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The Megyn Kelly Show - Episode 1217 Summary
Episode Overview In this episode of *The Megyn Kelly Show*, Megyn Kelly is joined by Buck Sexton and Payton McNabb. They discuss significant current events, including the tragic shooting incidents at Brown University and MIT, the implications of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies, and the ongoing cultural and political debates surrounding gender identity and sports.
Key Discussion Points
Brown University Shooting
- Incident Summary: A man suspected of killing two and injuring nine was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Suspect's Background: Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, had ties to both Brown University and MIT.
- Law Enforcement's Response: Criticism of local law enforcement for their handling of the manhunt and the subsequent press conference, which seemed overly congratulatory despite the ongoing threat.
- Role of Social Media: A Reddit user played a pivotal role in identifying the suspect, showcasing the effectiveness of crowd-sourced crime-solving methods.
Cultural Commentary
- Leftist Bullying: Discussion of leftist figures, including Jake Tapper and John Oliver, who criticized Trump and marginalized voices like Payton McNabb's.
- Impact of DEI Policies: Buck Sexton highlights a report indicating that DEI initiatives might negatively affect white millennial men, with discussions around workplace discrimination and the broader implications of these policies on society.
Payton McNabb's Experience
- Volleyball Incident: McNabb recounts her experience of being injured by a male player in a girls' volleyball game, discussing the lack of accountability and the public's reaction.
- Social Media Backlash: She has faced bullying and ridicule from prominent media figures but remains resolute in her advocacy for women's sports and rights.
- Call to Action: Encouragement for others to speak out against discrimination and support the rights of women in sports.
Media and Political Landscape
- Trump's Health Commentary: Critique of CNN's coverage of Trump's health, highlighting a perceived bias in reporting.
- Democratic Party's Stance: Analysis of the Democrats' approval ratings, particularly regarding their handling of women's rights and safety in sports.
Payton's Advocacy
- Messages of Strength: McNabb emphasizes the importance of standing up for women's rights and the need for societal change regarding gender identity in sports.
- The Role of Courage: Both McNabb and Kelly stress the need for bravery in facing criticism and advocating for the truth in a polarized environment.
Key Takeaways
- Public Safety and Accountability: Critique of law enforcement's response to the Brown University shooting reflects broader issues in public safety and accountability.
- Cultural Shifts: The episode highlights growing awareness and backlash against DEI policies that may inadvertently harm certain demographic groups.
- Voices of Resilience: Payton McNabb embodies resilience and the importance of advocacy, showcasing the personal impact of broader societal issues.
Conclusion This episode encapsulates the ongoing cultural and political discussions that shape contemporary society. Megyn Kelly and her guests address pressing issues with a focus on accountability, advocacy for women's rights, and the importance of open dialogue in a polarized world.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12hey everyone i'm megan kelly welcome to the megan kelly show it's finally over the man accused of killing two and wounding nine in a heinous shooting at brown university this past saturday was found dead by authorities thursday night from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound law enforcement tracked him down to a storage facility in salem new hampshire and now we know He is also the suspect in Monday evening's murder of a renowned MIT professor of nuclear science and engineering. So I guess we weren't actually safe when the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, said, I know we're safe because there's been no additional shooting since Saturday morning.
0:54Actually, the MIT professor was not safe. No one was safe until that guy put a bullet in his own brain. Here's what we know about the shooter. His name is Claudio Neves Valentine. Valente, I should say. Valente. And he's a 48-year-old Portuguese national. So, I mean, who predicted he was going to be from Portugal? What? Who entered the country on a student visa in 2000. He started at Brown University's physics PhD program in the fall of that year, 2000, but took a leave of absence after the spring of 2001 semester and formally withdrew from the university in 2003. So what was he doing here? Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave some color on X last night.
1:36Quote, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the Diversity Lottery Immigrant Visa Program, DV1, in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country. In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program following the devastating New York City truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist who entered under the DV-1 program and murdered eight people. At President Trump's direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV-1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program, unquote. The AP reporting it was not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from Brown University in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017.
2:28As far as the shooter's connection to the slain MIT professor, the FBI believes that they attended the same university in Portugal, where the professor is also from, the shooter's 48, the dead professor 47. No other information about motive is yet available. We have no idea. I mean, no idea. By the way, there was a report, you know, he'd been yelling something. What was it? They came out last night. Nobody knows. Somebody said he might have been growling. Nobody knows. We don't know why he did what he did. As we've been reporting, the Providence police and mayor mostly looked feckless and incompetent throughout this investigation.
3:09and it now appears that they had no major leads until Wednesday. We'll have more on that in a bit. But that did. And like I said, a man died. I'm not blaming the Brown and the Providence officials for this murder of the MIT professor. But I would think when you're like, yeah, you don't need to shelter in place. No one else has died. And then a man dies and then you find out it's the same shooter. It might tamp down your self-congratulatory tone when you come out to say he's finally been caught. Watch this. Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier. We all worked well together to be able to identify this suspect.
3:56I'm extremely proud of this department and actually the officers, the detectives. It was all about groundwork, public assistance, interviews of individuals, and good old-fashioned policing. And I will say that everybody brought a certain expertise to the table. We can feel like you're chasing leads and they don't work out. But the team keeps going. But when you do crack it, you crack it. Okay. Joining me now to react to this and so much more is Buck Sexton, co-host of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. If you can make one holiday wish, would you wish to be free from your credit card and other debt?
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5:49And I think that this has become a little bit of a trend and it needs to stop. And I speak with some background in this because I was at the NYPD Intelligence Division doing high profile counterterrorism investigations, including the Times Square bombing of that Faisal Shahzad carried out. And so I remember getting called in on the weekend because the bombing happened and we had a task force, FBI, all these other agencies, and we had to find this guy. We got him. We got him at the airport, actually on a plane on his way to Pakistan. So that was a near miss. And I think everybody took a moment to say, oh, wow, we got to move a little faster next time to get an individual.
6:32There wasn't a press conference called for everybody to high five each other in law enforcement. And I think that this is something that everyone who's observing these press conferences now because they are major news events. they shouldn't be used as PR campaigns for a department, for a mayor, for a governor, for any of the above. They didn't do great. For the FBI. Yeah, or the FBI. Yeah, the FBI did this too recently. And I called it out on my radio show, Megan. It was like, it was, you know, we're so great. We're doing amazing work. You don't need to tell us. It was a little uncomfortable. It was weird.
7:06It was weird. It needs to stop. And I think that this, unfortunately, maybe as a byproduct also of like the social media era where people want to be able to take a bow publicly, but there's no need for what we saw in Providence, Rhode Island here. This was way too congratulatory. People were shot, people were killed, and they didn't get this guy really. He killed himself. They need to slow their roll a little bit and focus on good police work next time. And also don't tell us to avoid misinformation online. That has a very Orwellian tone to it. Like you got to be careful about all the misinformation.
7:45No, we don't go find the shooter. No, we were getting lectured to even last night, Christina Pasha, the Paxson, who is the president of Brown University, was out there sending an email to people being like, you know, it was just very unfortunate. The the misinformation that went around about, you know, potential people involved in this when looking at their social media. And it was like she was kind of over the top in her chastising. It was like, you know what? You know what actually solved the case? Social media solved the case. Some guy who saw the suspect was posting what he saw to Reddit and like in great detail.
8:22And the Redditors encouraged him to go to the police, which he then did. And this guy proved to be, it looks like, we believe, the critical force that led to this guy's identification and not arrest, but murder. I mean, suicide. From what I understand, Megan, and there's still details coming in, but it seems that this guy who committed this mass murder and suicide took some security steps as well to make this more difficult. And I think that with law enforcement, they have some incredible tools, again, tools that I actually used in a prior life myself. Things like people will say, well, why can't they just ping his cell phone.
9:00Well, they can, but this guy apparently didn't take his cell phone with him for the shootings. You know, why can't they? Or had, or they're saying he may have had foreign SIM cards. Yeah. Or he changed out his SIM card. But I mean, he didn't, he didn't bring like his, this is who I am. This is my name, cell phone with me. Even if you ping phones, you're pinging in an area. So there could, and then a place like Brown university, there's going to be, I don't know, a couple thousand people that are probably pinging off that tower. So it can whittle things down, but it doesn't mean that you have the so-called smoking gun right away.
9:32This guy took some steps. I mean, it seems like this is some kind of personal grudge slash psychosis, but we'll find out more. I think it's more than a coincidence that he studied with this guy at a Portuguese university. I don't think that's a leap. So he knew that guy. But I think that law enforcement here got caught flat-footed because the initial things that they go to in this situation They right away, they go to the surveillance footage right away. They go to cell phones. If somebody is good enough at covering their tracks on those fronts, then it's old fashioned police work and Reddit might move a lot faster on that than some of these cops can.
10:12That's just the truth. Yeah, here's here's what we know. And just a word of caution to the audience. It's not totally clear how it all went down, not surprisingly, given the law enforcement we're dealing with, but we're gleaning the following. This actually does come from the supporting arrest affidavit that there was a tip received on Tuesday, December 16th. Does not give a date for when the Reddit post was put up on Reddit. But three days after the deadly shooting at Brown, officers received an anonymous tip that stuck out from a flood of information. It directed the authorities to a post on Reddit, quote, I'm being dead serious.
10:51The police need to look into a gray Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. That was the car he was driving. It was parked in front of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historical Society on the Cook Street side. I know because he used his key fob to open the car, approached it, and then something prompted him to back away. When he backed away, he relocked the car. I found that odd. So when he circled the block, I approached the car and that is when I saw the Florida plates. He was parked in the section between the gate of the Rhode Island Historical Society and the corner of Cook and George Street.
11:31Now, based on that post, the police say they expanded their video search, you know, looking at people's cameras to the Rhode Island Historical Society area. Investigators located a gray slash blue Nissan sedan. ban. Police then released still images of the then unknown person, later identified as John, who interacted with the suspect approximately at approximately 2 16 p.m. on December 13th. And then here's another one. Wednesday, December 17th, the Reddit poster approached the cops on the street near Brown. And by the way, it looks like they did not go find John after he posted that tip. Like, I'm not sure what they did, to be honest with you, after they saw that Reddit tip.
12:13They're kind of suggesting that they took it seriously. Okay. Then they say a day after the Reddit post was made, the writer approached law enforcement officials and told them about his encounter with a suspicious man in Brown University's Barris and Holly building. The tipster, whom the police referred to only as John, said he had encountered the suspect inside a bathroom on the ground floor of the building between 1.45 p.m. and 2 p.m., around two hours before the first shots were reported. John said the suspect's clothing was inappropriate for the weather and they had made eye contact. John told the police he followed the man after he left the building to a Nissan vehicle with a Florida plate.
12:47But instead of entering the vehicle, the suspect started walking around the block with John behind him. So this sounds like the same person. John said it was like a game of cat and mouse. At one point, the two men spoke. According to the affidavit, John asked the suspect, your car's back there. Why are you circling the block? To which the suspect responded, why are you harassing me? John went his own way soon after that. When the police showed John images of the suspect's car from safety cameras, he said that might be it. And here's the last one, Buck. Per the affidavit, Monday, sorry, morning of Wednesday, December 17th, a separate university employee, a Brown University faculty member, had also described a suspicious vehicle in the same neighborhood, a gray sedan with Florida plates on Thursday, December 11th at 9.15 a.m.
13:29It did not take long for investigators to find that the car was from an Alamo rental location in downtown Boston. And from the rental agreement, they got a name, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. So that's how they caught him. There were things happening on the Boston end too around the MIT professor, but it was this Reddit guy. It seems like it was this Reddit, this guy who posted on Reddit named John, who Jesse Waters had a guest last night was reporting they believe is a former Brown student who is now homeless, unconfirmed, but that was reported both online and on Fox last night. Well, yeah, there's crowdsourcing has been around for a while.
14:08And I think it's getting more and more sophisticated because keep in mind the tools that are available to the general public now, when you start adding in AI, I use AI now, just as a side note, all the time. And I'm amazed at what it can do. I was putting together a guns. Which one do you use? Oh, I use Grok exclusively. Oh, yeah. I'm a Grok. I'm a Grok guy. um so uh yeah i'm an investor in grok i love grok so anyway um i i actually uh was putting together a gun safe yesterday and i was able to just take a photo of the safe from a distance and say how do i do all these things and how do i program everything and and it's it's better than any manual i mean it's incredible what it can do i bring this up in the context of this investigation Because now you can work with pretty sophisticated tools if you have still images, if you have basic geolocation data.
15:02I mean, you can start to do some high level, certainly much more high level than what have even been capable by law enforcement 10, 15 years ago. So this is catching up really quickly. And this is, I think, changing the world all around us in a whole range of ways. But the ability now to, I mean, think about this. How far are we from facial recognition being something? Now, I know this guy, I think his face was covered. They're already using that in some police departments across the country. Oh, in police departments they are. I mean people being able to run programs at home. You know, this is, I mean, the tech is getting so widespread that what we used to think of as a law enforcement exclusive tool, I think, is going to be something that you're seeing in the hands of these online sleuths.
15:49And look, I mean, now this was, this is a whole other discussion, but there was a whole effort, as we all know, online. the FBI not only had 30 % of them weaponized against under Biden, against the J6 protesters, but there was a big online effort to track all those people down too. So the public has become mobilized in a whole range of ways to be able to help law enforcement for good and for ill, depending on the situation. But that's, that's what's going on. It's very creepy. We had somebody on the show, she had written a book on this and she was talking about how they've got these glasses already, not available for purchase yet, but these glasses that you could put on and you could walk into a bar.
16:31And let's say I see you, but I don't know you at this point. And I go over and I try to hit on you, Buck Sexton. And you're like, get out of here, old lady. I'm married. I'm a happily married man. But now I'm like, I'm pissed that who is that cocky former CIA type? I'm going to get him. And I tap my glasses. And based on facial recognition, Not only do they tell me it's Buck Sexton, they tell me where you live. They tell me where you went to school. They tell me all this identifying personal information about you, which is just a very effed up way to live. Privacy is essentially going to be a thing of the past.
17:08I mean, we already have microphones that we active microphones that we carry all throughout our homes all the time. I mean, yes, you and I, Megan, make a living by doing media. So there's cameras and and, you know, high end audio equipment in certain rooms. But people are carrying around open mics all the time. We've all had this thing of you start talking about some subject and then you get an ad about it on your phone served to you and you're on Google or whatever it is. This is real. This is all around us. And as the technology is going to this is a bit like Moore's law with computing power.
17:40And the technology that you have access to from AI is going to continue to get more and more sophisticated such that you're going to have people who the second that they release anything about a major incident of public, whether it's a mass shooting or any major incident of public interest, the entire Internet is going to be able to use these different. Now, I understand there's problems with this, too. How do you verify? Who do you trust? How do you know? But the data and the access to analysis of that data that everyone's going to have is we are in a brave new world. It is changing. And the fact, I mean, you just read that whole Reddit thread.
18:16I mean, that was more sophisticated than most of the police reports that I used to read when I was in the intel division. I mean, that was more detailed. It was more. this guy, if this really is a homeless guy, I mean, this, this is a hero. This guy, John is a hero. He posted something this morning saying, I'm not going to be posting really anything else. I might, he said, I might like up comments, like positive comments, things that I like online, but that's all I'm going to do. But we got to know more about John. I wanted to mention something about, you mentioned the cameras, which will be, you know, which we're kind of used to being everywhere.
18:47That was a problem in this case. Why weren't they everywhere inside of this building? This was a big bone of contention last night. And there was a kind of suggestion by the officials. There were some cameras inside the building where the shooting took place at Brown University, but that whatever cameras there were did not capture what happened in this classroom or the guy's ingress or egress from the from the building. Obviously, that's true. Otherwise, they would have shown us his pictures on day one. So then there was a question about why. Why didn't we have more cameras? Then there was a question about whether many of them had been turned off at the behest of the pro-Palestinian activists on campus, of which there are many at Brown University.
19:32And there's been more and more reporting that that actually did happen. Well, there was an exchange with a reporter and Christina Hulpax, and again, she's the president of Brown, about the lack of video. to help solve this murder and listen to this exchange, Sop 5. Dan. President Paxson, Dan Jay from NBC10. I want to go back to the question I asked you Saturday night when I first arrived on the scene. There were no cameras in this building. And law enforcement, some that are standing up behind you, have said, if Brown had cameras in that part of the building, we would have gotten this guy.
20:13and it may have stopped the swirling action can you answer that question for me well i don't think we have said the locations of cameras at brown we have two cameras lately because why would they take it from a rental car agency we have 1200 cameras at brown but not in that building we have some in that building it's a large complex and i think what you would see is the video evidence in this case, from my perspective, I'm not a law enforcement agent, has been incredibly helpful. The moving of the person around the neighborhood, those video images, they helped crack this case. So I think video was important.
20:51Video played a big role in this case. The neighbor's video, the rental car video, but not the video from the building that he walked in freely both before when he got in the confrontation and when he came back in decided to kill people you didn't have cameras in that building just say it so we can get this over it and my my next question is will you put cameras that follow up with the cameras in the building will there be more cameras that bill yeah you know i i think we need to look back we'll look at everything that is done that i do not think a lack of cameras in that building it had anything to do with what happened now what no one suggests it caused it although who knows maybe he did scope out what areas didn't have cameras beforehand but it it led i mean i'm sorry i'm not blaming the mit professor's murder on her but it did indirectly lead to another life being caused because if we had had that guy on camera who knows how quickly they could have caught him buck and by the way that reporter's name is dan jenny from nbc10 good for you dan yeah well he's putting janet reno in a tough spot up there or whatever it is from Brown University.
22:01There's no good answer for what it is that is being asked because clearly they had not really thought through this as a meaningful security measure for this facility. And a place like Brown University, I mean, you know this, Megan, I've been putting this out on radio for a few days. I had a family member, an aunt who went there. It is the most left-wing Ivy League school, and it is among the most left-wing of all schools. It just has and has always had that reputation. Doesn't they don't get grades there. Now, what does that have to do with this investigation? Right. I'm not just taking cheap shots at the communists.
22:36Well, maybe I'm taking cheap shots at the communists. But what it has to do with the security procedures here is that this is a place that generally lives in a fantasy land of bad things don't happen. We're never going to have to really deal with law enforcement. I mean, we don't have to think about, you know, the worst thing that Brown University thinks they're going to have to deal with in a day to day sense is somebody using the wrong preferred pronouns. Like this is not a place that is taking seriously the security, the physical safety and security of its students in a way that I think it should.
23:10I mean, just based on the fact that they don't even have good answers here for, yeah, why do you not have a camera? Now, they could say it's an old building and we got cameras in a lot of places. is, all right, but who's in charge of security on this campus? I mean, who's actually making sure that people are safe? And also, where was the armed response to this as well? This guy was able to get out of there very easily, very quickly. I also like to point out to everyone, he would know that Brown completely bans anybody from being able to conceal carry on that campus. So this guy, who now it seems pretty clear, I think, is like a planned out grudge mass shooter.
23:48I mean, he shot a whole lot of people, so I'm sure there's just some level of psychosis that's tied into this. But it seems like he was, you know, pissed off at people for some reason or a number of people. But he would know that the Brown University police, I'm sure there's a whole thing about how we can't have too many armed cops. You know, that scares people. Police having weapons is frightening. We're going to have, like, violence interrupters first and foremost. We had some of this at my school, Amherst, by the way. You know, it's like, oh, if you call, we don't want the cops to actually arrive for anything, even if there's a huge fight and people are getting stabbed because people might get pepper sprayed and there could be, you know, diversity could suffer depending on the situation.
24:30There's all kinds of things. No, that police, sorry, the mayor of Providence, who just embarrassed himself throughout this process, even with the shooter still on the loose less than 48 hours after 11 kids were shot at Brown University, was saying this. OK, this is hours before the MIT professor would be shot dead in his apartment vestibule. Listen to that, too. This is Monday on CNN. explain this notion that appears to be in conflict there's a killer on the loose and a manhunt underway so how can that be the case when you say there is why are you confident there is no threat to public safety the call came in for the shooting at 4 0 5 p.m on saturday it's monday morning 10 a.m eastern and and there has not been a single credible or specific threat that we've received since that time.
25:30And so just because of those facts, that's why we believe it is safe and appropriate for residents in Providence to be sending their kids to school today and to be out in the community. There has been no follow-up threat. Oh, my God. He literally said there's been there is no threat to public safety on Saturday, Saturday after the shooting. He said people may want to cancel their plans, but I don't feel it's necessary. And we haven't received any additional credible information that there's an ongoing threat. The students bodies were barely cold at that point. And he's saying there's no one. That is a liberal mania on how crime is just not a thing.
26:27You're immediately safe because the shooting event is over. Go about your lives, folks who live in Providence. Oh, and vote for me. Oh, of course. Well, I think he took the wrong lesson from the mayor in Jaws, who's like, the beaches will be open this weekend. It's like, well, there's still a shark out there. So maybe think a little harder about that one. I love that mayor. Yeah. I mean, Jaws is the best. That thing really holds up. But this this guy, look, there's there was a lot of incompetence here. This is something to be to be fair when you're dealing with these smaller, whether it's a law enforcement.
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27:02First of all, the Brown University administration, I don't think that they could figure out how to open a paper bag. I mean, I just feel like this is these these institutions have been so absolutely top to bottom overtaken by the worst kinds of mediocrity and delusional thinking. And I mean, from the administrative side, never mind the academics and students. So that's not a surprise at all. Well, and a place like the Providence, Rhode Island Police Department, you know, I mean, the guy who's the chief of police also, I just know if you're going to be doing a press conference, it was not that easy to understand him, which is something that I don't think.
27:41He's been here for 30 years. Yeah. What's up with that? Like, hello. What's up with like, you know, you can't kind of figure it out a little more. I feel like we're allowed to at some point say, you know, if you're going to be in that public facing role, you shouldn't you shouldn't you should want to not sound like you got here a year ago. And that is it shouldn't be so hard for us to understand. I mean, it's a public safety issue. I mean, you're sitting here. There's a reason they have people that are doing all the sign language and stuff. And so everybody can understand. And I found myself with the Providence chief of police going, wait, what did he what was that he said?
28:14And that's just not I know me, too. Not a good. At least they got rid of the crazy female signer who was just so obnoxious and desperate to call attention to herself. The guy who was there yesterday, the bald man, was better. Yeah, no, the female sign lady who was like doing crazy like interpretive dances. Over here. Sign language. Look at me. Look at me. I'm a star. It's my big moment. She reminded me of that one sign language lady who turned out to be fake. Remember? She wasn't actually signed. I kind of miss her, to be honest. It was pretty amazing. But I hear you. Like if we're being serious here, yeah, of course.
28:43It's best not to have her doing all the stuff. It's a distraction. OK, I got to fire through a few more things while we're together because we have a shorter show today. Two nights ago, President Trump giving remarks from the White House on his what he says is are hot. Our country's hot again. It's hot. Mentioning the economy. Inflation indeed has gone down. He got a very favorable, favorable report yesterday morning, way better than analysts had expected. and announcing that he was going to provide checks worth$1 ,776 is the number to our military personnel. It turned out that that was some sort of a housing voucher that people got.
29:27But in any event, he chipped almost$2 ,000 off of bills they owed. And this is where Jake Tapper on CNN went with it. Okay, I just happened to be in the very fortunate position of seeing this. And I couldn't believe what I was watching. But here it is in Sat 9 yesterday. That kind of manic delivery was was very, very disturbing, very pressure, very pressurized speech. And as the address went on, his his cadence of his remarks became quicker. And we've never seen the president like that. He seemed almost frantic and it was disturbing to watch. Earlier today, and this is not the first time this has happened, the president appeared to be struggling to keep his eyes open during a public White House event in the Oval Office earlier today.
30:20If that worries you, what's your take on that? He's done this several times now in the last few weeks. He's fallen asleep in a crowded Oval Office, and he's also fallen asleep at cabinet meetings. And that's what's called increased daytime somnolence. Sometimes people with sleep apnea, people who wake up many times during the night and don't get restorative sleep have that. He has the chronic bruise. He had swollen ankles. He's had these mysterious scans. I think all of this raises realistic concerns about the health of the president. And it would be great if the White House was a little bit more forthcoming about that.
30:58I can't be the only person who had concerns after watching him last night. You weren't.
31:07oh tapper oh that's awesome oh man can you believe look i i honestly there's a part of me that both i find i find jake at cnn both um deeply amusing and at this point a little bit sad he is reminiscent as as the serious journalist just asking questions of the imperial japanese soldiers found after world war ii had ended i think one guy lasted 29 years in the jungles of the Philippines, ignoring the leaflets and refusing to accept that the war was over. And then finally someone showed up who had been his commanding officer. I think he was willing to put down his arms like Jake is the lost imperial Japanese soldier of CNN.
31:52Like he's still he's still keeping this whole thing going. Like I'm I'm just here doing the journalism. It's like we all know what CNN is, buddy. Just like I did. Just like I did. Just like I've been doing. I've done this for every president. Speaking truth. It's so transparent. Oh, man. Speaking truth to power. It's hilarious. Right? This is also the guy who, as you well know, and by the way. And look what they're picking up on Buck. He spoke fast. I know. That one time he spoke fast. So he must have some sort of a brain disorder. This is so pathetic. And it's so obvious. Like, at least you'd love to give him points for at least being clever.
32:25You can't. It's just so on the nose. nobody like I guess this is leftist sweet nothings that he thinks his audience wants now. And he thinks he's got the credibility to do it since he wrote the book. He literally wrote the book, Buck, on Joe Biden's poor mental health. I have to give you credit, actually. I don't know if we've addressed this on your show again, but I came on before you interviewed Jake and I was like, Megan, you know, you're just you're very like cordial and polite and friendly person. And you were just like, I don't think that that's going to mean with Jake's book that he's not going to.
32:58And I watched that. I watched your Jake interview and it was really good. So you did not let him get away. You did not let him get away with the nonsense. I mean, that's a knock on me sometimes. People be like, oh, you're too polite. You're too nice. And I'm like, well, until I get pissed off. Well, it's hard when you have people on who you, you know, have somewhat of a friendly relationship with. Right, of course. But like that was just such an egregious claim. You were totally fair. It was about the subject matter. It wasn't personal. You were totally fair to him. The whole thing was preposterous.
33:25And you're just like, OK, I'm going to let you make the case. This isn't preposterous what you're doing. But it was preposterous. And we all saw that. And the idea that somehow they've like cleansed themselves at CNN or the Democrats of this unbelievable stain on their integrity, which I don't think will ever go away, that we all knew Biden had dementia. I mean, we we felt bad because it was such a frequent topic on our show on radio. We couldn't ignore it. And you couldn't not see it. It was the most obvious thing in the world. And then they're going to tell us, oh, you know what? We figured it out after that debate when it was clear that Biden couldn't run really anymore.
34:04And now they want to look, I think at some level, too, though, there's a bit of trolling here because they're like, well, if you did this to us, like if you knocked our guy out because he had dementia, we're going to do the same to you. The problem is Trump doesn't have dementia. That's the problem. Trump's talking fast. He's talking fast. Oh, oh, I got to stop the presses. Extra, extra. All right, let's keep going. There's more. Scott Besant was at a D.C. restaurant and got harassed by Code Pink activists. My my real question here is how did they know he was going to be at this restaurant? It's SOT 6.
34:38Take a look at this horrible thing. We have a special guest here and we want to make a toast to the Secretary of Treasury, Scott Besson. So let's give it up for the man who is eating in peace as people starve across the world based on his sanctions, which are economic warfare. Of course you're going to do this. It's the truth. He oversees the death of 600 ,000 people due to sanctions annually. And this president, let's cheer to the Monroe Doctrine. Trump today says that Venezuelan oil, and you have no idea how ignorant you are. Ignorant, you are responsible for the death of 600 ,000 people annually because of sanctions.
35:27How many people are going to die because of the blood is on your hands? The blood is on your hands. You should be ashamed. It goes on and on and on because they want to harass the poor man while he's just having dinner, minding his own business, not bothering anybody in the corner. This is like the devolution of like good and decency, like goodness and decency when it comes to our societal behavior. And it does matter. Well, you're nailing it there. Um, Code Pink is the Westboro Baptist Church of anti-war, uh, you know, activists. Um, they're just, thank you. They are disgusting. That's so good.
36:10There we go. They're vile morons. Um, anybody who's a part of Code Pink is somebody you don't want to be around and you should not take seriously. I'd also note that they generally, I know people can find, they probably yelled some things at Pelosi, but they overwhelmingly find, uh, that during Republican administrations, No matter what, you know, Trump is the guy who's like, I'm not starting any new wars. We're not you know, we're not overthrowing Gaddafi in Libya like we're not doing this stuff. And yet Code Pink is always so active during Republican administrations. We know that they're idiots.
36:39They do nothing other than get attention for themselves. I think the people who are part of Code Pink honestly have undiagnosed anxiety or other disorders. Like I think it's a mental health issue to be a member of Code Pink and to do this kind of a thing. I would just say I'm curious, Megan, because this is so important to me that it is it is the defenders of civilization in this situation who are the restaurant staff and an owner manager. It's up to them to say you are now trespassed. Get out of here. We're calling the police and to make their patron and to make their patron feel in this case, Scott Best.
37:11And let me say this. It's bipartisan for me. If a bunch of Republicans act like a bunch of jerks, which this doesn't happen, but I'm just saying theoretically, if a bunch of Republicans started harassing a Democrat official like this in a restaurant, I would say the same thing, which is that we can't have civilized society if people can't have a dinner. You know, if an American can't have dinner in the quiet of the corner of a restaurant with whoever his wife or his friends, family, we've lost something really essential as a society. so I hope that the restaurant stood up for them. I remember Ted Cruz during - By the way though, like why the treasury secretary?
37:48Like if you're gonna do this to anybody, Trump, Hegseth, I don't know, but like why the treasury secretary? It's the wrong, but there's more. I wanna show you more. Oh yeah, let's do it. You know about FOMO, right? Fear of missing out, but listen up, don't miss out on protecting your future for around the same price per month as one of your streaming services. You can break the FOMO cycle and secure your and your family's future by finding life insurance at selectquote.com. Selectquote takes the guesswork out of finding the right life insurance policy. You don't have to sort through dozens of confusing options on your own.
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39:00There is a Michigan state senator by the name of Mallory McMorrow, and she's running for U.S. Senate. And here is what she had to say at a local town hall this week. SOT 7. So I'm a Notre Dame grad and Amy Coney Barrett coming out of my university makes me furious. But just on a personal level, I talked to somebody yesterday who said they saw her with Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend. I was like, I would not be able to control myself. That would be bad. But there would be fears thrown in people's faces. Nice. So she would like to be a U.S. senator. Just in case you may have forgotten this, Buck, but you're going to remember it when I show it to you.
39:42She is the, again, Michigan State representative, senator, who with my note from my team reads lizard tongue, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention and had a very bad case of dry mouth. Remember with the tongue? I did not remember. I had not seen this, actually. This is amazing. We're showing a 41-second. Looks so many times with the tongue, it keeps coming way out of the mouth to try to find some saliva. Oh, man. So she's super nervous just to give a speech in front of a bunch of party faithful people who are going to love everything she says. But she's a tough guy. She's a super tough guy.
40:28But when she sees Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, if she saw them in public, she'd be throwing bottles of beer at them. Okay. Sure. Yeah. Sure, Mallory. That's also criminal. I mean, it's assault. You can't do that. If you do that, you should be arrested and you should be prosecuted, right? This isn't free speech. I mean, she's openly at least bragging about how she would break the law because she disagrees with Supreme Court justices, too. I mean, that's particularly agreed. So look, the left, there are some things that are just broadly true, and they really can't be said enough. And I think sometimes people are concerned about saying it.
41:07Um, one of them is you looking at your background. Yeah. Sorry. I just, I don't know what happened here. I was like, I offended the gods. My background just changed. Um, there, there are a couple of things. One is that the Democrat party, if you're going to be a criminal, if you're going to be a felon, it's the Democrat party. That is your home. I think if you're going to, yes, if you're going to replace, uh, religion, spirituality, a sense of something more important than the here and now with politics. You're also a Democrat. And that leads to a whole lot of mental illness infused into one's politics and policies.
41:41And this is why you see the behaviors that you do. This is why you have people who would not be violent at all. Like, does anyone think that, you know, whatever her name is. I mean, I'm partial to redheads because I married one, but this redhead is doing, she's doing the team injustice. You know, this is not good for team redheads. Lizard tongue. You know? Yeah. Lizard tongue. Lizard tongue. You know, really. I mean, yeah. You don't have to drink more water. I'm not sure what it is, but it's between you and your doctor. Probably it's behavior like that, like we just saw, in addition to just their lackluster messaging and policies and what we're going to talk about in a minute, like the DEI and its impact on actual Americans that the Dems have been pushing.
42:21That led to this situation as outlined by CNN's Harry Enten. Watch this, Sot 7B from Thursday. Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. The lowest ever. Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20 percent. It's even worse when you look at independents. Look at this. Negative 61 points. That means that their approval rating is 61 points lower than their disapproval rating. Quinnipiac has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century. They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, in worse shape than they are right now.
43:05Worst ever, Buck Sexton. So I know the conventional wisdom is the Dems are going to win the midterms. And I actually also believe that. But it's not totally lost. I mean, there is more than ample weakness on the Dem side to exploit between now and November. Yes, I'm concerned because when you look at what's really motivating people right now, so there's a little bit of a challenge here with, and I actually said this to the president when I saw him some months back, maybe it was during the summer. I said, sir, my complaint for you, if I could have a complaint, is that you secured the border so quickly that now that's baked in and everyone just sort of assumes like, oh, okay, so we have a secure border now, right?
43:50I mean, it's a little bit of what have you done for me lately thinking on this, because we're not talking about that. The deportations, which is the harder issue to handle, and also the one where there could be more downside, that I think is something that's going to continue to be playing out in front of cameras and there's more challenge with that. Affordability. We're going to hear that word, right? So the immigration thing, we've got a big win, but I don't think that's going to really mobilize people in the midterms. It's going to be all about how expensive is housing, how expensive is food, and what do people feel like about their health care and their health care premiums.
44:30And the Republicans, you know, it's their economy, right? This is the challenge you run into with, yeah, Biden had the worst inflation in 40 years. But the truth is, it's Trump's, it's his show now, and it's Scott Besson's show, and they're going to be held responsible one way or another for what's going on. Well, I think that's what Trump was doing on Wednesday night, trying to get out there and rejigger the messaging on it. I want to keep going. I mentioned it. Did you think that was a good, that was a good though? A second ago. A good speech? I just, I was a little, I thought it wasn't really, it was like he was.
45:04No, it did nothing for me. It came across like he was frustrated with people who are frustrated with the prices. And I'm like, Trump, you are so much better on the economy than these lunatics. I know. And I also just felt like it was so obvious. Like, again, try to make it more clever that you're not just giving a campaign rally before people go home for Christmas. You know, it's like, I don't know, you got you got to be careful. You got you just got to be careful about telling them everything's great. And the tariffs are wonderful. And, you know, inflation is no longer a problem. at this time of year in particular, when people, everyone feels stretched.
45:38You know, where he did the speech, what, 10 days before Christmas, less than. Everybody has overspent. They've probably gone out of their budget because they love their kids and everybody wants to give their kids a magical Christmas and so on and Hanukkah, all of it. So you've had holiday parties that you couldn't afford to throw and you went to ones where you, whatever. So it's not a great time to be telling everybody it's all great. I think honesty is better, But, you know, Trump is a quintessential marketing guy. He would never resort to just like cold, hard honesty like it hurts. And I know it hurts.
46:09But I swear that part where it gets better is coming soon. There's one part of it that Trump keeps saying things like it's a fill in the blank hoax. And I know what he is saying. This is with the Epstein files. This is with affordability. What he's saying is the Democrat narrative on this is like that this is my fault or that I'm hiding or whatever, that they're lying to you. I want him to go back to fake news. That's a way better shorthand, because when he says the affordability, which he's, you know, they've been running with this constantly at MS Now, by the way. You know, I watch Morning Joe sometimes for fun, for amusement.
46:49It's MS Now. But he says affordability is a hoax, Megan, and people go, no, that's not a hoax. He doesn't mean that the prices aren't high and this isn't a challenge. He means Democrats saying that his tariffs or his choices or whatever have caused this is the hoax. And I just think that's him. Again, people think in soundbites, as you know, people vote based on soundbites. And I think we need to clean that up a little bit. I have a shocking story to tell you about Joe Scarborough. Oh. He and I actually had a nice moment this week. I went to the Mediaite party for 2025. 25. It's where this website that writes about, you know, media clips and media personalities invites a bunch of people in the media, uh, to come to this party and sort of, it's the one time of year where you cross paths with people who you may not be able to stand people you've been criticizing people have been ripping you.
47:42And it's kind of like detente for a night. It's nice. I like it. And, um, believe it or not, Joe Scarborough came over to me and I was like, Oh God, I don't know where this is going. It could go any number of places. And he said something really sweet about Mark Halperin, who is his friend. And it was something to the effect of, thanks for helping Mark get back on his feet. And I was like, I love Mark Halperin. Thanks for saying that. And it was sincere. And he was genuinely warm. And I was like, you know what? just a good reminder as we go into the holidays that these people who we all rip on and who rip on us, we're all human.
48:24We're in the same game. We have plenty of fodder to pick back up with tomorrow, but I don't know. It was, it kind of restored my faith in humanity that like, that was sweet. And he knows I've ripped on him endlessly, but he made a point of putting that to the side because he cares about his friend and I do too. So it was a nice moment. Well, uh, I'm sure honestly if I if I were able to uh don my zip sweater and join Joe out on the croquet field or something for a few minutes I think we would have a great time at the country club together I think we would get along famously we're two guys with side swoop hair part he probably just like me had the same hair when he was like five years old never changed it you know we've both gone through 20 pairs of of top siders over our lives lots of boat shoes even though we don't boat that much.
49:12I mean, Joe and I probably have a lot in common. But I would say one thing he brought up, Mark Halpern. It's funny because we've played a lot of his clips on radio for his analysis to just sort of work his insights into the conversation. And if I may say so, this is, and not just because I'm in the Christmas spirit and I'm basically on Christmas break other than doing your show. You have a great eye for talent, Megan, and no real talent. Now, of course, you were the first person to ever put me on in primetime at Fox news when you had three plus million viewers uh at in the 9 p.m it didn't take much to see you thank you it did not I wish I could say that's my genius but it was very obvious hey you're first number one never you never forget never forget first primetime host and no apparently you do you do because um I have a I I have a do you have people that aren't I believe Ben Shapiro's not as grateful as you I was gonna say you have that is the one thing that for me I never and I'm sure you're the same way because I had a at a lesser level have been able to also now, because I've been doing this for 15 years, help people out.
50:14I never require thank you and I never require payback, but people who go in the opposite direction when I've helped them, Megan, I've had people who want to come on and like sell their book on my show and I'm like, you unfollowed me on Twitter. What are you doing? Oh my God, Buck, if I could tell you, like my basic rule is if you're going to be my so-called friend and keep tagging me on Twitter with posts attacking me, like I'll let you get away with one, maybe two. You start doing it regularly and I unfollow you. Oh, dead to me. Why would I keep you in my timeline? If you just, like you're supposed to be my friend and there's this one particular person who I did this with, who's now out there railing, crying in his soup every day about how I unfollowed him.
50:56Guess why? You kept tagging me on attacks against me. Why would I continue to follow you? It's just, it's so pathetic. And when it's a so-called friend or somebody who you've helped, yeah, it's particularly galling. Zero loyalty. Yeah. And we all know it's funny, too, in the business. I think everybody knows the people who are who are stand up and who for their people will. I have a standing rule on radio and I tell the audiences because I want them to be fully informed of this. And I'll say because sometimes I'll send in a clip of somebody and even people, as you know, I'm sure you have friends like this, too, who have gone fully.
51:29And I would say even maybe psychotically anti-Trump, but they're friends of mine or I've known them for years or I've worked with them in the past. And I will not hit a friend of mine on the air because if I, if I, you know, if I am going to criticize somebody in what we do, if I see them in person, I'm going to stand behind what I said and be like, yeah, you deserve that. You know, I'm not going to see them in person and be like, hey, let's go for a drink. We're great friends. I take a hit at you. And so to keep everything on the up and up, I don't hit my friends publicly. And I note very clearly who does, because if they'll do it to anyone, they'll do it to you.
52:04It's also a bit like a good rule. By the way, this is a role for everybody, not just for people like you and me who work in media. People that do this thing of sharing publicly private text messages when they get into a spat with somebody, dead to me. Yeah. Dead to me forever. Never again. Never again. No, honestly, like there are some people who are coming for me right now who I could totally humiliate with their prior texts. But I won't. I won't because I agree with you. That's just bad form. What's meant to be a private text is to stay a private text. It's like, come on, grow up. But yeah, no, it's very annoying.
52:35And it's just part of our life. Now, we will say this. Government officials are different. Like, I'm rooting for everybody in Trump's government. I am. Like, I love cash. I love Dan. But they have to get ripped on every once in a while because they're in, you know, these public positions. So that's a little more complicated. But we have to do it. If we don't do it, then we're Jake Tapper. Then we're MSNBC. We're Rachel Maddow, right? So it's like it gets trickier. And hopefully those guys are all big boys who understand that's the nature of our business. and in my experience, they all have been very fine with that.
53:05They understand it. Yes, no, I think that is, again, there's criticizing the roles that some, or rather the actions that somebody takes in a role and how their decision-making has gone in that context. And then there's going after somebody sort of personally or trying to humiliate them. And I think that you do have an obligation when somebody has the kind of power. I mean, look, Pete Hegseth's a friend of mine, right? He's a friend of yours. Pete is the secretary of war and they're blowing up boats full of people. Now, I am not opposed to their rationale for this, but I'm just saying that's a lot of power to have, right?
53:39So if somebody's doing, if you think somebody has erred in their decision-making and they have the power of life and death over other human beings, I'm just using this as an example, you have to hold that to account at some level, right? And if let's say, if they blew up the wrong boat, I'd have to say, guys, this is a really big problem. I couldn't just say, oh, you know, stuff happened. you know, stuff happens. Yeah. Or you're a shill, you know, you're a shill. So you can't become a shill. Okay. I want to keep going. So I really do want to get to this. It was published in compact magazine on Monday.
54:09It's almost 9 ,000 words in length. It's entitled the lost generation. And it's by Los Angeles based writer, Jacob Savage. He tried to publish it in, he told to Matt Taibbi that he tried to publish it in the Atlantic, but they demanded changes to it. So he said, no, he said they were interested, but then they came back and were like, it has to only be about you and your experience in Hollywood. You could do some stats or whatever. They didn't want him to make it more broadly about the plight of white men. Like it can just be a personal story. That's it beyond that. No. So he said no. And he published in contact and it's, it's devastating.
54:41And what the heart of it is, is that white men have been utterly devastated, especially millennial white men by DEI, that this is not just some term as JD Vance pointed out the other day, that means extra, you know, sensitivity sessions on implicit bias at your workplace that you roll your eyes at. No, a generation of white men have had their career prospects obliterated, not to mention their self-worth because of this pernicious ideology that was accepted at every level of society, from schools to colleges to sports to corporate America, Hollywood, media, you name it. And they go through, yes, this writer, Jacob's experience as trying to get a job in Hollywood, but also that of multiple other men who, here's one that jumped out at me.
55:36His name is Ethan, and he's an Ivy League educated social scientist. He couldn't get a job in academia because of DEI. He was a finalist for a 10-year track position five times, flown out again and again for interviews and meet and greets and departmental dinners. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. At a certain point, he began to see himself the way the search committees did. Listen to this, Buck. Other identifiers or other things I valued about myself have receded. Being a white man, meanwhile, moved into the foreground in a way that I didn't expect. He was taught to loathe it. He was taught to see it as something for which he needed to apologize or feel bad about, which is disgusting.
56:23And now the roosters are coming home to roost. The chickens are coming home to roost with the real life toll of this hideous ideology becoming more public. Well, Megan, I'm a white male millennial, actually. I qualify as somebody in this cohort. And so this is very personal for me. This is very personal for a lot of my friends, for my brothers who are close to my age. We saw this. We dealt with this. And people need to speak about this. You have to remove a lot of the enforced dogma and doctrine, and you have to sort of brush away the nonsense from your mind on this. This was just explicit discrimination.
57:08I mean, this was actually, and there's been this thing for a while where they'll say reverse discrimination or, oh, it's so hard to be a white man or whatever. No, it's not so hard to be a white man if you're a boomer who's already got enough stock options to retire or is working on the Aspen Ski House or the equivalent in academia. You're already a tenured professor at Harvard. You've already had your career. They fed white millennial men's futures into the wood chipper, and they felt righteous doing it. And we all saw it, and we were all being told, sorry, we have to, we were like the human sacrifice in order to atone for America's history of racism.
57:48But it wasn't even just racism. It was, they were doing this to benefit Latinos, and they were doing this for Native Americans, and they were doing this for women in fields, you know, STEM, where there weren't enough women. And they were doing this in all these different contexts. You sit here and you say, how can it be moral to tell somebody, I was going to hire you, you're the best person for the job. but you're white and you're a guy. So no, this happened. And one of the ways that you knew that it was immoral, by the way, this is how I, my first realization, I was in like eighth grade, but my first realization, I'm a conservative, I'm a Republican, was around this issue.
58:25And honestly, it had to do with the double standards that I saw playing out over and over again through institutions for behavior, for college admissions, and then later on for jobs. What year would that have been, Buck? Just to give me an idea of where we are. I mean, I graduated college in 2004. So I'm I would have been old. You know, I'm at the very oldest edge of millennials. But my brother is five years younger than me, for example. He went to Georgetown. And I mean, it was just known on campuses during the hiring. And remember, this is for people. Your early trajectory can make a huge difference, not just in your career, but also your earning potential, your ability to build a family and, you know, live in a major American city and support that family.
59:12We were just told, like, look, if you're going to try to get a job at Goldman Sachs, like, they're going to hire women and black students way before you because they've done. Now, people would say, but Goldman Sachs is full of white guys or, you know, Morgan Stanley, same thing. Yeah, at the partner level and at the VP, like, they already had, you know, been at the trough for decades. It was the people, the millennials who were coming up. And this is what this piece gets to. And there were real consequences for this too. TV writing turned into garbage in the last 10 years. Garbage top to bottom all over the place.
59:49And it's because the writers' rooms were full of second and third tier skilled writers because they were the preferred ethnicity or gender or sexual orientation or they were trans or whatever it may be. The reason this has been such a phenomenon, this article, and I've shared it and I've talked to my family about it and J.D. Vance and everybody, is that this is a truth that we were all observing, but we weren't allowed to say. You weren't allowed to say this. I wasn't allowed to point out that I went to a college that turned down 85 percent of the applicants, Megan, but they had to have a special summer course for basic math and basic reading for black and Native American and some other groups of students.
1:00:33I mean, I had friends who got like 1550 on the SAT and at 4-0s, they didn't get in, but we're doing basic math. Still happening. I know it's still happening, but at least now we can talk about it. Before it was, what we were being told was this was making no difference whatsoever to the quality of the applicant, to the skills of the person, and therefore it wouldn't make any difference in these institutions. That is a lie. It is obviously a lie. And you've seen this now. And you know what else? You know what else? This is an important point. It's illegal. Yes. It's totally fucking illegal. And the great piece of this story now, today, in almost 2026 America is, well, I'll just play it.
1:01:18The chairwoman of the EEOC, Andrea Lucas, has something that you need to hear. Take a listen. I'm Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Are you a white male who's experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws. Contact the EEOC as soon as possible. Time limits are typically strict for filing a claim. The EEOC is the federal agency charged with enforcing federal anti-discrimination law against businesses and other private sector employers. The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination, including against white male applicants and employees.
1:02:05Check out EEOC.gov to learn more and read our one-page explainer about DEI-related discrimination. That's fantastic. Hallelujah. That was great. Great. That was like a Christmas miracle. Everybody who's been every white male listening, if you've been discriminated, please, Sue, please do this. Because, by the way, the next administration, they're going to all of a sudden you're going to have to use the preferred pronoun. If it's a Democrat, but you're going to have to use the preferred pronouns and we're going to go back. They're going to try to find ways around this and all this other nonsense.
1:02:35They need to feel the pain of the discrimination that they engaged in. And everybody needs to be willing to go back and say, why? Why weren't more people vocal about this? Why weren't more people willing to say, clearly you're taking people with lesser skills, with less impressive credentials, whether it's for academia, for writing in Hollywood, for, you know, big law. I mean, just go down the list. And I mean, this is what was going on. And it was systemic across the whole country. And finally, now someone says, and the problem was, Megan, they kept saying, oh, well, look, these institutions still, it's still 80 percent white or it's still 65 percent white men or whatever.
1:03:13At the top, maybe. But this is where the millennial aspect of it, this policy was instituted in a way where the people who really suffered were roughly my age cohort within 10 years. So, again, I saw this up close and personal. I mean, I saw who was getting jobs out of Amherst at all these top firms. And if you were the right ethnicity, you got a job offer from everyone. Oh, I mean, of course, we all see it's still happening. And it's breeding race resentment. Of course. Truly. They love this story. It's bringing a complete backlash. The very thing they claimed existed that didn't, they've created.
1:03:49They love this story at CNN where they'll go, oh, you know, here is like, here is a student. And it's generally, you know, a student who is black, usually a black female, who got into every Ivy League school. And we're all supposed to clap. And I want to be like, okay, what were her SATs? I'm just wondering. because I had friends who got perfect SATs, perfect SATs, who didn't get in to, you know, any Ivy League school on the first go around. A lot of them don't get in anywhere and they don't even just apply to Ivy Leagues now. I mean, I've seen it happen. There was that article in the New York Post a couple months ago from the Asian kid who like literally had a perfect score on the SAT, had a perfect GPA.
1:04:26Asians get it even worse than whites. Yes, that's true. And didn't get in anywhere because they really don't like the Asians. I mean, it's blatant race discrimination. And this is post the U.S. Supreme Court decision saying that's illegal. You can't do this. It's just like it's just like a mirror image of the civil rights or you have to actually enforce, which means you have to sue. And, you know, I know Harmi Dillon at the Department of Justice has got her eye on this. We need more people to take action here because, yeah, they're just ignoring it. These institutions are trying to ignore as much as they can.
1:04:58If you look at the at the admission rates at Harvard for different ethnicities, they've stayed pretty static. and we know that they're playing games with this stuff. So this is a, it's a hugely important conversation for the country. It has created a tremendous amount of resentment and rightfully so. And, you know, the thing that I think galls a lot of people, Megan, and this is for all the white guys around my age listening to this, is that you were kind of ridiculed in the most surly and condescending fashion. Like, oh, it's so hard to be a white male. It's like, what? I went to school with people.
1:05:32I went to a scholarship high school and I went there were there were plenty of white kids. There are plenty of minorities there. But we're told that it's so easy for us. How is it easy if you're being discriminated against when you're applying to college? You're being discriminated against when you're applying for jobs, being discriminated against when it comes to promotions. Like, where does this white privilege thing kick in exactly? I mean, you know, and on top of it, you're being blamed for all society's ills for nothing you've done, but nothing you've done sins of the father, the grandfather, the great, great people who were here when you weren't.
1:06:02here to whom you have no relation. Everything's your fault. Well, this is also ties directly into why the Democrat Party is in such a bad position right now, because men have just men who have like normal testosterone levels and see reality for what it is are just fed up with the Democrat Party. There's like this is this place is a joke. And it's in part because of this, because black men, too. Yes, just across the board, across the board. But they realize that this is just The Democrat Party lives in this weird fantasy land where you're not allowed to say what the most obvious you're not allowed to observe.
1:06:36The Democrat Party is engaged in a constant war on observation and people get tired of that. Yeah, big time. All right. I got to go, but I want to end on something positive. And it is a story out of the Bondi Beach shooting that happened in Australia. There were at least two civilians who tried to fight back against that father-son execution team waving the ISIS flag all over their cars as they took the lives of Jewish gatherers trying to celebrate Hanukkah on the beach. And one of the men, one of the civilians, you see it here, who attacked one of the shooters is named Ahmed al-Akhmed. He tried to get the gun away and did get the gun away and eventually wound up losing the gun and he got shot himself, unfortunately.
1:07:31And he's okay. He's in the hospital. So people are hailing this guy as a hero because at least he tried. You know, eventually we would see video of female cops cowering behind their cars. And here you have a genuinely brave, heroic civilian doing the right thing. He had no gun. Just charged the guy and got his gun. Anyway, there's been one of those public campaigns to get him something like a check or a donation. And they did really well. $2.5 million has been raised. And they presented to him. This was posted on TikTok. Take a look at SOT15. I came here with news of people around the world. 43 ,000 people.
1:08:17They're in the hospital. They raised you$2.5 million. I deserve it. Every penny. My pleasure. Thank you very much. If you could say one thing to the people that donated, what would you tell them? Stand to each other, all human beings, and forget to put everything back behind the back and keep going to save life. Save life. When I do save the people, I do it from the heart. This country, best country in the world, the best country in the world. But we're not going to stand and keep watching. enough, it's enough. God, that was amazing.
1:09:21Amazing. Amazing. You've got Ahmed al-Akhmed working against these ISIS terrorists to save Jews on a beach and then says, I deserve this? I said 2.5 million? And reminds us all to stand for life. It's fantastic and I would just say I would like to see this become a bit more of what the standard It's not only standard of action, which is that people run to save their fellow human beings in a situation like this, but also that as societies, we should we should absolutely reward bravery, courage, saving the lives of fellow human beings in a situation like this. I mean, this should be the standard.
1:10:00So I'm happy to see that this guy, you know, certainly has enough money to, I think, retire comfortably in Melbourne or wherever. And he deserves it. And there should be there should be more of this. And it's you know, there's there's a whole lot to talk about with Bondi. We'll talk about that maybe another time. But in the meantime, this was the one bright spot of what was a horrendous day. And this guy deserves every penny. yeah Merry Christmas my friend Merry Christmas Happy New Year thanks for everything this year always thank you so much Megan see you the new year yeah see you then Buck Sexton everyone before we go a word on what we're doing here we are going on vacay with my family and we have a bunch of good content for you next week which I think will be new to you if you don't watch all of the MK Media shows and then the second week that week from Christmas into New Year's.
1:10:57We have all new content for you. It's our true crime Christmas week, which always does well because nothing says Christmas like true crime. It'll technically be post Christmas, but you get the point. So that'll be all new content Monday through Friday of the second week. And I hope you enjoy it. And I really hope that you enjoy your time with your families, with your loved ones, with your friends around the Christmas tree, around church on Christmas Eve, which is so magical, and that you get back to what matters, which is not online stuff. Stop focusing on the darkness that's been in the news lately.
1:11:36Just try to spend real time with your loved ones and the things that make you happy and make you, you, right? Who makes you, you? It starts within you, but it's definitely got massive deposits every day from the people you surround yourself with. So choose well and amplify what's good for you. Minimize what's not. Have some downtime, some quiet time offline with a book, with some music, in church. Get back in touch with God if that's for you. And in between now and then, I will see you tonight from the stage in Arizona at Turning Point USA, where I expect to make some news. before we leave this program, we're going to play for you an interview we did the other day with Peyton McNabb.
1:12:25She was the teenager who was hurt by a boy pretending to be a girl in North Carolina in that volleyball game in a moment that changed the world. It was one of the seminal moments in the fight for girls and women's rights in sports and in this entire area. and she for years now has become the butt of a joke. People think she made it up, made up her injuries. There's been questions about whether the kid who hit her was actually a boy and she actually has new video that is shocking from this boy pretending to be a girl about the situation that she's never released before but she's finally ready to do it.
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1:16:02We have quite an update for you now in a story that we first brought to you years ago about a female athlete whose life was turned upside down following a head injury she received after a male competing against her during a high school volleyball game back in 2022 spiked the ball in her face so hard she actually suffered a brain injury. Peyton McNabb joined our show back in 2023 to share that story describing how that injury impacted her everyday life. Well, over the past few years, Peyton, who has continued to speak out to protect women's sports as an ambassador for the group Independent Women, has gotten abused repeatedly by the hateful left.
1:16:48Everyone from John Oliver to many others, including a comedian who just this month went viral for making fun of Peyton's injury, decided that she was fair game, that she overstated the extent of her injuries, and that the trans athlete, so-called trans athlete, male to female, is really the one we should feel sorry for here. Some have even questioned whether she even got hit in the face by a trans player. Well, today she has for us exclusive video of this athlete who is a man pretending to be a woman who injured her years ago while in high school, who shows zero remorse for the pain he caused her.
1:17:33Peyton, welcome back to the show. How are you doing? Hi, Megan. Thank you so much for having me. I'm doing well. Of course. So you were in high school in North Carolina, and just remind the audience what happened. You were what year in high school, and we'll show the video, but tell us what happened. Yeah, so it was my senior year of high school. I went into this game. There was a guy on the other side of the net. I'm trying to be as encouraging and motivating as I can. I've played against him for four years at that point, but it was completely allowed in North Carolina because nothing had happened for them to ban it.
1:18:07So I went to the game, and I get completely knocked out, unconscious, for about 30 seconds while the other team laughs, and I'm in a fencing position. the trainer comes up to me asks me if I know what just happened to me and I said yeah the boy on y 'all's team just knocked me out he rushed me off the court he did one little finger test on me and said I was good and go all back into play thankfully I did not go back into play because I ended up going to the doctor and finding out that I had a concussion a partial brain bleed and permanent whiplash oh so awful so this happens to you and you found the temerity, the guts to speak out about it.
1:18:50And then instead of calling you and apologizing, you told me this the first time you came on with your story, the male pretending to be a female who did this to you was very snarky to you behind the scenes. He was, showed absolutely no remorse and said that he's living rent-free in my head, which, you know, my whole life had changed at this point because of him and for him to have no remorse of course, which is what we see time and time again. I don't expect anything less of him. But for that to happen, you know, I was 17 at the time and I didn't know what to think. And it was such a different time for me.
1:19:27And how far I've come in the past few years, even from the first time I spoke to you about this, I've grown so much and I know exactly what I'm saying. And I'm confident in what I'm saying because I know that I'm right. And the other side, you know, as much as they want to tear women like me down and silence us, we're just never going to because this fight is worth way more than that. And I've known that from the beginning. There's a reason this happened to you because you seem so earnest to me. I, of course, believe you 100%, but you also, I think, are a very effective messenger because you do seem just like a regular person.
1:20:07You don't have an extra level of media polish. You just seem normal and like a normal girl to whom this happened, who found the guts to say something about it. While this guy was remorseless, you say behind the scenes. And now you contacted me privately to tell me that you had, but no one else had seen, two videos of this guy talking about you and himself. These videos show how sorry he is for himself and the disdain for you, still remorseless. Now, when were these made? I'm going to show the audience both of them, but when were they made? They were made shortly after all of this happened, probably like a month or two maybe.
1:20:52He posted them on TikTok, which we got right off of there, and then he shortly after deleted them. And I've been holding on to these because, you know, no one believes me. They say that I'm lying or that it was actually a girl or whatever, and that there's no proof that what I'm saying is even true. And I've felt no need to explain myself or to prove myself because I know what happened and everyone else knows what happened. But to the public, I'm lying and I'm covering it up. So I just thought I wasn't planning on sharing these, but if they don't believe me, maybe they'll believe him saying it himself.
1:21:31Let's watch. Okay, we're going to play the first one here where this is him lamenting what's happened to him in his senior year as a result of all this. Senior year recap.
1:21:45If you want to have a senior year just like me, follow these steps. One, endure the hell that is school volleyball. Two, hit a girl in the face and make national news getting national hate. I was on Fox News twice. Number three, find out that your athletic director and your coach have been outing you to every school you've played since freshman year. Against your will. Number four, get kicked off your old club volleyball team that you've been playing on for seven years. Total Drama Island style. I got voted off by the parents. Number five, try out for the only other good club team near you, and you get cut because of the national news that you're a faggot.
1:22:34Number six, contemplate quitting volleyball. Number seven, don't quit volleyball. Number eight, commit to the Kennesaw State on a full scholarship. Number nine, get your scholarship taken away, because you told the coach that you're a tranny.
1:22:56he like level of what appears to be some sort of mental break there is alarming. This person has made himself the entire victim. There's a re you lost your scholarship because it's for girls. That's a scholarship for a girl, which you're not. And, and he's lamenting that the coaches told opposing players, he was on the team that these players were going to have to face. Meanwhile, it's a question of safety. And he's talking about like what he lost academic or athletically after he injured you. Why do you think that is? You think like parents have a right to know, girls have a right to know. This is like, he's trying to make himself look all feminine in that clip, but this is a, isn't he very tall and obviously very strong?
1:23:42Yeah, exactly. And for him to turn this around and he's the only victim in all of this. I mean, my senior year was completely ruined too. I couldn't drive for several months. I never played volleyball again. And for him to be the victim, and of course it is because that's what we see over and over again. And he's upset because he can't get girls opportunities anymore. That's what happens when a guy's on a girl's team. And I hate to break that to him, but that's just the way it is. And you had to get a reality check somehow. And if you wouldn't have completely altered my life, then you probably still would have had that scholarship, which is unfortunate for me, but all things work out and happen for a reason.
1:24:26And I truly do believe that it did happen to me for a reason because I continue to say something about it and I'm not going to stop. And because he shames me on TikTok and publicly as much as he can, I really don't care. And I'm sad that I feel bad for him because he's He's lost and there's something wrong and I pray for him, but ultimately he's not the victim here. I was and every single girl on that court was the victim that day. And here's a newsflash. You're not a woman, sir, and you never will be. It doesn't matter how much makeup you do, how much you inflate your lips, what you do to your hair.
1:25:05You are male and you will stay male no matter what hormones you inject, what surgeries you have, or how much you try to act when you get in front of a camera. You're a boy. You're a man. That's what you should deal with. That's reality. Here's the second clip, equally infuriating, and he addresses you directly. Watch. Number 29, the girl you hit in the face goes to the North Carolina General Assembly and speaks about her experience. trying to get anti-trans legislation passed. The whole situation of you hitting her in the face is brought back to life. Great. That is exactly what I needed in my senior year.
1:25:47Thank you, Peyton. So no question, there he is on camera admitting he was the one who hit you in the face. No denial. And blaming you for testifying about it when asked on the should we ban boys from girls sports bill. Yeah, like, thank you for completely altering and ruining my life at the time is what I thought. You know, it's not my fault that you got your stuff taken away. That's what you, that's, you know, what comes with pretending to be a girl and invading a girl's space. Fraud. So, like, actions have consequences. And I hate that, like, he had the reality check so early, but that's just the way it is.
1:26:33and it's not my fault that your senior year got ruined. That's your fault for pretending and staying in this lie. And everyone else around you who continued to lie to you instead of telling you the truth. And, you know, that's not love to me. Loving isn't lying. And I feel bad for him that he didn't have people that were willing to tell him what the truth was early on. He's got a lot of anger in him. I mean, I would stay away if I were you. This person seems somewhat unhinged to me. But he's not the only one. Like when John Oliver did that hit piece on you, Peyton, I almost fell out of my chair.
1:27:11It was so unfair. And John Oliver has an executive producer who's trans, male to female. And so everything John Oliver says is out of this world, off the rails, just completely unhinged in favor of trannies. That's who's running his programming. That's what explains all of his commentary. He does not give a shit about young girls or women who are getting hurt. He couldn't care less to the point where he actually came for you in a monologue he did in April of 2025, which we got into at length at the time. But here's the piece that touches on you and your injuries, SOT39. The most famous example concerns Peyton McNabb, a three-sport high school athlete who was hit in the face by a spike during a volleyball match.
1:27:58She suffered injuries, including a concussion, and started speaking out against the policies that allowed the trans player who spiked the ball to play. A concussion is genuinely traumatic, though for what it's worth, she did go on to play softball in the spring and did pretty well, judging by her school posting this image about her making the all-conference team and a local paper pointing out she helped her team to a 5-0 start. And I'm not saying she wasn't injured, or that it didn't have some impact on her performance, but a lot of the groups heavily pushing this story seem to be overselling it.
1:28:29Hmm. Thoughts on that? I mean, a grown man who is talking down on, I was 17 at the time when this happened to me, and I'm trying to live a normal life the best I can. I'm very thankful and blessed to have come from the community that I came from, who my whole team, all the teams that I played, my officials, coaches, everyone knew what was going on with me, and they were very, very considerate on, you know, if something happened to me, the whole game is stopping to see if I'm okay. and that was a really dark time for me and and my family and my community as a whole and something that I would never wish on anyone for them to go through and this grown man is getting on here and making like making fun and light of my situation I would never I could never imagine my dad getting on online and on his show and saying that about a 17 year old girl's injury like I genuinely can't think of that.
1:29:23And he is so deranged. And it's just so stupid to watch that. I couldn't even watch that whole thing because when this all aired, it was kind of rough because I had just gotten back from the State of the Union and I was getting attacked. I had gotten attacked earlier on, but it comes in waves and people don't really say anything for a little while, but I was getting really beat down. I was having to stay with my sisters in a different state because people were trying to find out where I lived. And then this just added more flames to the fire. And I was mean. And I'm like, like, I did not know how to do what to do.
1:30:03And for him to be taking joy, like there's joy on his face for talking about me that way. Like, what is wrong with you? I would never I could never imagine. Disgusting. What is wrong with him? Something seriously and deep is wrong with John Oliver. He's being programmed by his tranny producer who's calling the shots over there. And he's too much of a weak P word to stand up to this person and shares the ideology. He'd love to see my daughter and everyone else's daughter get the same injury you had and worse, just as long as he feels good about what he's done for the trans community, the ones who are hurting our girls.
1:30:42You mentioned the State of the Union. Here, that was a crazy moment where Trump mentioned you. This is March of 2025. And the Democrats refuse to stand. What? They're against young girls who get hurt by male players standing up for themselves. Here's what happened. Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all star high school athlete, one of the best preparing for a future in college sports. But when her girls volleyball match was invaded by a male. He smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career. It was a shot like she's never seen before.
1:31:32She's never seen anything like it. Peyton is here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding.
1:31:52It's such a play. Like, everything's so fake, and for all of them to be wearing their pink suits and trying to signal to everyone that they're the party for the women, and then they refuse to even look at me when I'm getting mentioned for having a brain injury because of a guy in spandex, like, how can you even claim to be the party of women, and then you do that. Like, actions speak way louder than what you're wearing, and you prove it time and time again that you're not for women. And, like, we've begged and pleaded for you to be on our side, and there's women all over the country who are begging for this.
1:32:27Like, everyone's tired of it. The American people are tired of it, which has also been brought up in multiple, multiple cases because it keeps happening. And you can't even look at me when I'm getting recognized. Like, how sad is that? you have to be so sad and deranged but I can't even be like I'm not surprised about it I wasn't surprised about it at the time either because I mean they've they've proven themselves over and over again um but they didn't even just stand you're too threatening exactly like they're not gonna stand for me they didn't even stand for Lake and Raleigh's family when they got recognized and like what is wrong with you there is something evil and and like mentally just deranged about them and they they hide behind the colors that they're wearing like that just makes no sense to me and it infuriated me it's amazing how the bullying continues like you got bullied by this trans player you've been bullied by some of the biggest names in media and now you get bullied by half of the democrats or more than half of the democrats at the state of the union and it goes on.
1:33:31So this happened back in 2022. Here we are in 2025, almost 2026. I mentioned this in the intro, but here's this so-called comedian, Stacey Kay, who is also a trans person, right? I'm told that this person is also trans. And this is what Stacey Kay said about you just like a few weeks ago. And And it just, it was filmed in September, but it went viral in December at the Denver Comedy Underground here. The whole argument is she suffered catastrophic brain damage, right? That she'll never recover from. She'll never be able to have a normal life. And this is with her in the room. They're just, they're like, look how slow she is.
1:34:16She'll never be able to drive. And they don't, they don't ever want to show the clip of what happened. because it's pretty funny, actually. It's a seven-second clip. And it's a girl, a trans girl, presumably, I'm told, goes up to do a spike, and I can't tell she's trans. Her form is perfect. She looks good at sports, right? And then there's Peyton sitting back, like, I don't know, six feet from the net, flat-footed with her hands down like this. And then she just gets hit right in the head and falls over like a toddler. and I'm like oh she was really like this before I don't know if there's a nice way to say this but she should have been wearing a helmet she should have been out there with the normal people
1:35:09that guy wants to make a pronouncement on normal on what's normal and what's not take off your dress, sir, put your pants back on and stop trying to co-opt our identity. That dress does not make you a woman. Nothing ever will. See point earlier in response to the trans player who hurt Peyton. Unbelievable. What did you think when you saw that? Well, I mean, how desperate for laughs do you have to be for a grown dude in a dress to be making fun of a girl who was 17 at the time who literally suffered a permanent brain injury. Like, how sad is that, first of all, but it is all deeply rooted from a hatred of women, which is the common theme here, you know, like, I have things that he'll never have.
1:35:55One, I'm actually naturally hilarious. But two, I'm an actual woman. And he will never, ever be able to have that. He never will. It does not matter how many push up bras you wear, how many dresses you wear. It's not going to happen. And And there's literally nothing you can do to make it happen. And I was also thinking, like, the people laughing behind the scenes, that was what was kind of upsetting to me at first. Because I'm like, first of all, who's bored enough to even go to a show like this? Like, I can genuinely never think of a time where I would have nothing better to do than to go to one of these shows.
1:36:27But then to actually be laughing at a joke like this, at first I was convinced it was a laughing track because I'm like, it wasn't even funny. I'm all about a good joke and making light of a situation and i'm not soft by all means on making fun or a lot of stuff But that's when it's actually funny and there was no punchline like they're genuinely it wasn't even a joke It was just him making fun of a girl who was 17 Who got injured by a dude in spandex and now a dude in a dress is laughing about it like Make that make sense. It sounds like a parody, but that was real life And that's who's coming after me for telling the simple truth that you will never be a woman.
1:37:05You will never be like me, who is an actual woman. And that's what you hate. So that's what you're attacking. And that's sad for you, but there's nothing anyone can do about that, including you. And they want it all. They want to have a monthly cycle. It's a no. They want to get pregnant and have a baby. You can't. They want to nurse the baby. Also a no. They want all the things that women come by thanks to God that will never be available to them. They want the softness of our skin. They want the luxiness of our hair. They want the beautiful scents that come with a woman's body. It's all a no.
1:37:40You're a man. You're going to be a hairy, large person with shoulders and hips and legs that we would never have. And you will never have a baby. You will never be able to do the miracles that God allowed us to do. Deal with that. Get off the stage, take off the dress and deal with that instead of attacking a teenager for her brain injury. You sick MF-er. OK, I still have the last word on that, but I do want to get you to say quickly before we go, are we feeling good about what's happening with Olympic sports now and the trend? We're not there yet, but the trend we're seeing on this issue in America.
1:38:20I think so. I think more people are willing to stand up and say what they actually feel and what they actually think. And there was a time where no one could say what we were saying or they would get canceled or fired or whatever. And I think it's gotten to the point where parents and dads and just everyone in general is just sick and tired of it because it's been going on for way too long. and the Olympics, the IOC actually making light. I mean, they said because of scientific studies that men have more biological strength than women. Like, obviously. That's what we've been saying for years. So it's not rocket science that they just came up with.
1:38:57Like, obviously. But at least they're saying it. I would love for them to give back the medals that the men took last year. Because, like, what are you doing? Why was a man allowed to be able to be in a ring and punch a girl in the face and then get a gold medal for it? Like, that is so sick. But at least things are finally turning. More and more people are willing to stand up and say something about it, which obviously wasn't happening very much before. So I'm thankful to see the tide turning, and I really do have high hopes for it as long as more people are, you know, waking up to the fact that this could happen to anyone.
1:39:35This happened to me in the middle of rural North Carolina, and that's what woke me up. I'm like, we shouldn't have waited until it happened to me to say something. But the fact that it's happening here, it's happening everywhere because that's not something that we ever saw. So I don't want this ever to be a possibility for my younger sister, who I'm doing this all for. And if I get blessed enough to have a daughter one day, she should never even think it's a possibility for a man to be on the other side of the net because there was a time in my life where I thought that too. Like, I didn't think that would ever be allowed and that my parents or the parents, all the parents in there wouldn't allow that to happen.
1:40:09But the fact that actually happened and it was celebrated and it's still happening in some places in some states. And it's just so crazy. But I really do think that we're going in a good direction and more and more people are saying enough is enough because it's just everyone has a woman in their life. And whether they want to admit it or not, like it's happening in every way. Well, thanks to you, you and others like you who have found your voice and used it. Peyton, all the best. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. And thank you for telling my story from the beginning. Like, I've never really had the opportunity to thank you for that.
1:40:46So thank you so much. This is my honor. I'm sorry that it happened to you, but I'm super glad with what you've done with it. Thank you. You're a heroine. Peyton McNabb, everybody. See you soon. thanks for listening to the megan kelly show no bs no agenda and no fear
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Megyn Kelly is joined by Buck Sexton, co-host of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, to talk about the Brown U. and MIT alleged shooter found dead, the awkward self-congratulatory press conference after the culprit was found dead, how a Reddit poster helped solve the Brown U. shooting, the tools like AI getting better and helping crowdsource crime-solving, why privacy is a thing of the past, Jake Tapper's ridiculous CNN segment focused on Trump's health, leftist nonsense disguised as objective news, terrible Democratic and GOP messaging on the economy, some on the left and right who are more interested in fighting and petty social media squabbles than uniting, the viral report on how DEI negatively affected white millennial men, why the Trump administration is now trying to help white men sue for discrimination, and more. Payton McNabb, "Independent Women" ambassador, joins to discuss the boy who injured her in a girl's volleyball game playing the victim, never-seen TikTok videos of the boy, the bullying from John Oliver and others, the left taking shots at her and Democrats not cheering for her at Trump's March address, and more. Then Payton McNabb, "Independent Women" ambassador, joins to discuss the boy who injured her in a girl's volleyball game playing the victim, never-seen TikTok videos of the boy, the bullying from John Oliver and others, the left taking shots at her and Democrats not cheering for her at Trump's March address, and more.
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