The Megyn Kelly Show - Chrissie Mayr on Cancel Culture, the State of Comedy, and Supporting Trump | Ep. 127

Episode Date: July 12, 2021

Megyn 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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,
Starting point is 00:00:52 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.
Starting point is 00:01:40 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.
Starting point is 00:02:43 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.
Starting point is 00:03:18 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
Starting point is 00:03:53 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,
Starting point is 00:04:29 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
Starting point is 00:04:57 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.
Starting point is 00:05:40 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
Starting point is 00:06:25 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,
Starting point is 00:07:09 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.
Starting point is 00:07:36 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
Starting point is 00:08:09 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
Starting point is 00:08:50 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
Starting point is 00:09:42 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.
Starting point is 00:10:34 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.
Starting point is 00:11:03 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
Starting point is 00:11:26 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
Starting point is 00:12:13 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
Starting point is 00:12:57 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.
Starting point is 00:13:30 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,
Starting point is 00:14:11 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
Starting point is 00:14:45 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
Starting point is 00:15:26 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.
Starting point is 00:16:12 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.
Starting point is 00:17:06 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.
Starting point is 00:17:47 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
Starting point is 00:18:13 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
Starting point is 00:18:46 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.
Starting point is 00:19:22 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
Starting point is 00:20:45 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
Starting point is 00:21:35 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
Starting point is 00:21:59 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,
Starting point is 00:22:36 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.
Starting point is 00:22:57 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.
Starting point is 00:23:32 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.
Starting point is 00:24:09 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,
Starting point is 00:24:18 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.
Starting point is 00:24:48 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.
Starting point is 00:25:19 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
Starting point is 00:26:03 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.
Starting point is 00:26:22 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.
Starting point is 00:27:14 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
Starting point is 00:27:45 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
Starting point is 00:28:25 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
Starting point is 00:29:12 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.
Starting point is 00:29:41 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
Starting point is 00:30:16 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.
Starting point is 00:30:49 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?
Starting point is 00:31:12 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?
Starting point is 00:31:31 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.
Starting point is 00:32:19 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.
Starting point is 00:32:42 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
Starting point is 00:33:23 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
Starting point is 00:34:29 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.
Starting point is 00:35:18 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.
Starting point is 00:35:51 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?
Starting point is 00:36:08 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.
Starting point is 00:36:40 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.
Starting point is 00:37:14 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
Starting point is 00:37:51 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.
Starting point is 00:38:24 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
Starting point is 00:39:29 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
Starting point is 00:40:16 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
Starting point is 00:40:59 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
Starting point is 00:41:29 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.
Starting point is 00:41:50 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
Starting point is 00:42:10 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
Starting point is 00:42:53 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.
Starting point is 00:43:21 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
Starting point is 00:43:59 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.
Starting point is 00:45:14 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
Starting point is 00:45:53 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.
Starting point is 00:46:30 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
Starting point is 00:47:11 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,
Starting point is 00:47:53 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
Starting point is 00:48:16 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
Starting point is 00:48:27 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?
Starting point is 00:48:37 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.
Starting point is 00:48:48 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,
Starting point is 00:49:01 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
Starting point is 00:49:38 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
Starting point is 00:50:40 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.
Starting point is 00:51:09 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.
Starting point is 00:51:28 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
Starting point is 00:52:00 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.
Starting point is 00:52:34 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,
Starting point is 00:52:58 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,
Starting point is 00:53:17 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.
Starting point is 00:54:00 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
Starting point is 00:54:46 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.
Starting point is 00:55:29 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
Starting point is 00:56:16 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.
Starting point is 00:56:59 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.
Starting point is 00:57:20 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.
Starting point is 00:57:54 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.
Starting point is 00:58:22 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
Starting point is 00:58:56 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.
Starting point is 00:59:34 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,
Starting point is 00:59:56 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.
Starting point is 01:00:47 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,
Starting point is 01:01:46 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.
Starting point is 01:02:27 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.
Starting point is 01:03:07 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.
Starting point is 01:03:25 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.
Starting point is 01:04:00 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.
Starting point is 01:04:37 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.
Starting point is 01:05:01 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.
Starting point is 01:05:16 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
Starting point is 01:05:43 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,
Starting point is 01:06:15 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
Starting point is 01:07:00 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
Starting point is 01:07:41 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.
Starting point is 01:08:22 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.
Starting point is 01:08:40 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.
Starting point is 01:09:13 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
Starting point is 01:09:49 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.
Starting point is 01:10:01 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
Starting point is 01:10:38 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
Starting point is 01:10:56 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
Starting point is 01:11:45 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,
Starting point is 01:12:21 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
Starting point is 01:13:00 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
Starting point is 01:13:38 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
Starting point is 01:14:20 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.
Starting point is 01:15:12 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
Starting point is 01:15:49 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.
Starting point is 01:16:27 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.
Starting point is 01:16:57 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
Starting point is 01:17:34 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
Starting point is 01:17:56 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
Starting point is 01:18:48 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
Starting point is 01:19:47 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
Starting point is 01:20:28 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.
Starting point is 01:21:08 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,
Starting point is 01:21:47 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
Starting point is 01:22:00 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,
Starting point is 01:22:31 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.
Starting point is 01:23:28 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
Starting point is 01:23:49 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.
Starting point is 01:24:26 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.
Starting point is 01:25:08 Oh, right. Because that's hackable. Yeah. That fish is long dead. What? I had a fish. That was my first pet. Was it?
Starting point is 01:25:19 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.
Starting point is 01:25:41 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.
Starting point is 01:25:56 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?
Starting point is 01:26:38 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.
Starting point is 01:27:19 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?
Starting point is 01:27:39 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.
Starting point is 01:28:00 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.
Starting point is 01:28:19 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
Starting point is 01:28:41 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,
Starting point is 01:29:06 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
Starting point is 01:29:51 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.
Starting point is 01:30:15 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.
Starting point is 01:30:30 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.
Starting point is 01:30:48 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.
Starting point is 01:31:04 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. Awesome. Listen, Chrissy, all the best to you. I wish you continued success. Thank you so much for having me on. I'm such a fan of yours. I want to remind you that if you want to go see Chrissy on tour, she's on this national tour, you can find out all her dates by going to C-H-R-I-S-S-I-E-M-A-Y-R.com. So it's I-E at
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