Meghan Markle Ignores Her Ailing Father, Goldie Hawn Gets Creepy, & Jack Schlossberg's Lame Campaign

Summary

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

Episode: Meghan Markle Ignores Her Ailing Father, Goldie Hawn Gets Creepy, & Jack Schlossberg's Lame Campaign

Date: December 9, 2025
Host: Maureen Callahan
Guest: Kinsey Schofield (Royal Correspondent)

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Nerve delivers Maureen Callahan's sharp, no-holds-barred take on three headline-grabbing stories: Meghan Markle’s alleged neglect of her ailing father, odd Hollywood red-carpet behavior (Goldie Hawn and Oliver Hudson), and Jack Schlossberg’s cringeworthy entry into politics. With frequent guest Kinsey Schofield, Maureen dissects cultural hypocrisy, royal drama, and Kennedy entitlement—all with her signature wit and irreverence.

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Main Segments & Themes

1. Meghan Markle and Her Hospitalized Father

Guest: Kinsey Schofield joins for an in-depth emergency debrief
[05:00 – 23:23]

Maureen and Kinsey break down the saga of Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, who recently had his leg amputated and remains in a Philippine ICU while Meghan releases a Netflix holiday special and faces criticism for an apparent lack of contact.

Key Points:

• Unfortunate Timing: Meghan’s holiday special dropped just as news broke about her father’s hospitalization and amputation.
  • Maureen: “The fates call it karma, what have you. But justice does get meted out in this world.” [04:29]
• Questions of Authenticity and Compassion:
  • Meghan’s team initially claimed they were “fact-checking” the reports of Thomas’s illness, rather than offering concern or privacy requests.
  • Her team later told People magazine she had reached out, a claim disputed by Thomas and Samantha Markle.
• PR vs. Sincerity: Both hosts see Meghan’s actions as reactive to media pressure, not familial concern.
  • Kinsey: "How can a woman try to sell a family less holiday special while her lonely father is having body parts removed in a foreign country? It's actually a crisis PR team's worst nightmare." [08:40]
  • Maureen: “She is a reptile. She is a cold-blooded reptile masquerading as a human being.” [09:55]
• Harry’s Role & The Sussex Marriage:
  • Kinsey posits that Harry is now isolated, beholden to Meghan, and perhaps fearful of being discarded like those before him.
  • Kinsey: “If I were Harry, looking at this long string of people that she's discarded since I met her, I'm concerned about when I'm next.” [13:41]
• Speculation About Future Allegations:
  • Maureen speculates Meghan might later allege abuse to justify her estrangement.
    • Maureen: “My theory… is that when Thomas Markle does die, Meghan Markle… will claim… that Thomas Markle sexually abused her as a child and that's why she had to cut him off.” [16:31]
  • Kinsey points to Meghan’s pattern of “constantly rewriting her history,” referencing earlier public praise for her father.
  • Kinsey: “If her father was out there and… she gave him that credibility by standing next to him, he could tear down some of these stories that she's told over the last few years that we believe to be untrue.” [17:17]
• Basic Family Duty:
  • Maureen recounts personal stories of family care as contrast, concluding: “That's what you do for your parents when they're sick and ailing.” [21:07]
  • Kinsey notes: “The universe is trying to tell you something, Megan Markle, and we're not talking about the Rotten Tomatoes score, but that should be telling you something, too.” [22:01]

Notable Quotes:

• Maureen: “She is a spiritual reptilian.” [05:29]
• Kinsey: “She looks so heartless. She looks so detached. But I feel like we should expect that from her…” [11:10]
• Maureen: “This woman is a monster. And Harry would do, well, as you said, to take notes because he will be next.” [14:52]

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2. Quick Hits: Hollywood News

Golden Globes & Hollywood’s Decline

[26:25 – 34:27]

• Maureen lampoons the Golden Globe nominations: “Who has even heard of half of these movies?” [26:25]
• Mocks specific titles and industry disconnect.
• Praises TV series "Adolescence" as the best thing she’s seen all year.

Goldie Hawn and Oliver Hudson’s Red Carpet Moment

• Calls out Goldie Hawn for behaving inappropriately affectionate with son Oliver at an event.
  • “She is comporting herself and touching him and gazing at him… as if she is the wife, as if she is the lover. … Our skin is crawling off of our bodies.” [27:59]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: A New Read

• Shares her contrarian take on the classic holiday special, positioning Rudolph as victim of abuse rather than the “feel-good” outcast.
  • “The other reindeer are assholes and so is Santa Claus… Santa nor Mrs. Santa Claus will do anything to really intervene…” [30:49]

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3. Listener “Troublemaker” Feedback

[34:44 – 41:06]

• Reads and responds to audience emails, including takes on Meghan Markle, cultural trends, and recommendations.
• Shares a listener’s story about advising a foster youth not to read “Let Them Theory” thanks to The Nerve.
• Nominates Camille Paglia as “Troublemaker Emerita” and discusses the impact of original thinkers.

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4. Jack Schlossberg’s Lame Campaign

[44:58 – 59:08]

Maureen delivers a scathing critique of Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s grandson, running for Congress in New York.

Key Points:

• Entitlement & Incompetence:
  • “He is a Kennedy. Give it to me. That’s what it is.” [48:38]
  • Notes lack of job experience, lists "never had a real job,” lived in “rarefied, rarefied worlds.”
• Campaign Gaffes:
  • Points out his campaign manager quitting after three weeks.
  • Mocks his rehearsed, boilerplate responses and lack of substance—“If you can't articulate it in 30 seconds or less, I'm not ambling over to your website.” [51:25]
  • Spotlights his ignorance about public housing struggles in NY: “Jack has just learned that poor people… have no recourses…” [52:54]
• Social Media Mishaps:
  • Calls out childish TikTok skits and attempts at humor relating to serious topics.
• Mockery of the Kennedy Legacy:
  • Highlights pattern of Kennedy women (Caroline) seeking office by entitlement.
    • Maureen: “She says… when I was thinking about it in my own head, as opposed to where Caroline, really where...” [57:16]
• General Disdain:
  • “He only cares about power for power’s sake. Trust me, this guy don't give a shit.” [54:39]
  • “He clearly hates women. And so if you're a woman and you're considering voting for this guy, think again. Really? He hates women now, you want to know where he gets this from? From, you know… Mommy.” [56:02]

Notable Quotes:

• Maureen: “Aside from just that being ridiculous, he clearly hates women. And so if you're a woman and you're considering voting for this guy, think again. Really. He hates women.” [56:02]
• Maureen: “Keep going, Kennedys, keep going. It's, it's amazing content and I love not. I love an excuse to talk about ask not and all of the women that your family has destroyed.” [57:16]

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Memorable Moments & Quotes with Timestamps

• "She is a spiritual reptilian." – Maureen Callahan [05:29]
• "How can a woman try to sell a family less holiday special while her lonely father is having body parts removed in a foreign country?" – Kinsey Schofield [08:40]
• "She is a reptile. She is a cold blooded reptile masquerading as a human being." – Maureen Callahan [09:55]
• "If I were Harry, looking at this long string of people that she's discarded since I met her, I'm concerned about when I'm next." – Kinsey Schofield [13:41]
• "The universe is trying to tell you something, Megan Markle…" – Kinsey Schofield [22:01]
• "She is comporting herself and touching him and gazing at him… as if she is the wife, as if she is the lover." – Maureen Callahan on Goldie Hawn [27:59]
• "The other reindeer are assholes and so is Santa Claus…for abiding all of their bullying bullshit." – Maureen Callahan [30:49]
• "He is a Kennedy. Give it to me. That’s what it is." – Maureen Callahan [48:38]
• "He clearly hates women. And so if you're a woman and you're considering voting for this guy, think again." – Maureen Callahan, re: Jack Schlossberg [56:02]

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Tone and Style

Brash, irreverent, deeply skeptical, and sharply critical, especially toward hypocrisy, privilege, and performative compassion. Maureen and her guest Kinsey keep the conversation lively, unfiltered, at times biting, and consistently engaging for listeners tired of media “niceness.”

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Key Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|---------------| | Meghan Markle & Thomas Markle deep-dive | 05:00–23:23 | | Golden Globes/Hollywood/Goldie Hawn | 26:25–34:27 | | Listener Feedback | 34:44–41:06 | | Jack Schlossberg/kKennedy Take-down | 44:58–59:08 |

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Summary

Maureen Callahan’s The Nerve tackles timely scandals with smart, witty, and brutally honest commentary. This episode’s focus is firmly on perceived moral failures—by Meghan Markle with her estranged, ailing father, by Hollywood's “creepy” social norms, and by political entitlement embodied by Jack Schlossberg. Listeners new to the podcast will get a clear sense of Maureen’s “troublemaker” ethos, distaste for superficiality, and commitment to saying the things others won’t.

Perfect for listeners who:

• Want sharp, unapologetic commentary on pop culture and the royals.
• Enjoy breakdowns of hypocrisy in public figures.
• Appreciate a podcast that holds feet to the fire—regardless of status or celebrity.

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Transcript

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[Maureen Callahan]

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Welcome to your Tuesday edition of the Nerve. I am your host, Maureen Callahan. We have a packed, packed show for you today. The lead story, of course, I think every troublemaker on earth knows exactly what it is. Meghan Markle's estranged father had his leg amputated last week. He is sitting in it. He is in. Sorry, I shouldn't say sitting. He's in an ICU in the Philippines.

And Megan, we'll get into it. We placed a 911 call to Kinsey over the weekend and she was like, of course I'll be there because that's who she is. Okay. Our foremost American royal correspondent, Kinsey Schofield of Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered a must. Subscribe. Go over there. Go over there. Will be joining us later in the show. We've got some Hollywood news, some updates. I'm going to be talking a little bit about one of, I think, one of the most fundamentally misunderstood and misinterpreted Christmas stories ever. And then we're going to, you know, again, we are apolitical at the Nerve, but this is one of those things. It transcends politics. Okay. And it's a repeat offender, nay, a recidivist Kennedy family. You know, that's, that's, that's my, that's my side of the street. Okay? I'm the expert. We're going in. We're going in. Okay. And then we've got your feed feedback as well. Of course. Always your feedback. And a little bit of troublemaker Art, are you ready? Are you ready? Let's go.

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Over the weekend. Well, actually late last week, the timing could not have been better for Megan, by which I mean worse. And this is, this is a gift. She and Harry, their timing is always abysmal. They. The fates call it, the fates call it karma, what have you. But justice does get meted out in this world. It really does. The day that Megan's Netflix holiday special dropped, which was last Wednesday, I mean, hours later, the world learned that her father, Thomas Markle, was in an ICU in the Philippines and that it was touch and go. And then like a day or two later we learned that his leg, whether it was just his foot, and I don't mean just his foot, but you know what I'm saying, or a larger portion of the leg had been amputated and the reports were that Megan had not reached out.

Then she claimed she had, but then reports from her siblings say she had not. So anyway, here to try to get this criminal timeline together and we're just talking culturally criminal but, you know, I think that Megan, this is my new moniker for her. She is a spiritual reptilian. Okay, we're going to try to get this all, all sorted out as best we can with the help of our friend Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey, welcome for this emergency debrief.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Yeah, I mean, you're right. This timeline is insane. Wednesday, Megan drops with love. Megan. Harry is on the Colbert Show. We get word that Thomas is in the hospital. And Megan's team, their initial reaction was that they were fact checking it. They were trying to prove its authenticity. It wasn't concern, like, please respect my father's privacy at this time.

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[Kinsey Schofield]

I mean, you know, she needs to. She should have taken care of him the way she did not take care of him back in 2016 and 2017 and 2018. She should have said, back up. There's a bounty on that photo. You know, the very first photo of his, her father with an amputated leg, you know, that exists today. And her initial reaction should have been like, back off. I'm, you know, please leave my dad alone. I, you know, I'm going to take care of this. But instead, she's fact checking Maureen. She doesn't trust her family's narrative. She doesn't trust that her father could be injured or, you know, ailing. It's Friday when the Princess of Wales is showing family unity and strength through her Christmas Carol concert. We're getting those gorgeous images out of Westminster Abbey of her and her children that Megan decides to allow her team to release to People magazine that she's reached out to her father over the weekend. Her sister, Samantha Markle, as well as Thomas Markle come out and say there's been no outreach. You know, Thomas Markle senior says, I haven't heard from my daughter. Then Megan's team rushes to People magazine to say, no, no, no, we sent an email.

[Maureen Callahan]

Yes. Okay, Okay. I just got to stop you right there for one second. Number one, I have to say her first reaction, which is, I need to authenticate this claim. I need to prove its veracity that it's true. That's the reaction, in my opinion, of someone who's a habitual pathological liar, because she knows she's constantly lying to us all the time. She's lying to the media all the time. The royals are racist. I was suicidal. Just my opinion. Those are flagrant lies. And so she thinks the way she, she acts, which is, well, I, I would make something like that up for sympathy.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Sure.

[Maureen Callahan]

I would. Second the Daily Mail's Reporting and I columned on this over at the Daily Mail last week if anyone wants to go take a look. Was that. Yeah, Megan, Megan's people. I think Megan's people did it. I don't think she would deign to do such a thing. Sent an email and they. She had an email that was five years old, Right? Well, people had to ask Daily Mail journals allegedly reportedly for an up to date email.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Well, yeah, I mean I, I feel like headlines regarding her desperation, which we're seeing today, to touch base with her dad are a result of media pressure more than sincere interest. How can a woman try to sell a family less holiday special while her lonely father is having body parts removed in a foreign country? It's actually a crisis PR team's worst nightmare. And I'm sorry, Maureen, but it shouldn't take a woman that Serena Williams says is so smart in Harper's Bazaar 2025 or one of Fortune' powerful women a freaking week to get a hold of her ailing dad. It's like you said, pick up the phone and call the Daily Mail. They're the same outlet that somebody from your team has on speed dial because they sure did secure those images real quick of Megan's PR girl, Meredith Maine, sitting down with the King's communications guru Tobin Andre back in July. And it is my understanding that Megan's mother Doria continued to communicate with her father long after Megan's fa, you know, falling out with him. So is Doria unable to assist? Is she making the Christmas Eve gumbo right now and is not available to get us the actual contact information of Megan's DNA father? It's a terrible look for the Sussexes.

[Maureen Callahan]

What do you think? You know, to your point about this timeline, Megan's special, her holiday Netflix special all about hearth and home and creating a wonderful joyous holiday. And holidays are all about family and traditions. That drops at to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. 0%. It did not crack the top 10 of Netflix Netflix's new shows in the United States at all. It landed with a thud. The reviews scathing her husband, like the idiot he is, goes over to Colbert where he plays a game of quote king for a day and he looks like a before buffoon. And then news breaks that her father is critically ill and had to have part of his body cut off in the Philippines. And she sits there and she's like, I'm not going to do a goddamn thing about it. I mean, it's beyond heartless. She is a reptile. She is a cold blooded reptile. Masquerading as a human being. And if he dies before the month is out, I mean, I don't think she can come back from this. I really don't. I mean, tell me your thoughts.

[Kinsey Schofield]

I mean, the timeline's a little off because Harry does Colbert while he knows Thomas is sick. And Megan sits at home while she knows Thomas is sick and is sharing Colbert posts on Instagram instead of shutting down and shutting up while we're trying to figure out what's going on with Thomas Markle. She looks so heartless. She looks so detached. But I feel like we should expect that from her, because if you watch the original Netflix docu series that they did, the only one that has any, you know, commercial value whatsoever, she talks about losing her father in a way that sounds like he's dead. So I think that she's completely written him off. I think she has acted as if he's dead over the last few years. And the only reason we're getting any sort of fake sympathy or distress over the situation is because the people like us are putting pressure on her and saying, this does not look normal. Your behavior is not normal. It's callous. It's cruel. And how can you go sell joy, love, empathy, and compassion while you're showing your father zero?

[Maureen Callahan]

I mean, it's too late for her, because even if she tries to now, everybody will see it for what it is, which is just a PR move. That's all that it is. The only thing this trick cares about is getting another deal with Netflix for some kind of reality show in which you can lionize herself as the epitome of beauty craze, grace, elegance and class and. And. Or get on the COVID of Vogue and. Or outshine Catherine. I mean, good luck continuing to try Sister or cosplaying Diana. You know, Diana, who built her legacy on. On hugging and holding AIDS patients back when the paranoia and hysteria was such that to touch an AIDS patient would be a death sentence for the person extending an iota of compassion to these people who were talk about dying alone in a hospital, you know, you would think she would take the note. You would think, she can't do it. She can't bring herself to do it. It is coming up against the immovable characterological problem with Meghan Markle. She does not have a heart. She does not have compassion. She is, in my opinion, a complete malignant narcissist. Thomas Markle long ago outstayed his use to her. His use to her was done the minute she met Harry. It was over.

[Kinsey Schofield]

And Harry should be taking notes. I mean, if I were Harry, looking at this long string of people that she's discarded since I met her, I'm concerned about when I'm next. And I think that she loves having that control over him because that means she gets exactly what she wants when she wants. I mean, Harry it himself to Queen Elizabeth what Megan wants. Megan gets over the tiara drama, which she didn't get, by the way, because, you know, Queen E was the ultimate boss. But I think that he is terrified of her. And I'm sure you're reading those reports and radar about how their marriage is slowly but surely crumbling. Harry will never be the one that leaves Megan Markle. I think his father's divorce devastated him too deeply. I think he fears being alone. I think he understands that he has screwed up royally with his own family. That Colbert stunt, that was him lashing out at his family, jeopardizing everything they just done with Donald Trump at that state visit. But he doesn't want. He won't let Megan go because she's all he has. She's alienated him from everything he's ever known. And if it were the opposite sexes in this situation, we would look at that and call it abuse. We would call that an abusive relationship.

[Maureen Callahan]

Absolutely. Absolutely. And your point is so well taken that Harry should look at this. This man who has, as far as we know, never even met his grandchildren, their children, Meghan and Harry's. Megan and Harry's children have two sets of grandparents. Only one, only one of the four they have any kind of relationship with, let alone have really met. Okay, this is. This is beyond cold blooded. Her father could be on his deathbed. I'm not trying to exaggerate for dramatic effect. When you start amputating body parts, when people are that old and that infirm. I know I had a. I had a relative. This happened to the average lifespan. If you're in decent shape to begin with, you're maybe looking at five years. Maybe once you start amputating it, it's not good for him. And at the holidays, no less. She cannot be bothered to brag about calling one of her rich, famous friends, whether it's Tyler Perry or whether it's Victoria Jackson, to get their private plane so she can go fly over there with her two children and he can at least meet his own grandchildren. She is a monster, Kinsey. This woman is a monster. And Harry would do, well, as you said, to take notes because he will be next. I wanted to ask you too. This is something that's sort of whispered about in the media, among media people. You can't really say it out loud, at least in print. But we're going to talk about it because.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Because we're troublemakers.

[Maureen Callahan]

We're troublemakers, but we, we're troublemakers with for the right kind of trouble and we're going to beat this to the punch. I think my theory, and I'm not alone because I've talked to many like minded people about this who are very smart and very savvy and have been in this world forever, is that when Thomas Markle does die, Meghan Markle, just my opinion, just a theory of the case. I have no evidence for it other than getting to know her. Regrettably, lo, these many years will claim, doubtless, I think just my opinion, that Thomas Markle sexually abused her as a child and that's why she had to cut him off and the world just couldn't understand her pain. But now that he's dead, she can talk about it, certainly not while he was alive and could defend himself. Your thoughts? Thoughts.

[Kinsey Schofield]

I think that if she does that, Samantha Markle has shown incredible courage in the veracity of her, the veracity of her going after her sister in court. If they were to do that. I can see her siblings going after her in court for something like that because Thomas wouldn't be here to defend himself. If you look, you know, there, that's video of her from Craig Ferguson is circulating today from 2013. Go watch her original UN speech where Hillary Clinton is in the audience. She is loving and gushing and grateful about her father's existence. There is no t scrubbing that from the Internet. There's absolutely zero scrubbing that from the Internet. I think at the end of the day, and we've had this conversation before, Megan was ashamed of her family. Megan did, was embarrassed and of them. She didn't want them out in front of the world because they were not in the same class as the royal family and she was pretending to be. Megan is constantly rewriting her history. And if her father was out there and you know, and she gave him that credibility by standing next to him, he could tear down some of these stories that she's told over the last few years that we believe to be untrue. This stupid dish soap story is one of them. Thomas told Tom Bower. That's not true. That's not the way it went at all. You know, she exaggerates this, among other things in revenge. And I look forward to seeing what Comes out in Bowers new book in March about some of Megan's lies. But I think that she is a perpetual liar and that's my personal opinion. And the reason that Harry and Megan hate social media and the reason Harry and Megan hate the media is that we hold them accountable. But will she try to justify her vile behavior when her father passes by saying that there was some form of abuse? I wouldn't put it past her.

[Maureen Callahan]

I think it's her only play. I think it's one she's been holding in reserve for quite some time. Again, just my opinion. I think there's nothing, I don't think she would think twice about smearing someone with the most vile thing you could accuse them of. Truly I don't. And I actually believe, again, just my opinion, that this is what she's told Harry and that's why Harry goes along with this vile, psychopathic, just my opinion, excising of her father who lives apparently in penury in, you know, and refusing to even, you know, here's what you do. Like, even if you're like, listen, I have a difficult relationship with my father. I do, but you know, he's my father and I don't want to see him suffer. And I am now in a position with access to all manner of privilege. I mean, I pick up the phone and people answer. You get the world's best specialists to be in contact with Thomas Markle's medical team and you make sure they have eyes on him and they've got his medical report and when is he stable enough to travel and bringing him back here? And I'm going to make sure he has the best, doesn't mean I'm going to have like a wholly repaired relationship with him. But I'm certainly not going to let the man who gave me everything that led me to my place in life currently suffer.

[Kinsey Schofield]

No, I mean, he just survived an earthquake. I know, I, I don't remember exactly what floor he's on, but he's on, you know, one of the top floor. Yeah. Very high floor in the Philippines in his apartment complex. These aren't. This is not an ideal situation for a person that recently had a body part amput. It's going to take months if not years for him to become, for this to normalize in, in his system for this to become normal for him. And God love Thomas Jr, but he's not equipped to handle this new physical. This new physical he's going to need.

[Maureen Callahan]

247 around the clock care. And by the way, this reminds me not for nothing, but when my father was alive and he was sick, at one point, he was living alone in his apartment. His TV broke. And do you know that my brother dropped everything to go and buy him a new TV and bring it up to him and install it for him so that he wouldn't be alone in his apartment for a day without the company of a tv. And my bro. I will never forget my brother saying this to me. I felt so bad for him. And my father could be a real pain in the ass when he was sick. He really could. And he's still that. Because that's what you do for your parents when they're sick and ailing. That is what you do. And like, if it were, you know, that's just a TV be. That's not somebody sick and alone missing a leg in a. In a hospital bed in the Philippines. Megan, you're a. We all want you out of our lives. Just get out. Get out. Kinsey, do you have anything to add to that?

[Kinsey Schofield]

Just that you're right. I mean, don't forget when With Love, Megan was coming out, the Palisades fire took over when, you know, this Christmas special. Now she's got is. The universe is trying to tell you something, Megan Markle, and we're not talking about the Rotten Tomatoes score, but that should be telling you something, too.

[Maureen Callahan]

I'm telling you, Kinsey, I think this woman has real demonic energy. And if you correlate, like we should do this on a future nerve, like all of the, like, global events or natural disasters that timed perfectly with anything she thought was going to be a major win. And it goes back to Megxit. It goes back to Megxit. They announced it in January 2020. What happened in March, Covid and the world shut down. And nobody gave a about what those two were up to to, you know, a Variety cover.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Her scoring the Variety cover she waited all of her life for. And Queen Elizabeth dies.

[Maureen Callahan]

Oh, wasn't that the Variety story where she said, you know, I didn't sign an NDA. Or was that the cut?

[Kinsey Schofield]

That was. That was the cut. But the Variety story where she stole the dress, allegedly, supposedly.

[Maureen Callahan]

Oh, I know. We have sticky fingers. We're so classy. We're just stealing designer things everywhere because you know, what we want, we take what we want, we take. Well, Megan, you're not going to want what the culture's dishing out to you, but you're sure is to take it. I can't wait till our next session. Kinsey, thank you for answering the call.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Thank you.

[Maureen Callahan]

Okay, now that we have all had that catharsis. Up next, we've got some more Hollywood to attend to and your feedback. We will see you in a minute.

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We are back next. Now, before we get into a troublemaker feedback, I want to talk just briefly about the Golden Globes nominations which were announced yesterday, Monday. Now we're going to get more in depth with this on this topic rather with your friend and mine, Rob Shooter, who will join us for the Nerve at night tomorrow. But my quick hot take, and it's, it's, it's basically the one that all smart people are having is that who has seen any of these movies? I mean, who has even heard of half of these movies? I'm going to mention just a few nominations. Okay? And you tell me, you tell me like this is very. If a tree falls to me very. If a tree Falls. Leonardo DiCaprio for one battle after Another. I hate the title of that movie, by the way. That's Paul Thomas Anderson trying to avoid the cliche that is baked into his title. It really should have just been called One thing after another. If you're going to do a cliche, just lean in in. But battle. That, that word sticks out like a sore thumb. And honestly, it put me off the idea of even seeing the movie because that kind of weirdness with the title tells me we're dealing with another PTA pretension fest. Okay, Julia Roberts after the Hunt. A movie nobody went to see. I think she got paid 20 million for this movie. I think it made maybe three at the box office. I mean this was. This thing was a nuclear bomb. The blast radius. We are still feeling the after effects. Hamilton. It. Okay? This is what Hollywood thinks people are going to go see during Christmas time, during the holidays. A movie about the death of an 11 year old child. I don't care if it's William Shakespeare's kid. I'm not going to see that movie. A film called Begonia. No idea what that is. Hetta. Same train dreams. No other choice. It was just an accident. I mean, Hollywood is dead, okay? It's dead. No dominations for Gwyneth Paltrow currently taking big victory laps all over Hollywood, doing a cover story for the Hollywood Reporter about dating to get back into, you know, real acting. This is a supporting role. Noms for the director of Marty supreme, unfortunately, Timothy Shamalama. Ding Dong Sh got a nomination, but we'll be taking care of that. Not to worry. Now for television. Now, this is a different story. Among the nominees, the nominated shows rather, White Lotus Season 3 was lackluster, but I can get with it to a point. Walt Goggins also got nominated. We are going to have to take care of him. The wood chipper is warming up Trust. Okay. The Diplomat. I enjoy it. It's a frothy show. It wants to be serious. It's really not, but it's really fun. It's smart, it's spiky. Keri Russell's in it. I think she's great. Adolescence. Hands down the best thing I've seen this year. Hands effing down the best thing I've seen this year. If you haven't seen it, seen it yet, I strongly, strongly suggest you see it. The actor who plays the father also conceived of it, wrote it. I don't know if he directed the episodes, but we can talk about adolescence later. Writer. Just treat yourself to it. It's dark, it's heavy, but is compulsive viewing. Oh, my God. And the kid, Owen Cooper, who stars in it. What a prodigy. Like, I don't think we've seen a prodigy like him since Christian Bale. Anyway. Okay, now this popped up in my algorithm and it's in a similar vein because it's like what? Like, it's basically goes to what is in the water supply in Hollywood and among celebrities. This is Goldie Hawn, who I think a lot of us have, you know, real affection for. She's on a red carpet with her son Oliver Hudson at the Make a Wish gala in LA last week. And this looks like she is comporting herself and touching him and gazing at him. I am sorry, it has to be said as if she is the wife, as if she is the lover. This is giving. You know, we talked about Jeremy Iron Irons, like a couple of weeks ago, defending incest. Hey, you know, he was like, hey, between a father and a son, it's no big deal because there's no procreation. And by the way, you get some good tax breaks. You could not make this up, okay? It's it. And this stuff gets normalized in the culture. I guarantee you on your Access Hollywoods, on your Entertainment Tonights, you're going to be seeing this clip and nobody's going to say a thing except like, oh, how sweet. How sweet. The rest of us, our skin is crawling off of our bodies. Okay, now a very quick. I just Want to touch on quickly because this is one of my, visually one of my favorite, favorite Christmas specials, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It airs in America every holiday season on like a major network in prime time. It's got that kind of hand. The, the animals and the people, they're handmade and it's like stop motion animation. And there' that this kind of animation has more heart in it than any kind of animation. If you're old enough to remember, there was a Sunday morning show like this with this kind of animation called Davey and Goliath. And it was kind of, it was kind of like, you know, it had its roots in Christianity and the story of David and Goliath, but in this cartoon, Davey was a little boy and Goliath was his dog. And it was just adorable. But Rudolph, I just, I think has been fundamentally and I think in many ways deliberately misread over the years. And I would just like to give you my interpretation because I think once you see it, you can't unsee it. The other reindeer are assholes and so is Santa Claus for abiding all of their bullying bullshit. They all make fun of Rudolph because Rudolph has a red nose unlike the rest of them. And they bully him to the point where he becomes a pariah at the North Pole. And it's not like there are a lot of other places Rudolph Ralph could go to make some friends. And remember, this is before the Internet. So he can't even like go on Instagram, you know, or like Snapchat. So, you know, he is a pariah and he is a lonely, lonely soul up in the freezing North Pole. And Santa nor Mrs. Santa Claus will do anything to really intervene. You know, this is kind of like, this is what you would at best call benign neglect parenting. Now, however, however, when it comes time to deliver the Christmas presents to all the boys and girls all over the world, well, it's super dark out, as tends to happen with night. And if any of these asshole idiot reindeers thought ahead, they might be like, you know what? The thing that sets Rudolph apart, that thing makes him special. It doesn't make him a freak. It makes him special. You know, it's a theme here at the Nerve. We could go back to even our Billy Joel, you know, our breaking apart of those episodes of his documentary when he was a kid trying to walk to his music class, his piano lessons, lessons to the person who also taught ballet in school and all the other boys in town, like, interrupting him on his way to just go take his lesson and knocking the the school books out of his, out of his arms and saying, you're a freak. Why are you going over there, you know, basically calling him gay. You could, you could read Rudolph the same way. Actually, you really could. And you know, I said over here at, at the woodshed and, and it. At Nerve Central, we're all about the misfits because those are the ones who see the world differently and they grow up to make real cultural contributions that enrich all of our lives. Lives. Anyway, back to Rudolph the other reindeer. Like, hey, Santa, you know how we're going to get this thing aloft? You know how we're going to get this thing going and get back in business? Rudolph can lead the way because his nose lights up and then all of a sudden they all love Rudolph. And that, my friends, is a relationship of convenience, if not outright use and abuse. So, you know, I think that the lesson to tell our children is not, oh, wait for the bullies to accept you and do everything you can to fit in.

No, no, no, no, no. You know, Rudolph was being abused and you know, he, he should have told them all to go take a hike, but we wouldn't have had the store. The feel good story that we do without it. Okay, now on to your email. Maureen.

Let me get my glasses. Oh, by the way, Paul from New Zealand sent us this amazing. I mean, his, his art's always amazing and he's so prolific. Paul, you know we have trouble keeping up with you. And by the way, prop master Emily is on her way over to Nerve Central. It's physical HQ to get you your note and get your goodies out to you. But anyway, Paul sent this Meghan Markle inspired artwork which is also up on my Instagram carousel over at Maureen Callahan, Writer, if you care to take a look. Maureen, I just finished your Mini Nerve from this past last Saturday. Now she thinks that we are spot on with the Meghan Markle mini. One thing I thought of is when Megan asked her friend Naomi Osaka what her favorite pastime was for the holidays. And Naomi said, family. This response was disastrous for Megan because Megan has been like an A bomb with both her family and Harry's family. And her destruction to lineage knows no bounds. In any event, Megan pivoted quickly from Naomi's mentioning of family and turned the conversation to rest and relaxation. I noticed that too. And she did it with that, oh, that tight jaw because she just can't believe somebody mentioned family again. Don't you know her father just got his leg amputated. She doesn't Give a shit, in my opinion. Okay. Megan was also smiling awkwardly, as if she wasn't really in the moment. With Naomi, she never is. Her super ego is always fixated on how am I coming, coming across. How do I look? Do they have the right angle? Do I look perfect? And am I emanating the proper emotion? She's just not that good of an actress. So this troublemaker Gina from Newport Beach, Ca we See you, Gina. Home of the real Housewives of O.C. i find her to be so uninteresting. If she tore off the mask and was just her true authentic self, it would be highly, highly entertaining. I think this stuff with her father. Mother has timed that out sadly, Gina. But otherwise, I am totally with you. Dear Maureen, I was at Nordstrom today in the shoe department. Love the detail. Troublemaker Janet. Janet's a lawyer, by the way, and a young sales girl was helping me. She was one of those people who radiated specialness. And sure enough, I asked a few questions. She told me her life story. Foster care, five siblings, all split up. But she was in college and transferring to a university. A total not victim who had faith in God and belief in herself. Now, here's where the Nerve comes in. The Nerve saved this good soul from the Let them theory and the swamp that is Mel Robbins moral intellectual rot. Okay, my opinion. She. Holy. I just lost a. I just lost a. A pearl. Okay. She was telling me about a group she leads for foster youth and Let them. The Let them theory was recommended. I told her all about the author and the book. From what I learned at the Nerve, she will not buy it and she won't read it. Well done, troublemaker out in the wild. Dear Maureen and Team Nerve, thank you for launching the nerve in 2025. Well, thanks for coming and making it work. Okay. I humbly nominate one of my favorite troublemakers of all time for the distinction of troublemaker. Emerita. You know, emerita is a new word in the culture. I believe it was made up to.

Refer to Nancy Pelosi as, you know, speaker Emerita. Actually, I don't mind it. You know, I don't really mind it. Anyway, Camille Paglia. Back in the spring, I believe Maureen invoked Polya a few times in different reports. Indeed I did. I love her. I love her. Mom mind. Original mind. Pushing against conventional wisdom and lazy thought. As a college student in the early 90s, I discovered Camille and have thoroughly enjoyed her literary scholarship and forays into art. Wherefore art thou, Camille? She has been missed in the culture. She Absolutely has been missed. We wish Camille very happy holidays and all Best wishes for 2026 6. Final email for today. The section again, the Mini Nerve. The section where Harry comes in to visit and Tom Colicchio is there. It was giving who's afraid of Virginia Woolf vibes. Excellent observation from this troublemaker who says, mo Bro here. Love the Mo Bros. Okay, and finally, I just. We had to note this. Lena Dunham has resurfaced. And where else but in Taylor Swift's VIP box box over at like, I don't know if it was a Chief's home game. I don't really care. I don't pay attention to football. It's not my thing. Sorry, Mo Bros. It's not my thing. But anyway, she is resurfaced and you know the shot that I don't know if we can show it here, but it was really amazing because it caught Lena in the lower right hand corner of the frame. Everybody else has their eyes on the field and she's got her mouth open and she seems to be rummaging in her bag for something and she looks like she barely just rolled out of bed. Said to get it together. And you know, Lena's. This is, this is Lena's karma. You know, she's put out a lot of cultural rot and wrote about, you know, sexually molesting her sister. And Hollywood was like, hey, keep going. We love you. Not with molestation, I don't think, but you know, we're going to continue to employ you. Anyway. Her artwork has, has, has suffered quite a bit. I as stated, I believe Judd Apatow was the brains behind Girls. Anyway, troublemaker notes housekeeping as mentioned on our previous show. So producer Marlena is contemplating bangs. She's really torn. And the last time I saw her before taping, she actually pulled out her bangs like she ordered them. I don't know where I asked her. I forget, but you know, they're clip ins. And so we did a side by side over at the nerves Instagram and we're asking for your votes. And you know what the deal is? She's going to do whatever you guys say because that's how it works over at the Nerve. So go vote. Vote Bangs or no. And Marlena, if you guys say bang, she's gonna actually commit and we're gonna make sure that she's not just coming in with the clip ons. We're going to send. We're going to send somebody to record this. This happening in real time. Okay? Now.

Also, the holidays are fast approaching. And we want to hear about your favorite holiday traditions, whether like, you know, genuine traditions or things that just kind of like, you know, are a little bit of troublemaking. So send us to those along with any of your feedback suggestions. Remember, the Nerve Awards are closing in. If you've got any nominees you want us to consider, now is the time, my friends. Email me at maureenvilmakehremedia.com or DM me on Instagram at Maureen Callahan, Writer or at the Nerve Show. And check out the nerves substack thenerveshow.com you can find it over there. And remember to subscribe. Subscribe if you haven't already. Coming up, we're going straight to the wood chipper. We really are. The wood chipper's warming up. We're going to keep him around to kick him around as long as we can. But then we're going in. It's time to to take apart Jack Schlossberg's nascent bid for political office here in New York. And if the Nerve is doing what the Nerve was put on God's green earth to do, we're going to make it fail abysmally. Okay, see you in a minute.

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[Maureen Callahan]

We are back and we are talking about one Jack Schlossberg. Now listen again. We are not political here at the Nerve, but this is a Kennedy thing. This is a real Kennedy thing. And Ask not was written to eradicate this monstrous family from our politics and our culture. And Jack is just the latest treatment resistant organism. So we're going in. Okay, now this isn't personal because I don't really care about Jack personally. Has he called me names? Yeah, but I can take it. Has he ripped me off with a segment called Ask not on his loser Whatever. I don't know what he's doing online. I don't know if it's a channel. For a while we were rolling around New York City in our murder van. I don't know what's up with this kid, okay? But he ripped off Ask not. You know, and again, if he had two brain cells to rub together, he would know that. Ask not is.

A searing critique of his family and the ways in which they have destroyed women. But I guess he thought it was catchy and that's all that matters in the Internet age. Correct? This guy is 32 years old. He has never had a real job. He seems like he's mentally ill. His family, his extended family, has alluded to to as much. Okay, this media hit which I caught on Sunday morning and I texted Marlena immediately. I Was like, we're moving C block. Is this. It's it. The third block of the show. You know, we. They're alphabetized A, B and C. That's it. We're doing this now. He seemed heavily medicated. This is a local show in New York. It's called the Point and it's hosted by this journalist named Marsha Kramer who used to. I used to read her like in the Daily News when I was a kid. I think she wrote for the news and then she transitioned into.

Local television news. Marcia, her show is a little too cozy for me. It's a little too cozy. It's a Sunday morning news show and all of them are useless really. But aside from the lack of pointed questions, which if I were her producer, it would never fly. We would be going in, we would be making some headlines and we would be getting some eyeballs and some ratings. Bari Weiss. It's a steep hill over there. Okay, now Marcia always sounds like she's a little drunk. She does. You'll see what I mean. Now, Jack toddled over to her studio for a one on one interview. This aired on local CBS News in New York on December 7th. And that's Sunday. And we're coming to you almost 48 hours later. And there are like 25 comments. Comments on the YouTube feed. 25. I think ask not is doing what it should be doing in the culture. Okay, we're gonna listen to Jack talk. And by the way, I think Jack looks and sounds heavily medicated, like on prescription meds, potentially antipsychotics. And you'll see what I'm talking about as we go through this segment. Here's Jack. Jack is asked, why are you running? I would have prefaced this with like, you've never had a job. Here we go.

[Jack Schlossberg]

I know this to be true. And I feel connected to our past. I feel generations that came before us. Your, your ancestors and mine built this country based on a belief that we could do big things and that the government was capable, confident and cared about people. That when you called up your representative, you might actually talk to a human being and they would listen to your concerns. And our country turns 250 years old this year and it's coming at an interesting moment.

[Caroline Kennedy]

No shit.

[Jack Schlossberg]

In power time.

In the. Sorry, let me. In the past, we believed in America.

[Maureen Callahan]

Do not interrupt. He is a Kennedy. You do not interrupt Kennedy's. No matter how nervous or ill prepared or he seems to be gulping on his own saliva and choking on his own well rehearsed. One would think Words. Okay? He's asked why he's running and this is what he says. You know, I feel very connected to my past. That is a none too subtle code for I am a Kennedy. Give it to me. That's what it is. And he's like, you know, my ancestors. And like your ancestors like, but your ancestors aren't Kennedy's. Hey, did your ancestors lobotomize a woman or, or rape any number of women or leave them for dead or drive them to suicide or put them in loony bins? No, they don't talk to me. Let me finish my thought. Let me finish my vague malformed thought as to why I am the person for this job. Now as Marcia Kramer, asking why our campaign manager quit after like three weeks on the job. No, we are not. We are not asking Jack that question. Ask not, right? Ask not. But we're going to take a look at this headline from the New York Post, which, which this, this was published December 5th. Okay, so this should have been part of Marsha's interview. Annabelle Lassole, if I'm saying her name right, hired to help launch the 32 year old Democratic primary campaign for New York City's 12th congressional district, has confirmed that she is now no longer working for Jack Schlossberg. But let's listen to Jack's. He has asked a specific question about his housing policy. Oh, by the way, in that first answer, he did this thing that politicians do. They come up with a word in triplicate or a thought in triplicate, and it also has to be alliterative. So it sounds like we're very serious and we've got like real talking points that are like earworms here. He says, capable, confident and cared. First of all, I'd rather competent than confident. But you know, this is all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Okay, so he's asked by Marcia a very specific question about his housing policy for New Yorkers. And here is his answer. And there's a huge preamble. And it is salient because he does. He's trying to buy time so he can remember his rehearsed boilerplate answer. Here we go. I know you just. You have a new housing plan.

[Jack Schlossberg]

Yes.

[Maureen Callahan]

So, I mean, is that where you're coming from?

[Jack Schlossberg]

Well, let me tell you what I see as a problem for our party. Democratic Party.

[Maureen Callahan]

That's not the question. Asshole.

[Jack Schlossberg]

Great job.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Yes.

[Jack Schlossberg]

Great policies. I'm a Democrat through and through. I believe in our history.

[Maureen Callahan]

Who cares?

[Jack Schlossberg]

As a champion for minority communities, we have an amazing economic record to run. On the Democratic Party is lost into the gop. But we've been speaking in vague, abstract distractions. And so my campaign, like now, is about releasing specific plans to address specific problems and actually make concrete steps toward fixing them.

[Maureen Callahan]

Jack, why couldn't you have used all that time to just enumerate those? You know, my favorite thing too, is when politicians. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. I just, I hate politicians. You know, when they're like, oh, it's over on my website. I'm sorry if you can't articulate it in 30 seconds or less. I'm not ambling over to your website. Why are you making me do your work? You're the one campaigning. You tell me. You tell me in a way that I can consume as I'm doing, doing one or two or three jobs and, you know, whatever, Whatever. Now, Jack, who apparently lives in one of New York City's most fabled buildings, it is a place for wealthy people.

And again, he's never had a job in the real world. You know, getting, getting hired as Vogue's political correspondent for nine months does not count.

So he has lived in very rarefied, rarefied worlds. And he has not had any reason to encounter people of lesser means, let alone poor people. And that's really who politicians should be serving, the poor. He has just learned. I'm not going to spoil it for you. Why would I spoil it for you? Let's learn about what Jack Schlossberg has just learned. Here we go.

[Jack Schlossberg]

Because I go and I talk to NYCHA residents and they have a backlog of repairs that are not getting fixed. You know that it takes more than a year on average for a maintenance request to get filled.

[Maureen Callahan]

So, Jack, NYCHA is. Is. What is. It's the acronym for public housing in New York City, otherwise known as the projects. And Jack has just learned that poor people who have no recourses who live in government funded shitty buildings, and there's not a winter that goes by in New York where an entire complex doesn't lose heat and people have no hot water. And they are, they are really suffering. It happens every year. But Jack has just learned this. Does this guy even read a fucking newspaper or, like, watch the news in any capacity whatsoever? He just learned. Learned that it can take up to a year if they're lucky for maintenance requests to get addressed. You know, Marcia really should have slapped back because that's what the consumer reporters at local news affiliates do every winter. They go into a project, they go into they go into those houses, and houses, I mean, you know, they're called. It's like so and so house. And. And they talk to residents who are suffering and are, like, endangering their lives and their children's lives by turning on the stove for heat, the oven for heat, because that's. That's their last recourse. They're going to freeze to death. And. But apparently, you know, we're just learning about this, so, yeah, you should definitely represent the Balkan New York, Jack. You should represent your. Your district. Absolutely, you should. Now, Jack has much like Amy Schumer, and, you know, he's got another thing in common with Amy Schumer, and I'm just going to be a bitch about it because these people are so entitled, and they have no business trying to get in office and have power. He only cares about power for power's sake. Trust me, this guy don't give a shit. Okay, My opinion, he's a former fat kid.

And I think this goes to a lot of his issues. Now, if you look at his Instagram, he. He, like Amy Schumer, has scrubbed posts that he now regrets. But, you know, Jack, the Internet is forever. Again, another reason no one should ever vote for you. You're not very bright. Okay, here we're gonna. Here we go. This is one of Jack's. One of Jack's comedic skits that we found over on Tik Tok, you idiot. Here we go.

[Jack Schlossberg]

Dear President Putin, every child shares the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether born randomly into nation's rustic countryside or magnificent city center.

[Maureen Callahan]

He is wearing a terrible blonde wig.

[Kinsey Schofield]

Wig.

[Maureen Callahan]

It's a bobbed wig. Again, no matter your politics, whoever you voted for, the first lady is trying to.

To rescue Ukrainian children who were kidnapped by the Russians. And she's been using soft diplomacy, backdoor diplomacy to do so. And she's been successful at it. And this is over here making fun of her for doing that. That. And I can get it. You know why? Because cruelty is the most dominant gene in that family, the Kennedy family. There's. You know.

I will get into it in a future episode. But aside from just that being ridiculous, he clearly hates women. And so if you're a woman and you're considering voting for this guy, think again. Really? He hates women now, you want to know where he gets this from? From, you know. You want to know where he gets this from? Mommy, who, when Hillary Clinton was vacating her Senate seat to run for the presidency, said to the governor of New York, give it to me. And the Governor of New York said, no, lady, go work for it. Get out there and tell people why you deserve to represent them. It's a job, not a throne. Here's Caroline Kennedy trying to make her case over at New York 1.

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[Caroline Kennedy]

This one was a few years ago, you know, after not, you know, I felt, you know, my job was to reach out to, you know, everyday New Yorkers and really, you know, I really ought to give it some thought that my life, you know, as a mother, you know, while I was thinking about it, just sort of, you know, in my own head.

[Maureen Callahan]

Aside from, you know, you know, you know, all the filler and, you know, I had to talk to everyday New Yorkers, meaning people I never would have otherwise talked to because I go from my door to my chauffeured SUV to my door.

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