been accused of killing this Austin Metcalf,
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But he's reportedly getting ready to argue self-defense.
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Then his family spoke out at a presser yesterday, which, you know, if you listen to the AM update
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that we offer every morning on our feed, 15 minutes or less, you'll learn all the news
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Um, but it was the most bizarre thing I think I've ever seen with this very strange family
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By the way, my team, my crack team telling me that AOC, according to the New York Post
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at least, had at least $15,000 in student debt, which is but a small fraction of what
01:22:08.640
BU costs, while she was pushing for loan forgiveness.
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So this Carmelo Anthony case is extremely disturbing.
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I outlaid a bit of the facts before we went to break.
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But what's happening now is this is weirdly breaking down along racial lines because Carmelo
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Um, Austin Metcalf, 17, perfect GPA being recruited to play in various schools for college, like
01:22:39.560
a football star, MVP, Carmelo Anthony also said to be a good student, um, and possibly
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also getting recruited to play in college and I think football.
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And he shows up at this track meet and apparently decides to sit in Austin Metcalf's like area.
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I guess they sit by teams and I don't know if they were playing on rival teams, but Austin
01:23:03.420
And so I'm not sure if he was trying to provoke a fight or something, but he decided to go
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sit in the tent that Austin and his twin brother and their team, like supporting friends were
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under Austin Metcalf reportedly, this is from the police report and witnesses cited therein
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And he, and he turned to him and said something to the effect of, you know, make me said like,
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you know, if, if, if you lay hands on me, see what happens, something like that.
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And, uh, as he was doing it, he was reaching into a bag and Austin Metcalf did put hands
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on him and tried to make him get out of the seat.
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And he stabbed him through the heart with a knife that he had in that bag.
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I don't know what's wrong with the family he grew up in or with him.
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And interestingly was saying that this is a close family, that it's a two parent family,
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that it's a God fearing family claiming he's a good boy.
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I saw pictures of him online with the gun and middle finger and trying to look like a
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So I'm not sure what this guy was going through, but there's no mystery who did this.
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And first of all, Maureen, they hire this guy who he's not their lawyer, as near as I
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He's a minister, quote unquote, using that term generously, who's had a long list of trouble
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with the law in his own right, including the fact that we read this in AM update, but he
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was, um, convicted of causing serious bodily injury to a two year old child.
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This is a spokesperson for the family called the girlfriend at 11 PM, told her to get home
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Didn't tell her why when she arrived, her child was unresponsive.
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He told the girlfriend he'd been watching a movie and her son just fell off the couch.
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He fell off and onto the carpet, but they brought him to the doctor, to the emergency room.
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The doctor said, these are lies that the son had a subdural hemorrhage between the two
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Quote, the severity of his injuries is not consistent with rolling off the couch.
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The investigative officer reported the doctor saying without more adequate history of trauma,
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complainant's injuries are more consistent with abusive head trauma and child physical
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This guy, again, still on the spokesperson, uh, the prosecutor read two quick, two statements
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He also faced assault charges against the girlfriend charged with one felony, one misdemeanor after
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he allegedly shoved and attempted to strangle his girlfriend who accused him of pushing, choking
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and headbutting her during several altercations.
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She ultimately decided not to testify or participate in the case against him.
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So, you know, um, this is who the family has chosen to represent them to try to set the
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And he went out there and the first thing he did was he saw Austin Metcalf's dad, Jeff,
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had shown up to the presser whose first reaction after his son was murdered was to say,
01:26:48.620
And he went to hear what they had to say at this presser.
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And here's how Dominique Alexander, the man I just read you about, handled it.
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What we've seen at the beginning of this press conference,
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of the father being at this press conference, is a disrespect to the dignity of his son.
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If that was disrespectful, it just shows you all the character who is not invited.
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He knows that it's inappropriate to be near this family, but he did.
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And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words.
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And what he has failed into is the political operatives that want to make this thing a political
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We have conservative operatives that have been posting nonstop.
01:27:59.120
And he went on to say later that these political operatives are who led to the father being here,
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political operatives motivating this family with hate.
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And then the family running out there trying to make themselves the victims, which is what they did.
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The mother got up and gave a big sob story about how hard this has been for her, are missing the point entirely.
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Nobody had more right to be at that press conference than Austin's father.
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Secondly, this guy is a loss leader for this family who is doing themselves no favor talking on their own behalf.
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He said in that presser, actions speak louder than words.
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Well, sir, the guy you're defending stabbed a 17-year-old in the heart to death at a football game over a seat.
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So, yeah, I guess actions do speak louder than words.
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And that this family doesn't have the foresight to cut this guy loose after knowing what we know about the serious near fatal injuries to a small child.
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Oh, he'll run toward any racialized crime you've got.
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And they got this basement barrel version of the already rather low Al Sharpton to represent them, I guess.
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And, look, it's not that I want to see the mother, either set of parents, get harassed here because it's the kids.
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But she needs to keep some perspective on what Austin Metcalfe's parents are going through.
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In wake of this tragic incident, our family has been under attack.
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Whatever you think what happened between Carmelo and the Metcalfe boys, my three younger children, my husband, and I didn't do anything to deserve to be threatened, harassed, and lied about.
01:30:35.780
The lies and false accusations that have been said about us, especially over the past week, has been overwhelming.
01:30:45.460
The lies and their amplification put my family in danger.
01:30:49.260
My husband had to take a leave of absence because he's afraid what may happen to our family.
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My 13-year-old daughter is afraid to sleep in her own bedroom because she's fearful of what might happen to her.
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I'm sorry, but that is as a result of what her son did.
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The first thing out of her mouth should have been about the victim.
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I think the other thing that struck me about that statement she gave was it's passive language.
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It was an aggressive, fatal act taken by your son that took the life of another 17-year-old.
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You have to, like, it's all about owning stuff in this culture.
01:31:50.820
Also, don't they live in a gated community right now?
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So they have reportedly, according to the Daily Mail, moved into a $900,000 home where they're being allowed to stay by somebody in a gated community while they scream racism.
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While they're waiting on $500,000 to become liquid from their GoFundMe or whatever?
01:32:09.440
Yes, and while their son, who the vast majority of defendants in Texas would be in jail without bond right now.
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Some female judge lowered it and said, okay, I'll let him stay at home on house arrest in his million-dollar friend's home, I guess.
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And while they're screaming, we're all racists.
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Because that guy speaks for them, that Dominic Alexander guy.
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Okay, the mom's talking about poor me, poor us.
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And here's more of Alexander, who blamed everybody.
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The school should have canceled the track meet because of the weather.
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Black people in America, while the current occupant sits at 1,600 Pennsylvania, black people in America don't have to pull the race card.
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We don't like to, but if we want to sleep at night, we got to.
01:33:22.960
I'm reminded all the time that I'm a black man in America.
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If you look at that, say you have no context for what happened.
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You just got off a plane from overseas and you're looking at that.
01:33:36.180
I would assume that that couple lost their child in a violent act perpetrated by a white kid.
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The nerve of him to go out there and rail about racism in America.
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There's no dispute that Carmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart with a knife while not being threatened with any sort of weapon himself.
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The worst Austin Metcalf did from every report we've seen, I haven't seen a thing from Carmelo Anthony's side saying differently, was he laid hands on Austin Metcalf.
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And the law of self-defense does not allow you to respond to non-lethal force with lethal force.
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If you pull a fist on me, I cannot pull a knife and plunge it into your heart.
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That's not what the law of self-defense allows.
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Megan, do you think that were the roles reversed and Carmelo was the one stabbed in the heart fatally and Austin had survived and was charged with this crime, that he would get turfed out on house arrest with a much lower bail?
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Oh, Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, they'd all be down there.
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We'd be watching nonstop coverage of what a racist country we are.
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They're already trying to turn Austin Metcalf with zero, zero, zero evidence into a white supremacist down there to try to turn the tables.
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This guy, Carmelo Anthony, has raised half a million dollars in this Give, Send, Go account from people who have the most vicious anti-white comments you ever want to read on the Internet, just somehow presuming it must have been the fault of the victim.
01:35:22.780
Meanwhile, look, I'm open-minded to what he may have done.
01:35:28.580
There's nothing even alleged in there by any eyewitness other than that he did place hands on him to eject him from the tent under which they were sitting.
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That in no world is a justification for lethal force.
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And here is what a truth teller, this Dominique Alexander is, listen to him railing about the criticisms against them.
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He's mad. People are noticing that they have $500,000 and that there was a report they used it to live in this $900,000 house, which apparently is not true, or at least he says it's not.
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But listen to the errors in this statement alone, SOT 24.
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And now that the public knows exactly what is going on, I ask, because these racist bigots try to prevent us from standing up for our baby, our boy,
01:36:21.620
he should be afforded the same rights that Cal Rittenhouse had, Daniel Pena, and all of the people who have claimed whatever their defense was, he should be afforded the same right.
01:36:40.000
Nobody in the public media has one video camera, but we got the video of Cal Rittenhouse with an AK-47 shooting three people in the back.
01:36:48.600
That didn't happen. Kyle Rittenhouse didn't shoot three men in the back and he didn't have an AK-47.
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And this family stood behind him as he railed about our racism, Trump, being black in America.
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And that's where this case is going. And it's getting incendiary. I mean, people are very worked up over this.
01:37:19.760
I see stuff like this and it makes me so sad. It really, more than anything, it makes me angry and it makes me sad because it's pulling this country backwards.
01:37:27.780
It's pulling us so backwards. Anytime, I don't know about you, but like anytime I interact with somebody who doesn't look like me,
01:37:34.240
I always wonder, like, do you think I'm bad? Do you think I'm evil?
01:37:38.240
Because of the rhetoric over the past few years.
01:37:39.760
Because of all of this that's been going on? Like, can we connect as humans? Like, period.
01:37:44.680
I think that if there were some precipitating event, we would know about it by now.
01:37:50.220
He would have better rhetoric to throw at us than this bullshit.
01:37:53.660
And by the way, not for nothing, Daniel Penny escaped, like, by the skin of his teeth.
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It was not looking good. And it's because of race baiting like this.
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If you're white, you are a homicidal maniac oppressor against anyone who is dark skinned.
01:38:15.560
You know, where he's got what appears to be a clear assailant and a clear victim, but the assailant is black, the victim is white,
01:38:24.800
and he's trying to play on old racial fears in the country about a racist police system.
01:38:34.460
This happened at a track meet in front of dozens, if not more, people.
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Carmelo Anthony is the one who took a knife to that event and responded to what otherwise looked like a normal,
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unfortunate teenage skirmish with lethal force.
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I do think there's something wrong with this kid, Carmelo Anthony, if he, if he, if, if what the facts alleged, if they're true,
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There's something depraved about his heart and he should be in jail for the rest of his life.
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And the father, his father had every right to go there and hear what they were going to say about this case.
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And his son who cannot be there to represent himself because of Carmelo Anthony.
01:39:18.720
This is just, you know, it's like, it just infuriates me because you would see the BLM crowd out there exploiting this.
01:39:25.080
And I don't say this in a provocative way, but I mean it.
01:39:35.340
This is just, they're re-victimizing him all over again.
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They're making the victim, the perpetrator, the aggressor.
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I don't know, but we never come at things truthfully anymore.
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Today we did the reverse, but it was an amazing two hours.