The Megyn Kelly Show - Chrissie Mayr on Cancel Culture, the State of Comedy, and Supporting Trump | Ep. 127
Episode Date: July 12, 2021Megyn Kelly is joined by Chrissie Mayr, comedian and Compound Media Network host and host of "The Chrissie Mayr Podcast," to talk about the state of comedy, Cancel Culture, voting for Trump in 2020 (...after voting for Jill Stein in 2016) and what led to her political awakening, her back-and-forth with Chrissy Teigen, Matthew Dowd's January 6 9/11 comparison, the push to make girls liberal Democrats, Greta Thunberg's anger, growing up with fellow comedian Tim Dillon, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShowFind out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Today we've got Chrissy
Mayer. Chrissy's a comedian and host of the Chrissy Mayer podcast, and she also hosts
a show on Compound Media Network, which we'll get to in one second.
But she is hilarious and she's very insightful about our society. And she also happens to be
a Trump supporter, the rare person in comedy, rare woman in particular, who actually supported
President Trump, though she voted Democrat, well, Green Party to be specific,
in the previous election in 2016. So how does that kind of a person, right, who was a feminist,
who was a Democrat, who voted Stein, wind up not only a Trump supporter, but actually at
the Capitol Hill riot, though she didn't storm the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. We're going to get into it.
You'll hear a bit of her magic on some very funny bits and how she's been sort of targeted
for cancellation multiple times and what she says changed her way of thinking, you know,
what got her politically activated the other way.
So we're going to get to Chrissy in one second.
First this.
All right. So you did not start off wanting to be a comedian. It's not like you were dying to go into comedy. In fact, as I read, you were dying to go into journalism.
Oh, yes. What happened there? I really wanted to be a reporter, went to college for communications. And then I had my first internship at Dateline at NBC, my junior year of college. And I got a load of Stone Phillips and he sounded exactly off camera as he did on camera. And he sounded, I was like, wow, this doesn't seem like my speed.
I just found it pretty boring. And I just was like, wow, this can't be it. And I was, I don't
know, looking back, I was really proud of myself because I was able to reach out at the time to the
only female writer on Conan at the time, Alison Silverman. And I was able to get myself an internship for
Conan for the following year, my senior year at college. And I was so happy I did because
once I got there, I was like, oh, wow, these are my people. Just talking to the writers.
It's not like I was having that much face-to-face time with Conan. I was like,
here's your coffee. But that was very exciting to me.
Like, I can do this. Yeah, I have what it takes.
So should we be concerned that when I met the likes of Stone Phillips, I was like, yes,
these are my people. Oh, no.
I don't know. I'm concerned. Maybe not him in particular, but man, he is like at a central
casting for news anchor, isn't he? With like the stone, the stone, the stony jaw,
like the blockhead, the deep voice that he was born to do that. Absolutely.
Right. You were thinking, no, can't relate. This is how I was in the law, by the way.
It's one of the reasons I got out of the laws. I was looking around my law firm.
Great, great guys. But, you know, like everyone there had two ex-wives and two mortgages and a bunch of private school
tuitions to pay and they couldn't leave.
You know, they had the golden handcuffs on.
And all I could think of was that clip from Legally Blonde where a young Reese Witherspoon
says she wants to go to law school and the dad is like, law school?
Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and uninteresting.
And you're none of those things
button and then she was like what like it's hard that was great right exactly yeah um so okay so
you decide the conan o'brien route is much more interesting to you by the way like dateline though
that's a great i mean even i with my my bitter feelings about nbc they're mixed they're not all
bitter little little bitter um I love Dateline.
I love the team on Dateline, on cam and behind the scenes. I still love that show. If you're
not listening to the Dateline podcast in your spare time, you're just wasting your life because
they're gripping Keith Morrison. I love that stuff. So did you get exposed to like the murder team or what was, what were you, was that back in the day of like doing the,
you know,
I was exposed to mostly the,
the photocopying team.
My job was to,
was to make copies of the rundowns and kind of like pass them again,
a lot of retrieving coffee.
I'm really good at getting coffee at this point.
I've had a lot of experience and I was exposed to the photocopy
team. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't really give me any major responsibilities, but it was a good
overview. It was, I mean, honestly, as a college student, just to get into the building at 30 Rock
is exciting. And to be able to get college credit for going in two days a week was really, it was great. It was like my
first real life kind of job experience, which is far more useful than anything I did or learned in
college. Yes, 100%. I have an intern, by the way. She's sitting here with me now. Her name is Anna.
Abby is not with me for the summer. She's here. Abby's on this call. But she's at her house
with her kids and I'm down the shore, as they say, for the summer. She's here. Abby's on this call. But she's at her house with her kids,
and I'm down the shore, as they say, for the summer. So I have an intern, and I'm drinking
coffee, but she didn't get it for me, right? And how's it going so far, Anna? It's been great.
See, she loves it. She loves me. You can't hear any of it, but it's a huge thumbs up.
Anna, clap if you're okay.
No.
See? Ning it. I tell you, I'm struggling this morning, Chrissy, because I went out last night to our friend's house and I was over served. He made me the most giant martini I've ever seen in my life. It didn't need to be that big.
You were on the Jersey Shore? Jersey Shore, baby. Jersey. Oh, wow. Great. I'm doing some shows out there in the next
week or so. So I'm excited. I heard you say that on the 20th. I was listening to your podcast with
Tatiana Ibrahim. Oh, yes. She's I mean, wow. I was so inspired just by by talking to her.
I don't have any kids. She's like, wow, she's crazy, fearless. She was she's the one our audience
may not know her by name, but they know the clip who went off on her school board. She was like, wow, she's crazy fearless. She was she's the one our audience may not know her
by name, but they know the clip who went off on her school board. She's like, who do you think
pays for those chairs you're sitting in this? How dare you insult cops? Do you know who lives in
this district? And, you know, she's like, what is racism? Do you know what race I even am?
She was great. And you had her on your show. I listened. She had no notes., and it was kind of better, you know, you listen to her speak and you're like,
this is, she's not coming up there with talking points, um, or like an agenda. She just like has
love for her, her children and the children in her school district. And it was really amazing.
It was very inspiring. I was like, oh, wow. So few people have balls now.
It's when you see someone who does, it's yeah. Bring it. And then they were like,
she's like, who do you think is paying for this? And the board is like,
these are unpaid positions, ma'am. And she's like, who paid for those chairs? Who's paying
for the lights in this room? Who paid for the pizza you ate before you got here? And like,
it was I was like, oh oh my God, I love her.
She needs to be running something.
And she is getting organized and active now
as a result of that sort of, I don't know,
it was like grassroots activism in the moment.
Yeah, she had so many people reach out to her
and she was saying like, just from different countries too,
of course, like Cuba and Venezuela.
And that's interesting
because when I was in DC a couple of times covering the rallies that were going on in
November, December, and, and then also on the sixth, those are the people who were so excited
to come up and talk to me where people from Cuba, Venezuela, or, or their parents were from those
countries. And they were so concerned about the direction the country was heading in or anybody who's um from the former soviet union i mean they'll they'll all those
folks are like what are you doing well you're supposed to be america but there's a there's a
reason we moved here um it does give you a good window into where this is going and that's actually
as i understand it kind of what activated your i don't know if you're political, but it activated
your political gene. Like you started thinking about politics in a way you never had before.
So explain that. What happened? Absolutely. I was so just like, didn't care about politics. I
didn't feel like politics applied to me at all, especially like throughout college and in my
twenties. I just, again, kind of the way I thought
about like news. I was like, oh, it's for boring people. I don't know. I don't really see myself
in it. And then starting around, I think probably 2018, I started to really question my political
identity. I met Larry Sharp, who ran as a libertarian candidate for governor of New York. And I just the my whole
identity started to sort of crack open. I was like, you know, sometimes I would take these
online tests, but more through talking to him, I was like, oh, wow, I'm not really I can't identify
as like a liberal anymore because we see what was happening to the left. It was just getting
more and more radicalized. So that was a big step. But mainly it was seeing what was happening to the left. It was just getting more and more radicalized.
So that was a big step, but mainly it was seeing what was happening to free speech and how it applied to comedy. And I was like, oh no, like this, I have to care about this because this is
my future. This is, and to see comedians not get pissed off, not get really concerned about what's
happening is so strange because it's like,
oh, wow, you're just focusing on the fact that your team is winning and not the larger picture.
I read this line to my husband, Doug, last night in my in my Canadian Debbie packet on you.
She wasn't into politics until comedy started coming under assault from cancel culture.
Then she realized, and this is in quotes, I needed to fight for the right to tell dick jokes.
Oh my God. Yeah. They're so important. We need to laugh. I mean, I have some smart jokes too in there, but yeah. No, but I, I get the point, right? It's like not everybody, even in comedy
is fighting for these rights, which is nuts. You'd think of all industries that comedians would be standing up saying, what are you saying?
You know, we're the ones we're literally the ones who get to say anything totally irreverent.
Our business is being inappropriate. Right. But there's surrender even within the comedy ranks to this crazy cancel culture, free speech erosion? Absolutely. As a comic in LA or New York,
there is an obligation to align with the left.
And to turn away from that
makes you kind of an untouchable in the industry
and also a social pariah,
like among most other comics.
It's just the default setting is to be leftist.
And I was.
When I started stand-up at 26, thatist. And I was like I when I started stand up at 26, like I was that was me.
I was a feminist.
I was like hating men.
I was like doing all the right things.
I was voting Democrat.
But my career didn't really like wasn't really exploding even then when I was doing all the
right things.
And I found as I just got older and I found like, what are the things that are really making me
laugh? And I think at one point I decided to prioritize what I found funny over who liked me.
And it was just a lot of little events, like, you know, other comedians being extra critical of me,
like I would do an impression of another comedian and then they would just try to cancel me. They'd
be like, oh, this is, it was so many little events that kind of came together and it, and it helped me develop a much
thicker skin. Um, and I found that once I started caring more about what I found funny, like the
fans kind of followed, like the fans don't care as much. I think about your political leaning,
they just want to laugh. And that was the biggest
lesson, I think, over the last 10 years of my doing stand-up was letting go of the need to
be liked by Comedy Central industry or whoever's booking Union Hall in Brooklyn or whatever venue
or impressing the right people, hanging out. So much of comedy is
what 10 years ago for me, I thought it was just hanging out in the right places,
getting the right people to like me. And you spend so many hours just kind of hanging out
at clubs or hanging out at produce shows. And so much of it feels like high school,
especially a lot of these comedy bookers. They feel just like the kids who were not cool in
high school. And this is their way to like, get back. You know, it's like, oh, we booked comedy
shows. Isn't it interesting? Like, I would think, I don't know, I'm kind of thinking that a lot of
comedians are probably, this is weird, but a little introverted, like a little like slightly
antisocial. And so that requirement
of hanging out at the clubs and making small talk and wooing people into booking you. I don't know,
does that come naturally? Or is that foreign? Because it's just the comedians I know,
or they're brilliant on stage, but behind the scenes, they're not these huge extroverts.
Oh, absolutely. There's so there's so many comics who are, who are introverts, because you're just
and I don't know if it's an age thing, but the older I get, the more
I'm like in my head at crowds, I have all this anxiety.
I'm like, do these people hate me?
Like do these people think I'm a domestic terrorist?
Because I was, you know, I was doing interviews at January 6th.
Like, yes, you're an insurrectionist.
Oh yeah.
I've been waiting for that.
If you had a knock on my door any day now. So it's just you worry so much about being liked. And then with the stand up comedy community, you have either the kind of introverts that you're talking about, like the socially anxious types, or you have like the overly dramatic kind of maybe they're more more theater types or maybe they're more actors and they like
outwardly love and need attention. They're always quote on,
they're always performing for everybody around them.
It's like, they're trying to be hilarious,
even for like the guy getting their drink, you know?
And the introvert types kind of, you know, you see through that and you're like,
Oh God, I just don't want to like be around fakeness. our it's our job to be to be honest to be brutally honest and that's
like you know sometimes we feel like am i tired of the cancel culture conversation but then i'm
like no i'm not because comedians are not allowed a first draft of anything anymore you look at all
the arts you know fine artists can do sketches and throw them away. Singers can
rehearse for hours in a studio and nobody ever hears it. But with comedy, it's like our first
drafts are it's on Twitter. It's it's in our show on our on stage in the shows. You know, some clubs
tell you not to record, but sometimes people sneak out and record something and that should be OK.
It shouldn't be the end
of you. Like if you, if you're a new comic and you have a rough patch and like, maybe you are
a little bit more racial with your jokes, like that shouldn't be the end of you. You should be
allowed to progress and evolve. Um, and even, I don't know, it's like nothing should be off limits
for comedians. That's one of the reasons
why Dave Chappelle is so brilliant. He'll he'll do it all. And you feel totally uncomfortable,
like, oh, my God, he's making jokes out of school shootings. Right. It's like and you're like,
but I'm laughing. But there's some relief in it. You know, like the most horrific things you can
think of. Somehow he finds a way
to make you like feel lighter in the moment. That's a gift, but, but not everybody feels that
way. Okay. So two examples, there's Seth Rogen who told good morning Britain that comedians should
stop complaining about cancel culture and just accept when a joke has, quote, aged terribly. And then Cat Williams, who is an Emmy Award winning comedian,
he does not believe that there's a problem with cancel culture. And here's what he said. Listen.
Some of these things are for the benefit of everything. Nobody likes the speed limit,
but it's necessary. Nobody likes the shoulder of the road, but it's there for a reason. My point is, weren't all that extremely funny back when they could say whatever they wanted to say.
At the end of the day, there is no cancel culture.
Cancellation doesn't have its own culture.
I don't know what people we think got canceled that we wish we had back. If all that's going to happen
is we have to be more sensitive in the way that we talk, isn't that what we want anyway?
If these are the confines that keep you from doing the craft God put you to, then it probably
ain't for you. We need to be more careful in the way that we talk.
No. Who are you to tell me that? It's so easy for Cat Williams. He's been famous and kind of
uncancellable for a while. And it's like, I don't want to hear what any household name has to say
on cancel culture. It's like, shut up. You've made it. You're good. You have enough money.
Same thing with Seth Rogen. I think he's done stand up once,
like maybe once. And you look at all of Seth Rogen's movies and there are so many scenes where
he tells so many inappropriate jokes. I feel like sometimes these celebrities, they'll make these
statements to come at a head at ahead of it. You know, they're trying to like put up like,
you know, a cushion so that they can't be canceled.
They're like, oh, I'm going to say it first.
I'm going to acknowledge it before somebody can come out with one of my clips from years ago.
But it's like you can't listen to anybody who has a household name
when it comes to cancel culture because it's not fair.
It's like you've made it, and if you slip up,
you've got a team of people to help you make it right,
to help you get through it. And you're
not going to ruin, you know, all your future sources of, of income. And I, I like, I'm kind
of, I believe with parts of what Kat Williams said, and I, I, I disagree with parts of it too.
Like, yeah. Okay. You should be able to do your job as a comic. You shouldn't have to like use
every cuss word. You shouldn't be, you know, I especially believe with female comics, you shouldn't be super
graphic and talking about like your genitals, right?
Like you shouldn't, you should be able to make people laugh without cursing or being
super graphic or being super gross.
So I, I, I believe with that part, but he compares comedy to like the speed limit.
It's, and that's not a fair comparison it's not it's not the speed
limit like words aren't as dangerous as a speeding car words only have the the danger or the value
that you give to them um especially when you have so many black comics use use the n-word they're
throwing it away it's like well they can say it but like if a white person says it they they need
to be completely shut down so well the fact that we're listening to Seth Rogen on anything, right?
Like, yeah, people do use his social commentary.
They refer to it quite a bit.
This is the same guy who remember this story.
Paul Ryan's sons saw him at an event and asked if they could do a photo with him and their dad.
And he's like, oh, I saw Paul Ryan, you know, as the dad walk. And I was like,
no way, no way. I hate what you're doing to this country. And Paul Ryan, like a very milquetoast
Republican. Yeah. And that's how hateful this guy is. Seth Rogen hates anybody who's not of the far
left. And yet he's the one who's out there like, look, you know, acknowledge when you've crossed
a line. Right. Who died and made you the arbiter of that? If you get to decide everything, Stephen Colbert lives, Jimmy Kimmel
lives. Right. But probably Joe Rogan has to go away. Anybody who doesn't who takes risks that,
you know, don't that don't align with his politics. Absolutely. It's like you're it's a
question of they're making it like they're comparing taste to standards of of talent, like just because it's not your cup of tea doesn't mean that person is not extremely talented. And that's what I hate. Like a joke is it should be allowed to live if even one person laughs, you know, and that's what sucks about cancel culture. It gives the offended few the power to dictate content for many. And just because the noisy offended few people like, oh, we got to shut this down. We got to take this off. We got to take this person out of the running. They can't create content anymore. It's like, well, there could have been tens, hundreds, thousands of people who really were quietly enjoying that comic or that performer they just now they really
won't say it when they see the person come under fire you've had it happen to you a couple of
times we haven't been officially canceled um but what what would you say you've done that is the
most controversial thing like that led to the most blowback oh god yeah okay biggest thing let's see
what when the pandemic first came out last year i I made Gal Gadot put together a compilation of her and other celebrities and they were singing Imagine because I guess I thought it was absurd.
It would bring all of us together and calm us down.
It's so cringy. It was the biggest thing I saw. it's exactly what I said before. Like when you're a celebrity, it's like, you're kind of lifted.
Greatness comes from struggle, but with success and definitely celebrity, you risk losing that
struggle, which is why I don't think anybody should listen to anybody like celebrities when
it comes to cancel culture, maybe Ricky, Ricky Gervais and Adam Carolla. Like they've kind of
held their, um, you know, their, their values when it comes to that.
Yeah.
But when you're still fighting for the little guy.
Yes.
Yeah.
They're still in touch with the little guy and the working person.
I think when you cannot risk losing your cushy lifestyle, that becomes more important than
speaking the truth and saying what needs to be said.
And when we saw with these celebrities, that compilation
singing, imagine they're so out of touch. So I was like, why don't I do a little compilation with me
and my quote celebrity friends? I don't have celebrity friends. It's just all other comedians.
And we all sang a line to Kung Fu fighting. And I said, I can you can say Kung Fu or not,
because Trump was saying it was a trending hashtag. It was a thing. So we just,
I just put together pretty quickly, a compilation of that, put it out. And, uh, I think Steven
Crowder did a version of Kung Fu fighting too. It was just, this is what comedians do. You kind of,
a lot of us have a, maybe the similar idea and then it's just whoever can put it out quickest
and, uh, ended up getting so much blowback. Like the woke Asian community came after me.
There were people online who thought
that I had written the lyrics to that song.
I was like, you people are so dumb.
Like this song's been out since the 70s.
What are you talking about?
It's a great song.
Yeah, and they thought I was being anti-Asian.
I'm like, no, the point is,
is that I'm being kind of like anti-celebrity.
But also it's like, okay, is it
inappropriate? Yeah, but comedy shouldn't be held to those standards. Comedy is politically incorrect.
Comedy shouldn't be woke. Comedy is almost designed to offend. If you want to be offended,
you could go to any comedy club in the nation and find plenty of reasons to be. Don't look to comedians to make you feel better about
our dialogue with one another being as close to the Queen's English and behavior as possible.
Yeah, it's supposed to be silly and goofy. And that's like a kind of a I think the biggest
problem is like it used to be if you wanted to go and see comedy and you loved comedy,
you'd have to go to
a building. You have to go to a club like eighties, nineties, two thousands. That was the way. Right.
And then once social media, once our amazing cell phones put comedy and content creators in
everybody's pocket, well now everybody gets a say. And if you're not somebody who would like comedy
or has a good sense of humor, it's like, well, well now you kind of have the power to have a say over comedians,
which is great.
Everybody should have a say,
but it's like people who may don't have to listen.
Exactly.
People who don't appreciate comedy.
You shouldn't.
Exactly.
It's like,
well now it's like,
it's right here in our faces.
It comes up.
This person's trending or,
or this Tik TOK video is and you get to see it.
And it's like, well, you may not have sought that comedy out, but now it's come to you and you're like, I don't like it.
Up next, we're going to talk about how Chrissy and a little Tim Dillon were dancing together as little tots in Long Island.
You'll love this story.
And then we're going to talk about how she wound up voting for Donald Trump.
That's in one minute.
First this.
So do you think that social media has been a force for good or net good or net bad for comedy?
I think I think absolutely net good because it used to be where I used to be like afraid to ever move out of the city.
Like I moved in with my boyfriend like four years ago and I thought it was going to be like the end of my career.
I was like, I can't move out of Queens.
Like I had lived in Brooklyn.
I had lived in Williamsburg.
I had lived in the story of Queens and I moved up the, in up in Westchester. I'm like,
I'm done. I have to, I have to be close to the city. I was so worried about my career,
but, and now you fast forward to 2021. Now it's an asset to live away from the city. People are
moving out of New York entirely people moving out of cities. And, uh, well, there's so much
material in Westchester. I lived there for a little while. It's such an interesting group of
people and way to live. It's very, it's sort of white bread, I will say. It's like, there's sort
of an MO where most of the guys work on Wall Street, most of the women don't work outside of
the home. And as Doug put it, there was where we lived in this one small town, it seemed to be a
competition. Every party was a competition to see how how much clothes the women could take off.
Right.
Like, oh, God, how little they could cover.
And when arriving at the party is like everything's an excuse to wear your, you know, sexy kitten costume or what?
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
And I was born and raised on Long Island, too.
And I and I heard you interview Tim Dillon.
And he and I actually went to the same like little kids uh dance class together when we were like very very young it's insane i wish i
i need video of this megan i had to buy these pictures because it's like he was like he was
like this little blonde thing and he was very very good he was like very passionate and good at dance
he had so much spunk he was i was I was like, Oh, he, he was like
a born performer. And to, and to see that he's grown up to the Tim Dillon, we all know today
is like blows me away. Cause he was just like this spunky little turn the beat around. He would be
like nailing steps and spectacular. And so like, yeah, anyone from Long Island knows. Yeah, it's all like cops, teachers, firemen, you know, and there's a lot of funny people who came out of Long Island.
You know, like Amy Schumer.
Well, she used to be funny.
But David Tell.
I think it was all the chemical testing that happened on Long Island those years ago.
I think that's we've created a lot of funny
people that way something went wrong well so so have you i mean what's it like what's it like for
you in westchester because it's i mean anthropologically it must be very interesting
well yeah it's like i'm renting right now like that we're we're kind of like looking to to buy
a house but the market's been so crazy um the last year i think it's starting
to calm down a little bit because i just we weren't at a point where we're gonna like we're
willing to like overpay um tens of thousands of dollars on something but we're gonna keep looking
and the best part about is that you can have a thriving comedy career and you don't have to live
in a in a big city or even a comedy city it's's, um, you can, it's like, you just get to know,
you have to know social media. You have to know how to clip your, uh, whether it's a little bit
of time on stage or doing characters or, I mean, that's something I could definitely always spend
more time doing, but I think, you know, doing this, doing my longer form interview podcast has
where I've put most of my energy. And I have another
show on compound media called the wet spot, which is a sex dating relationship, like advice panel
show. So who do people call in on that? I did, I did see that. I confess that one. I haven't
listened to. Um, but are you like a modern day Dr. Ruth on that or what's the story there?
Oh gosh. Yeah. That's what we're trying to be. It's that, yeah, people can call in. It's on compound media. And I kind of wanted it to be like how
early Howard Stern was, where he would have like comedians and like porn stars in. And sometimes
like, you know, some sometimes somebody will like flash their boobs or like do something
crazy with their body. And it's just like, I mean, sometimes it's
like Googling it right now. Yeah. Sometimes it's NC 17, but it's mostly just fun. And people call
in looking for advice and, or sometimes we'll just talk about like whatever, like sex dating
relating topics are kind of like, this could be a lucrative lane for you. Cause that girl who
hosts call her daddy, that podcast just got paid $20 million a year by Spotify.
Yeah, she was with Barstool Sports, her podcast.
And Dave Portnoy kind of found her and gave her her start.
And she had the other co-host with her.
Then they had a meltdown and the other gal left.
Yes, I remember that.
And Alex Cooper.
Yeah, that's her name so she kept doing it herself and just
signed a deal with spotify i guess she's leaving barstool 20 minutes so there is money in talking
about the sex acts stay with it chrissy don't give up what the hell i have to dye my hair blonde i
need to like work out a little bit more it's crazy to me like these people who blow up and you're
like why i know i don't get it i don't i
don't totally get it either but there's a market for it and she was just apropos of nothing there
was a bizarre video of this gal circulating last week where she let her dog lick her tongue and she
put it she put it on social media and it was the weirdest thing that people accused her of
bestiality you know it is so weird she's like the kind of girl
like girls want to be here and guys like want to bang her and i think that's you know it's probably
his like a lot of fun sex stories i listened to a couple episodes but i was like i can't i can't do
it anymore i can't get through it now i do not want to be her and no it's not even okay though
i applaud her success i have a hundred percent But I'd certainly rather my own daughter go a different route.
She's only 25 years old, though.
So she's killing it.
She's kind of like a Kardashian making a bunch of money at a very young age by putting something kind of superficial out there.
Although sex is part of everybody's life for the most part and worth discussing.
And I thought you did a bit.
I'll tee it up for you, on certain positions that you addressed.
And one of them was your objection to doggy style.
Oh, yeah.
I hate it.
Why?
What's the story?
It's very impersonal.
Like, I know it feels, I'm not going to get so graphic.
I know it feels good for the guy, but it's like, come on.
Like, it could be anybody there in front of you.
It's like, it's hard to have a conversation.
It's like you wouldn't get to turn around and be like, are you do you even know?
Are we going to your mom's for Fourth of July?
It's like you can't look somebody in the face.
It's you can both be on your any position where you could both be on your phone and the other person wouldn't know is not a good position.
I was like, hey, you see the news about Vladimir Putin? Who's talking? Yeah.
You don't have to be face to face. Hey, watch where you're putting that. Yeah, exactly.
But like, so you have an alternative. What's the alternative?
The alternative is, you know, there's you could look somebody in the eye, you know, old fashioned missionary.
But I think the future is is a is picking an animal that is cuter, that's a little bit more respectable.
I think maybe we should have sex like a cat, you know, kitty style.
And I don't know if you've ever tried this, Megan. If not, you should.
This is what you should do tonight, kiddie style.
I'll go through it really quickly.
It's where you and your guy are like having sex.
Everything's going great.
But then all of a sudden, one of you just runs away suddenly.
And that's it.
You just saw something more interesting.
I'm going to give it a try.
Give it a try. Give it a try and uh getting back to your other point when
you're talking about um like my sort of process of uh being anti-woke and uh finding myself
a big part of that was getting a show on compound media because it's uh Anthony Kumi's network
and he was already i guess kind of a
polar yeah already kind of a polarizing figure people some people love a lot of people love him
some people hate him uh he he's kind of more on the right with his politics so unfortunately like
you get kind of stereotyped like as soon as i got a show on compound media people like oh you're
you're far right and
it's so funny like because of that default i said earlier is that default is to be on the left in
comedy a comic who voted for trump and is like vocal about voting for trump is seen as quote
more political than a comic who voted for biden or who is like out biden or obama or whatever
and just the same thing it's such bs and if, if you go to a Trump rally, you're seen as like radical and political. But if you go to a BLM
rally and you light something on fire, it's like you're a good person. You're a good person. And
that's normal. So once I got the show on compound media, like it was it was pretty crazy because
before I got that show, I spent six years. I hosted a show at the Stonewall Inn, which is a New York City LGBT landmark. It was the site of the Stonewall riots in 1969. Very important spot. I ran a show there, put so much of my own money into advertising. I would constantly be scouting up-and-coming LGBT talent. I would get heavy hitters from the cellar in and just, it was a great show, great lineup. So I did that for six years. So I would have certain people
kissing my ass, being nice to me. And as soon as I stopped doing that show and started doing
compound media, it's like, you see what people think of you right away. And you see how selfish
so many comedians are. Like they're ultimately just out for themselves and they'll, I mean, I had a very good friend call me like a conservative mouthpiece. Uh, and you just have to step back and be like, oh wow, this is okay. People show you who they are. And, uh, I started covering the, the rallies. First I went in November, then I went December and then I was there on the six. Yeah. The Trump rallies. Cause I was like, I know the media is not being honest and not showing us.
And I was very curious.
I'm like, you know what?
Let me meet these MAGA people.
Let me see if they're all like redneck hillbillies, morons, like the media is telling us that
they are.
And I get there and I was so blown away.
It was the most diverse people, families, you know, all colors, all ethnicities.
Like I said before, the people who were so excited to come up to me and do little interviews
were the people from like, you know, or whose parents are from Cuba or Venezuela. And just so
the passion and love for this country. Salt of the away. It doesn't tend to be the elite media,
whatever crowd,
the glasses at the end of their noses.
And that's not a bad thing.
Yeah, I learned so much.
So you start going to the rallies
and then people start looking at you
like you're Donald Trump Jr.
But I mean, you voted for Trump.
I think you might be the only person in America
who voted for Jill Stein in 2016
and Trump in 2020. What happened?
But was that because of the political awakening and the cancel culture and all that stuff? Because
I think a lot of us have gone through that. I think 2016, I was like halfway out. I was like
a little chick starting to crack out of an egg. I was like not fully on board with Trump, didn't
understand him, didn't appreciate him yet.
But I knew that Hillary Clinton was not the answer.
And I was like starting to break out of like my sort of feminist mold there.
So I was like, I was not getting a good feeling from Hillary.
I had no idea like how evil and horrible she is like I do now.
But I just was like, yeah, I'm not sold on either one.
So I went with Jill Stein. Not a great choice, but I made it, I got here eventually.
And, uh, and so, you know, I didn't get any real blowback from going to the November rally
or December, but with January, I went, cause I was like, let me just see if they cover
it January 6th, the way they covered November and December. You know, they would do, the mainstream media would do like an early morning flyover
like 6 a.m. before anybody really assembled.
Like, oh, look, there's 40 people here.
This is a non-event.
So I was really curious to see how they would cover it.
And I remember I just, you know, again, I'm doing interviews.
I'm just sort of man on the street, had my camera out.
It was like so, so cold.
And it just bothers me because I was there and anybody who was there on the 6th is like blown away with how it like inaccurate the media coverage is.
It's like, don't at this point.
It's like, I don't want to listen to anybody's thoughts on the 6th unless unless they were like there, like like physically there because it just so was not
a big deal like i have this tweet oh it was after i forget his name he this guy like donated his
suit to the smithsonian the suit that he wore on january 6th and i had this tweet where i was like
wow i think there was more carnage at my first period which i know is a horrible but i was like
i was making a point yeah Andy Kim. Yeah. Yes.
Andy, relax. As a symbol of hope and resilience and a story of light on one of the darkest days in our democracy.
Stop it.
He donated it to the Smithsonian because he'd been wearing it in a photo of him cleaning up the Capitol after the fact.
And, you know, now the Smithsonian has apparently accepted it.
So, yes.
Okay.
So I see your point about the carnage.
Yeah, I mean, it's horrible. Like like actually, Babbit was murdered. Should not have happened. But like for a group of people who could have come fully armed to the Capitol, they didn't. It was extremely peaceful and chill. And most of us didn't even know what was happening until like hours later, until like four or five o'clock when we were leaving. And I remember on my on my way when we were walking to the Capitol because it was nothing Trump ever said. It wasn't like in charge. It wasn't like a scene at a Braveheart where he events like there was with every rally. You know, a little graphic
circulates before you go there like, OK, this night is this person speaking here and tomorrow
it's you know, it was planned. So I remember the night before it was like there were speakers
happening in one area and then the morning of it was like, OK, we're all going to meet.
What is it called? The president's the ellipsis or something. Someone was, you know, we had been
out there since like 8am and then Trump was supposed to speak at 11. He didn't start speaking
till 12. So all of us were getting cold and we were like, all right, we can't really stay in
here this whole speech. So the next March point, the next pre-planned event was like, okay, we're
all going to march to the Capitol. It was nothing like him going charge. You know, it was just, that was the next place we were supposed to go to. And I
remember I tweeted out just a little bit of video and it was me saying like, all right, marching to
the Capitol or something like that. And one of these New York city, like woke comedy bookers
took it, retweeted it with a comment saying like, don't know what comics in la are doing but here in new
york they're storming the capital and this was a woman like i don't work with i'm not friends with
it's like they use it to virtue signal it's like you don't even know what was going on like you
don't even know that it was like mostly the most chill thing ever it was like people had blankets
and picnics and families and hilarious but that But a faction turned and there's no question that media represented this
as so much worse than it actually was. But, you know, we we've all seen the video of people like
screaming in the face of cops being totally disparaging and, you know, defecating on the
floor of the U.S. Capitol. And crazy lawmakers were understandably afraid, you know, not like AOC. I need therapy
for the rest of my life, afraid, but I could understand it. And I didn't like seeing it at
all. If that's our capital, get the hell out of there. Have some respect. Don't threaten the cops.
Screw you. You know, the MAGA crowd is supposed to be pro cop, you know, and you don't get in
their faces and yell at them and say that, you know, all this shitty stuff, which I heard,
you know, my own ears. But crazy, I didn't see any of that.
Yeah.
That doesn't mean that's what the entire crowd was there for, intended to do.
So they got tarred by the actions of like some losers who went a different way.
And then the media did what it does, which is any bad behavior gets gets attributed to
the entire group of Trump supporters, not just in on the Capitol,
but in the country. Remember after that, it was like, you're a MAGA supporter, you're a Trump
supporter. You're on the banned list. It wasn't just like, did you storm the Capitol? It was like,
if you voted for Trump, you're banned. You're not getting anything.
It took less and less. It's like, oh, do you own cargo shorts? Well, you're on the list.
It's like, do you have an American flag in your car?
Is that a tell?
Cargo shorts?
I didn't.
The flag, I know.
But cargo?
No.
Yeah.
It takes less and less.
Yeah, of course it was horrible.
Like, you know, a few people really did like ruin the event for everybody else.
And there there is footage of of like MAGA and Trump supporters like trying to stop people from getting in cops faces,
trying to like take, you know, I had this friend who was another independent journalist. He said
that he saw somebody like passing up a sledgehammer and then somebody else took that and gave it to a
cop because they were like actively trying to stop destruction. So, yeah, I'm not going to say like
nothing happened, but it wasn't an insurrection. It wasn't the way people
have portrayed it. And I understand that that's based in part on just the overall messaging from
Team Trump at the time, which was I didn't lose. We have to fight. Mike Pence should take it back.
And, you know, subverting the democratic process with, you know, stuff that was unsupported in
Trump's like Mike Pence did not have the authority to hand in the election and he misled people. So they're tying together the political rhetoric
with what we saw, you know, with people storming. And it misses, of course, like all these news
stories, any nuance, like what about the people who weren't there at all for that? And we've,
we've talked to folks who were there as well on this show, but here's what I wanted to get your
reaction to Matthew Dowd, who is one of the biggest losers on Twitter, and that's saying something.
He used to work for George W. Bush.
Wow.
Has his life changed?
Okay.
Whatever you think of George W. Bush, the reason I will always have a soft spot in my heart for him is him right after 9-11 and what a strong leader he was and how amazing he was.
We can talk about Iraq and all that.
I get it.
But in those days after 9-11, I think most of us fell in love with him. And he, Matthew Dowd worked for him.
Now Matthew Dowd has gone on to be a political commentator at ABC News. No longer. He was running
their politics unit. No longer. And he's just gone far left. He's on with Joy Reid all the time.
And he's like a Nicole Wallace type. And here he was just the other's on with Joy Reid all the time. And he's like a Nicole Wallace type. And here he
was just the other day on with Joy Reid talking about the impact of the Capitol riot. Listen to
him. To me, though there was less loss of life on January 6th, January 6th was worse than 9-11
because it's continued to rip our country apart and give permission for people to pursue autocratic means.
And so I think we're in a much worse place than we've been.
And as I've said, I think to you before, I think we're in the most perilous point in time since 1861 in the advent of the Civil War.
I do, too. Well, you're a couple of idiots.
What a moron. Yeah, it's like that. They're intimidated and so threatened that like the American people are taking back their voice and like being heard. And and I think they're just upset, like, oh, all the all the censorship. Yeah, it's still not enough. People are still going to let their voices be heard. were 3 000 people died firefighters cops children who were on those planes that got turned into
bombs into missiles who must have been terrified for their lives as they went into those buildings
fuck you matthew dowd seriously yeah fuck you i'm saying it too it's infuriating and joy read too
it's infuriates so disrespectful to the amer who lost their lives, who were forced to jump from the 90th floor, you know, having to choose between being burned to death by jet fuel and jumping to their deaths.
I'm it makes me so angry that kind of talk.
Fine. Right. Like somehow he's considered a patriotic American.
I just find it's an insight. It's an insight in like
who's running media today. Right. So out of touch. It's so out of touch. It's like, yeah,
you don't have crews and crews of people for like weeks and months looking through the rubble of the
Capitol building, looking for bodies. It's like to compare it to that is like, is so out of touch.
Yes. It's like, it's almost like the Holocaust. Just don't compare
things to it. You know, like just some, some events are so uniquely awful. You just don't
compare to them, you know? And, and I just feel like at right now you look back at like the,
the men and women who have served our country, who went over to Afghanistan, who went over to Iraq,
who sacrificed blood and treasure to fight those wars. Like, and all of them have to look at this
moron and joy read the other morons sit on television and say, Oh no, you know, as much
as I didn't like the crapping on the floor of the Capitol to listen to that guy say somehow that was
worse because it divided us. Guess what? That wasn't the event that divided us. That wasn't
the event. It's. That wasn't the
event. It's been events going back for years now, including very much during the Obama presidency.
And and certainly the Iraq war was divisive and so on. But there's no accountability by this guy
for his role or the role of the media in any of it. It's just MAGA. Right. Yeah. And a lot of
these people in media, they're like just drunk with power it's like
they know that there are so many brainwashed people who are going to be glued to their tv
and whatever they hear will be what they repeat to people and i would say even to combine all the blm
uh you know like demonstrations and the carnage from that like even all that together is not
anywhere close to comparing it to 9-11.
So to compare just the six to it is really insane. And by the way, like when he talks about it's
given people permission to pursue autocratic means, it was Barack Obama who took out his pen
and his phone and started issuing edicts that he had no business issuing that he himself said he
couldn't issue before he then went on to issue
them, for example, on immigration. And, you know, you can go back and check the record on Barack
Obama's executive actions that went beyond anything we'd seen long before Donald Trump took office.
And so like when he talks about autocratic means, by the way, Trump then left office,
right? A couple of weeks after this, Joe Biden took over. So who is he talking about? What are the autocratic means he's talking about?
Because Trump's push to overturn the election failed. It failed thanks to the courts,
thanks to what happened on January 6th with the lawmakers that day. So I'm not sure exactly what
he's objecting to, but the fact that these people get a platform and talk about this
so irresponsibly infuriates me. Okay. so moving on from your insurrectionist past.
Oh, right.
And so, of course, like the folks,
you know, they don't realize what was going on,
why people were there.
They just, I don't know if they're just dumb
or like in the early days,
they just figured anybody who's in DC on that day
is a horrible person.
Right.
They think I was there to shit on Pelosi's desk.
It's like, no,
there are people there just covering the event
like from a kind of
independent media standpoint.
But then like the rumors fled
and I had like,
I guess I had a campaign going
of people reaching out
to my Facebook friends.
I'm like, who even uses
Facebook anymore?
But I had folks reaching out
to my Facebook friends
saying, oh, just letting
I'm just letting you know
your Facebook friends
with Chrissy Mayer.
You should probably unfriend her
because she was at the Capitol on the 6th.
It's so sad.
People spending their time trying to get-
Has it settled down at all since then?
Because I feel like tempers were so hot right then
in the aftermath of the election
and Trump's claims and all that.
I don't know.
It was like,
no Trump will ever be seen in public
or listened to ever again after this.
And now I think people are realizing wrong. So has that settled at all in your own life since then?
It has settled down. And the friends that I've lost, like it burns at first, but then you're
like, oh, anybody who's going to unfriend you over this, even without a conversation or a discussion
is not a real friend and not somebody who was going to be there for you anyway. So it's just
been like a lot of life lessons and the people I've met, you know, the friends I've made and
the kind of, I guess, other influencers or other independent journalists I've met in the last year
or six months, it's, it's, I've gained far more than I've lost. And when we talk about like
independent and new media, you know, it's like like I'm friends with a lot of these guys that are kind of on the forefront that are getting more views than CNN. It's very exciting to to know and associate and be friends with these people. And it's I learned so much from them. Are there secret Trump fans or secret Republicans, secret conservatives,
or just not even any of that? Like I, I wouldn't call myself any of those things, really. I'm just,
uh, my politics are generally center, right. But I'm on the side of reason and I'm totally
opposed to cancel culture and wokesters. So do you, are there people like that in comedy who
are kind of underground who, know you're discovering oh absolutely
there are people my dms are full of comics who are like kind of afraid to come out and uh they
i think that's like i'm so outspoken about these topics that they feel comfortable like coming
coming to me and be like oh is this really true like i just did a an interview with
a comic who who finally he he was very woke and on the left for for a long time and he's like i
had enough like i have these agents telling me that sorry it's a hard time for white guys
um just so blatantly in his face and you know getting kicked off of podcasts run by lesbians
because they're not allowing straight white men on anymore.
Just like blatant discrimination.
And he's like, yeah, I'm done.
I think I'm done.
And he's like, I was raised by gay guys, but I'm like, I'm done.
I'm not going to even pride parades anymore because it's like I have to focus on me and
the people who are supporting me and want me to thrive.
And that is not anybody on the left.
We had Ryan Long on the show.
You know him.
Oh, yeah.
I love Ryan.
Yeah.
And he was he's Canadian.
And he was talking about how and he was killing it, you know, and he but he was told repeatedly,
I think it was by Canadian broadcasting.
Obviously, you're not getting a show because, you know, you're a white man.
So it's he's like, OK, OK. So that So that's what they're up against. It's not just
leveling the playing field. It's nothing. No, you'll be getting nothing because of the color
of your skin and your male parts. Yeah. And you can tell people on the left are scared. And that's
why it's like, oh, if you're a white person who's obsessed with diversity, well, then you can stay.
So people know that and they go, OK, well, I got to be the white person who's championing diversity at every turn.
And then I can be the white person who who gets to stay and gets to keep my job or whatever.
It's really well said. I think it's out of fear. I just had Jason Whitlock on the show.
We were talking about the Rachel Nichols thing on ESPN. You know, she's this broadcaster who was like, yes, diversity, equity, inclusion,
wokester.
And then it turned out that they wanted to give a black reporter her job hosting the
NBA finals.
And she was caught on tape saying, not my job.
Don't come for me.
Yes, I'm pro diversity.
Find someplace else to do it.
It's like, of course, not over here.
That's great.
I love when that happens.
Yeah. But my, my DMS are full of people who are kind of in the closet about it. And, and, uh, I just, you know, time will tell. And, and as they kind of get kicked out of the woke boat, they'll,
and it's, it's never anybody in the center or on the right who is kicking anybody out. It's like,
I don't understand. And I,
I listened to that episode with Ryan long and he said like,
that's how you can tell who's in charge of the culture.
Like look at the people who are kicking folks out.
I don't think that's true.
I think,
uh,
I think the fans are the only thing that matters and, and focus on finding whatever you think is funny.
And that was the biggest,
uh,
the sense of freedom I got when I realized like,
it's all about the fans. It's all about like just being true to yourself. Put out there what you find funny and people will gravitate and find you. Don't worry about impressing anybody else or fitting into any group. came about and how it led to people wondering whether Chrissy Mayer is involved in Q, QAnon.
So we'll talk about that. And then we will get into Greta Thunberg and Chrissy's take on her.
Stay tuned. But first, I want to bring you a feature we have here on the MK show called
Sound Up. And that's where we play you a soundbite that we think you need to hear.
In the news this week is Michael Avenatti. Remember him?
They refer to him as celebrity lawyer challenge.
Well, he's going to prison.
He was sentenced this past Thursday to 30 months in prison.
He represented Stormy Daniels.
You remember he became a darling of the media because she was going after Trump and he was saying he was going to bring Trump down.
And then his somehow his star got elevated and he was just given a complete pass by everyone in the media. Almost everyone we'll get to in a second now is going to prison. He in February of 2020
was convicted on three counts of threatening is basically extortion. He threatened to publicly accuse Nike of illicitly paying
amateur basketball players. And Nike realized that it was being extorted. He was demanding
millions of dollars. He wanted that Nike to pay his client, a youth basketball coach,
1.5 million to pay Avenatti and another lawyer $12 million and guarantee another $15
and $25 million in payments for some sort of an investigation.
Anyway, Nike goes to the FBI to say, creepy porn lawyer is extorting us and they got him
dead to rights.
And so he was found guilty in February 2020.
And when sentencing him, the judge, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardefi said, and I quote, Mr. Avenatti's conduct was outrageous.
He had become drunk on the power of his platform or what he perceived his platform to be.
Avenatti stood there crying, choking up.
Oh, they always cry when it's their neck on the line, pausing in his remarks and saying something to the effect of Twitter and TV mean nothing,
your honor. I betrayed my own values, my friends, my family, myself. I and I alone have destroyed
my career, my relationships, my life. I feel no sympathy for him. He still faces trials by
on two additional, by the way, on two additional criminal indictments, one over allegations that he defrauded Stormy Daniels, who fired him, remember,
and another for allegedly defrauding other clients of his law firm. Lovely guy. Lovely.
Well, anyway, the reason we're bringing this to you is because it's another example of the
disgusting fawning media. When anybody says anything that's anti-Trump or anti-Republican,
frankly, he was given a pass on what appeared to be troubled allegations that
Stormy Daniels was making against Trump, right? Everybody put him on just to say, oh, Trump did
it. How bad is he? He's awful. Well, when I was on NBC, I put on Trump's lawyer who I beat up.
It was fun. I liked the guy actually, but I beat him up pretty well. And then I put on Avenatti
and I beat that guy up too. And I'll get to that in one second. Washington Free Beacon does this great montage of the fawning media when it came to this guy, this now convicted
criminal. Listen. He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti. Joining us once
again is Michael Avenatti. Let's bring in Michael Avenatti. Michael Avenatti. Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti, thank you very much. He's out there saving the country. Don Meacham says he may
be the savior of the republic.
You are something of a folk hero now.
I owe Michael Avenatti an apology.
I've been saying enough already, Michael. I've seen you everywhere.
What do you have left to say?
I was wrong, brother. You have a lot to say.
I am just dying to hear what you think.
These people all like you.
I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller. We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down
Donald Trump. Michael Avenatti is a beast. Okay that's true. And he's a beast.
He's a beast. I hand it to her and I hand it to Michael Avenatti. He has a great bigger calling here that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.
No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti
and Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.
That's fascinating.
Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avenatti.
He gives Trump a run for his money more than anybody else Michael Avenatti.
Existential threat to the Trump presidency.
The Democrats could learn something for you.
You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are.
He has no doubt created sheer panic in Donald Trump's very fragile mind.
Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host.
And is he really thinking about running for president?
One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.
You look at the field of Democrats right now and Avenatti is the one who stands out. If they decide they value a fighter most,
people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avenatti. I have always said that they need a
fighter. Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media. I think we've used it with
great success. All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs. And now there's a lot of sort of look
at the media. They're disgusting. People like Brian
Stelter is here, you know, saying, oh, you're going to run for office. You're going to be the
next president over on NBC, just for the record, because a lot of people are like, oh, she went to
NBC because she wanted to let her liberal freak flag fly. Absolutely not. If you ever watched me
on NBC, I did the news the same way as I did it on Fox. That's something that always stuck in my
craw. People thought I changed. No, I didn't. I just went softer. But when it came to my politics coverage, I was exactly the same as I'd always been.
And this was a good example of it. And here is a sample for you of his interview on my show.
So why hasn't she returned the money? We offered to return the money two weeks ago. I know,
but she didn't. Oh, but we offered to return the money. Well, we may do that. Why wouldn't she?
Why would Stormy Daniels be leading the charge on whether that payment violated the election law?
Because, and I mean, this is the honest to God truth.
This is a principled woman at this point.
She wants the truth.
She wants the truth.
Now they're laughing at you.
She wanted the dough.
And now she wants to keep the dough while violating the agreement.
Which, whether you like Michael Cohen or Donald Trump or not, doesn't seem fair to them. Megan, she doesn't want to keep the dough. And now she wants to keep the dough while violating the agreement, which whether you like Michael Cohen or Donald Trump or not, doesn't seem fair to them. Megan, she doesn't want to
keep the dough. We've offered to return the dough. What's stopping you? It was two weeks ago. It's
very simple. You take out the piece of paper and you write one hundred thirty thousand dollars,
then you mail it. And then he attacked me later because I went after his stupid client,
Julie Swetnick, who he then represented against Brett Kavanaugh. Remember that? She's the one who was completely making up her allegations about seeing Brett Kavanaugh go into rape rooms. The woman was totally not credible. why all her past problems, she'd been in trouble in prior jobs for lying. And I mean, I went on
and on and on and on and on and on and talked about how her claims had fallen apart on national
television. I mean, you look at this woman's history, she misled for a living. I mean,
she just had systemic problems in her past. And I went after her and I went after Avenatti and he
attacked me and I attacked him right back. And there it went, right? So if you're paying attention,
his problems were staring you in the face.
But most of the media wasn't.
And it's just yet another example of how you cannot trust these people, the media, when
the commentator, the person they're promoting is saying anything that would reflect poorly
on President Trump or in today's day and age, the MAGA crowd in general, or even it's expanded to the non-woke, the Republican crowd, what have you. You know that
by now to maintain your healthy dose of skepticism. But this is just the latest example. And what I'm
sure Avenatti will try to wrap around him for some sort of comfort of the golden days in his career as he spends time in cell block 14.
And that is what we call sound up. Now back to Chrissy in one minute.
One of the things I wanted to talk to you about was another Chrissy, Chrissy Teigen.
There's been this ongoing debate, I think in a lot of conservative circles,
and we've certainly had it on this show, about her kind of cancellation. I mean, look, she's
married to John Legend. She's got plenty of success and money and so on. Chrissy Teigen's
going to be 100% fine. But she lost a couple of endorsement situations with like, I think Target
and so on, because it came out that she's an internet troll bully of young women going through hard times. This is her thing. The woman who wanted to cancel
everybody turns out is a massive, mean bully. And she can't wiggle out of it. She denied the most
recent accusation by some guy who worked with her on Project Runway. She said he faked her DMs,
but all the others she admits.
There's really no dispute.
And there's been a debate about whether the right should be pushing to cancel people because
it was really Candace Owens who took aim at her and outed her and sort of stayed on it.
And Nicole Arbor, who's also very funny, she went on Candace's show and they had a debate.
Nicole's like, we shouldn't become what we loathe cancelers. And Candace was like, she kind of used the line
from the left, which is, this isn't about cancel culture. It's about accountability culture.
That's what the left says. Every time they cancel somebody, the way I saw it was, I don't like this.
I don't like cancel culture, but we're losing this battle by just sitting back saying, stop doing
that. And the only way we're going to win is if we start getting our hands dirty and saying it's on.
OK, we don't want to live like this.
But if you're going to force us to, let's go.
We'll play by your rules.
Your people are going to go, too.
Yes, I agree with you 100 percent.
Like in a perfect world.
No, it shouldn't come to this.
But like Chrissy Teigen, she's so disgusting And she just has gotten so many chances over the years.
People were trying to, to let this bullying problem be known like for years now. And it
took several attempts, but finally it stuck and, uh, and it's stuck. Oh my God, I'm losing it.
I need coffee. Did you also have a big martini last night? Yeah. Yeah. Every night. Ooh.
And it just took so many attempts.
And that's the thing is like she has a PR team.
She's got so many people helping her.
Like anytime some bad press would come out about her.
And this is what I've learned about celebrities.
It's like they never deny or refute the claims.
They just create new news to put on top of it to like push down the bad stuff they don't like in the search results. That's very true. Yeah. And I just like,
I don't know. I don't think her miscarriage was real. Like I think she's done a lot of stuff.
Like stop it. I don't know. I don't know. Well, I will say I saw you get blowback for you had sent
out a tweet kind of taking issue with her sending out the grieving photograph of her like in the hospital bed when she miscarried.
Yeah, that's what I have to say.
It made me uncomfortable.
I felt uncomfortable when I saw the photo.
I understand, you know, I've had a miscarriage, too, although unlike Chrissy Teigen, I didn't make it public.
And I certainly wouldn't have ever dreamed of sending out a photograph of me crying in the moment.
I don't know.
It was celebrated.
Made me uncomfortable.
That's the part of which makes it suspect.
Like if that's what really most people and my mom had two miscarriages.
So it's like most people, they just kind of grieve.
It's one thing if that happens to you and a month later you come out with like a Vanity Fair spread
and you're talking about it.
Like that makes more sense.
But to like have it
and then you're bringing your head,
your photographer with you
or you're calling them in right away.
Come on, you got to capture this.
It's like, make sure you get this tear
rolling down my cheek.
Oh, you didn't get it.
Let's put it back with an eyedropper.
I just think it's it's too much
and everything about her her image is so carefully constructed and uh you know every time she goes to
the bathroom she puts out a press release so and she's she's somebody who was all about canceling
and going after people um it just you know nobody she was not under those same standards
she wants sympathy right she's obviously you send that out because you want people to,
you know, and people are like, oh, she's shining a light on miscarriage. It's like,
well, miscarriage isn't something you can't talk about. What do you, what do you mean?
It's just, it tends to be something that's very private that women go through with their
husbands or their boyfriends. And no, most of us wouldn't even, would never dream of just
sharing it with the world. It's not for public consumption, but okay, fine. And no, most of us wouldn't have, would never dream of just sharing it with the
world. It's not for public consumption, but okay, fine. I mean, I thought Meghan McCain did a long
article on it and Meghan Markle did a long, I don't know, to me, those two, it was like,
you do you, but for me, that would, I would never do that. But Chrissy does everything online. And
so she puts out this image of her, like the grieving mom and the grief and wife. And behind the scenes, she's sticking knives in young women who are going
through real struggles like that Courtney Stodden did. She was married to a much older man and wound
up realizing she was non-binary. I can't remember exactly what, but she doesn't, she goes by they
now. Anyway, she's a hypocrite. yeah she's so yeah but people came out with
all these screenshots over the years of her just being like yeah kill yourself like not even in a
funny way and i think over the years she's tried to maybe tell people oh she was being funny it's
like chrissy you're not a comedian these aren't even these aren't jokes they're not even joke
premises like no you're just a cruel individual and you're trying
to backpedal. That's why she, I think that it makes sense for why she, you know, deleted like
thousands and thousands of tweets last summer. It's because she had a lot of dirty laundry to
hide or dirty tweets. She didn't get them all. She didn't get them all. Can I ask you about the
Q thing? Oh yeah, sure. Like I, cause you had, you had sent out a tweet kind of directed at Chrissy
Teigen and I think you ended it with like hashtag Q and then everybody said you were part of QAnon.
So what was that about? Oh my God. Yeah. Like this was when I used this website called social
blade and I was using it mostly to kind of like check on other comedians to see, cause it shows
you like Twitter analytics or like any other social media too
so i would use it to see like oh who has bought followers could you see you can see like a sharp
spike and you can tell by looking at the charts like who yep who has bought followers or who has
deleted it is so fascinating megan like i highly recommend it because like i'm people what's it
called again social social blade okay keep going and uh and I would use it to just just to see like, oh, well, comics have kind of been like inflated by like, you know, whatever.
Comedy Central or whoever, like they've just been propped up.
They've had followers bought for them or they bought.
And then I would also see like who's deleted a bunch of tweets, like usually before somebody goes on like an SNL.
There's like a period before where you see a lot of tweets being deleted.
And you can go, okay, this is interesting.
They deleted a whole slew of tweets
before doing this show or getting this special.
So I had checked Chrissy Teigen's
because I was like, yes, she's a little suspect.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going on with her.
Like, I feel like maybe she's deleted some tweets,
you know, because people would show screenshots like with all this before, you know, she had accountability for any of this bullying.
And then I checked her and it showed that she had like very recently deleted 28,000 tweets. And I
was like, that's significant. That's like a lot. That was like maybe tweet. Yeah. That was like
maybe a third or a fourth of her total tweets ever.
And she's like this darling of Twitter.
She's like the self-proclaimed mayor of Twitter.
I'm like, nobody deletes that many tweets unless they're trying to hide something.
So I was like, this is very curious.
So I just tweeted out like, oh, some celebrities have been very busy since Ghene maxwell was arrested like christy tegan why did you because there had been
rumors of her like association you know with epstein and and being on like the flight logs
and i was like okay it's hearsay and so i was like okay christy like why did you delete all
these tweets so then i just did a bunch of trending hashtags just to see like if i could poke poke the
nest a little bit like i, I don't know,
just because I thought it was interesting because I'm like, that's a ton of tweets.
And I couldn't believe it
because I was recording a podcast.
And then when I was done,
my boyfriend was like, she responded.
I was like, what?
Because I was like, little old unverified me.
How did she even see it?
You know?
And sure enough, she responded.
She was like, no, I didn't delete 28,000.
I deleted 60,000 tweets because of people like you. She was very triggered by what I said. And I was like, oh, this is interesting. I deleted these tweets because I'm afraid for my family. you know July 2021 we see she deleted them because she didn't want to get you know she didn't want to get in trouble
for all this bullying and
and so of course
like I didn't realize there were so many
people who had been keeping tabs on Chrissy Teigen
through the years and they had all these screenshots
of these horrible tweets you know
like creepy tweets where she was like oh yeah
I'm watching these like little girls
on toddlers and tiaras
like I like watching them do the splits or whatever these tweets were like.
You can still find them.
They're still out there.
Yes.
She this I think this was back in like 2011, 2012, probably when she thought like nobody
was watching her Twitter before she really blew up.
I should note that she did.
She she denies that she knew Jeffrey Epstein at all.
And apparently there's zero evidence that she ever had any actual connection to him or was ever on the plane and, finding me talking about toddlers and tiaras in
2013 and thinking you're some sort of effing operative. So she's obviously trying to defend
those some of those tweets about, you know, her comments on the girls. Yeah, so I get I see now
what went on. So she people found her weird tweets, and kind of piled on and then she deleted
a bunch of tweets. And then people felt it was even more
strange and uh and then you you got sort of under the target because yeah you tweeted out hashtag
save the children hashtag q so you're not part of q anon that was no no and and also because like
i am very passionate like twitter has such a huge, like child porn problem.
So that's like something that really affects me too.
That I care deeply about.
I've talked to Eliza blue who is, you know,
she helps victims of sex and human trafficking.
And so I think because that was like coming out on Twitter, I was like,
Oh, this is also something I have a lot of feelings about.
Like, I just don't think you should be at all, even a little bit creepy when it comes to
kids. Yeah. And, and, and that's, that's a perfect way to discredit somebody as being like, Oh,
they're there with Q and not if somebody voted for Trump and they're kind of trying to poke the
status quo, an easy thing to say is like, Oh, they're there with Q. That's a quick way to
discredit somebody. I think. And I think that's why that got thrown at me. I confess I
don't totally understand Q. I really don't. I don't. I was shocked at a dinner party to when
my friend said she was like into it. And I was like, you know, I had been ripping on it, to be
honest. And then she was like, you know, a lot of smart people are into it. And I was like, what do
you mean? And then it became clear she was one of them. And I
was like, oh, there's a lot of crazy shit that comes out of Q for sure. So something you said
earlier, I wanted to pick up on. You said something like my my feminist mold and talked about, you
know, how you used to be a liberal Democrat. And I wondered if you think other than like folks who
grew up in Texas or, you know, I don't know, the real deep
South, I feel like almost every woman I know, except for, you know, like a small collection,
maybe very religious, very Christian people, they're molded. They go after young girls and
sort of insist that they be liberal Democrats. Like the whole system is set up to make you a
liberal Democrat, to reward thinking that's liberal Democrat.
Even before now with the K through 12 nonsense in schools, it's just been set up this way for a long time.
And girls are pleasers.
And I think a lot of folks wind up thinking they're a liberal Democrat, even though they might not be, you know, like they just pushed on them by by society.
Oh, absolutely. It's like,
for me, it kind of started in college, like this idea, like, well, your parents are spending all this money for you to have this college education. So, you know, you it's, you have to go get a job.
Like you can't like the idea that you would maybe, and a lot of girls like, you know, would meet
their husbands in college and they ultimately wouldn't work. And that is, was just so looked down upon, uh, like that you were somehow less smart or, you know,
yeah, that you were just basically like wasting your parents' money. If you decided to
just be, Oh, being a mom was like, uh, the fate worse than death. Like, uh, really? Like that's
the best you can do reproduce. So, so look down on now. I feel like so many women who were kind of raised in that mold,
like through college, like they're in their like late thirties and forties and they're like, oh
man. Like I'm, I feel like I'm lucky because I found comedy and that gave me a lot. But if I
hadn't, I definitely would be like angry right now. Like, Oh man, like this whole system basically convinced me not to have a family,
to hate men, to not need men. It's like, it's like, it's a big trick.
I don't know. And, and you kind of,
you're conditioned to talk shit about any woman who wants to stay,
not work and just raise a family and have kids. And it's, it's, I don't know.
I feel like the fog is kind of lifting on that for a lot
of women. They get, they get in their heads too. Like even the women who choose to stay home and
raise families, so many of the ones I know in New York feel guilty about it, you know, feel like
somehow they need to project something else to in particular their daughters you know like
but i used to i used to work outside the home right mom has this exciting thing going on it's
like i feel it makes me sad because it's like why are you doing that you don't have to do that
just own it live it love it you celebrate it so that your kid then gets the message this is
totally cool this is a great choice too yeah you. You shouldn't be, uh, shaming people for
that. Cause my mom was, uh, she was a stay at home mom. She got a job when I was in like first grade,
but I wish that she kind of had more hobbies and had more passions, um, outside the home.
Because when we all grew up and like moved out, like I felt like there was a big loss for her.
Like she really was just pulling everybody to like, you know, live the next town over
or live in town.
And it was like a lot of pressure to kind of like fill the this big emotional need that
she had.
So I wish that my mom, you know, had more going on or like, you know, a passion other
than raising children, which is fine.
But like you should have a plan for when they eventually move out.
That's true. That is true. Otherwise you're looking at a sad, sad day. I know.
I worry about that now, honestly. And I have something going on professionally, but
I'm still like your mom. I'm like good little boys and girls never leave their mommies.
That's written in the rule book. It's somewhere in the Bible. I'm going to find it.
And like if I had the energy, I'd homeschool them. I want them to be with me. I don't want them to go off to college. I want them to, you know, get married and stay in
the next town. And I'm kind of worried that I have three. So what if they don't settle in the
same town? And then I, I can't just go live next door. You know, Doug and I are gonna have to be
like a traveling circus, just tracking them down all over the country unless I can convince them
to stay in the Northeast. Yeah. I think, yeah. I mean, just like, just like love your kids, you know, like, and I'm sure you're a great
mom.
But yeah, that's probably the worst thing is to feel like pressure to be your parents
kind of everything.
And you can't really like live your life.
I don't care.
I remember being in the elevator at Fox with Stossel.
I love John Stossel.
And he's like uh you know
like well what are you up to today and he's like well you know taking my daughter off to
med school i'm like oh that's awesome and he's like no it's not he goes they leave you in the
end that's how this ends they leave oh my god he's like they don't reveal that to you when they market parenthood but it ends in
ruination and despair oh oh that's sweet i know i'm in denial now um there is one child who i've
heard you i don't i haven't heard you take aim at her but i've heard you imitate her in an amazing
way can we talk for a minute about greta turnberg. Yeah. She's like, what is she 18 now?
Yeah. She's got to be 18 by now. Right. Yeah. She was another one. Like, I think I'm just
inspired by unstable women. Um, and I just, I don't know. I feel like she was kind of you,
her parents kind of like took advantage of her. Like, I think she was definitely
some kind of a puppet, like ask the average kid, like, are they, they're probably not really focused on the environment unless their parents kind of
convince them that they are. Most kids are like, they want to have friends and they want their
crusts off their sandwiches. And that's about it. Exactly. But she's, she's been activated.
And I don't know, you, you tell me, cause I because when I watched that video, I was like, my God, there's so much anger. Right. She's so offended at everything. Like she's.
Why is she so angry? Like, I think it's because like she's being used as a puppet for a cause that she like may or may not fully understand or believe in. And it's like when she says like says like oh you've robbed me of my childhood
it's like maybe you should be telling that to your parents um yeah it's her whole speech like
at the un it's just like it's i think she's just upset nobody will sit with her at lunch i think
that's what it's about i've got to hear your impression of her it's so good it's dead on
nobody will sit with me at lunch one boy tried to to cut my braid. And I said, that's all I
have. I hide candy in there. Someone tried to tell me that the boats I use to get to these meetings
take up more gas than just flying. I said, how dare you? I don't know. I feel like that's another
person who you're supposed to love and you're not allowed
to criticize at all. And it's like, well, I mean, she was held up even in my daughter's school as
like, this is an example of what a strong young woman looks like. And yes, okay. I,
activism and taking, you know, standing up for what you believe in. I like that in general. Like
I don't have a problem with young women or boys who decided to do that, but of course it's always
leftist causes that they choose, right? Like they're not celebrating somebody who's out there at the March for Life
as a 15 year old, well-spoken, you know, articulator of the cause and saying, yeah,
right on. You know, the young Lila Rose didn't get a lot of positive media coverage.
It's so easy. If you want to get any kid involved in something political, like just tell them
they don't have to show up to school.
They'll be on board. They probably won't care. Whatever it is. Oh, I don't have to go to school.
This sounds good. Sign me up for protests.
Don't leave me now. We got more coming up in 60 seconds.
In researching you, I read that you said you feel a kinship with women who are in porn.
How so? Is it porn stars or strippers? I can't remember.
I think maybe porn stars. I think I do feel a kinship with them because
with porn stars and comedians, there's kind of like this like stigma over you that you're,
you know, you could never really like live a normal life. And there's kind of like this like stigma over you that you're, you know,
you could never really like live a normal life. And you're kind of like, in a sense, like an outcast. There is like a certain type of guy, I think that would like never date a female comic
and, and, you know, probably lots of guys who would never really settle down with a, with a
female porn star either. And, but it's also, it's kind of freeing in a way because we're not really,
our jobs,
we're not really bound
by like the usual constraints.
Like you kind of can speak your mind.
It's kind of like,
you know,
porn stars and comics
like have a lot of
kind of like street sense
and street smarts.
And like, you know,
we like know people pretty well.
We're both like pretty observ well. We're both like pretty
observant. We're both in a sense, like in customer service in a way. But I guess, yeah, I don't I
don't have to bleach my butthole for what I do. Thank God. Oh, my God. No, no one should do that.
That's not safe. No. But, you know, talk to your doctor. Yeah. When I was younger back in my, I don't know,
it was law school days or whatever. I got dragged to some strip clubs over the years,
you know, professional functions where you just go along to get along. And it was funny because
all I kept wanting to do was an intervention for all the girls who were up there. Like,
sweetheart, you don't have to do this. I got ideas for you. I'm going to open up a restaurant for you.
And then I realized like, well, that's my own judgment, right? Like why,
why assume they don't want to be doing it? Maybe there are women who want to celebrate their own
bodies who love feeling sexy, who get up there and say like, to me, this is, this is a form of
power and they don't need me to go rescue them. True. And, um, as I've gotten older, I've,
I've had that opinion more. So Megan, like, Oh, you don't have to be doing this. But I don't think it's their plan to do it for longer than they need to. And yeah, no one should be forced into it. If you feel empowered by it and you feel strong, then yeah, then go for it. And definitely make sure you're like saving your money and like, you know, get a money manager.
That's what I want to go to strip clubs and be like, do you guys have accountants?
Like, are you all are you saving for the future?
Listen to me.
All in singles.
So I went to I went I had to go through a bunch of strip clubs after the Duke Lacrosse fake rape case.
I was covering it as a journalist in 2005, 2006.
And the woman who was making the accusations against the three Duke Lacrosse fake rape case. I was covering it as a journalist in 2005, 2006. And the woman who was
making the accusations against the three Duke lacrosse players was a stripper. And we're trying
to track her down and track down people who knew her. So we were going through these strip clubs
in Durham, North Carolina, my photog, my producer and I. And then we went to this one club and
we're like trying to look like we're just there, you know, as patrons. And he goes,
are you press? I'm like, what? How'd you know? He's like, goes are you press i'm like what how'd you know he's like
it's obvious and my producer and the and the photographer are like it's you they go where
their bread and butter you're you're the tell i'm like am i to tell the guys like yeah i go
too bad and then we get into this discussion about i'm like i could be i could be here to
apply for a job you don't know i'm yeah totally and And he's like, we got in discussion about what my stripper name would be.
And I asked the guy for a suggestion. And he said, first, he goes, sugar.
And then I'm like, what do you mean? And he goes, confectioner sugar.
My full name. Wow. Like whitest, pastiest sugar i think my stripper name would be something that kind of sounds fancy but
it's not like something like pubic zirconia i don't know that was not a good moment for me to
be sitting in my water i like that i like that a lot wasn't it supposed to be your the street you
grew up on and your first pet? Oh, right.
We're not supposed to say that on the air.
Don't give that information up because that's how people hack you.
Oh, right.
Because that's hackable.
Yeah.
That fish is long dead.
What?
I had a fish.
That was my first pet.
Was it?
Yeah, it was a fish I wanted at a carnival.
And then I had two gerbils.
And I came home from school one day in fifth grade.
And my mom was like, they were, I guess there were two girls. And one had like eaten or attacked the other one.
To this day, I still don't know if that's really what happened because I didn't see the body.
It just was, I just came back.
Gerbils are dark.
Gerbils are dark.
I don't think we talk about that enough.
I think they're a little bit malicious.
They have a plan. They eat their babies. My brother used to have gerbils are dark. I don't think we talk about that enough. I think they're a little bit malicious. They have a plan.
They eat their babies.
My brother used to have gerbils.
He kept them in these fish tanks in his room.
And they eat their little purple babies.
Sorry, but it's disgusting and it happens.
And here's another thing.
As his younger sister, he's five years older, I wasn't allowed in his room.
I wasn't allowed to touch the gerbils.
And they were named Fresca and Choo Choo and Santa Claus and Edward, which was my dad's name. I don't know if he liked
that. So of course I sneaked in and did play with the gerbils. And one time I was like five,
I think my brother was 10. I sneaked in there and I picked up one of the gerbils by the tail, the way I saw my brother do. And the tail fell off.
The gerbil was little tailless. His round bottom was running around the tank without a tail.
I was holding the tail. Did he have gerbil leprosy? Like, I don't know. How did that happen?
I didn't. So I threw the tail in the garbage can and covered it up with a bunch of stuff.
And I went downstairs
and I was like, mom, I want to go to bed right now. My mom said, Megan, it's seven o'clock. I
said, I don't care. I want to go to bed right now. I turned around, I went upstairs and I heard my
mom say, what'd she do? And my brother came home. He was so mad. And for years I lived with the shame
of this, of this attack that I had inadvertently
launched on the innocent little fresca. Then I find out, Chrissy, it's a thing.
Gerbils shed their tails. I was innocent. Wow. All this time you've been living with that shame.
Right. Who knows the damage I caused in my own psyche.
You could have been playing pin the tail on the donkey with no shame all these years.
Right.
Why are they asking you to play that?
Why are they looking at me?
Why do they think I'm going to do well?
Why do they think I know where it goes?
In the garbage?
Yeah.
I pinned it on the garbage.
We all have childhood trauma. Some of us work it out on the air as talking heads and some of us work it out on the stage
as comedians.
And I love that we have you doing it.
Closing question before we go.
Why do you do your act in like a nice dress?
I think it's awesome.
Something about it is very appealing, but I just wanted to know why.
I think and thank you for saying that.
Cause I got advice kind of early on in my career from a very well-known,
like kind of like comic legend.
I can't remember her name.
Of course I can't remember her name right now.
She's a comic legend, but I have no idea who she is.
Oh, Gladys.
Her name's Gladys.
Gladys crap.
What's her?
There's the only one Gladys in comedy, in comedy.
She used to run like a
bunch of rooms but she told me I remember like I was a couple years in she's like no you really
should be wearing like uh pants and a jacket she basically was describing like Ellen during the 90s
is how I should dress and I just was like yeah no that doesn't feel good to me like I I like to wear
heels and a dress on stage because, and even I thought the pandemic
would change me too, because I was like, I'll spend a lot of time in sweats.
Um, but it hasn't, cause I feel like kind of ready.
Like when I put my heels on, it's like, okay, I'm, I'm kind of this character.
I'm a more exaggerated, funny version of my usual self.
Uh, so it makes me feel like, okay, I'm out.
I'm ready.
Like I'm bringing my best and you know, I just never, okay, I'm out. I'm ready. Like I'm bringing my best. And, you know,
I just never, like, I felt like I never looked good in pants. That was part of it too. And I
just feel like, you know, if I'm feeling like, feeling like dressed for a night out, like I kind
of want the crowd to, it's really psychosomatic, I guess. And another part of it was like, you know,
when I was starting in comedy, like I always had a day job.
I would always like, you know, leave my job at like five or six o'clock.
I'd be like on the subway, putting more makeup on, you know, taking a cardigan off, like transforming on the way to the show.
And I and I figured out like I have to wear something that can go from like work to the stage.
And that was very mrs. Maisel oh yeah yeah it couldn't be jeans because you got to kind of dress up for your for
whatever day job I had um but I really would just be kind of like transforming I would be like
changing shoes on the subway like a lot of changing shoes um but yeah like oh yeah mrs.
Maisel would be great I wish I had her costume budget.
But yeah, I do like to feel-
Except she's not funny.
I mean, I don't, she's not funny at all.
No, she's a little, I love that show for the costumes.
Same.
And yeah, it was beautiful.
Yes, I enjoy the show and I love Tony, is it Shalhoub?
He's so funny.
Oh yeah, he's so good.
He's so good. I think I met he's so good. He's so good.
I think I met him once.
He's the nicest guy.
But her stand-up, the routines are not, I never laugh.
No, if you give any regular comic, like, her material,
it would get no response from the crowd.
Right?
Yeah.
So, but yeah, I dress up like that just to kind of feel like a lady,
kind of to feel like I'm bringing it, you know?
Yes.
I think there's something to be said for that.
I mean, sometimes even when I haven't been on the air for a while because nobody sees me, when I get the bells and whistles, right?
I get my hair done.
I get my makeup on.
I put on a nice outfit.
I'm like, okay, there I am, right?
Grown up.
The grown up version of me.
Anyway, listen.
When are you coming
to Jersey? Oh, okay. Um, I'll be at Jinx, which is right on the boardwalk there at Point Pleasant
Beach, uh, on July 20th. I don't know Jinx, but if I go, can I see you? Of course I'll get you
comps. Yes, definitely. Yeah. Oh, nice. That could be fun. I'll think of some sort of way to heckle you. I don't know. I know. I'll tee you up on Greta or doggy style.
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