The Megyn Kelly Show
Maureen Callahan on Maria Shriver, Mark Halperin with Ted Cruz - MK Media Week One Highlights
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Megyn Kelly looks back at the first week of the MK Media podcast network, including "The Nerve with Maureen Callahan" on Maria Shriver and Ben Affleck, "Next Up with Mark Halperin" interviewing Sen. Ted Cruz, and more. Subscribe and follow:Mark - nextuphalperin.comMaureen - https://thenerveshow.com/ Next Up:Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-up-with-mark-halperin/id1810218232Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2f0n8G4xqUo8aGxbbbtRjHYT - https://www.youtube.com/@NextUpHalperin The Nerve:Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nerve-with-maureen-callahan/id1808684702Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4kR07GQGQAJaMNtLc9Cg2oYT - https://www.youtube.com/@thenerveshow
Chapter 1: What is MK Media Podcast Network's new launch and shows overview?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and today's bonus episode. We are down in DC for an exclusive interview with Tulsi Gabbard that airs tomorrow morning. But today we're bringing you a look at our first two MK Media Podcast Network shows.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan launched late last week. The and has been on fire. Actually launched on Tuesday of last week. And next up with Mark Halperin launched yesterday and is off to a great start. Here's some of the excellent reporting and analysis, fun, smart, entertaining, and compelling from Maureen and Mark.
And go ahead and subscribe and follow their shows on YouTube and podcast and social media platforms. Back tomorrow. See you then.
So Maria Shriver, you may have seen her on our little media tour. She has a new book out, which I finally bought. I was having trouble bringing myself to put money in her pocket, but it's for a greater good. So this is the book. It's called I Am Maria, Maria Shriver, number one New York Times bestselling author.
Chapter 2: Who is Maria Shriver and what controversies surround her?
And in fact, to my great dismay, I saw in this weekend's book review, it has debuted at number one on the New York Times list. And that was the inciting event. I said, I've got to talk to you guys about this, and we've got to take it apart. So, you know, Maria Shriver... I'm gonna give you my blanket objections to her, and then we can go in and really dig in piece by piece.
Maria Shriver has newly reinvented herself, I'm gonna say over the past decade, as a real Christian woman of faith.
whose difficulties in life now have imbued her with so much wisdom and experience that her job is now to teach all of us how to become better people and really self-actualized, again, whatever that means, but this is the garbage language that we are infected with in this current culture. Maria Shriver, and this loops into this new book,
Her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mega movie star of the 80s, there was nobody bigger, maybe Sly Stallone, he had an affair. I'm going to say actually a relationship because it went on for about 10 years with the Schwarzenegger slash Shriver household maid. That affair resulted in a child. who was kept a secret for about 10 to 15 years.
This child spent a lot of time in Arnold and Maria's home among Arnold and Maria's four children, one of whom, Patrick Schwarzenegger, starred in the White Lotus. For my money, by the way, one of the best performances on the whole show. Oh, I also saw Jason Isaacs at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Very small guy, like shorter than I am. I'm 5'7". He was like maybe 5'5", and like real thin.
But anyway, So the kids grow up with this other child in their home often, and this child, we're going to show you a picture of him, is the spitting image of Arnold Schwarzenegger, okay? So Maria Shriver would have us believe that the wool was pulled over her eyes for about 15 years, that she had no idea that this could have been
a child fathered by her own husband, who, by the way, open secret in Hollywood. I remember reading about this as a kid in like Premier Magazine and Movieline Magazine. This was back when magazines really mattered and they like really delivered the goods.
And it was reported often in there, not only that Arnold was a serial womanizer, but that he was really creepy with women on sets and way too handsy. And he definitely would have been me too'd. You're telling me that if I'm like a kid in suburban Long Island and I know about this, that Maria Shriver doesn't know about it? Not buying it.
Maria Shriver doesn't know that this kid who's a carbon copy of her distinct looking husband with a jaw that like, come on. You don't, okay, fine, whatever. The story breaks. Maria, shocked, taking to her bed, her fainting couch. Can't believe it. By the way, she grew up a Kennedy, okay? This is what these men do. They treat their women like shit. They have affairs. They sire other kids.
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Chapter 3: What is Maureen Callahan's critique of Maria Shriver's new book?
Name is on the bottom as the author. Okay. She tells us that searching for the authentic Maria, uncovering, discovering, and recovering her garbage to fill up space has been a challenge for me all my life. For decades, I couldn't see her because I was looking for myself in all the wrong places. What is this? You may be wondering what on earth took me so long to see these truths.
Trust me, I've asked myself that question a million times. I now understand I couldn't have known these truths until I learned them and I couldn't have learned them until I lived them and I couldn't have lived them until I had to. She's sounding like Mel Robbins, another total and complete moron who is out there shilling snake oil to the women of America.
And I really hate this because it's all so inauthentic and none of it's true. I've ripped many of these poems out of a place of fear, shame, confusion, and darkness. Okay, this scandal happened, I'm going to say it was at least 20 years ago. So I think she's very late to this party.
Now she gives us a little bit of an origin story in case we don't know that she's a Kennedy, because trust me, these Kennedys never let any of us forget that they're Kennedys, though they probably should. You see, she begins, which is so cloying. It's a way of trying to establish relatability with the reader.
And it always puts me off when people say, you see, because it's a tell to me that they think that they are so above the rest of us that they need to bring themselves down to earth in order to converse with us, even though we are the ones putting money in said pocket. I grew up in a big competitive Irish Catholic family where you didn't sit around and talk about your feelings.
You went out into the world and had an impact. The bar was set high and I mean really high. We know, we know in the tons of biographies, historical accounts, magazine articles, documentaries, memoirs that have been published since the assassination of JFK in 1963. We know. You don't have to tell us. Please don't tell us. Just spare us. Just assume. You know what?
Just give us our dignity and assume that we all have a modicum of intelligence and know who you are. That's why you got this book deal. That's why you got your own publishing imprint. That's why you get on the Today Show and all manner of of public national platforms to sell your garbage. Okay. Fast forward to 2003 and kapow! Exclamation point.
My movie star husband abruptly decided he wanted to run for governor of California. Wait, what? You gotta be kidding me. Okay.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger, again, known womanizer, known social climber, everybody knew as early as the 80s that he had his eye on the White House, on finding a way to get around or add an amendment to the Constitution which would allow foreign-born people to run for president of the United States. Everybody knew that this was this guy's ultimate goal.
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Chapter 4: How did Maureen Callahan's personal experience relate to Maria Shriver's publishing influence?
And he instead went on Instagram and let's watch him explain to us why he feels the need to go live.
Hey everybody. Hey everybody. Hey, welcome everybody. Hey, you know, this is unplanned. I didn't plan any of this. I just decided to go live. I've never been live. I've never been live. Actually, that's not true. One time I chugged a monster live. It's maybe 2018. I think live is important. I think live is growing. I think live is the future. So that's why I'm going live today.
Now, you may be wondering, why are you going live?
what's up well i wanted to show you that amount of footage because it ratifies my earlier point that all he does is repeat stuff there's no actual content or original thought behind it i'm going live i'm going live it's important to go live i think live is growing it's important to grow what what what are you talking about why are you clogging up my goddamn feed with your bullshit
You're not bright. You're not talented. You have nothing to offer except your name, which, sir, frankly, is in the toilet. Why don't you go get a job and be a productive member of society instead of talking like a child to an audience that you think adores you? Oh, by the way, I love this for him. Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing him for an online troll, and it couldn't happen to a better guy.
And I hope Alan Dershowitz takes this kid for whatever he's worth, which we all know is mommy's money. Next up, before we go to break, I want to remind you guys that, listen, I've been getting, I read all the emails, all the DMs. I'm responding to as many of them as I can as quickly as I can.
And God bless you because this is a problem so many people, including Jack Schlossberg, would love to have.
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Chapter 5: What is the story and social media behavior of Jack Schlossberg?
And the last thing is you and I are both talking regularly to owners of large, small businesses and CEOs of corporations, probably some of the same people, who are really worried about path two. Paint a picture. If your influence doesn't pervade and those in the administration agree with you, what does path two look like in Q2, Q3, Q4 this year for the American economy and the American family?
Look, I think if we see high tariffs in perpetuity, you see a lot of businesses, their costs go up dramatically. I think you'd see businesses going out of business. I think you'd see prices going up significantly. I think there's a real risk of going into a recession, all of which is a terrible outcome. I don't want to see that happen. But I want to underscore, you know, it's interesting.
There's been a fair amount of press coverage saying, oh, Cruz is critical of the Trump tariffs. Let me be very clear. I think Trump has an opportunity to do something that no other president in our lifetimes has done, which is to have real leverage to finally get our trading partners to lower the barriers they have to U.S. goods and services.
President Trump is exactly right that there are lots of countries across this globe that trade ridiculously unfairly with us. that we opened up our market wide open to them, and they put huge barriers that stop us from selling our goods and services in their country. And listen, it's not complicated what President Trump's negotiating strategy is.
He often will walk up, smack someone in the head, but with a two by four, and then negotiate from there. And with the tariffs he's announced, he's done the smack. Now, what I've been urging him to do is cut the deals. Come and cut the deals. get the other countries to dramatically lower their barriers.
And I will say it will be a rich irony if Donald J. Trump ends up being the greatest free trade president of our lifetimes. But I think that's entirely possible if he ends up negotiating some phenomenal deals. I hope that's the path we go down.
And what people misunderstand is that's his goal. And as you said, there are plenty of people around him who share the Cruz vision of how this should go. And they hope, as you do, that he takes that path. I could talk to you about tariffs for an hour because that's the kind of guy I am. But let's move on. Let's move on to reconciliation.
Big debate within your conference and on the House side about spending cuts. People want big cuts. They want to prove that you're a fiscally responsible party. But as you know, the number of political fights that get picked every time you cut anything or restrain the rate of growth is very big.
What are the big spending restraints you would like to see personally, not what the conference would like to see? What are the big spending restraints you would like to see?
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Chapter 6: What is Senator Ted Cruz's perspective on tariffs and trade policy?
have said, most senators don't get involved in state legislative business, but that's an issue you feel so strongly about that you've done, and it's a fascinating case study in how a federal official can actually impact their own constituents through the state. I love watching your podcast career, video podcast career, and people haven't sampled the show, you should.
It's fascinating, and again, I knew you when you were a Bush staffer, so to watch the trajectory, sure, United States Senator, whatever, successful video podcast host, that's something. Now, I watched a lot of your episodes, and I want to show you one thing, and I want to get your reaction to it. Guys, this is a 101.
How real is the prospect of killer robots annihilating humanity?
20% likely. Maybe 10%.
On what time frame?
After 10 years.
So soon? You see a world where that's possible...
All right. So reacting to what guests say live, as I do right here, very difficult. But I want you to just be a little introspective here. One of the smartest people ever tells you that within 10 years, there's a decent percent chance that robots will kill us all. I thought you were a little subdued, frankly.
Well, I was subdued, but to be clear, teasing out the question, what's the chance that we're all going to die? And to have, as you point out, one of the most brilliant men who ever lived, say, 10 to 20 percent in five to 10 years, that I sort of figured I'd let those words carry the weight on their own.
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Chapter 7: What are Ted Cruz's views on federal spending and reconciliation?
And here it is for everyone to see.
showing so much contempt for a woman who made an entire documentary about how much she loves him. Like that's the thing, like don't date Ben Affleck. There was this great story. Well, okay, before we get into the latest quotes from some insiders who had some really juicy stuff to share with the New York Post, I wanna go back to this clip of Ben Affleck on Howard Stern.
because now he's trying to win back Jennifer Garner. He has been leaking that he would take her back in a heartbeat if she would have him. This woman is in a seven year relationship with another man. But this was Ben on Stern about like two years ago talking about why he had such a problem with alcohol.
We probably had each other's throats. I'd probably still be drinking. You know, like it was just part of why I started drinking alcohol because I was trapped.
So, Bill. You've been married for a while now. You're coming up on your 12 year anniversary. So congratulations on that. Let's say, God forbid, you split up with your wife. Would you tell anyone, let alone Howard Stern, that your lovely wife drove you to drink?
I mean, I don't understand how you even discuss it publicly. It's so private, right? That would be, I would assume, what you consider your greatest personal failure. And you would want to, I would assume- Hating the marriage ending, not the alcoholism. Right, no, not the alcoholism. No, that's a struggle that people face all the time.
But to blame that on the mother of your children, publicly put that out there, right?
for all to see for eternity they're gonna see it over and over again it just you know to me it goes to show the level of selfishness and and just self-importance that he has uh clearly doesn't i mean he banged the nanny he clearly doesn't think allegedly allegedly she did get a drop top lexi out of it alexis which she told us about uh but he's always denied that but go on
Allegedly my, my mistake. Yeah. I mean, you know, bring that back to the, to the pictures with Jennifer Lopez on a big night for her and he's, you know, where she's elbowing him to smile. I mean, you can't, a person that can't even put a smile out there. It, it, I don't know. I don't know what goes on inside someone like that in his head. I can't place it.
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