Andrew Schulz on Why Trump Dominates Culture and Politics, Becoming a Dad, and Dating Red Flags | Ep. 1020

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Megyn Kelly Show – Episode 1020 Featuring Andrew Schulz

Release Date: March 6, 2025

Introduction

In Episode 1020 of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn welcomes comedian Andrew Schulz, who discusses a variety of topics ranging from cultural and political dynamics, his personal journey into fatherhood, to navigating dating red flags. The conversation is candid, humorous, and delves deep into both societal issues and personal experiences.

**1. Andrew Schulz’s New Netflix Special: "Life"

• Promotion and Introduction Megyn introduces Andrew Schulz's latest Netflix special, titled Life, highlighting its blend of humor and emotional depth.

  Megyn Kelly [02:25]: "Comedian Andrew Schulz has a new Netflix special out this week called Life... You will laugh and believe it or not, you will cry too."

• Personal Significance Andrew shares that Life is a deeply personal narrative about his and his wife Emma’s journey to conceive a child, a topic he rarely explores publicly.

  Andrew Schulz [53:26]: "This whole thing is about your journey with Emma and trying to conceive a baby."

**2. Dating Red Flags and Relationship Dynamics

• Discussion on Red Flags and "Ick Culture" Andrew brings up prevalent topics among his female peers, such as red flags and the subtle annoyances that can lead to dating dissatisfaction.

  Andrew Schulz [07:29]: "...a lot of women talk about, like, red flags and icks they have with men. Like, little things that they do that annoy them."

• Megyn’s Perspective on Societal Pressures Megyn offers her insights, suggesting that societal expectations might pressure women into staying in unsatisfying relationships.

  Megyn Kelly [07:10]: "I think that there's so much pressure for women to be with somebody that they maybe would rather be with somebody they don't really like than be alone."

**3. Masculinity, Politics, and Cultural Influence

• Trump’s Dominance in Culture and Politics The conversation shifts to why Donald Trump remains a towering figure in American politics and culture.

  Andrew Schulz [40:00]: "I think this is part of the reason why Bernie was so successful is he's out here... it feels like he's kind of riding for."

• Elon Musk and Public Influence They discuss Elon Musk's influence, his endeavors with Dogecoin, and his polarizing public persona.

  Andrew Schulz [28:57]: "This is bipartisan supported issue. And I feel like, because maybe he's... Tesla, he's a genius."

• Critique of Political Strategies Andrew criticizes both Democratic and Republican tactics, emphasizing the need for authenticity and emotional connection over scripted political messaging.

  Andrew Schulz [45:05]: "If you're a Republican, it's that radioactive... the way Trump communicated and hitting me at my core."

**4. The Journey to Fatherhood: IVF and Personal Challenges

• Andrew’s Struggle with Infertility Andrew recounts his and Emma’s emotional and physically taxing journey through IVF, addressing the isolation and stigma often associated with fertility issues.

  Andrew Schulz [54:17]: "But once she was perfect and I was up, I could get on stage and it was really cathartic to talk about it."

• Megyn’s Support and Shared Experiences Megyn shares her own experiences with IVF and the challenges that come with trying to conceive.

  Megyn Kelly [56:13]: "My team is way ahead of me here... you can see how much people love their children."

**5. Fatherhood and Parenting Insights

• Balancing Parenthood and Personal Life The duo delves into the realities of parenting, especially the transition from having one child to multiple, and the continuous learning curve it presents.

  Andrew Schulz [67:04]: "It's the most insane thing if you're... No, not it."

• Navigating Emotional and Physical Challenges They discuss the sleepless nights, the emotional bonds formed, and the adjustments required in parenting styles as children grow.

  Megyn Kelly [63:38]: "It's so humbling, isn't it?"

**6. Cultural Critiques and Social Commentary

• Discussion on Sociopathy and Empathy Megyn and Andrew engage in a thought-provoking dialogue about sociopathy, empathy, and how these traits influence personal and societal behaviors.

  Megyn Kelly [36:33]: "Because you have to find a way to be masculine and care for people."

• Media and Public Perception They critique how public figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are portrayed and perceived in the media, questioning the authenticity and motivations behind their actions.

  Andrew Schulz [84:24]: "If one person had the balls to just be like, yo, I fucked up, that was me."

**7. Final Thoughts and Future Plans

• Upcoming Series Announcement Megyn announces a new investigative series titled Megyn Kelly Investigates, focusing on unsolved cases like that of baby Lisa Irwin.

  Megyn Kelly [53:31]: "It's called Megyn Kelly Investigates. The first topic is the story of baby Lisa Irwin..."

• Closing Remarks and Promotions The episode concludes with further promotions of Andrew’s Netflix special and Megyn’s new series, emphasizing their commitment to authentic and meaningful conversations.

  Megyn Kelly [100:32]: "It's your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations with the most interesting and important political, legal and cultural figures."

Notable Quotes:

• Megyn Kelly:

  "It's almost as like, like, God shot like the dream arrow and like, it was just like a degree off." [04:16]

• Andrew Schulz:

  "If you're a sociopath... You just think differently." [37:35]

• Megyn Kelly:

  "You shouldn't dream about news. That's just sad." [05:02]

• Andrew Schulz:

  "We have a lot of people that sometimes are popular because there's great social utility." [97:16]

Conclusion

Episode 1020 of The Megyn Kelly Show offers a multifaceted discussion with Andrew Schulz, blending humor with deep personal and societal issues. From dissecting political influence and cultural phenomena to sharing intimate experiences of infertility and fatherhood, Megyn and Andrew provide listeners with an engaging and insightful conversation that resonates on both personal and broader societal levels.

Transcript

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[Megyn Kelly]

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[Andrew Schulz]

Schultzie. Schultze.

[Megyn Kelly]

Schultze. Schultze.

[Andrew Schulz]

Matthew. Hey cute baby. I didn't get the Amber alert. We are celebrating. My new special's coming out. Oh nice. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

What do you stand up there and grow a mustache?

[Andrew Schulz]

Actually, if you wanna Know, it's about my wife and I trying to make a baby.

[Unnamed Guest]

Hey, everybody.

[Andrew Schulz]

This dumbass right here has a special about his low sperm count and it's on Netflix. That's a legend, dude.

[Megyn Kelly]

Welcome back.

[Andrew Schulz]

Thank you so much for having me.

[Megyn Kelly]

Great to have you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Great to see you.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, God, likewise. I mean, you were actually one of my first guests. You know, we just celebrated episode 500 or 1000. I don't know, 1000. And you were 78. Number 78. You were like ground floor.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah, I remember. I was in California for that. But then I saw you. This is like right after I saw you at the Borgo. Yeah, that's right. But I didn't come up and bother, you know.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's right, I forgot that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And now look at you. I mean, now you're. You're taken off.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, things have been cool things.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, really cool. And personally, I mean, the funniest bit you ever did and it's still one of my favorites. This is from a special, not like on this show, but you were talking about your then girlfriend and how obsessed she was with crime shows. I could totally relate to this. And how I remember you did this bit on how, you know, you'd watch NFL football with her and she'd be like. And some guy would have a compound fracture with the blood everywhere in the bone. And every guy, you know be like, oh my God. And she'd be like, when is someone coming to murder him?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah, it's like not savage enough.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why do you guys like the, the serial killer stuff?

[Megyn Kelly]

I, I have my own theories. I think it's because like when you grow up, you know, who gets murdered, who gets attacked, who gets stolen? Young women. We're the victims. And so like it's instilled in you from an early age by your parents, by your friends, by your teachers, by tv, the news. Like you're the victim.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like.

[Megyn Kelly]

And so, you know, you walk around everywhere like, oh my God. And then you. There's a morbid fascination with what happens to others. Like, how do I prevent that from happening to me? Yeah, I think that's why.

[Andrew Schulz]

So, yeah, it's fear based. So this is like this. Yeah. Gigantic fear you have.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, we're working something out.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

You know, it's like the same way my 11 year old likes to watch shark videos all the time because he.

[Andrew Schulz]

Thinks he's gonna get eaten by a shark.

[Megyn Kelly]

Totally.

[Andrew Schulz]

And meanwhile, so what is our fear? What is our.

[Megyn Kelly]

You know what her.

[Andrew Schulz]

Men just not afraid of anything.

[Megyn Kelly]

I'm embarrassed to tell you that I've been dreaming lately about the AM update that we've been doing as a new pod that we've launched in our feed. It's very embarrassing. My dreams are about news now. Ok? I do it either really late or early morning, and it's just on my mind. You shouldn't dream about news. That's just sad. Yeah, right, That's.

[Andrew Schulz]

Well, this is your passion. This is what you dedicate your life to.

[Megyn Kelly]

You see, but I could relate to. Didn't you say. Did I hear this in the special that you were saying your girlfriend always dreams about you cheating on her?

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, yeah, my wife.

[Megyn Kelly]

Your wife? Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

She dreams about me cheating on her. Yeah. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

So I've had that dream with Doug, too. And if I have that dream, the next day, I am such a to him. Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is. It is funny that you punish us for it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right?

[Andrew Schulz]

But yeah. Yeah, that was what I was saying. I think in the special, it's like, why can't I have those dreams?

[Megyn Kelly]

It's almost like, like, go. Go through it. Walk me through it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I was like, I'd like to know exactly. But yeah, it was. It's almost as like, you know, God shot like the dream arrow and like, it was just like a degree off. You know, he was. Put that in my br. Yeah, exactly. It is weird. I don't really have dreams where. Where I'm cheating on her or where.

[Megyn Kelly]

She'S cheating on you.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think I might have had something and I woke up upset. I think it's like, this is my sexism coming out. But, like, when a. When a woman cheats, like, even in like a movie, like, my. My thought is like, who wrote this? Yeah, this is twisted. Like. Like, if I watch a serial thing, I'm like, okay, this is what it is. But if I see, like, a woman being unfaithful in something, I'm like, there is a diabolical madman out there writing this. Like, we need to, like, lock him up. Like, why would you promote this?

[Megyn Kelly]

We're lost as a society.

[Andrew Schulz]

I become this, like, really conservative Christian. Like, I'm just like the American foundation and nuclear families being destroyed. Oh, God, look at me getting all.

[Megyn Kelly]

You're getting really excited, worked up about it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I know.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, I. My girlfriends and I have had this talks, this talk many times. Like, would you leave. Would you definitely leave your husband or your boyfriend if you found out he was cheating?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And then of course you get into, well, is it a one off or is it like, A full blown blown affair with somebody else.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And honestly, most of the women I know have the same answer to both, which is, no, I would not leave.

[Andrew Schulz]

Isn't that. But also, they have children, right?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

That changes the entire game.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's also like. But yeah, this is good. Wait a minute. So we can cheat is.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, literally every friend of Doug's right now is texting him.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, we're going to Colombia.

[Megyn Kelly]

Doug, not. Not saying that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, whoopsie.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's just, you know, like, that's. That's a. Oh.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know. You know, I'm curious your take on this. Like, I was talking to some. Some of the. The women that work with me, and, you know, there's this, like, this prominence in talking about relationships now. Like, talking about, like, red flags and ick culture. Have you heard about this?

[Megyn Kelly]

I must be too old.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, so, like, a lot of women talk about, like, red flags and icks they have with men. Like, little things that they do that annoy them.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

And it could be something like, small. Like if it's raining and a guy lifts his shoulders, I don't like that. It, like, really turns me off to him.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's like, tough.

[Andrew Schulz]

Exactly. So. And like, they're really, like, nuanced and specific. And I was like, what do you. I was asking, like, what do you think that's about? And this is my suspicion. I think that, like, there's so much pressure for women to be with somebody that they maybe would rather be with somebody they don't really like than be alone. Like, their moms are constantly going, hey, you got to get married. You got to have someone. And then you're with someone you don't like.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, God.

[Andrew Schulz]

And when you're around someone you don't like, everything about them annoys you.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, you can't have that. No. And then you're going to let them get on top of you never know.

[Andrew Schulz]

Never.

[Megyn Kelly]

How could you?

[Andrew Schulz]

But if you really love someone, like you said, they can go to Columbia with the boys.

[Megyn Kelly]

It has an. The opposite effect. It's like nothing bothers.

[Andrew Schulz]

Nothing at all.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's all really cute.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's funny because I can't think of a thing about Doug that bothers me like that. And even after we just celebrate our.

[Andrew Schulz]

The man.

[Megyn Kelly]

He is the man. We just celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary on Saturday. Yeah. And honestly, like, even after 17 years of marriage, he doesn't do anything that, like, grosses me out. He's like, I don't know. I just find him very Neither dreamboat this guy, but he is very funny about. Not about me, but about other people that like his number one thing that drives him nuts. And his brother has it, too. And I think it's called mesothelioma. Not like the lung disease you get, but it's. I may be saying it wrong.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's like having sex with dead people.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, it's where you can't stand the sound of somebody chewing. It drives me off insane. Yeah. Mesothelioma is like a lung disease, and this is mesothelioma feelium. I gotta look it up.

[Andrew Schulz]

But he doesn't like hearing people.

[Megyn Kelly]

Mesophonia. Thank you, Steve Krakauer. Yeah, Mesophonia. Right where you. It drives you nuts if you can really hear somebody chewing.

[Andrew Schulz]

Chew.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay.

[Megyn Kelly]

And there's somebody in the extended family who's like, every time you sit down with this person, they get a big bowl of raw carrots and start, like, downing. And both.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Brothers are like, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, we can't deal with this. Yeah, Doug. Yeah. Doug's got his idiosyncrasies, which you got to put up with. So are you a quiet chewer, then?

[Megyn Kelly]

I'm actually pretty quiet, yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Good.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. I'm really kind of proud of it. Yeah, I have pretty good table manners. You'll see this with your new daughter. I mean, if that's something with your.

[Andrew Schulz]

Kids that I've, like, bestow manners upon.

[Megyn Kelly]

Them, you can never let up. It's like they don't hear, they don't listen. You could tell them 10,000 times, and they still don't listen. You don't go to the food. The food comes to you. You know, like, all the little things, and still small bites. Small bites. And still you see your kid with, like, a mountain of food, shoving it in there. You're like, I can't send out into the world like this.

[Andrew Schulz]

My parents never taught me table manners.

[Megyn Kelly]

They didn't.

[Andrew Schulz]

Never told me. I learned table manners from the Titanic.

[Megyn Kelly]

What?

[Andrew Schulz]

You know. You know this team where, like, the.

[Megyn Kelly]

The Leonardo DiCaprio.

[Andrew Schulz]

She's like the. The long. Go outside, in with the forks. Like, that's literally the moment I remember. I had a girlfriend. I was, like, in Denmark with, like, her family, and I was, like, using my thumb to shovel salad onto a fork, and the father, like, put his hand on my wrist, and I was like, please use the silverware. No. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, the humiliation.

[Andrew Schulz]

Some Viking.

[Megyn Kelly]

I still have some questions. I have to say. I never took any sort of manners classes, though. I would Love to get some for my kids. If somebody offered that, I would totally hire this.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is that called? Etiquette classes.

[Megyn Kelly]

Class, yeah. Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Class. Yeah. This is what they do down south, right.

[Megyn Kelly]

We were raised like wolves. That's why we don't have a lot of it.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm watching you. Whatever I see works. You know, we ate out every meal or, like, had delivery.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

So there wasn't exactly, like, this big display.

[Megyn Kelly]

I don't remember my parents ever correcting table manners. You just. It's something I picked up on later in life when I got to be more of a professional person.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But I still have questions. Like, here's one question for the audience. Maybe they know. Maybe you know this.

[Andrew Schulz]

When you're eating soup, do you go outside in, or.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, that. I know you're supposed to go from the front to the back. I know you're supposed to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Supposed to.

[Megyn Kelly]

From the front to the back. It is stupid, but you're extra emotion.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, why would you move the food further away from you? This is this, like, pretentious, like, British, where they're. It's like, really wealthy people have to find a way to make you feel insecure about you not having money. And then when everybody started wearing suits, it's like, all right, well, we got to belittle them somehow. Oh, if you see somebody moving the spoon out, then they really have money. I hate this shit. I. What I love about America is the lack of rules in that regard.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, we're not trying to keep up with the Joneses.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, here's my question on it, though. In addition to those, what do you do with the soup spoon when you are in the middle, you want to put it down and. Or when you're done, does it go right back in the soup or does it go on the little.

[Andrew Schulz]

I accidentally move it off the table, and it falls, and I go, oh, God. And then somebody.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's not. Okay. No. It's either supposed to go right back in the soup, which is what I think you're supposed to do.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Or you supposed to put it on the plate. Like the saucer underneath the soup. That plate that's holding the soup bowl.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes, yes, yes. But one of them signifies to the waiter that you're finished, and one signifies.

[Megyn Kelly]

You'Re still eating with the soup. That's true, too.

[Andrew Schulz]

I just made that up.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

But it seems like it makes sense.

[Megyn Kelly]

I do know what to do on the plate. When you want to signify you're done.

[Andrew Schulz]

Knife in between the fork.

[Megyn Kelly]

Fork and knife at 5:00?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like ones that. Well, I guess 10 of 5. At 10 of 5. So one's at the 10 and one's at the 5 on your plate. Yeah, that I got.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's my one thing.

[Andrew Schulz]

Isn't it crazy that we have to, like, speak in code to the waiters at the restaurant?

[Megyn Kelly]

Right?

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, yo. Yeah, that works, right? Yeah, yeah. Nothing left on the plate.

[Megyn Kelly]

Are you a good tipper?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I work in the service industry, so that's the thing. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

If you've never done same.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

I have to say. So I have.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is a good tip for you?

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, I. I always leave 50. What, five, zero? Yeah, I. I always leave 50. But can I tell you something kind of surprising? You think, is it good or it's bad? It's good.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's a lot, right?

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, it. They're not the government.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, you know, I always want to be overly generous to the weight. I mean.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wow. That is.

[Megyn Kelly]

I gotta tell you something. It. I never. And I go.

[Andrew Schulz]

Women don't usually tip. I just want to point. Point that out. Oh, that's not a big thing.

[Megyn Kelly]

That one's important to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

You. That is.

[Megyn Kelly]

You will never read a report about me being a bad tipper.

[Andrew Schulz]

I. Wow. I'm not going 50. What do you go, like 25 or something like that? You know, I keep it round.

[Megyn Kelly]

I got this from Sean Hannity, who tips 100.

[Andrew Schulz]

He does, yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, wow. I'm like, that's too much.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, no, that's guilt. But something's going on. Something's going on.

[Megyn Kelly]

He's a really generous guy.

[Andrew Schulz]

He's harassing waitresses. Something's happening where he's paying them off. 100% is guilt. There's something wrong.

[Megyn Kelly]

But I got to be honest with you, this is.

[Andrew Schulz]

He's taking. No, I mean, Sean is a great guy. You're not doing this. You're not at all. Where's my camera? You're not at all doing this. But I would say 100%, too, if I was taking my girlfriend to the thing. And I don't want anybody to know about it, but Sean would never do that. And that's not the case.

[Megyn Kelly]

Not it. He does not. He does not need to stray. He's with Ainsley. He's good. Well, listen, I was gonna say, I would have. I would kind of expect that when I go back to these same restaurants and have the same waiter, like, maybe I'd get a little bit more white glove treatment. Yeah, I notice absolutely no White glove. I don't, I don't think it really counts. So I just have to feel good about it in my heart, which I do.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not the reason why we do it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, I mean it would be nice if somebody was like thanks, thanks for.

[Andrew Schulz]

But the worst when you're like at the bar and you're like, I'm going to fucking tip this bartender big and you go to put the money down and they walk away and now you got to just stand there until they come back and notice. I need your recognition that I left that like this needs to be very clear.

[Megyn Kelly]

My 13 year old daughter just asked this question at the dinner table last night. This is where it's going for you? She said, is any act of charity ever for the other person or is it purely optimistic or isn't it all selfish?

[Andrew Schulz]

I would like to believe that we are capable of altruism, but I think that there are like percentages of selfishness. For sure. Like if you're doing it to get to heaven, that seems pretty selfish.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, that's, that's what she was saying. And she was saying even just to make yourself feel good, there's an element of selfishness in it. And then my brother in law said, what if you threw yourself on a grenade? And she said no, still you're doing it like there's some piece of you that's doing it to feel good about saving somebody. Or you might be like awarded the medal of honor if you're, you know, like there's something in there.

[Andrew Schulz]

Thirteen.

[Megyn Kelly]

Very cynical.

[Andrew Schulz]

Can I curse on this? Is that cool? Okay. Wow.

[Megyn Kelly]

We couldn't have on Andrew Schultz if you could not.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's a good point. That's a good point. Wow, that is, that is a sophisticated thought for a 13 year old.

[Megyn Kelly]

I know.

[Andrew Schulz]

Has she watched everything everywhere all at once?

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, she, she watches some of the Dateline specials with me. That's probably part of it though. Tonight she's got that side where she's deep and philosophical and cynical in some ways. But tonight she'll be starring as Ursula in the Little Mermaid at her school play.

[Andrew Schulz]

Did she pick Ursula?

[Megyn Kelly]

No, she tried out for it. Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So she wanted Ursula.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

We gotta keep an eye on this girl right here. We gotta keep a very close watch on this girl. This is because it is, I think that what she's pro, what she's approaching is like a very realistic way of looking at life, you know, which is. But sometimes having that view of humanity can be difficult to handle. Yeah, that's a really sophisticated view.

[Megyn Kelly]

Of it's very hard with a. With a mother who's in news and a father who is as cynical and funny as Doug is.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's just our kids have a very healthy sense of humor, which you would appreciate, but, like. Like, very realistic.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

You know.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I'm trying to think, like, what is the, like, the positive impact of that is you can have probably, like, really mature conversations with them.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. She's definitely ahead of her time.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is her school?

[Megyn Kelly]

It's a private school. It's all girls. I will say it's more woke than I would like, but not as woke as the one we pulled her from in New York City.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's the. The conversation I have with parents, public and private is. Is the exact same one that we're having right now. Yeah, it's just like. Yeah, they're all kind of like woke, to use that term. And it's kind of like a. We've beaten that term to the ground.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, they just had one of the. On. I know. It was Martin Luther King Day.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And they had an assembly and they had the head of DEI go in there and talk to the girls and said, just. Just as a reminder, we believe in equity. Everyone has the right to wind up in the same space.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And of course, my daughter. My kids are primed on this. You know, we're inoculating them against this bullshit at home, but she knew enough to come home and be like, mom, this is what they said. And I was like, no, she's absolutely right. On the next test, when you study hard and the girl next to you doesn't, she has a right to see your answers. You have to show them to her. She has the right to get the same grade as you, no matter how much work you did or didn't put into it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I mean, that is funny to have a DEI program at an all girls school.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, that. It's men, but that's the.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're selecting out a group of people. You really can't continue that conversation.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, they can't have the oppressors and the patriarchy running the school.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is true. Wait, are there any, like, male leadership in the school?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes. Well, not leadership, but there are plenty of male teachers.

[Andrew Schulz]

Teachers? Just male teachers.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

But no male leadership.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, there isn't. No. Well, wait, I'm wrong. When you get to the high school, there's a. There's a. There's a male head of the high school. I mean, she's only in middle school, but. So we're not there yet? Yeah, I don't, I don't think they're against men. But you know, we did a bunch of research when the kids were really young on single sex education and it seemed like a focus K through 8. It was a good idea. And the good thing about this high school is when she gets to high school, she'll mix now with boys. So that's good because you know, at some point you have to learn how to be around the opposite sex.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, you do. I wonder. I'm surprised it's that way, not the opposite, opposite way.

[Megyn Kelly]

What do you mean, like co ed K through 8?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Single sex?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

I think they're looking, I think for girls the philosophy is, you know, they'll, they won't be afraid to say how they feel because you know, in middle school it's awkward for everybody and maybe around the boys you're a little bit more buttoned up.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

And then in the younger grades, boys tend to be more disruptive and kind of bigger pains in the ass and girls are like well behaved and so then they get demonized. So it can be better, better for them to be alone too. You know, they're not being compared to the well behaved girls. Like at our boys school, the first thing they do for the K through fivers is they let them go to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Gym for like the system.

[Megyn Kelly]

Get it out.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's smart, right? That's really smart.

[Megyn Kelly]

But girls don't need that.

[Andrew Schulz]

They're just ready to pay attention and lock in.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, it's amazing.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Isn't this fun? You have all this to look forward to with your now one year baby.

[Andrew Schulz]

Excited. Yeah, it's great. It is like terrifying though. All these things are scary.

[Megyn Kelly]

You don't know anything.

[Andrew Schulz]

You really don't know anything. And now I like, I have this, I have this amazing empathy for, I mean, I don't want to like politicize this too much, but like even these like hot button topics like, you know, vaccination and these kind of things, like if you don't have children, like you really don't even need to be part of the conversation at all because you don't understand the fear of making a decision that could negatively impact your daughter either way.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

To do it and then something happens. God forbid, now you feel that responsibility. You don't do it and something happens. You feel that responsibility.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

And you're constantly, you know, these decisions are put in front of you. It's like, oof.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, like you're trying to rely on your doctor and You're. You know, you try to find a good doctor and just do what he says, but then this whole past five years has really undermined health in doctors and public health officials. Right. So you're kind of like every institution.

[Andrew Schulz]

I feel like we have super low confidence in.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Every pediatrician that we've had has recommended that we get them the COVID vaccine, which we didn't.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Okay. My current.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, no, I got fake one. Oh, no. I got myself the vaccine, which I regret, but I did not get it from my kids.

[Andrew Schulz]

Did you get a booster?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes, I got one booster.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, I didn't. I got. I got a fake booster so I could do a movie.

[Megyn Kelly]

I wish I had gotten fake.

[Andrew Schulz]

I got you. There's, like, some Jewish guy in Brooklyn that I went to.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, come on.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Why didn't I know any of this?

[Andrew Schulz]

And then I gave it to the movie company to prove them that I was vaccinated. They hit me back. They're like, yeah, this is. And I was like, all right, I gotta talk to that guy again.

[Megyn Kelly]

It was. I'm shocked. What did he shoot me up with?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

So you got the first two shots, but nothing more?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I was excited. Like, I know this sounds crazy, but I was, like, excited to get the first two because I was like, I just want to get out. Like, I want to party. Like. Like, I didn't know what the. It was.

[Megyn Kelly]

You're in New York.

[Andrew Schulz]

We went down to Miami.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

So we were in New York, and everything was shut down in New York. And in the beginning, it was kind of exciting. It was just me and my wife were, like, making meals together every single night. You know, it's felt like camping. I've never gone camping, but, like, that's kind of what I imagined it was. And then. And I was lucky. I'm doing podcasts. I'm doing what I do outside of stand up.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So, like, my life wasn't that different outside of, like, not being able to eat out, I guess.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Come winter, it got brutal. Like, it was just. So we went down to Miami for four months, and it was amazing. Like, my whole team, we all went down there. I think day two, the entire team got Covid.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Higher team. My poor guy was in our pool house for two weeks with COVID He got long Covid. Like, it was. Yeah. I mean, it was great. I was. I just see him in the window just waving. It was incredible. Duff, who's here right now. But. But. Yeah. Yeah. So there was this part of me that Was like, I just want to be able to do things. Like, so shoot me up. I don't care.

[Megyn Kelly]

And they were Nazis in New York about it, which is your real home base.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah. It is tricky. Do you like. So there is this thing where I go, yeah, we're going to be more strict in New York, where we live on top of each other. We're all on the fucking subway together. Like, I don't want to compare New York to Montana. Like, when someone in Montana is like, I can't believe you guys did that in New York. It's like, yeah, you live on a.

[Megyn Kelly]

Ranch, like 500 acres.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Like, the rules are going to be different. You know, I got, like, a Dominican family above me that's going to play music at 12 unless the city has a rule that stops the music at 10.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's right.

[Andrew Schulz]

So sometimes you like a little government overreach if you want to get to bed, you know?

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, and we were all being told at the. On the initial vaccine that it would stop the spread. So, you know. Exactly. Make you not contagious.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is what I feel like people do that's just, like, so frustrating. It's like they. It's the lies to cover up the lack of information, and then you get these, like, conspiracies. Like, every conspiracy I imagine, like, the truth of it is probably way more boring, but it's probably, like, a little incompetence.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Somebody refusing to take accountability for their own incompetence, covering it up with a lie. And then the Internet gets after them trying to solve this puzzle. And it's just. If one person had the balls to just be like, yo, I fucked up. Yeah, that was me.

[Megyn Kelly]

I was the second shooter. I'm just gonna put it out there.

[Andrew Schulz]

We need the Victoria's Secret guy. Who's Epstein's. Yeah, yeah. We just need him to come out. I mean, be like, I funded it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Why can't we know more about him?

[Andrew Schulz]

Dude, this is the thing. It's like, give him immunity. Give him immunity, and then we can learn everything and we can move on. Yeah, but he's got to know. Why'd you give this guy billions of dollars to manage?

[Megyn Kelly]

I have to tell you, I. I had a couple of conversation with somebody very close to the Epstein case, like, very close to it, who shall go nameless for this conversation? And this person swore to me, Acosta, now that there's. That there.

[Andrew Schulz]

He could talk, too. He knows shit, too.

[Megyn Kelly]

That. That he wasn't this, quote, pedophile.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right.

[Megyn Kelly]

That he was into like 16, 17 year old girls.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And that, yes, some may have sort of gotten through that were slightly younger, but that wasn't exactly his thing. And that pretty much every famous celebrity was friends with him and went on his jet.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But that at most all they were getting was like the so called massages from these 16, 17 year olds. As opposed to like a pedophile ring.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Now I don't, you know, 16, 17.

[Andrew Schulz]

Is pedophile for me.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, it depends on the state. It could be illegal, but in some.

[Andrew Schulz]

Places it's probably legal. Like even in Canada or even like the UK or something in my France. I don't even know if they have an age.

[Megyn Kelly]

Probably not. Yeah, I think they're still defending him over there.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. The only thing they age is cheese.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean you think about it though because like how did Alan Dershowitz wind up, you know, becoming Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer? How did all these world figures wind up on his plane? Because he had, you know, he had cachet, he had money. He was already connected. He was tight with the people at Harvard. That's all you really have to say, that you're tight with the people at Harvard and mit. Everybody will let you into their party cosign. Right?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like if you've got these certain credentials, you're good.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't even need to check in on you.

[Megyn Kelly]

No.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're tight with Harvard. You have an office at Harvard.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes. You must be legit.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're a legit guy. Why would Harvard not even after you.

[Megyn Kelly]

Already pleaded guilty to something with a young prostitute. Like we're still Katie Couric still going to go to your dinner party at your mansion.

[Andrew Schulz]

Bill Gates is still going to ask you for marital advice.

[Megyn Kelly]

How about the Bill Gates thing?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like were you surprised when it came out that he was like with all these younger women and like these pool parties and it was like, you know, he'd been so buttoned up in this like totally respectable person.

[Andrew Schulz]

Am I surprised that the billionaire guy had a bunch of chicks that he was sleeping with?

[Megyn Kelly]

Not so much, no. But it was totally contrary to his image at the time.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't think Warren Buffett really wears khakis and drinks a Diet Coke on a bench in Omaha.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes, he does.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is, this is the beautiful lie that we're all.

[Megyn Kelly]

Explain it to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

You think that that's what he's doing? You think he's just like, I'm going to have my hot dog and a Diet Coke? No, that's like propaganda. He's in a boardroom somewhere going, ok, we got a trillion dollars to move around. Let's.

[Megyn Kelly]

I thought you were making a comment about women and Warren.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, I don't think Warren's doing anything with women.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay, it might be.

[Andrew Schulz]

I have no clue. I have, I have no clue. But like, it. Nothing surprises me, nothing shocks me, like in order to make that money. Okay, I'm not talking about like tech. Billions is a little bit different. Right. Because it's all like fugazi. It's not real. It's like, okay, we think that this is worth, that everybody's trying to get rich on it. Stock price spikes, the businesses aren't actually making any money. It's not real.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's all on paper.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it's all paper. You can't cash out speculation. Right? So. But like in order to actually make like proper billion dollars, like you gotta kill like a few people, right?

[Megyn Kelly]

You do.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think.

[Megyn Kelly]

You think Elon has killed a few people.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, what do you mean a few?

[Megyn Kelly]

What do you mean? Like how with a Tesla, with a self driving.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not like he shoots like, but also he's tech. Like I don't know how profitable the business are. Yeah, like how profitable are the businesses?

[Megyn Kelly]

I don't. I'm sure he could cash out on some of these. Like Tesla, he's a genius.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm not trying to be like overly critical of him, but I'm talking about like an actual, you are making dollars and cents business that you can cash out. Like, I mean, yeah, I don't think that you can have this like pious constitution and do that.

[Megyn Kelly]

Most of these people cash out and they, they sell like Mark Cuban, you know, he sold this business he came up with and there's just the one sale because it seems like the first buyer winds up getting screwed. Like he thinks he's going to build it, he's bought something meaningful and then when he turns around, like everything's collapsed. That happens all the time.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

You want to be the one who invents it. It builds it up into something big on paper and then get out of town.

[Andrew Schulz]

Get the fuck out of there.

[Megyn Kelly]

How about Elon now? He's in all over the news for the Doge stuff.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

He wore a suit the other night. Wow. Mark, Mike Davis, who comes on the show a lot, he's a lawyer.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Trump affiliated. Tweet out something like two things. Elon has a suit and a babysitter.

[Andrew Schulz]

He brought something like that.

[Megyn Kelly]

We haven't seen it. He's turning over a new leaf.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know what the thing about Elon is? Is, like, he's obviously a brilliant guy, and you want brilliant people on your side, especially if, like, we're going to World War iii. Like, if we are go to war with Russia, China, whatever it is. I think you kind of want the rocket guy.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

On your side. Right.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like, you can either protect us or get us to Mars if things go to hell.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right. Like, let's just. So we want to keep them over here. My concern about the Doge thing is this is. I don't think there's a single American out there that's like, I want waste, inefficiency and government corruption.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is a bipartisan supported issue. And I feel like, like, because maybe he's. He hasn't developed, like, the, the. The skill of politics. He's kind of like, twisting the knife a little bit too.

[Megyn Kelly]

And it's like, too inhumane.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't even know about inhumane. I. I'm just like. It's kind of like, gotcha, here we go. Where you could rally support from all of us. Everybody wants this. The left should want this. The right should want this. This can be a victory for America.

[Megyn Kelly]

I think it is. I mean, like, would we have you guys. We have that Harry Engine thing I asked for. You know him over on cnn. He's hilarious.

[Andrew Schulz]

I know him from the cellar. He hangs out at the comedy all the time.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, he does, yeah. Yeah, he is. He's funny himself. I love his New York accent. Here he is talking about the Doge and public reaction.

[Unnamed Guest]

This, to me, was one of the more shocking figures that I saw, made me go, wait a minute. Hold on one second. Whoa. Americans on Trump and Joe's efforts. Musk and Doge should influence government spending and operations. Look at this. 54%. The majority say that he and they should. How about approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies. Again, you get a majority here, 51%. So, yeah, Elon Musk might not be that popular, but these cuts in the idea of spending cuts, at least within the federal government and cutting at government agencies, that actually has majority support. I was truly surprised by this, Kate, but the numbers are the numbers. Democrats argue that the type of spending that Musk is cutting is mainly necessary progress programs, but that comes in at just 36%. The wasteful spending actually wins the plurality here at 42%, according to a recent Washington Post Ipsos Paul. And I think that is the reason why you see that when it comes to dusk and Moj Musk and Doge you see, in fact, the majority believe he should have some influence because they believe. The plurality believe that he is cutting wasteful spending, not necessary programs that Democrats are arguing.

[Megyn Kelly]

So he is winning the PR war.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, but to me, there shouldn't even need to be PR. I guess it should be 100%.

[Megyn Kelly]

What? What? How so? Like, he should be more clear on the Doge website, which is not that user friendly.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I don't even know if it's more clear. I think it's more like the tweets and, like, the antagonism within the tweets. And I think he's developed this very, like, polarizing personality online. And there's a way. Okay, the question right now is, is it possible to be less polarizing? Right. Like, what percentage?

[Megyn Kelly]

No matter who you are, of course.

[Andrew Schulz]

And like, now that he's in this position of it's not only like, immense power, but also influence, and he's tackling a topic that is not partisan at all. Like, there is support here, so you don't need to antagonize at all. It's like, buddy, everybody's on your side. If you hire some people and then. Sorry. If you fire them and then have to hire them back, like, it's okay to be like, hey, we made a mistake there. We're not perfect. We're gonna. We're gonna do this right, and we're gonna figure this out. Like, it's okay to acknowledge these things. And this is where I think, like, having a little bit more experience in politics can be helpful, because this is. It is a different game. You're dealing with emotions, not facts. Yeah, you could show me those lists all you want. Like, people are emotional beings. They don't give a. Like, what is it that dweeb says all the time? The Ben Shapiro guy? He's like, facts don't care about your feelings. It's like, no, no. Dumbass feelings don't care about facts. Yeah, feel things. Like, there's a woman in Mexico that's going to see the Virgin Mary in her toast today because she feels the Lord and then sees it afterwards. We don't look at.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like, usually it's a Cinnabon. Fine, keep going. Just my experience.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's how you know. That's how you know Megan is locked in at the airport. Christ is king when she's at the Cinnabon.

[Megyn Kelly]

I try not to let people see me going there.

[Andrew Schulz]

I love it. I love it. There's that great Louis CK bit where he's like, I went to Cinnabon after arriving.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's sad. No, I actually, I don't go to Cinnabon because I. I'm, you know, in my 50s, and I just can't do that anymore. But I will tell you, not too long ago, I was at the airport for a layover, and I wanted this so badly. And I'm like, I'm doing it. And I got not just the small bag and not the huge, huge bag, but like the medium, sort of large.

[Andrew Schulz]

Ish.

[Megyn Kelly]

Bag of Cheetos.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

I ate every last one. There was a woman across me kind of looking at me, stealing glass. You could tell. She was kind of like, is she gonna eat that entire bag of Cheetos? I'm like, sister, I am America.

[Andrew Schulz]

They're just like us.

[Megyn Kelly]

It was so good.

[Andrew Schulz]

Stars are just like us. You deserve a bag of Cheetos.

[Megyn Kelly]

Guilty pleasure.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes. Burned everything. What do you. You should be eating Cheetos every single night.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, then. Then. Then it starts to come back at you, you know, like, then next thing.

[Andrew Schulz]

But then you get the Manjaro or the Ozempic or whatever like that.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's better to keep it off to begin with. Trust me. I've had to. I've lost and I've gained over the years. It's better if you can keep it off.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's no more Fat pride, huh? That really ended with the Ozempic.

[Megyn Kelly]

I think if you're a leftist, there is. You think you have to at least say you are. Otherwise, you know, I think Ozempic ended that. You see Lizzo?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

She's beautiful. She looks awesome.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes. I think they've all realized that. But it was hard to do it because you got to, like, put in the effort, you know?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. I don't know. I'm not sure.

[Andrew Schulz]

Doing it, too. They're like, on the Ozempic. So there's.

[Megyn Kelly]

After telling us that we were supposed to embrace it and it was healthy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, I got ridiculed.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

For just being like, this is absurd. Like, what's going on? And not at all. And now they're all nose epic, and they're like, I'll just be a model. Model.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. What about swimsuit or Sports Illustrated now bring you back actual hot models for its magazine, America's Healing. Yeah. Right. Martha Stewart. I guess that didn't sell a lot of magazines. Or Gayle King.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, why did Martha go in there?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. And so did Gayle King. And I think they eventually realized what.

[Andrew Schulz]

They really wanted was a baddie. Back in the day, though.

[Megyn Kelly]

I ain't gonna watch her.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I did.

[Megyn Kelly]

It was crazy.

[Andrew Schulz]

She is a psycho. But here's what I'm saying. She has some bodies that you don't get to that number without taking some people out. If someone told me that, like, Martha had someone killed, I wouldn't be like Martha.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, really? Well, she is a convicted felon.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Like, you don't think she's capable of murder.

[Megyn Kelly]

I don't.

[Andrew Schulz]

Herself, but, like, getting someone else to do it.

[Megyn Kelly]

No. Are you capable of murder?

[Andrew Schulz]

I could murder.

[Megyn Kelly]

What?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, like, if somebody did anything to my daughter, I could kill them.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes. Okay, me too.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Or to protect.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, of course. If somebody's, like, gonna, you know, do something to me.

[Megyn Kelly]

But what about for, like, you know, business?

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh. Like, could I murder somebody to, like, get.

[Megyn Kelly]

To get a deal or out of a vendetta?

[Andrew Schulz]

No. I mean, I'll. If. Or where I could convince myself that they did something to my daughter, I'd be like, yeah, I definitely have to kill that comedian.

[Megyn Kelly]

But can I tell you something? Like, if you're a. If you're a sociopath.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

I. Because I've talked to some sociopaths. They actually have no qualms about this whatsoever. They will talk to you about, like, yes, that is an acceptable menu item. Like, yeah, killing the person to take care of the problem is right there.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like, they just don't even. And. And, you know, one in four people are sociopaths.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I've heard this. Like, it's. It's kind of a sad way to live, though, you know?

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, yeah, like.

[Andrew Schulz]

But because, like, there's a competitive advantage about not caring about people, but the human experience is connectivity. So, like, you go without that. Like, I was speaking to this guy. He used to be a CIA dude, and he was, like, borderline sociopath. And that's what they liked about them because you want people that can make those really difficult decisions. And I'm sure the CIA has all their whatever, right. Anyway, and he was telling me that, like, he. He's aware of what people should feel.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Even though he doesn't feel it.

[Megyn Kelly]

No. They study.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

They learn the proper way of reacting.

[Andrew Schulz]

But imagine not being like. Imagine your kid that first time you hear a kid laugh and the way that it, like, transforms your entire idea of what joy is.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

And imagine seeing that and feeling nothing.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's. You're dead inside.

[Andrew Schulz]

What a horrible way to live.

[Megyn Kelly]

Can I tell you something? I can find out whether you are a sociopath.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, tell me.

[Megyn Kelly]

Two minutes or less.

[Andrew Schulz]

Go, go, go. This is good.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's a little riddle.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay, go.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay. A man shows up at a funeral.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

He goes to grieve the. The dead body at the wake. It was the wake. And he sees a woman near the casket. And they exchange a glance. You know, they make eye contact. The man leaves. The funeral, wraps up. A week later, that man kills that woman's mother. Why?

[Andrew Schulz]

Because he's a sociopath. Well, I probably do have the answer.

[Megyn Kelly]

But what do you think the answer is?

[Andrew Schulz]

Because that woman's mother was the mistress of his father.

[Megyn Kelly]

You're not a sociopath.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, wow. What is it?

[Megyn Kelly]

Because he wanted to see her again, the woman. Now, let me tell you something.

[Andrew Schulz]

Did you see how I went with women cheating?

[Megyn Kelly]

But can I tell you, everybody, my biggest fear?

[Andrew Schulz]

No.

[Megyn Kelly]

So. So the sociopath gets that. Like this.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wait, really?

[Megyn Kelly]

They have that answer like this. And let me tell you where I got this test from. From my. Somebody who used to be in my life. That person's father was a psychiatrist in one of the worst prisons in America. And they would actually do this test on the patients. And man by man by man, if. And by the way, to my listening audience, if it came to you right away, you might be a sociopath.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Turn yourself in.

[Megyn Kelly]

But you'll see it has to come. Like, if you're wrestling with it. And after, like, a minute, you're like, was it this? You've given a couple guesses, and you get there eventually. You're good. Because a sociopath immediately is like. Because he wanted to see her again. They just think differently.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, it is the. It is the easiest path to seeing her again.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

It guarantees it.

[Megyn Kelly]

And there's no moral objection on your list. Again, you're like, who cares? Isn't that crazy?

[Andrew Schulz]

It feels good that I'm not a sociopath.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes. You can go tell Emma. Yes, I know, but I knew you were in. In my head while I was like, should I do the sociopath test on him? I was like, what if he fails and I've humiliated this poor guy in front of everybody? But then I was thinking about the video you put in your latest comedy thing on Netflix. I'm like, there's no way. And sociopath.

[Andrew Schulz]

What's the opposite, is empath.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I think that's it. I'm like, you feel too much.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. I believe that about you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

You are a softie.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I'm sensitive. Very sensitive. And it's like. It's weird. It's like, I'm sensitive, but, like, I can. I Can. I'm numb to certain things. Not numb, but, like, they don't really affect me. Like, criticism, going through all these, like, random Internet shit that I go through.

[Megyn Kelly]

Y.

[Andrew Schulz]

But I'm. I am very sensitive to the people I really care about. So, like, reactivity within, like, my family or friend group. And then I'm also sensitive to, like, kind of, like cultural trends. I can, like, feel like, frustration pretty early.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like, what do you mean? Do you feel one now?

[Andrew Schulz]

No, not like. Like, what do I think for people, for example? Like, what do I think people really care about? Like, I think that the Democrats, for example, like, they could win the next election if they just make it a class issue. Like, it's that simple and they got to just be. They're not. They're so risk averse, and they need to be a little bit more brave Americans. We. We have very high risk tolerance or low risk. What's the one I'm talking.

[Megyn Kelly]

We have high risk, high.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, everybody in our family's history, like, the craziest people in the world came here.

[Megyn Kelly]

Came here y.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, they lived in another country, left their entire family for maybe it working out, and then came over here.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

So we're built crazy. So we like people to take risks and we like bravery. And despite your politics, we react to those type of people. And like, I think this is part of the reason why Bernie was so successful is he's out here, like, calling out the billionaire class, calling out these corporations, and even, like, people who were Republicans, like, working class Republicans, were like, yo, who the is that? Yeah, I kind of like this guy. Like, it feels like he's kind of riding for.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's who Joe Rogan was for four years ago.

[Andrew Schulz]

All of us loved him. And despite 10.

[Megyn Kelly]

Whatever.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it was a while. But I. And I feel like that's kind of what the Democratic Party is missing, is just, I need a disruptive guy or girl who's willing to come out and say, eggs are a dollar. Like, what's your. Build a wall.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, right.

[Andrew Schulz]

You need eggs or a dollar.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep, even.

[Andrew Schulz]

And then you could, I don't know, subsidize it, whatever it is. But, like, you need to smack into people emotionally.

[Megyn Kelly]

Do you feel like this is the answer? Because this is the latest messaging from the Dems on social media today. Choose your fighter video montage.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, God.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, yes. Yeah, it's Democratic female lawmakers aoc in the fighting stands and bouncing. Oh, she looks like an idiot. Look at this one. Yeah, look at her. Jasmine Crockett. Oh, the Last one's terrible. I'm, I have second hand embarrassment.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Is that what you mean by fearless and risk tolerance?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, exactly what I mean. That to me makes me proud to be an American. Like I feel safe with those women right there. They can defend me. Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

Does that inspire you to get to the ballot box? You know what I mean?

[Andrew Schulz]

It's like I don't even know why AOC is there. She's actually, you know, like her hate her politics. Like I think she pulled the same as Trump in her district.

[Megyn Kelly]

She's good on the social media. I mean she knows how to use social media normally. I don't think she came up with that campaign.

[Andrew Schulz]

No. I think she's like getting on board with it, but at the same time like her, I guess her constituents feel like she's fighting for her.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Where there's a lot of this. Yeah. Or sorry for them. And where it's like I find a lot of times with the Democrats there is this like pretentiousness, there's this like Ivy League educated, like second or third generation kind of trust fund Nepo babies that are like telling people how they should live and how, how they should vote. And it's like first of all, if you've never had a real job, you don't get to talk.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

You don't get to talk. Like I'm almost like if you've never had a kid, you don't get to talk. But like if you never had a real job, you don't get to tell people how they should vote. Like we, we just despise that.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So what I think they have to do is get back in touch with the working class is, is very much make this a class issue. And you got to call out those people who are giving you money, which these billionaires and these corporations that are donating and they won't do it and that's why they'll probably lose. But the first person in that party that calls it out, you're going to see the Bernie effect happen again.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, I mean the problem they're dealing with right now is they don't know how to handle Trump. They don't know how to behave properly. You know, they're way, like, don't even talk to them. We're debating the spoon. They're debating whether you should stand when the 13 year old brain cancer strick boy gets honored. They, they didn't do it. There's a meme going on right now. I think Riley Gaines posted it saying they, they knelt for 8 minutes and 43 seconds for George Floyd. But they couldn't stand for Peyton McNabb.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

The now 19 year old, formerly 16 year old who got slammed in the face with the volleyball. They couldn't stand for DJ Daniel, the little boy, the 13 year old boy with brain cancer. They couldn't stand for the widow of the cop who got gunned down. They couldn't stand learning that the terrorist who organized the Abbey Gate attack got arrested.

[Andrew Schulz]

But the problem with this is like they're falling for the trap. And this is why you need a little bit more like boots on the ground with the Dems. Like you got to understand like what people think of you. Like, like we were saying, people are emotional. It's not like what you believe is real, it's what they feel is real. Right. So they've got a couple issues. They've got a masculinity issue, right?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, they do.

[Andrew Schulz]

I said something on, on Brilliant Idiots with Charlemagne. I was just joking around. I was like, I don't know, a guy like over5 that identifies as a Democrat.

[Megyn Kelly]

I love that they played that sound bite on my show.

[Andrew Schulz]

They went crazy and I didn't realize it was going to be so reactive. And then afterwards I was like, oh, wow. They, they, they have this deep insecurity that they're not seen as masculine. So that really tapped that insecurity.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, they do something about it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Well, that's. So you have to find a way to be masculine. You can be masculine and care for people. Like, there's so many ways. I'm a fucking kid who grew up in like an arts family in New York City. Like my whole family's Democrats. Like, this is. There's tons of very masculine Democrats.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like Bill was maybe too masculine. You know what I mean? There was a time where like there was a time where Democrats were getting laid and Republicans were like, how do you do this outside of the marriage? You gotta wait for that has completely flipped.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep, completely. Did you feel it was masculine to hold up the little sign saying Musk steals?

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, God.

[Megyn Kelly]

Did you. Do you feel you would have done that had you been a masculine Democrat?

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't even know. I mean, but to, to your point about this is like they're falling for the trap. Republicans know. Right. That they're going to sit down. So they're putting out circumstances.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

That they can't. They're like, if they sit for this, they're going to look so bad.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's a no lose situation for Trump.

[Andrew Schulz]

But if they spill for it, it's actually a beautiful moment.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Look at this poor little kid.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

And. And it's a great moment where we come together. It's just like Doge getting rid of government waste and inefficiency. Inefficiency is a great thing for America. We should have bipartisan support for this. What Dems are doing is they're going, going, You're a bad guy. And that worked when people thought Trump was bad guy. They don't anymore.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's right.

[Andrew Schulz]

They don't.

[Megyn Kelly]

You're making yourselves look like the bad guys.

[Andrew Schulz]

Don't even talk about him. Talk about the people you want to help. People are desperate. They need help. You need your build a wall. It's eggs are a dollar.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

You need your. Your build a wall. It's. We're building 10,000 affordable housing units in every city. We're seizing this land. And then have developers go, wait, you can't even do that? And go, I don't give a fuck if you say we can't do what we're doing.

[Megyn Kelly]

They don't have that guy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Put your balls on the ground. Like, just make it happen. Even if it doesn't happen. It's like Trump saying, we're going to take Greenland. It's kind of fun.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right? Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

I like that.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's America. I like it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Hell, yeah. Like, Gulf of America. I don't care. Why was it ever Gulf of Mexico? I know.

[Megyn Kelly]

We're so much bigger than they are, Right?

[Andrew Schulz]

Matter of fact, they could still call it Gulf of Mexico. We don't care. Do you know what I mean? Like, but that's the energy that we need. Americans love abundance.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

You need to sell us an abundance.

[Megyn Kelly]

Aren't you the guy? You're the one who said this to me, and I've quoted you on it many times, on how the moment Trump won you over was when he took the guy from Montenegro by the shoulder. Was, like, to the back.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wait, which one?

[Megyn Kelly]

When he was over at, like, the G7 or 18.

[Andrew Schulz]

I loved it. I love that.

[Megyn Kelly]

And he shoved that guy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Why am I in the back, right? Why?

[Megyn Kelly]

I'm America.

[Andrew Schulz]

Nobody even understands what this country is. This guy in the front, move out of the way. I will sit here. And then he did it, and everybody got in line. Happens. You need that kind of. That is some, like, psychotic. I don't think I would have the balls to do that. That is some balls.

[Megyn Kelly]

Montenegro's in the back, sir.

[Andrew Schulz]

Bye. See you later. You're all in the back. It doesn't really matter. Right If I'm giving you money, you're in the back.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Are you guys giving me money? So why are you in the front? Right. It's like.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, that's part of his, like, weirdly, it's unbelievably charming charm and humor. What did you think of? I thought it was very funny at the State of the Union. Did you. Did you laugh?

[Andrew Schulz]

Great. This amount for this country, nobody even knows what the hell it is.

[Megyn Kelly]

Did that make you laugh out loud?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it. This is another thing Democrats don't understand. They don't understand, like, why this, like, billionaire who was given money from his dad is so relatable. Well, why don't you listen to him talk? I've had conversations with, like, rich people. Okay. They don't talk like that.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

They are incredibly buttoned up, a lot of them, and concerned publicly about their image, and they're very deliberate about what they say. He don't give a fuck.

[Megyn Kelly]

No.

[Andrew Schulz]

When the Indian reporter was asking him the question and he was just dibble dabbling, and then Trump let him finish and go, I don't understand what the hell that guy's talking about. You know who says that? The guy on the construction site.

[Megyn Kelly]

And he called her Pocahontas at the State of the Union.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is what. This is how workingclass people talk. This is what. This is like what we do. This is how we communicate with one another. So when we see it happen, we're like, oh, wow, I relate to that human being. Again, emotional people. We're not Ben Shapiro. Feelings. No, facts. That's not what we are. We are. I. What is it? Feelings on facts.

[Megyn Kelly]

Ben says facts. Don't care about your feelings.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah. We're not. The facts. Don't care about your feelings. We are. Feelings are the only thing that matter. And when you communicate with me in a way that all my friends communicate, I start to feel like, oh, I can kind of relate to you. It doesn't matter how much you try to make that person radioactive, because he's communicating and hitting me at my core.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's so true. It's why his. His background in construction really made him, despite his advantages in his family and when it came to money. So relatable. Because he spent his whole life around working class people.

[Andrew Schulz]

Exactly. It's like. And I. And I say these things because. Because I think America is at its best if we have two candidates that people really are having a difficult time deciding over. I don't want a system. Right. Like, I don't want a system Like, a lot of times there's this, like, good versus evil dichotomy. And it's like they almost want the Democrats to be bad, and the Democrats want the Republicans to be bad. Like, I want America to win.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's the only thing I'm consider. Whatever candidate loves America more. That's what I'm voting for.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Well, that's. That was, I think, pretty clear between the Democrats of today and the Republican Party. The best moment of Trump that I've seen on this score is the one where he sat for that deposition on behalf of in the E. Jean Carroll case against him. And the lawyer asked him, did you say that. That you can grab him by the P word? And they let you get away with it if you're a celebrity? And Trump said, yes. And she said, why did you say that? Well, because that's the way it's been for thousands of years. You know, unfortunately, fortunately. Or fortunately. Who would say that in a deposition in a case where you're being accused of sexual assault?

[Andrew Schulz]

I did a joke about that, and I was like. He said, yeah. He said, if you. If a billionaire can grab you by the P word, and there's a lot of women that are like, oh, my God, you can't say that.

[Megyn Kelly]

And.

[Andrew Schulz]

And I was like, yeah, but none of you have met a billionaire. Like, why are you talking about this? Like, I was like, you're getting fingered by thousand.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know, like, this is not a relatable circumstance for you. So. Yeah, it's all right.

[Megyn Kelly]

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[Andrew Schulz]

I walked in that hospital with so much confidence. They handed me a cup. I'm handing them back a martini. I'm ready. Remember I went in the room, I jerked off, I opened my eyes, I looked down, I thought I missed. There was so little sperm in this cup. I could have counted them individually. There was a red line on the cup three quarters of the way up. For what reason I do not know to this day, three quarters of the way. What zoo animal hippopotamus cups are you giving out to people? Why are you even giving me a cup? Give me a contact lens gaze.

[Megyn Kelly]

I'll.

[Andrew Schulz]

Turn that shit into a Guinness.

[Megyn Kelly]

That was so funny. It's part of. Hello again, this is Andrew Schulz with me today. It's the latest Netflix special. It's out now. It's called Life and it's so well worth your time. You know, maybe don't watch it with like your 8 year old, but teenager. Absolutely love it. And it's, I would say like I watch the whole time where I'm like, oh my God, I'm dying, I'm crying. I hope nobody knows what I'm watching. They can't hear what I'm laughing.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's some adult content in there for sure, but it's all in.

[Megyn Kelly]

But here you this a personal story. This whole thing is about your journey with Emma and trying to conceive a baby.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And no, I mean no detail is spared.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But so it's very personal. It's unusually personal for you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Did you, did you run it by her first?

[Andrew Schulz]

So the, the thing was, is. Yeah, first, like, you know, this is the most like male thing. Like, but it's, I assume that the reason why we couldn't is because it was her fault. Right. And I talk about it in the special where I'm like, she was really concerned it was her fault and I was really concerned it was her fault. Like we were all really concerned.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's obviously her fault.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Cuz like men we have this like confidence in our sperm that like there's no real reason why, but we just know. Right. Like every time I've ever had sex with a girl, I was like, oh my God, this is going to be crazy. Like what should we do. How do you. The next month, I know she's pregnant, guaranteed. Which I now know is a waste. And once we found out that her ovaries were perfect and my sperm was horrible, it. It actually made it a lot easier for me to talk about.

[Megyn Kelly]

Really?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Because I think the reason why, like, anybody who has fertility issues, one, it's very isolating because you're so protective of the person that you love that you don't. A lot of women feel a lot of shame around this.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, true.

[Andrew Schulz]

And at first I. I felt like, real shame. I was like, does God not want me to have a child? Like, I was like, I didn't understand it. Like, I think I'm, like, a pretty good person and I'm kind to people, and I'm like, why is this happening? Like, what the Is going on? And. Yeah, so I get that. And a lot of women, if they are struggling, they're just like, it's. It. They feel like it's a. I don't feel very stigmatized. Right. And. But once she was perfect and I was up, I could get on stage and it was really cathartic to talk about it. And then once I started talking about it, I literally thought that I was like. Like, this was like a one in, like, 10 million thing.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, wow.

[Andrew Schulz]

The second I started talking about, all my friends start telling me that they're doing ivf.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, wow.

[Andrew Schulz]

And like, all these people in the audience would hit me up afterwards, like, oh, yeah, you know, same thing happened. And I was like, what the. Is this, like, the last taboo subject?

[Megyn Kelly]

How did anybody ever get pregnant before ivf? Because everybody's doing it, dude.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is like, it's unbelievable. It's. It's almost like I was like, does anybody really get abortion? Like, I'm like, it's so hard to get pregnant. Why is this an issue? Like. Like, how often do these athletes have unprotected sex that they have 20 kids? Like. Like, I couldn't believe it. It was unfathomable. So. But then it became like, yeah, they're as brutal as it was. There was these kind of funny moments that being one of them, just that. That the.

[Megyn Kelly]

The humility going into the room with the lady. We just talked to the audience, you know, Doug came in to say hi to Andrew in the commercial break, and we were bonding over our shared experience. Cause he and I did IVF with our kids too. And Doug joked that after he had donate the sample.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

First he said he was going to wear, like, a red crushed velvet smoking Jacket. On his way in, on the way out, he was just going to be like, that was fantastic. I was amazing.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I was always thinking about, like, do I make noises in there? Like, how uncomfortable do I make it for the other guys at the clinic? Like, just screaming random things.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Crazy. But yeah, it's like, it was crazy.

[Megyn Kelly]

I was like a walk of shame when you're walking by all the other guys there, everybody's there. Oh, God. I know what you're about to do.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's so humbling.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

You're just sitting in this room. Like, all of you are in there. You like.

[Megyn Kelly]

So why did they make you go in to give the sperm sample? I didn't think. Couldn't they.

[Andrew Schulz]

So I did it from home once.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

The whole. I don't even. I haven't even put, like, a lot of the stuff in it. But, like, the whole journey was brutal. So the first one I did from home, which was like, I'm in the room, my wife, like, hands me the thing. Like, it's like homework. And she's like, okay, I'll give you 30 minutes. You go do your thing. I'm going to go outside or I'm going to do the dishes. So, like, I hear her doing the dishes in the background where I'm, like, being mandated to masturbate and I'm like, on our bed. Like, I don't think I've ever masturbated on a bed. Like, I'm just on our bed and the bed is made perfectly. Like, everything is, like, set up. And I remember at one point, like, I'm just like, I don't know. This is, like, so weird. And I like, looked up and the TV was off, so it was just a black screen. So it's a perfect mirror of me.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, no.

[Andrew Schulz]

And I was just like, this is the saddest day of my life. I'm sitting Indian style on my back trying to make a sample to go to Scott. We send that sample in, it comes back and it's like, it's. It's not good.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh.

[Andrew Schulz]

And they're like, not only are they not swimming, they're, like, shaped weird. And I was like. I was like, a little defensive, so I was like, well, could that be from, like, the speed that they hit the cup? Like, maybe, you know, it's the. The blunt force trauma kind of warped them a little.

[Megyn Kelly]

Flow is just too strong.

[Andrew Schulz]

It was too strong. That's what. That's what it is. And they're like, no, that's definitely not it. And I was like, okay. And they go. They go, well, why don't you do this for, like, a couple months? Wear baggy underw. Ice your balls every single day.

[Megyn Kelly]

Ice them.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Whoa.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's a big thing. Don't drink anymore, don't smoke anymore, and take these pills and then we'll try it again in like a month or two. And I did that, and we tried it again, and it got worse.

[Megyn Kelly]

No.

[Andrew Schulz]

What? And I was like, why do you think that is? And the doctor's like, we've never seen this before.

[Megyn Kelly]

There's some pride in that. It's gotta be a little bit. I told a story one time when Dave Rubin was Amazon, but Doug had the. This. The funniest experience there, where they make you ejaculate like, 24 hours before the real sample. That's going to be like, your future, kid. They want you to clean the house.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's like, I can't remember if it's 24 or 48 hours.

[Andrew Schulz]

48 hours before it. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay. So. But they want it to be 48.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

And they don't really want it to be 46 or 44 because you need.

[Andrew Schulz]

The amount of time to build up the new batch.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes. So, like, timing does matter. It just so happens. Happened that on one of ours, we were visiting my. My nana, who was literally, like 90 at the time, and we were playing dominoes, and I was like, doug, it's time. He was like, what? I'm like, you got to go in there right now. My poor husband. And, you know, it's like one of these older person's homes where, like, there's five inches between the bottom of the door and the. And the ground. You can hear every piece of conversation. Do dominoes. Like you're palming the double five, you know? And Doug said. Horrible. For Doug.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is the thing about this. It's a. It's the. This. The journey is brutal when you're in. It is the hardest thing that you'll go through in your life. Sorry. Definitely the hardest thing we went through. And. But after the fact, it is hysterical.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes. Like, I can't believe what you've been through.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. And, like, there are so many of these things that are so funny. And the beautiful thing about having a child is you get to this, like, amnesia.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

For what you went through to get there. I think that's actually kind of, like, built into our DNA. So we keep making them.

[Megyn Kelly]

I totally agree. You know, like, saint women have been saying that for Eons because of the pain of labor, and it's so, you know, devastating, and then you forget all about it. I never had labor because I had three C sections, but my friends tell me it's extremely painful.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, my. Emma was in there for 24 hours, and then she had the C section because the. The baby's heart rate dropped.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, God. That's scary.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, the whole thing is terrible. When you were doing the shots before to prepare for the ivf, like, did you have any fun mood swings or anything?

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, yeah. I was actually fine. Did not have weird mood swings. But it was very funny because Doug does not. Like, his mom got this terrible cut in her leg, and it was so brutal. And Doug was right there. He bandaged it up. He put the medicine. I was like, I can't take that kind of injury. Yeah, but you pull out a needle, and Doug is one of those, like, oh.

[Andrew Schulz]

So he.

[Megyn Kelly]

So he couldn't take shots, but he had to. In the beginning, as it turned out, he didn't have to, but we thought he did. Yeah, because in the beginning, they really make it up into a thing. Like, you got to mix the compound, and it's, like, kind of back in a hard spot to reach. You got to ice the area. Oh, my God. Like, our future family depends on this. And Doug was in a hot, like, a cold sweat. And the superintendent of our building at the time, his name was Lance, and they were like, it's very important that your wife have a partner that helps with. And Doug is like, this is going to be very hard for Lance.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But he did it. He did it. He got it through. But honestly, by the third child, you know, he. Doug was no part of it. I was like, I know. I need no ice. I'm good. Boom. We're done. Off to the race.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is crazy that they make you mix it at home. So anybody who's not familiar, they give you these two, I guess, hormonal compounds, and you have to put them together.

[Megyn Kelly]

In the syringe in just the right proportions.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm like, why isn't this done at the lab? And then we just hit it. Like, you don't have to make the KitKat, right? Like, make the bar and then send it to me. And I remember, like, watching my wife do these things, making sure it's the right amount. You got to push a little out so no air gets in there.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right, Right. So you don't give yourself an air bubble, like, life or death, literally.

[Andrew Schulz]

And she's like, did I push too much? Out. Will I not get it? Is this. But there. Yeah, there was. I mean, Emma would get, like. It would really get her going.

[Megyn Kelly]

Did she get angry or just overly emotional?

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, angry, like, but we didn't know that that was the cause. So, like, I remember we got into it at a Japanese restaurant. You don't realize how quiet those restaurants are until you're having like a loud blow up with, like. And you know, the only thing interrupting the blow up because everybody is already quite a Japanese restaurant. And then once you have like a verbal altercation, they're really quiet.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, I love when somebody has a fight and I'm nearby.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, my God.

[Megyn Kelly]

Doug and I, like, he'll start talking. I'll be like, be quiet. This is too important to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

We gotta lock in. Everybody was locked in. They're just slurping udon and watching us. And the only thing that would interrupt it is like, when a new person would walk in and, you know, the whole restaurant has to go. And then Emma would feel like they were interrupting our argument. So. So we're fighting hasimats. Emma goes, are you kidding me? And then back to yelling at me. It's just amazing.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, weren't you. So you weren't that guy who was like, she's going through a lot. These are just her emotions. I'm just gonna let. I'm gonna let everything slide. I'm not gonna get mad about anything.

[Andrew Schulz]

We didn't know that it was the case. So we didn't know until literally that night. I go, hey, did we do the shot? We did the shot today, right? And she goes, oh, we're walking down. We were on Kenmare Street.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's when you put it together that she's hormonal. And then.

[Andrew Schulz]

And then she was also like, oh, I guess I'm like, really reactive to this. And then from then on, we stopped going to Japanese restaurants.

[Megyn Kelly]

And then how about after she had the baby? Did she have. Like. Because you're sleep deprived, you're very hormonal.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's the most insane thing if you're. Did you breastfeed?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay. That is the. I think that this is. I think that is the most difficult part of child rearing is the. The. If you are breastfeeding full time, like, meaning every two hours.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is insane.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, it's a lot.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is insane. Every two hours. So you're waking up. I don't think a lot of people know this. You're waking up every two hours in the night. You don't get more than an hour of sleep at a time.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's truly like a, like an astronaut training sit situation. Yeah. No, it's brutal. But then, then it, it lets up a little.

[Andrew Schulz]

When it lets up, this is beautiful bonding experience that you have with your child. And like, it's something even now, like Emma's still breastfeeding and it's just this thing that she's like, she doesn't even want to let go of it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Well, then you get to like the six month mark where the baby can start having like smaller, like solid foods and they're still having breast milk. And you're at the point now where like you're, you're producing the more, more milk than ever. And yet the baby's somewhat getting a little independent and the weight comes shredding off. That's the best moment where you're like, I'm making tons of milk. All these calories are coming off for free. Oh.

[Andrew Schulz]

Because your body is burning calories, but.

[Megyn Kelly]

Your, your baby doesn't need as much milk as from you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right.

[Megyn Kelly]

As he needed it five months. Because now he's starting to eat food.

[Andrew Schulz]

Right, Right.

[Megyn Kelly]

But your body doesn't know that. So it's still burning like 800 calories a day. You're like, oh, my God, I have a waste again. Yeah, there's a normal ass. Thank you, Sweet B. I always say they're selling breastfeeding to moms all wrong. That you would care about the health of our babies. But we know that babies who are formula fed are fine too. You have to sell it to them. Like ozemp.

[Andrew Schulz]

You'll be skinny.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

It is natural ozempic.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's natural ozempic.

[Andrew Schulz]

Let that baby suck the fat out of you.

[Megyn Kelly]

They put it on you, it's the least they can do.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is their gift.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wow, that is so true. Yeah. Emma really got her back.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. It was like, was your baby's only like one now, right?

[Andrew Schulz]

One year. Yeah. 13 months.

[Megyn Kelly]

So now is it, is it kicking in now? Like, that's usually when you're like, what about number two? Let's, let's go get a fire up the machines again.

[Andrew Schulz]

Literally. She was like, do you want to do it this month? And I was like, can I just get the special out? Can I get. Let's get the special out. Let's do like a weekend somewhere. This has been like three years in the making.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Between like making a baby and also, you know, making the special. And like, let's just take, let's just take a little vacation.

[Megyn Kelly]

And you've probably been told this, but, you know, like, the difference between 1 and 2 too is large.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wait, tell me, what do you mean? Like your relationship with them or. No.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, no. When you just have one baby, like in the beginning, you're overwhelmed, as you know. But like by year one, you kind of get it down.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And things are, you know, you can still have a life.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

You can still take a nap. You and Emma can still steal away for like an hour in the middle of the day while your one baby is asleep. Or somebody else would easily watch your one baby.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But when you have two babies, like under the age of three, you're effed. There's no napping ever. There's no downtime. This is where you really start thinking about having live in help. Like, who can come live with us? What about so I can sleep again? I don't even remember three. It's like all a blur. But I, I felt the difference from 1 to 2 was much larger than from 2 to 3. Like you, you've given up your free time when you have two.

[Andrew Schulz]

Got it, got it.

[Megyn Kelly]

And like a third, even a fourth, I think would have, I would have had a fourth if I had been younger when Doug and I had met. But one to two is big.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay. My, my buddy said, he goes, he, he, he agreed on 1 to 2. He goes, but 2 to 3 because he just had his third. He goes, he goes, man, 2 to 3, he goes, I don't know. I go, what do you mean? I don't know. He goes, you're outnumbered, bro. There's nothing you can do. There's nothing you can do. They have you. Like, you're with one, this one's around doing something. You just constantly need help. Yeah, it is. Especially when they're. But yeah, we want to have another one.

[Megyn Kelly]

We would love another one. No, I, I remember early on in our tenure of having two, Doug went to see his mom one day. His went to visit his family. But it was just, just a day trip.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And it was the first time I'd been alone for like 12 hours with both of them without Doug being there. I'm like, I'm good. I'm fine. Like, I had a newborn and a 2 year old and like, honey, I'm. Trust me, I'm, I'm the mother. I've got, got this. And so I was pushing. It was late in the day. Things hadn't gone that smoothly, I'm not going to lie. And I took them out for a walk. And I was pushing the baby in her stroller and my 2 year old was like walking next to me. Or he was on like that little ride on thing that you can put on your stroller, like on, on his feet. And he had this thing where he loved to take off.

[Andrew Schulz]

Okay.

[Megyn Kelly]

So we're. I'm pushing the baby up a hill and he's on the little ride on thing standing there. And Doug turns the corner in his car, coming home just at that moment. Right. So he sees the whole, whole thing. So at this moment, Yates, our oldest, did not see Doug. He was just doing his thing. He takes off running. And there, there's a massive street straight ahead to, to which he's running. And I can't just let go of the baby stroller because I'm on an incline. Like, if I let go of the baby stroller, she's going to go, yeah. But he's running toward traffic the other way. So all this is happening and there's Doug and he, he kind of does the gentle beep and waves. And I was like, oh. Oh, hi.

[Andrew Schulz]

Hi.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, totally. Yeah. Then finally I'm like, lock the stroll to rescue the toddler. I'm like, I got it all under control. No, he knew it wasn't true.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. You just gotta say, the whole thing.

[Megyn Kelly]

Is so humbling, isn't it?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And as you add more and as they get older into the toddler years.

[Andrew Schulz]

Even more so, it is amazingly humbling. That's the best way to describe it. All of it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right. You don't know anything.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know nothing. It's crazy. They even give you the baby. I remember when they first gave us the baby to leave the hospital. I was like, how is this legal?

[Megyn Kelly]

Isn't there someone more qualified?

[Andrew Schulz]

We are, we are not professionals at all. Like, they just give you, like, here's how you wrap it.

[Megyn Kelly]

All right.

[Andrew Schulz]

Have a good, good luck at home.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, it's just.

[Megyn Kelly]

So do you do. Are you an involved dad? Do you change diapers? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

I feel like you can't, you can't really have an opinion on how it's raised if you're not doing some of the things like, obviously I'm at work, you know.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

So, like, Emma, this was actually really hard for her. I wonder if, if you felt this way at all. But like, like, you know, my wife.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, there you are.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's my little Shiloh Shiloh.

[Megyn Kelly]

She's so cute.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. So. So Emma's like, she's, you know, very like successful in her own Right. Like, she got her mba, and then she was working and managing AI projects for Apple, and then she was like, I don't really want to do this. I want to be a mom. And I feel a little guilty even saying that, but that is the true thing that I want to do with my life. Like, it's always been my dream to be a mom. And I was like, listen, if you want to do it, don't do it because I said it, because then you'll resent me if you realize that you wish you never should have quit your job.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

But if you want to do it, then go for it. And it was, like, interesting watching her, like, grapple with that. And that's something that I hope changes in the very near future.

[Megyn Kelly]

I think it's starting to.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Like, I think that we should reward mothers that stay at home in the same way that we react.

[Megyn Kelly]

Reward mothers that go work and value and talk about. Yeah, Yeah. I. I feel like Republicans are way ahead on that. Democrats. I don't think they're there.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, maybe not. I mean, it's just, like, when you go to certain countries that, like, value. I think it's also, like, a big city thing where there's not a lot of, like, family built into it. Like, I grew up in New York City, and it was very rare that there were, like, families there. And so they're just. The idea of it, like, a kid crying on the subway can be, like, bothersome to some people. And. Whereas, like, once you have kids and you see a kid crying, you're like, oh, it's adorable. Or bad for the parents. But I hope that as the pendulum continues to swing with feminism or masculinity or whatever these things are, I hope that there is this place for moms that stay home, and it is a privilege, but that they don't feel this kind of scrutiny. I think it's, like, a really beautiful thing if you can afford it to do.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And also for guys who are sensitive and empathic.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But not Man Bun Sand. Mandel Mer. This is.

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't get about, like, the masculinity movement right now. It's like, a lot of these guys, like, at the. At the forefront of it, like, don't even. Aren't even dads.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

So it's like, yeah, okay. You got, like, you could deadlift, like.

[Megyn Kelly]

Or some are just, like, you know, or deadbeat dads. I was gonna say they're producing children, but they're not even looking after.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's like, why are you. Why do you get to decide what mass masculinity is? Like, I think that's, like, the least masculine thing you can do. That's like a coward.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's right.

[Andrew Schulz]

I was talking to Rogan about this. He says, listen, there's a lot of out there and even need a leader of the. And I think sometimes we're mistaking them for, like, being masculine guys. It's like, having muscles doesn't make you masculine. Like, to me, being involved in your kid's life is masculine.

[Megyn Kelly]

What? I mean, what tough guy ever tells you how tough he is? They don't. They don't talk about that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Exactly. Like, the greatest of all. Like, Michael Jordan never said he was the greatest. He didn't need to. We knew.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right?

[Andrew Schulz]

So, like, when I see, like, involved, involved parents, like, one of the most beautiful things about this whole process, even talking about these things is, like, seeing how much people love their children and, like, feeling really comfortable sharing that. And they'll share these stories about when they first had their kid and, like, seeing dads. I mean, this guy who's driving me, and when I was in Austin recently, he was telling me about how he does this, like, daddy daughter dates. He has these two daughters, and they each get a different day. And, like, that's the shit I would like to see promoted a little bit more in the masculinity movement in America. Like, don't tell me, like, how much time that you could, like, jog.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know, I don't care how many miles you could run, how much money.

[Megyn Kelly]

You have in the bank.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, Like, I don't give a fuck. They don't give. I'll tell you one thing they don't. Your daughter don't care.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, you do a very funny bit in life about how you. You have. There's so much pressure being a dad to a daughter because one wrong move, and she's on only fans.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. And it's your fault.

[Megyn Kelly]

You missed a volleyball game.

[Andrew Schulz]

And it's. It's Daddy, like, there's no such thing as.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, we have that. Okay, let's watch that. Let's see. So funny. Hot six.

[Andrew Schulz]

I have a screenshot of the moment I found out that I was gonna have a daughter. If you want to see stress, if you want to see pressure, put that shit up. That's. That's a real picture.

[Megyn Kelly]

Holding out with the shade.

[Andrew Schulz]

This is the pressure of knowing no matter what happens to your daughter is dad's fault. I miss one volleyball game, she starts an only Fans. It's my fault for some reason. Crazy.

[Megyn Kelly]

You're not wrong. Daddy issues is a thing.

[Andrew Schulz]

What's mommy issues?

[Megyn Kelly]

No, it's not really. I mean, it can happen, but what is it? It's not as much of a phrase.

[Andrew Schulz]

We don't even know what it is. Like, there's no. Like, if a kid shoots up a school, we don't go, ah, mommy issues.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, it's more like he can't leave his mom. I. That's what I attribute to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's awesome.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

[Andrew Schulz]

He did a good job being a mom. Yeah. Wow. Your son loves you and has a deep connection to the most important human being. And, like, that's a positive, positive effect.

[Megyn Kelly]

Now you're terrified of making the wrong move.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, like, I don't know. I don't want, like, I. I want my kids to be incredibly comfortable with their family, not, like, waiting to jump at the first person who's going to take them away.

[Megyn Kelly]

You. You wouldn't find it empowering for your daughter to consider becoming a, quote, sex worker?

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, my God.

[Megyn Kelly]

This was praised.

[Andrew Schulz]

Can we just call them whores? Like, I hate the fact that we're, like, making up these terms that make it seem more dignified. It's whore, right? That's it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, what about that girl on Only Fans? I don't know her name, but she's the one who had sex with, like, a hundred people in a day, and then, like. And she's now going on a tour of nursing homes.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's cool. I like that.

[Megyn Kelly]

I wondered how you're gonna react to that.

[Andrew Schulz]

I like it. I had a crazy thing we do.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh. Actually, my team is way ahead of me here. Here she is. And SOT24. Her name is Lily Phillips.

[Andrew Schulz]

I found my oldest fan via Facebook.

[Megyn Kelly]

And when I asked for his address, he actually sent me the address of a care home. So I'm actually here with him and his friends, and I'm going to show them a good time.

[Andrew Schulz]

So these. They actually figured it out. This is heroic. I liked this.

[Megyn Kelly]

No judgment.

[Andrew Schulz]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They figured it out. Those are sex workers. That's work. That is. No, no, no, no, no. This is doing this when they were doing those, like, you know, 100 girls or 100 dudes or thousand dudes or whatever, I'm like, this is disgusting. But. But having sex with old guys in old people homes, that is like, that is altruism. That is when we're talking about charity.

[Megyn Kelly]

That'S what you Say yeah when she's ready.

[Andrew Schulz]

That is charity. That is beautiful. That is fudgeing. Beautiful.

[Megyn Kelly]

I feel so uncomfortable with it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it's uncomfortable.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes, very.

[Unnamed Guest]

But for.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not for them. Those guys there.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, they're so excited.

[Megyn Kelly]

What do you think? Like, you know, could. They could die happy.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, they'll die happy. They'll also just forget it and then the next day. That's the sad part is they won't even remember it happened.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, that's. That's actually one of my favorite jokes I heard a long time ago, which was like a 95 year old guy marries a 25 year old gal and goes to the doctor right before the wedding and he says, is there anything I need to know, doc? And the doc says, yeah, you know, you should know that sex at this point could be dangerous, even lethal. And he said, if she dies, she dies.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's great.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's. My dad is a dementia and which is, you know, obviously very sad. He's my hero and you know, he's. He introduces me in the special and. But like during this time where Em and I are trying to get pregnant, I would go over every week to see him and he'd be like, how things going? And I'm like, it's, you know, rough trying to get, I'm just trying to get pregnant. It's just not really going that well. And he would go, he goes, well, if you need some help, you know, I can, I can help you. And he would forget that he would say the joke. And every week I would go over and he would offer to have sex with my wife and put a baby in her. So this goes on for like six months. So this is. Now what I will say is that might be like the negative side of dementia, but one of the cool positives is and you know, life is about perspective, right. You can have good perspective on even the worst things. Like he gets to find out he has a granddaughter every single time I see him.

[Megyn Kelly]

Is that right?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Now sometimes he'll kind of remember, sometimes it might not be there, but like that must be a pretty cool feeling.

[Megyn Kelly]

Does he remember you?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it's hard building new long term memories.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like the way the memories works is there's like short term and long term and you can create new long term memories just by continuing continuous efforts. So like repeating the same thing over.

[Megyn Kelly]

And over again with the cable manners.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, exactly.

[Megyn Kelly]

Reinforcement, Reinforcement constant.

[Andrew Schulz]

But. But short term, he doesn't really.

[Megyn Kelly]

How old is he?

[Andrew Schulz]

He's 81.

[Megyn Kelly]

So how long has he been dealing with this?

[Andrew Schulz]

Honestly, it started, I think, when I got out of college. Like, even 20 years ago. I started noticing these things, like, very small, but it was like, oh, something's kind of up. And then.

[Megyn Kelly]

So does that. Does that make you worry for yourself? Do you ever think about it?

[Andrew Schulz]

Anytime I forget anything, I'm like, I got it.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

But I don't know if it exactly works like that.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right. I know I. I have such a fear of this. And my. My mom doesn't have Alzheimer's, and my dad died too young for me to know. You know, he died at 45 of a heart attack. But I worry about it so much because it's like, it can happen to anybody, and it can. Even if you're using your brain as you do for a living. As I do for a living, you're not immune. It's got Sandra Day O'Connor who's like, I mean, you're not. There's nothing more intellectual. Intellectually straining than being on the U.S. supreme Court.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

So it's just so indiscriminate, and it's terrifying to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

Some say diet.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep. Diet.

[Andrew Schulz]

I could really impact.

[Megyn Kelly]

I think that's every time I have a sleepless night, I'm like, ah, it's over. Get my early alleys. It's coming on.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Because you do. You don't remember when you have a bad night sleep. You don't remember that as well. The next day.

[Andrew Schulz]

I will say it. It does kind of expose, like, your true character in a lot of times. And one of the cool, rewarding things about it is just, like, seeing what, like, a good human. My dad is. I've always thought he's like this angel, but, like, a truly just good, kind human. Like, he was. My mom had to take his, like, debit card because he would, like, give the people who sell the fruit in the neighborhood just money and forget he did it and then go back. Oh, and keep.

[Megyn Kelly]

He was popular.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. These. Kept letting them give him money.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, no, that's low.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, that is low.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, that's.

[Andrew Schulz]

So I made a call to Trump, and I was like, we got some. I got a couple.

[Megyn Kelly]

Speaking of having murder people.

[Andrew Schulz]

Exactly.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, that's. I mean, that's good. You take care of him. You have a good perspective on it. I always feel like if God for this happens to me. I said this to Doug, you know, please make sure I'm sitting in a room with all my favorite movies just on loop.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yep.

[Megyn Kelly]

And in my favorite audio books, just Playing on loop Like I can just keep enjoying these series over and over and over.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

I'm not sure that's exactly the way it works, but that's how I'd like to believe it's going to work.

[Andrew Schulz]

It will, but I don't think that. I don't know. Who knows what will happen. I hope it won't happen. But don't stress about it now.

[Megyn Kelly]

I know you shouldn't have plenty of.

[Andrew Schulz]

Time to stress about it later.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, the other thing is, you know, there's. This is one of the things that RFKJ's been talking about you. There's been such going on in the public health world for so long and we talked about this, about this on our show four, three years ago where this massive thing came out with this guy committed fraud in saying they'd made this major breakthrough in Alzheimer's and that they really, really zeroed in on the amyloid plaque.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And then it turned out he had been faking all the photos to show show this and they'd been repeated and he was like the gold standard researcher and all this. And now it's like it was Alzheimer's research was set back by 15, 20 years. It's one of the other reasons why it just feels so good. We have people in there now who will not treat any of this prior as, you know, godly and untouchable.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

You know Jay Bhattacharya who just took over at nih, he's being confirmed right now. His hearings are underway. They were like, so you're not going to go back and look at whether childhood vaccines are linked to autism? Right. Those are well settled studies that it's. There's no link whatsoever. And to his credit, he was like, look, I understand there's been a lot of research on this, but I'm not. He basically said, I'm not going to say never. Like, I think, yeah, you. Nothing wrong with going back and looking and then revealing the science to everybody.

[Andrew Schulz]

I think, I think that the most important thing that anybody that is representing a government institution can do right now is be transparent about their failures and their successes. So if going back and looking at the research and then presenting studies shows that there is no link, that's awesome.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Now I trust it coming.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I'm feeling concerned. Like I joke around all the time. Like I believe whatever the last YouTube video I watched is that that is what I believe 100%. Right. I'm easily convinced. Like I'm locked in. So if, if you're if you're rfk, if you're this guy, it's like, just be transparent. Tell us where the F. UPS were.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Don't gaslight us. Because we've been gaslight so gaslit so much that I feel like that it's completely dissolved our confidence. Confidence in these institutions. And in order to have, like, a proud American public, we need something to be proud of. We can be proud. We up, too. You can up, and we will forgive you. Give us that opportunity.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

But I cannot forgive you if you continue to lie to me.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's right.

[Andrew Schulz]

If you are not accountable for anything at all. Like, and I think that's why Fouch. He'll never be forgiven. That's why he probably. He took the. What's it called.

[Megyn Kelly]

I Am Science? The. The pardon.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. It's like, why do you even need to take the part?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Meanwhile, I will say Elon's out there. Like, we did screw up. We canceled funding for Ebola. Nobody likes Ebola. But you know that. We're resuming that.

[Andrew Schulz]

More of that. I love that. Like, to me, instead of looking at that and hopefully the opposition or hopefully Democrats don't use that and be like, see, he's an. You should use that in. Exactly. Example of how you should conduct yourself in public. Hey, we messed up. We're bringing it back. We're bringing those people back.

[Megyn Kelly]

It doesn't sound like Trump to me.

[Andrew Schulz]

Trump refuses to ever do it. He is.

[Megyn Kelly]

Your show. The first one on which he explained the weave.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

It was. Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

That was an amazing sound bite.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, dude. He was the. I think the best moment of that whole thing to me was when he goes, I'm basically an honest person. Person. And I'll never forget that. I think about that once a day because it's actually the most honest thing you can say.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

If you. Everybody looked at that, like, see, he's admitting he's a liar. And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. A liar would say, I'm an honest person.

[Megyn Kelly]

I never lie. Yeah. And then meanwhile, I don't know if this is true, but they say, like, the average person lies something like 15 times a day. It's something ridiculous. But no, that was a great interview that you did with him. We actually have a clip of it. Right. Let's play it and we'll take a break later.

[Andrew Schulz]

You know, I do a thing called the weave. I don't remember.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, yeah, here it is.

[Andrew Schulz]

I saw this story. What you do is you weave things and you do it you need an extraordinary memory because you have to come back to where you started. Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

You always.

[Andrew Schulz]

A weave is. Only good people give you credit for that. It's true that you could go all the way over here and then go so far here or there. And I can come back to exactly where I. I started. Now, someday, when you don't come back to where you started, you're Biden.

[Megyn Kelly]

He. He wasn't wrong. Like it was. And he does do the weave and he does manage to land it back.

[Andrew Schulz]

I mean, he's just. The way he's, like, the way he constructs sentences is different than normal people. It's like whatever idea pops in, he grabs onto it and he continues. And, I mean, you've been talking in front of a camera to millions of people for decades. You probably know by now, like, the people that you listen to are the ones. You cannot predict the next word they're going to say. For better or for worse.

[Megyn Kelly]

Right, Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

You can't predict how he's going to finish a sentence.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, God, no.

[Andrew Schulz]

It could start on Ukraine, and then he's like, I had the best falafel. You know, the thing about falafel is there's a place in New York. Ms. We bought that building. It was a great building. Like, it's just. And I'm. I'm locked in.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, you're. You're riveted.

[Andrew Schulz]

The train is going. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

But he will get back to Ukraine at the end. He'll get back to Ukraine to his credit, because that's. That's the place where most of us fall apart. You know, you lost your train of thought. You're off. You're meandering down a tributary. You never get back on the main river. Trump always does. All right, stand by. We're gonna. We're gonna take a little tributary now. We'll be back on the main river with Andrew Schultz, whose new special Life is on Netflix right now. Go download it. Do yourself a favor. And we'll be right back with Andrew.

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[Megyn Kelly]

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[Andrew Schulz]

Go to SiriusXM.com MKShow to subscribe and get three. Three months free. That's SiriusXM.com MKShow and get three months free. Offer details apply. When your wife first gets pregnant, you have to go get a baby. Specific doctor called it OB gyn. Right. Which I didn't know what the that was. I thought it was more gay letters. I was like, my wife's like, we need obgyn. I was like, why do we need a gay guy to deliver the baby? What do they know about this? It's not their jurisdiction at all. I want some gay doctor to open my wife's legs. Like, ew, yucky vagina. Gross.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's amazing. I have to say, there are a lot of women who do it, but I have never had a male obgyn and I never want one.

[Andrew Schulz]

My wife's dad is an OB gyn.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, okay.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm like, who's going to that?

[Megyn Kelly]

I don't, I don't know. Some women are totally fine with it.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

He's not looking at you as, like.

[Andrew Schulz]

Not at all individual. No, but I also, as like a man. I don't know why you want to. Because, like, aren't you kind of seeing women, like, when it's at its roughest?

[Megyn Kelly]

I, I, they don't see it that way. Like, I think they're able to distinguish between the moment they're with that personally versus professionally.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes, of course, of course. I'm just saying, like, if you're going to the OB gyn, isn't it like, like something's burning down here, Right? Like, don't you see it if it's bumpy or burning? And now you're just seeing, like, vaginas.

[Megyn Kelly]

That are messed up necessarily. You know, you got to go for your annual exam.

[Andrew Schulz]

There's checkups.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, they do the full, the full checkup.

[Andrew Schulz]

Pap smear. Right?

[Megyn Kelly]

That, yeah. And, you know, they can get on up in there.

[Andrew Schulz]

Really?

[Megyn Kelly]

No. Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is a PAP smear.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's very unpleasant. They put, like, this, like, clamp thing in you, and then they take, like, this long Q tip and they rub the cervix and then put. Put those, like, cells on a petri dish and sent it. Send it out to go see if you have, like, early cancer.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, so it's to see if you have cancer?

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, among other things, I'm sure. But yeah, that's a. I think it's for. Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. And you guys have to do that every year?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. Well, I mean, that's. Most of us go once a year.

[Andrew Schulz]

Wow.

[Megyn Kelly]

Now, you can potentially go once every three years, depending on, like, your health and whether you've had this HPV vaccine. That's very controversial. We did a whole show on it. But in any event. Yeah, it's not pleasant. It's not pleasant. Even when you have a female doctor.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And they check everywhere.

[Andrew Schulz]

I've never seen a doctor in my entire life.

[Megyn Kelly]

What?

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't think we go to that well.

[Megyn Kelly]

No. Doesn't your normal doctor, though, handle you and make you cough and check for prostate issues?

[Andrew Schulz]

But how funny is that? That, like, just, like, the vagina has its own doctor? And then I could just go to, like, a nerd, like, anybody with a. Like, the stethoscope and get my balls checked.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, you're a lucky man, because I'm sure if you had a problem down there, they would send you to a urologist, and then he'd grab you like a ketchup bottle and you.

[Andrew Schulz]

But, yeah, I guess. Yeah, my problem is, I guess, internal. But. Yeah, that's. Yeah. Wow.

[Megyn Kelly]

I know. The whole thing with the doctors is, like, very intimate. They. They get right up in your space, and, like, there's no way around it. As a woman, you, you know, you have to let them check your lady parts. And then you get to the age where I am, and you got to go for the mammograms, and they grab your boob and they squeeze it down like a pancake. It hurts.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And it's like they're squeezing it, and then the woman's running out of the room to X ray you, and you're like, why am I stuck in here with all the radiation?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And they're telling you have to do it once a year. I don't know if I believe in it anymore. I mean, you do. Don't listen to me. I don't go to your. For your mammograms. I'm just saying, like, now I've had to start going, I think, at 40 or 45 and do it for 10 years.

[Andrew Schulz]

You have your. Do you have breast cancer in your family?

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, my nana had it when she was 81, which I don't think technically counts, but. But it doesn't matter because most of breast cancers come in families where you didn't have a family history anyway.

[Andrew Schulz]

Really?

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. So you have to worry about it no matter what. What? It's just one of those things you hate. You hate the annual physical for this reason. Right. You just start. Got to start thinking about all the things you don't want to think about.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. It just makes you face your morbidity. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

So I don't. Do you get an annual physical?

[Andrew Schulz]

I don't even know. Like, eventually my wife just. Yeah. She'll just say things to me like, it's been two years since you've been to the dentist. And I was like, all right, I'll go to the dentist. Like, I. I don't keep it up with any of these things.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, good dental health is very important.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, yeah, they say that.

[Megyn Kelly]

And the longer you wait on. On that one, the worse it is.

[Andrew Schulz]

And you have your teeth. Right. These are your real teeth. It's so refreshing to see real teeth.

[Megyn Kelly]

Thank you. Don't you think the veneers are blinding?

[Andrew Schulz]

It's too much. The veneers. Like, you kind of almost like you need to go down a shade.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Or like stain them slightly.

[Megyn Kelly]

Do something. Yeah, I'm not good at detecting them. I actually just found out that most people are wearing veneers who have that, like those thousand watt smiles.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

I didn't totally know that.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Now it's become so popular that I think it's actually going to have the reverse effect.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like, it's going to be like the Kim Kardashian, but where people start rebelling.

[Andrew Schulz]

And I think we're going to want to see natural teeth.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, okay. Here's a. Here is a transition.

[Andrew Schulz]

Oh, good. Tell me.

[Megyn Kelly]

Speaking of the Kim Kardashian, but.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

Her ex, Kanye West.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes.

[Megyn Kelly]

Has a different wife now, Bianca. They may or may not be getting a divorce. There have been rumors and reports that they are, but unconfirmed. But before Kim, I think, and before Bianca, there was Amber Rose.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yes. Amber.

[Megyn Kelly]

Who wound up speaking at Trump's rnc.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And she gave an interview on Club Shay with Shannon Sharp, and she spoke to why Kanye likes apparently having his wives be naked in public, like, a lot.

[Andrew Schulz]

What did. What did she say?

[Megyn Kelly]

Take a look. I need for sure. Droxy car like that. Yeah. He did the same thing to me and Kim. This is who.

[Andrew Schulz]

What is it about that that he wants the world to know?

[Megyn Kelly]

Look at my woman. We can see he wants other men to want his woman. That's what he's into. He likes that. He likes. He likes that men are, like, drooling over his woman. That's what he's into. Yeah. He wants all his friends, his girlfriend. He wants everybody. That when you walk in a room, that his girlfriend or wife is the.

[Andrew Schulz]

Most desirable in the room. She, the baddest bee in the room.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's what he likes. Yeah. And she said, he did it to me, he did it to Kim, and he's doing it to Bianca. What do you make of that? Like, that seems so odd to me to. To want to want everybody to admire your woman so much. You. You want her to go out naked in public.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. It makes me question, like, if he really likes her or if she's just a tool for his own Val.

[Megyn Kelly]

Get attention.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah. He's. Kanye's a. I'm just, like, exhausted by it, to be honest. Like, he's so exhausting, but he's so good at getting attention.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

Like, I'll just be so annoyed by him, and then he'll, like, tweet a couple things, and I'll be like, holy.

[Megyn Kelly]

You see all the porn he tweeted?

[Andrew Schulz]

No.

[Megyn Kelly]

Super bowl weekend. Oh, my God. So all my. All my friends were texting me, like, don't go on Kanye's X speed.

[Andrew Schulz]

Which, of course, you got to do it.

[Megyn Kelly]

You go immediately, like, what's he doing?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And I could not believe my eyes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Well, he's actually posing. Porn. Porn.

[Megyn Kelly]

I don't think it was him.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

It was a black man and a white woman in the videos without the faces in most of them. So I. Not sure. Yeah. But it was very graphic triple X porn.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

All over his X feed.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

And I was like, oh, my God. Right. So then I logged off of that, and it wasn't until a couple hours later that I remembered to mention it to Doug. I'm like, I got kind. So he went back. It was still up.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like, it. It hadn't been taken down.

[Andrew Schulz]

That's not surprising me because, like, there's a moment, like, the super bowl where he knows that everybody's attention is going to be on somebody else. So he's like, I'm going to make this about me.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's interesting.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. I think it's a constant, like, thirst and need for attention. I don't even know if he's aware of that.

[Megyn Kelly]

Do you think the Hitler comments are coming from the same place?

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, it's the same thing as Maga. Like, when Maga was that radioactive, he was like, I'm going to the Maga hat.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's interesting.

[Andrew Schulz]

He takes the most disliked radioactive up thing, and he's like, I'm so cool that I can make this cool. And he's done that, like, throughout his life with fashion and, you know, now he does it with, like, talking points and that kind of stuff. But it's, I think, just a reflection of, like, him thinking, I'm so the man. I could make Hitler the man. Or it's coming from this place. Place of. You're not going to tell me what I can or can't. Like, yeah, I have total autonomy and.

[Megyn Kelly]

Freedom in life that I respect and, like. Yeah, that I like.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's just. There's other ways to prove you're free, right?

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, there are a lot of people like that in the public, you know, conversation.

[Andrew Schulz]

Well, I would also go like, are you really free if you need to do that?

[Megyn Kelly]

Right.

[Andrew Schulz]

Because now you're being controlled. The opposite.

[Megyn Kelly]

What if you always have to do the most subversive thing, the most controversial thing?

[Andrew Schulz]

People that are truly free don't need that.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

They feel the freedom, so they don't need to execute it every second. People who don't feel free need to constantly prove that they're free.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's back to the old, you know, Michael Jordan didn't tell you what a great basketball player he was.

[Andrew Schulz]

He knew he was. Yeah, like, he knew he was.

[Megyn Kelly]

I was actually with somebody from another sport, which I won't. I won't reveal who it was because it would make it obvious, but they were like, I'm the goat. Everyone knows I'm the goat. And I remember thinking, I don't think the goat ever calls himself the goat. No, it's not a thing.

[Andrew Schulz]

No.

[Megyn Kelly]

So you've got this very successful podcast now, in addition to your comedy routine. Do you, like. What do you do on that show? Is there. Are there any limits? Is there anything you do to make it a success? Somebody was just asking me this about my show, and I was like, that's not how I approach it. I just kind of do what I. I just talk about what I want to talk about.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah. Yeah. I talk about what I want to talk about. And then, like, I try very hard to not let the algorithm dictate what we talk about.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yep.

[Andrew Schulz]

And I feel like a lot of times now there's a lot of creators that don't even realize that that algorithm is really dictating to them what they should create. They'll post a video or cover a topic and it will go crazy. And then they go, oh, I should cover that more. And then you see people, like, lose their own personal creativity and they just become this slave to the algorithm.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

The problem is that when you're going to do the stories you want to do, you have to accept it. Some days the stories are going to go crazy, and some days they're not going to go crazy. And your core fans will really appreciate it, but it's not going to be this pure numbers game. And that's been the, the thing that, like, you know, we've, we've, we accept because authenticity is like the most important thing to me. But it is one of those things that you got to go, okay, well, okay, this isn't going to be as big a story. We get that. How can we be so interesting or so funny about it that maybe more people will find interest in this thing that we're really interested in?

[Megyn Kelly]

I really think that that is fool's gold, right? Just to go for the viral clip because it's, it's like you might get a lot of subscribers or follows or whatever, or even just views or likes that one clip, but they're not real.

[Andrew Schulz]

I'm so glad you keep going. This is great.

[Megyn Kelly]

They're not going to stay. Like, that's why you see people who have a huge number of subscribers on, on YouTube, but very little engagement, because their fans are not actually. Like, they just click to watch that one clip, but then they're, they're never coming back. Whereas if you just work on doing good programming every day, they're real. The relationship between you and the people watching is real. They trust you and honor you and vice versa, trust you.

[Andrew Schulz]

They're here. And if you really care about, about something, there are people watching right now that might not care about it at all. And the fact that you do, they'll give it that little second, they'll give it that minute, and they'll be like, okay, maybe I should care about this thing, right? I, yeah, I see this, I see this all the time. It's like, and this is kind of like where you can see the grift a little bit, where there, there are people that sometimes are popular because there's great social utility, right? Like, there's a version where, like, this special has social utility and I might get popular with some people because life on Netflix.

[Megyn Kelly]

Check it out with Andrew Schultz.

[Andrew Schulz]

I wasn't even trying to plug, but, like, maybe they're through, like, IVF or fertility issues, and they feel, like, really seen or represented. But. So maybe for like, a moment, I'm very important to them. But then when that becomes more nor normalized, less stigmatized, they realize they don't really agree with me on other issues. So they're like, okay, I don't need you anymore. It's kind of like not to harp on Shapiro, like, kind of what he's gone through. It's like he had these great arguments for conservatives at a time where it was, like, really radioactive to be conservative. Right. It's like there are these people that they, like, needed to defend their position, positions. But, you know, they. They didn't have these. They didn't have, like, the. These, like, beautiful Harvard. Like, just, like, no fat at all. Awesome dart arguments, which he's, like, really brilliant at making.

[Megyn Kelly]

Totally.

[Andrew Schulz]

And he supplied them, and they were like, oh, this is the guy. Now it's not stigmatized at all to be a conservative. The majority of the country is conservative. So now they're like, all right, well, we don't really agree with you on Israel, Palestine, so we don't really need you anymore. You don't have social utility. He didn't build that bond with the audience.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, his show is still huge and very, very, very successful.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah, I'm not. Again, again, I'm saying, like, I'm not saying that he's not, but clearly there's been some issues over there in terms of fracturing of the audience.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah.

[Andrew Schulz]

And the fracture of the audience, to me, shows that they're not actual fans of him, but that there was social utility that he provided, and then a quarter of them or 10, 20, whatever, is now going well, I no longer need that social utility. But it's not just him. I'm saying I. It could be.

[Megyn Kelly]

It can happen anybody.

[Andrew Schulz]

And. And what you hope is you have this core, which he has his core. You have your core. I hope I have my core, that that will continue to expand. When you create authentic. That matters to you.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes.

[Andrew Schulz]

Yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, here's to doing that. A lot more of that. And if you want to see Andrew do that, seriously, trust me, check out Life on Netflix. For many reasons, we want to support him. You will laugh your ass off. And there is no way we can let Meghan Markle be number one. It has to be Andrew Schultz. So you get on there and you download it over and over.

[Andrew Schulz]

My friends, please watch it. We're coming for Kate Hu Hudson.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay, Great to see you.

[Andrew Schulz]

Great to see you. Thank you for having me.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay, before we go, I have something important to tell you. I have been secretly working on a series for three years and I'm finally gonna bring it to you next week. Seriously, this has been a labor of love. It's taken me I don't know how many hours of my time, but I've done it because it's a very compelling story and it's an important, important one. And I'm really, really hoping that we can get to the bottom of it together. It's a new series that I'm doing. Hopefully not every. So every series or episode is going to take three years because it's a short life. But it's called Megyn Kelly Investigates. That's what I'm calling the series. And the first topic that we tackled is one that is near and dear to my heart for a number of reasons. And it's the story of baby Lisa Irwin and what happened to this 10 month old baby. We go deep inside this case and the unsolved mystery you have never seen the facts that we have uncovered about this baby's disappearance. We have brand new stuff, we have explosive interviews. Every single character involved in this story did sit with us, did speak to me and I, well, I'm just going to leave it at that. But I'm going to show you the tease now. And the whole series is going to air on this channel next week. Watch. A baby girl vanishes in the middle of the night. Baby, break your hole. It's a case that's never been solved. Nobody is looking for her because they think her mother killed her and she got a. Got away with it. I'm sorry.

[Andrew Schulz]

12 years later, we're still trying to solve it. All right, let's get moving.

[Megyn Kelly]

Megan Kelly investigates. We go deep into the clues.

[Andrew Schulz]

Her car was set on fire.

[Megyn Kelly]

Seeing a man with a baby is huge. You reporting? I was terrified. Was that chilling, Cindy, when he admitted that? Yeah, I couldn't believe it. Totally not true. I will always love him. Expert analysis.

[Andrew Schulz]

She gave us truth in the lie.

[Megyn Kelly]

And that's our best lead.

[Andrew Schulz]

Now we have to rethink everything.

[Megyn Kelly]

And the guy everyone wants to know more about? We found him.

[Andrew Schulz]

The last thing he's going to want to see is you.

[Megyn Kelly]

Megan. Hi, I'm Megan Kelly. Baby Lisa.

[Andrew Schulz]

It's every parent's worst nightmare.

[Megyn Kelly]

Dead or alive. We need to find out what happened. Oh, okay. So it is a five part series. It begins this Monday. Please mark it. I assume you're already subscribing to our show on pod and on YouTube, but if not, please do. It will live. It will air live on SiriusXM. It will be on YouTube.com megankelli and on all podcast platforms. Thank you all so much. Thanks for listening to the Megyn Kelly show. No BS, no agenda and no fear.

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