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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Meghan Markle’s CRUMBLING Retreat, Tiger Woods’ Downward Spiral, and Blake Lively’s Legal Drama
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Maureen Callahan is joined by celebrity reporter Rob Shuter to break down the latest on Tiger Woods, the fallout he is facing after yet another car crash, his prescription drug use, and insider reports that Vanessa Trump is backing away from their relationship. They also dish on Meghan Markle’s upcoming Australian retreat, her sky-high ticket prices, a petition demanding that taxpayers do not fund Meghan's visit, the hotel's rough conditions, and ongoing sewage problems inhabiting the surrounding beaches. Maureen and Rob pivot to the behind-the-scenes tension at the “Today Show” with rumblings about Craig Melvin's frustration on being passed over for Savannah Guthrie’s exclusive interview, the growing legal drama in the Blake Lively lawsuit with Justin Baldoni, and Rob's exclusive report on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's marriage tension. Then Maureen gives Jen Aniston's boyfriend Jim Curtis and a tone-deaf Heather Graham the full nerve treatment, reads Troublemaker feedback and t...
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Maureen Callahan
until my 50s that I felt like I could claim what I know. Hello and welcome to the Nerve at Night. I am your host Maureen Callahan. And among other things in today's show we're going to claim what we know. You know what we know. We know that Tiger woods is a menace and he needs a prison sentence. We're gonna get to it, trust me. But first we're going to kick things off with celebrity reporter extraordinaire and soon to be New York Times bestseller Rob Shooter. Beginning with the latest on Tiger. And then we've got. Okay, I think the Narv is going to be the first to really report this in podcast form, in YouTube channel form with visuals. And it's so good you guys that like, you know, we do suspect that Megan is in the YouTube comments and sometimes in the live chat when you see like really really like, like overly aggressive, really mean commentary about me that just like keeps spouting out. It could be Megan. It could be one of her paid minions or like a bot farm she's got going on. I do have reliable sourcing that she reads everything I write about her. I mean she reads everything everybody writes about her. But I think she particularly perseverates on me and I consider it one of the reasons I got placed on this golden green earth. You know, this is my mission in life. Real talk about fake people. It involves actual excrement. I'm not overselling this, I promise you I'm not. And then Rob is going to talk to us about the latest palace intrigue going on behind the scenes at the Today show. And when I tell you that there is a major host at the Today show who is upset, not that Savannah's mother has been missing for so long, but because this host was not considered to sit down with Savannah, I think you couldn't make it up. You couldn't make it up. He's got Blake Lively updates. Just, it's, it's, it's a very rich segment. Okay. We are also, we've got a repeat offender roundup and then troublemaker feedback. There's a troublemaker doggy, There's a troublemaker art. And then we're going to go, we're gonna go all the way in on Tiger woods and we're gonna talk about this as only the nerve can and will. Are you ready? Are you ready? Let's go, ladies. Are you looking for a solution to feeling exhausted, anxious, foggy and potentially gaining weight for no reason? Introducing Joy and blokes. The medical establishment has dismissed women's hormonal health for far too long. But Joy, which was created by a woman who lived this frustration firsthand during perimenopause. Perimenopause decided that women deserve better. Every Joy lab features a consultation with a licensed clinician who specializes in women's hormones. Not an AI chatbot, an actual expert who explains what is happening with your body, in your body, to your body. Many doctors fail to mention that testosterone is a critical hormone for women. It affects energy, mood, metabolism, even confidence. Yet this is almost never tested. Joy offers real treatment options, hormone or peptide therapies, personalized supplements, whatever your body actually needs. For a limited time, you can add a 60 day supply of their estrogen face cream for just $1 with clinician approval. So stop guessing and start getting answers. Go to joyandbloaks.com Maureen and use code Maureen for 65 off your labs and 20% off all supplements. That's joyandblokes.com Maureen and code Maureen for 65 off all your labs and 20 off all all supplements. Joy and blokes, healthcare that actually listens to women. Joining us now, the one, the only Rob Shooter, gossip reporter extraordinaire. And this, by the way, is where you know, the culture might say, oh, it's fun, it's showbiz, it's pop culture. This also is hard news. It's hard news. This week he has a must subscribe substack called Naughty but Nice. If you haven't subscribed, go do it. I am an avid Reader Plus, Rob's debut novel is almost here. It started with a whisper. Be sure to pre order a copy. We are going to make this book a New York Times bestseller. And Rob will be here for an exclusive book club conversation on the day of its release. So mark your calendars. Troublemakers. April 21, the Nerves inaugural first real book club segment on the Nerve's first birthday. Many, many, many firsts. Rob, welcome back to your second home at the Nerve.
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Rob Shooter
Thank you. Thank you. You make it feel like my first home. You really do. You've been so kind and supportive and I really do appreciate it. And happy birthday, too. I can't wait to celebrate that with you. It's been a great year.
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Maureen Callahan
It really, really, really has. Okay, let's get into it with Tiger Woods. I'm just going to go through a very brief litany of the car crashes that he has caused lo these many years. His most recent was last Friday, crashing his SUV, a Land Rover at 2pm, 3 2pm in the afternoon. The guy was wasted off his face. My opinion, three miles from his home on Jupiter island in Florida where he was, he flipped his suv. Okay. It's on the side. Literally on the side. He was arrested in 2017 for a DUI there as well. In November 2009, crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant. Excuse me, in Windermere, Florida, charged with reckless driving. Reports were that he was on Ambien May 2017, passed out behind the wheel of her of his Mercedes on the side of the road, car running, pled guilty to reckless driving. How you get a reckless driving charge when you're stationary on the side of a road, passed out is beyond me. And then February 2021, the crash that almost took his life, going 80 miles per hour on a twisty road outside LA. Police did not release any info as to the substances he may or may not have been on. He refused urinalysis after his arrest on Friday. Friday. Rob, you now have an exclusive in this developing story. Tell us what you know.
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Rob Shooter
Yeah, a couple of things here. One, first of all is I have some response from the inside circle to President Trump. The reason I'm linking these two stories is that Tiger has been dating Vanessa Trump, that is Don Junior's ex wife. They share many children together. Vanessa does not live technically with Tiger. She still has her own home. But she does spend an enormous amount of time with Tiger, with, with her children. Her eldest daughter, Kai is a, is a real avid golfer. And so I imagine she really looks up to Tiger, one of the greatest golfers of all time. I understand that connection. Well, now we know that the president himself doesn't want his grandchildren in the same car as Tiger Woods. We know that Don Jr. Is really angry about this. If a celebrity, if a billionaire wants to stay home and do drugs, prescription drugs, and pass out, you do it. It's when you get behind a wheel, it's when you endanger other people. It's the lack of judgment. And his kids are spending a lot of time with this man. I believe too. My reporting has told me Vanessa's at a wit's end too, that she really likes Tiger Woods. But she's not here for this. She's a mother first, despite what your politics are. She really is devoted to these children. And that's her priority, not helping Tiger Woods. She wants to help her own. Her own kids. And so my sources tell me she's out of the house. They've not technically broken up yet, but this is a real red flag. And she doesn't want the messiness she's been into in a messy relationship before. She doesn't want this again. So Tiger might not have only lost the use of his car. His. He might have blown his career. He was planning to make a comeback in a couple of weeks. It looks like he too has lost somebody that he was dating and also support of the president of the United.
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Maureen Callahan
Yeah. You know, Rob, this is very interesting and we're gonna talk more about Tiger later on the show. I never. I don't understand these women who get with him. Like a leopard doesn't change its spots, A tiger doesn't change his stripes. The guy is a colossal mess and he treats people terribly. We will get into this. He cheated on his wife with hundreds of women. Okay, you. And he's a drug addict. I'm just going to say, in my opinion, I think the guy's a drug addict. And the way this all gets classed up in the media, like we even are susceptible to it, you know, I noticed you said you may have a prescription pill problem, which sounds so much more high class and less dangerous than like a street drug problem. He was. The cops caught him with two hydrocodone pills in his pocket in this most recent arrest. The. That is an opioid. That is a highly addictive opioid. It's a form of heroin. It just sounds better. It's a hydro. It's hydrocodone and it's a pill. And you look at this mess of a mug shot. He's got bags under his eyes. You could check into your latest flight. I mean, he's glassy eyed. He's. He looks like the loser he is. And I never understood, you know, the reporting too, with Vanessa Trump, until this arrest had always been she's dying for him to put a ring on it. Tiger's the one who's like, I don't really. I'm not so sure if I'm ready for a commitment. Like, you know, and now, oh, how the tables have turned. You know, like, she's got to get out of this.
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Rob Shooter
She's got to get out of it. She's out of it. She's not. She's not officially 100% out of it yet, but this has really, really shocked her. Her kids could have been in that car. He has driven her kids. He doesn't have a driver. He doesn't want a driver. He's so paranoid. He doesn't want anybody know where he's going. Which is a really odd reason why.
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Maureen Callahan
Why. Exactly.
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Rob Shooter
That's the question you have to ask. Where are you going that you don't want anybody to.
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Maureen Callahan
Is anyone going to be shocked that Tiger is at the local strip club? That Tiger is banging a waitress at Hooters? You know, these drivers, professional drivers for celebrities and powerful people at this level, they have seen it all. They have seen it all. And so this bullshit. I need my privacy. That doesn't even hold water to me.
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Rob Shooter
It's so silly. It's so paranoid. It's so Tiger. Vanessa's. I think this is the final straw here. It's really powerful because I think too. I've worked with celebrities for a long time. They convince themselves. You were talking just a second ago about how these words that we use, prescription drugs, how it does make it sound nicer. And we're not the only ones who are fooled by that. Celebrities are fooled, too. They seem to believe that if they're on a prescription drug, Michael Jackson, countless others, Prince, Matthew Perry.
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Maureen Callahan
Remember Matthew Perry getting those ketamine drips? Well, it was like a medical clinic. So it feels medicalized. And he's no longer a drug addict. He was a drug addict who died of his alcoholism and drug addiction.
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Rob Shooter
It was exactly right. Maureen and I think the more we say it, the more they say it, the better we will all be here. But there is an epidemic in Hollywood of prescription drugs. It's not cocaine, it's not pot, it's not illegal drugs. It's prescription drugs. If you go to a big Hollywood party, there are prescription drugs at that party. Vicodin, painkillers, are something that a lot of celebrities do. They come up with this, this dialogue, this narrative that they're in terrible pain because their bodies have been so abused through years of show business, or in Tiger's case, through the sports world here. But, but this, this pain addiction medication is an absolute app. It's everywhere. It's everywhere in Hollywood. And celebrities have managed to convince themselves, Maureen. That there's no problem because her doctor gave it me a doctor. These doctors are in trouble. We gotta find out who Tiger's doctor is.
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Maureen Callahan
Yes, we do. That is a great. That is a great next thread to start pulling on this because they put one of Matthew Perry's doctors in prison.
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Rob Shooter
Yeah. Michael Jackson's doctor, Chad.
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Maureen Callahan
Right. And to your point, about, like, the normalization of prescription medication, it's not that big of a deal. I can think of a drug that everyone in Hollywood is on and thinks is perfectly fine. Ozempic. And we just learned last week that there is, I believe, the first class action lawsuit being brought against the makers of these GLP1s for the catastrophic side effects. I mean, we're talking loss of vision, loss of organs, people being hospitalized that come along with these drugs. Or we see someone like a Kelly Osborne who still putting herself out there for public consumption and saying, hey, don't look at me. Don't criticize the way I look. And everyone's like, you look like you are actively dying here.
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Rob Shooter
Yeah, yeah.
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Maureen Callahan
It is.
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Rob Shooter
It is immediate gratification. It is immediate weight loss. If you take a Vicodin, it is immediate numbing. It gives you a sensation that is rather nice. I broke my ankle. I sprained my ankle. And I did some vicodens prescribed by a doctor for a couple of days. I felt great. Maureen. It would have been so, so easy to become addicted. It would have been so easy to want to keep doing it. And so it is immediate gratification. It makes you feel good. The problem is, is it's just a temporary fix. And the big problem, which so many celebrities have, and it's such a cliche, it's that endless pit of neediness that is deep within them.
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Maureen Callahan
It will never be filled by outside sources.
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Rob Shooter
Exactly. It will never be filled. Tiger. It is a miracle that somebody as messy, as sloppy as really somebody with as many demons as Tiger has, it's amazing he can be in a relationship with anyone, let alone somebody that's within the President's inner circle. These grandchildren are a priority to Mr. Trump. Anybody that has been around him, that knows him, he loves these grandchildren. He really prides himself on being a good grandfather. He's not going to allow this messiness. He liked Tiger. He's a huge golf fan. He's a huge golf fanatic. He's a little bit sort of starstruck by one of his heroes. If you like sports, you like sports. Us. I love Madonna. Gosh, when I met her, I nearly passed out, Maureen, because I was so excited. I was so starstruck. And so for Tiger, he has got away with this icon image that is all fake. He's an enormously talented was golf player. The rest is pr. The rest is marketing. The rest is not true. And now we're seeing it not once, not twice, not three times, four times, Maureen.
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Maureen Callahan
Four times that we know of, that we know of that have not been covered up. And I'm just going to say, like before we move on to just Meghan Markle next, you know, I'm sure that what I have read was the Secret Service was told long ago, do not let any of Trump's grandchildren in a vehicle that Tiger woods is driving. And not only that, but if those grandchildren are in Tiger's home, I'm sorry, I'm going to guess this guy, high class though they may look, has drug dealers in and out of the house. There are drugs all over that house. The guy is a. I have so much to say about this, but we must move on to Meghan Markle because this report is too good. Another mess, another emotional psychological crime scene against the culture. Now she is about to embark on her retreat, this Australian retreat that she invited herself to. And they said, sure. And then she said, oh yeah, and then give me a million dollars. Now the petition in Australia is up to 35,000 signatures. And the petition, in sum and substance says we, the Australian taxpayers do not want in iota of our hard earned money subsidizing this trip at all. The standard picking up on reports from all over the place. The site of her Australian girls retreat, which the the top ticket, $3,000 Australian dollars to get. That's the price tag for a front row seat to her talk, her word salad, garbage talk and a group photo with the Duchess. The Duchess is a mess. Okay, this place where this retreat, it's the Intercontinental Sydney Coogee Beach. Okay, now it sounds great. It promises yoga, sound healing dinners by the pool, a disco night. Okay, here's what's really going on at the Intercontinental. It is under extensive renovations. The swimming facility, which I'm going to guess includes the pool, Fancy words swimming facility. It's a pool Spa Leisure deck due for completion in April. I'm sure it'll be done. An Australian source told GB News the construction at the hotel is a work in progress and quote, a blot on the View. Okay, the other, the other thing these guests have waiting for them. Kooky beach has been struggling with sewage pollution. And the Daily Mail got a worker picking these things up. They call them poo balls. As in poop, foul smelling poop balls that keep washing onto the shore. I am reading from this article. Tens of thousands of these lumps have appeared since 2024. They are thought to be splinters. Is there a better metaphor for Meghan Markle? Rob and I quote from a giant fatberg. I've never heard the word fatberg and I love it. In the Sydney sewage system, these balls were confirmed by academics as being composed of, again, metaphor for Meghan Markle. Cooking oil, soap, scum, hair and human excrement. We are looking at the poo balls here, full screen. Rob, I give it to you. I give it to you like the gift it is.
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Rob Shooter
You've summed this up. You've put a bow right, you've handed it on. It's the perfect metaphor. The universe is, is finally getting a sense of humor about Meghan Markle. We've been doing this for a while, but I always felt as if the universe was still catching up and there were still people that wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. And honestly, Maureen, on days when I was a little tired, I might have felt a little sorry too. But everything they do, everything they do falls apart. If anybody could mess something up, it's these two. And I think I know the reason why. It's because they've never had to be successful by themselves. Harry's success has been handed to him by really superior people who work at Buckingham Palace. The quality of the people that work there that manage this organization, they're the best. I'm lucky enough to know several. I went to university with a few of them and they work really hard at that. And it doesn't matter how messy the royal is. And there's a lot of messy royals. The institution protects them. If ever you've worked for a big company, a big TV show, there's something lovely about the producers and the infrastructure and surrounding yourself with really good people to make you look better. Harry and Meghan have not done this, Maureen and I just don't understand why. Is it that they are cheap? Partially. It's also too that they think they know better. They don't Believe they need good people around them. Everybody does. When I started my podcast, I hired great people. When you started the Nerve, what would
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Maureen Callahan
I do without Marlena? I was just existential. Cree de corps, Marlena,
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Rob Shooter
what would you do? They need a Marlena. Marlena. Don't you get any ideas. But they need somebody to just help them out. And now this is where they are. And it's their own doing. They're now at the bottom of the barrel. They're not getting the big offers. If a real luxury hotel was opening in Australia, Meghan would not be on their list of invites. She's done that to herself. So all they're left with now is the scraps. When you start devaluing your brand, when you start turning up at futon sales, when you start turning up cutting ribbons on car dealerships in Jersey, no disrespect to either of those, that's where you are. Meghan and Harry have alienated all the A list, all the people that they were around when they first started. Netflix, Spotify, Disney, the Royal family, giant
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Maureen Callahan
brands, blue chip brands. And Rob, as you're saying, you know, when you're talking about the way the palace architects these images, I mean, we're now we've been seeing the real Harry, but the, the character that they built for public consumption, that rapscallion, good natured, happy number two Harry. Yes, that was a stroke of brilliance. That was a stroke of brilliance. They made him a perfect counterpoint to the more stuffy, you know, Prince William. And he, he just blew that image to smithereens. And now the only place they can get a gig is Australia. For the time being. Poor Australia. We love Australia here at the ne. And literally everything they touch turns to shit. And we see it with the poo balls on the beach, where Megan will be no doubt posting her a lovely Instagram. You know, we know there's poo balls on the beach, Megan, so enjoy it. Enjoy the wafting of that upstream. Okay, now, Savannah, Rob, we've got to talk. We've not really talked since the Hoda sit down. The One on one. Now, everything that you and I have been talking about and your impeccable sourcing inside NBC, it's all coming to fruition. It's all coming true. She did the one on one. They chopped it up. They packaged it as a Dateline special. The reports are that she is coming back on Monday, April 6th. Now, if that stands, my reporting is that Hoda has been told she is no longer needed on the Today show set. And she is not welcome on Savannah's first day back and that in the meantime, Craig Melvin is fuming that he did not. Not only that he didn't get the one on one with Savannah, but that he, that he wasn't even considered. The Daily Mail says the host has been left utterly, quote, devastated by being boxed out. So this is, this is how sick it is over there. But tell me what you're hearing.
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Rob Shooter
It's amazing. That Daily Mail story blew my, blew my socks off. And it makes total sense. It's total reading with what I'm hearing about, about the situation for when Hoda left, they ran a multi million dollar ad campaign of Savannah and Craig as the new co hosts. This is what they set them up. This is the job they sold to Craig, that you're an equal. You and Savannah co host the show and when the biggest news story maybe in the history of the Today show happens, they give it to Hoda. Craig must be rightfully so, not only angry, but really, really nervous. If you've ever worked at any job. And suddenly they stop making eye contact with you. Suddenly you're not invited to the meetings. Suddenly you're not invited to participate. That's a real bad sign. Craig's no fool. He's been in TV for a really long time. Craig melted down. Craig was absolutely hurt by this. Now what they're saying to Craig is that we wanted Hoda to do it so we can put that story into a box and move on. So when Savannah returns on the 6th, we can go back to. Normal's not the right word, but the new normal, I guess is the right phrase. And so I'm told they'll start the show off with the two of them at the desk. There will be a welcome back to Savannah and then they're going to go to the news of the day. It's not going to be four hours of her mom of updates. There was story that there might be yellow ribbons everywhere. Yellow balloons.
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Maureen Callahan
Oh, please.
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Rob Shooter
And that's not going to happen. But they're thinking about this. Producers are talking about this. It's going to be a weird moment. And I don't think the Dateline interview helped. I think it's made it even more, more weird. And so what did you make of that?
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Maureen Callahan
Let's talk about that for a minute. What did you make of Hoda's affect and, and Savannah's as the, as the interview wore on, I will say I became a little bit less, a little bit less convinced that Savannah isn't just as willing to Play the game.
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Rob Shooter
You know, that's the takeaway that they were trying so hard for people not to have. So.
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Maureen Callahan
Right.
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Rob Shooter
Why did these people that are so good at making television fall into that mistake? If we had produced this, it would have been a very, very different, different interview. And so I think here that you ask yourself, and I kept asking myself this, why is she doing this? Is she doing this to help save her mom? Which is certainly a very legitimate, honorable, really important reason. If this amount of attention, if this amount of coverage is going to help jug people's memories, make them, make them remember something, then you do it. You keep talking. But I didn't get that. I didn't get.
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Maureen Callahan
I didn't get that either.
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Rob Shooter
So the question is, why is she doing it? And then one of the questions has to be as cruel as it sounds. Is this about ratings?
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Maureen Callahan
It's about ratings.
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Rob Shooter
It's a TV show. And as much as they keep saying they are family, they are, they are, they. They're colleagues. It's a TV show. Ask Peter Alexander. How awkward in the middle of this We Are a family promotional tour. One of the members of the family is so annoyed with them. He's leaving to go to a cable network. He's leaving the Today show to go to a daytime cable network.
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Maureen Callahan
Yeah, it's not a great time slot. I think 11am It's a graveyard at
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Rob Shooter
11am he's not going to fit in there. He's a bad choice for it. I've known Peter for 20 years. I don't know, not know if he's a Republican or a Democrat. A lot of people like that about him. But MSNBC won't over there. They've certainly got their views. And so Peter trying to be neutral On MSNBC at 11 in the morning, I, I just don't buy it. I think that he, he was pushed out and so he.
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Maureen Callahan
Oh, definitely, he was pushed out. And you know, this is the thing too, about how I think, I think that the Today show may be the sickest psychological spirit base in, in American morning television. Worse than gma, worse than CBS Mornings. Craig, you know, if Craig. What Craig should actually be upset about, if they're such a family, is that Savannah's mother is still missing and she may never know what happened to her. We're not going to find Nancy Guthrie without finding the people who did this to her. That's just, I just firmly believe that. And you know, if he really loved her and cared about her, he would say, savannah, I want you to, I want you to Sit with whoever you're most comfortable sitting with. This is going to be a brutal experience for you. And instead, he's throwing a fit. He's throwing. So everybody watch closely on Monday morning when Savannah comes back, because she's playing the sick game, too. She is playing this very sick game. If I heard half of what we've been reporting on the nerve that the minute Savannah left, when she got word her mother was missing, that the talent was saying it was her karma because she's such a. That, you know, she looks at that. The affect of the people on the couch after they start airing her interview. And Craig is slumped disrespectfully. And Carson Daly says, you know, none of us have really talked to her, our dear friends, since this happened. I would be crafting my exit package for the ages. But she's going back, and it's a very sick place. And we're gonna have our eyes on this. We have our eyes on her. It's a big first week back, and Craig's. You're gonna hear, oh, Savannah, we love you so much. It's just not been the same without you. I could. I could script it right now. Okay, go ahead.
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Rob Shooter
What's going to happen when they don't get the ratings they want on day three or four? Do they exactly double down on Nancy? Do they pull back on Nancy? This is. This is a toxic situation. We'll keep on it.
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Maureen Callahan
We will absolutely keep on it. Now, very quickly, Blake Lively, tell me what you know, because this case is. Is heading straight to court. Court very soon. The Blake v. Justin Baldoni is about to open arguments on May 18 in federal court in downtown New York City. And I. You're hearing that their. Taylor's freaking out. Taylor Swift because of discovery.
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Rob Shooter
Yeah, discovery. So there was a recent judgment that is going to allow more discovery. There are publicists involved in this. I was a publicist for a long time. I know what it's like. I know what the texts are like. I know what the emails are like. They're unvarnished. And so they are freaking out the big stars here. Taylor Swift's shadow is over this entire trial. There's going to be stuff that is going to be out there that they're never going to be able to put back in the bottle. And so we're going to figure out very, very quickly exactly who Blake Lively is by her own words. Her own words are going to be used against her. My insiders are telling me that the person Blake should be most fearful about during this trial is not just in Baldoni. It's Blake Lively. There's been a lot said, and they're going to use her own words to convict her. And so he is not backing down. This is going to trial. I am shocked, Maureen. If you'd asked me six months ago, you might have. I would have thought they would have settled this. They're both going to destroy each other, and we're going to be there to watch.
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Maureen Callahan
And you know what else I predict? You know, Blake and Ryan made sure to be papped at a football game in the uk. I believe the team that Ryan. And that says to me they will be divorced. They will be filing for. He will be. He will be leaving her. He's a reptile. He wants to be a billionaire. He's not going to get dragged down by this bullshit.
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Rob Shooter
Expect more. Expect more. Paparazzi pictures. A couple of nights ago, they were at the final performance of Jonathan Groff on Broadway. He's in a new musical. He's leaving. The musical's going to replace him.
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Maureen Callahan
So talented, that guy.
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Rob Shooter
And Ryan donated $25,000 to buy Jonathan's hat. There was paparazzi there. Expect more.
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Maureen Callahan
Wait, he donated 25k? For what?
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Rob Shooter
For Jonathan's hat from the show that goes to Broadway Cares. So the money's going to go to Broadway Cares. He gets Jonathan Groff's hat from the show. But what I find most interesting, and I looked at the pictures very carefully, and I spoke to people who were in the audience. If you go to see a musical with your wife and your kids, you all normally sit together. Nick sat in a row behind him.
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Maureen Callahan
Stop it. Stop it. And again, whatever they're saying was the reason for that. These are very rich, powerful people.
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Rob Shooter
They could get four seats. I can't get four seats at Wicked. We'll sit. When we go to see Cabaret, we'll sit in different parts of the. The. I can't do it. They can get the seats.
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Maureen Callahan
Okay, okay. This is amazing. This is amazing. Okay, I got this seat.
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Rob Shooter
Brian, he was in front of her.
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Maureen Callahan
If I.
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Rob Shooter
If we couldn't sit together, Maureen, I'd say you take the good seat at the front and I'll sit behind you. No, Ryan sat in the good seat.
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Maureen Callahan
You know, Ryan is still a psycho arsonist, so we'll never let that go. Here at the Nerve, our last delectable item. And this is so good to be talking about, because these two are about to be foul the Met Gala, which they basically have purchased from Conde Nast Jeff Bezos and his, like, just Sex doll blow up. Sex doll of a wife. Lauren Sanchez, you are reporting exclusively. Rob, the honeymoon is over.
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Rob Shooter
Yeah. I had people at the Vanity Fair party at the Oscars, and they were really awkward to one another, not only inside the party, but on the red carpet. Normally, couples in crisis put actually on a really good show on the carpet. They overcompensate. These two were really awkward on the carpet. And there's one moment where she really didn't want him in the photographs. She now believes her own hype. She has got a ring on that finger. So she doesn't really need him anymore in her mind to be fabulous. So when they were dating, when they. When they were engaged, she needed him to get the press. Now I think she's trying to step out of his shadow. It's really interesting. Recently at Paris Fashion Week, she didn't take him. She went with Anna Winter.
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Maureen Callahan
Great point.
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Rob Shooter
She was with Anna. She now wants to be a star in her own right. She's not taking a second seat to him. I hear there's already tension. Marriages are difficult. The rules, when the rules change.
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Maureen Callahan
They've been married five minutes. You. You know what, Rob? This is so great, though, because everything you're saying, I completely get like, she earned that ring. No matter what you want to say, she had it. She had to get, like, all of the plastic surgery that he wanted. She had to oil herself up.
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Rob Shooter
Yes.
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Maureen Callahan
Allow herself to get spanked on his yacht in full view of the paparazzi so that everybody could see that she was his sex toy and he was her dom and she was the sub. And now she's flipping the script. He's her sub and she's the dom. Now she's.
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Rob Shooter
She's the dom. I've told, too. There was a great story about what is she going to wear to the Vogue ball. Anna's pretty tough on what people wear.
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Maureen Callahan
Anna decides what people can wear. It goes through her.
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Rob Shooter
I think twice it goes through Anna, what you wear. I'm told that Lauren is not going through Anna. And Lauren. Lauren, she's not covering up. The boobs are going to be out, the hair's going to be big. She's not toning it down. She's going to come as Lauren Sanchez.
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Maureen Callahan
You know, I don't know how to feel about this, because I do love the idea of someone dethroning the wicked witch of Conde Nast. Right. And it's even better that it's somebody as tacky and vainglorious and vulgar, a true vulgarian, as Lauren Sanchez. Then again, I'm sort of like, I
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Rob Shooter
don't want to root for love.
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Maureen Callahan
This is the Met gala for Christ. I mean, listen, excuse my language, but, like, Anna killed it the minute she invited Kim and Kanye. That was it. It was over.
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Rob Shooter
It was over. No. Anna's only got herself to blame for this. Tick, tick, tock. It started, you're right, with Kim and Kanye, and now we're at Lauren Sanchez. However, Lauren Sanchez bought this ball. It might be Jeff's money, but it was Lauren's idea. This was her passion. He doesn't care about fashion. This is her thing. And so he's paid millions of dollars to make his wife, literally the belle of the ball. Let's see how Anna feels about this when Lauren gets out of her limousine with her. Voom, vroom, voom, voom, voom.
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Maureen Callahan
Oh, my God. It's going to be one for the ages. Rob, we love you. We love you so much. We will see you very soon.
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Rob Shooter
Favorite show. We could rattle on for days.
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Maureen Callahan
I know we really could. But you know, hey, let. It's always best to leave each of us wanting a little bit more.
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Rob Shooter
Little tease. We'll see you soon. Take care.
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Maureen Callahan
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
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Maureen Callahan
Good Prices and participation may vary.
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Rob Shooter
Tax tips and fees extra.
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Maureen Callahan
We are back. Now, before we get in to troublemaker feedback, the heart of any episode of the Nerve, we have a little celebrity housekeeping to attend to. First up, Jennifer Aniston's boyfriend Jim Curtis, who she is reportedly house shopping with in New York City. The reports are the Jennifer Aniston is looking at 25 million dollar apartments in New York City to house Jim, who's all about manifestation. Now, one could say if Jim really was about manifestation, he'd be manifesting his own wealth. I mean, and then the devil's advocate side of that could say, well, he did manifest wealth. He's just using Jennifer for it. You know what I'm saying? Jen, wake up. Here he is on a podcast I've never heard of called A really Good Cry. Sounds pretty masculine to me. A really Good Cry podcast. The host is Roddy Devlukia, if I'm pronouncing that right, on March 24th. Here he is talking about what to do if you feel stuck.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
Everything is based in fear. Everything is fear. Everything that we do in life is either overcoming fear in some way, fear that we're not good enough, not capable enough, fear that, you know we're not going to have what we want, that we're not going to be more all of it. It's just based on our primal.
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Maureen Callahan
Okay, Jen's going to give it to you.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
What am I afraid of? And when you answer the question what am I afraid of? And then what would I do if I wasn't afraid? Then you figured it out.
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Maureen Callahan
Yeah.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
So most of it's around. I get a lot of people that say I'm stuck. And I was like, are you stuck? Or really, I think there's something different. And perhaps you're not stuck at all. Perhaps you're just afraid. So changing the word from I'm stuck to I'm afraid. And what, because I'm stuck is ambiguous, right?
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Maureen Callahan
No, it's not. It's not ambiguous at all. It's Pretty clear. Not everything is fear based. This guy, it's. This is. This is what con artists do. Oh, no. You just take this word and replace it with this word, and then you're unlocked and you've solved everything. You know, like. And what happened to the yellow butterflies? I thought the yellow butterflies were the ones that were supposed to unlock. If Jennifer Aniston marries this guy, she's gonna get. She's gonna get what she deserves. Now, I saw this regarding Heather Graham, and now she's all over the place right now. It was just announced that she has been signed to season four of Mike White's the White Lotus. So she's gonna be in our faces now. You thought Leslie Bibb was an annoyance in the culture. Someone who is. It was just. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We're in for it, you guys. We're in for it. She is on the COVID of Us Weekly. And I saw this and I was like, she's irrelevant culturally. Why is she on the COVID And she's, she's, she's. Look what she's doing. She's lacing up roller skates because her most famous role was in Boogie Nights as Roller girl, which was like 30 years ago. Anyway, this popped up and it's. It's such a reminder of how poisonous celebrity culture is. Here she is giving a tour of her. Her New York City apartment to an influencer named Caleb Simpson and listen to her talk about the. What would be the wor. I don't want to give it away, but she's going to tell us all what impeded her, upon closing on the apartment, from being able to take the keys and just walk right in. I mean, brace yourselves. We will nep. Brace yourselves. Here we go. Okay, this is a crazy story. I bought it right before September 11, and the day that I was moving in, I had my key and it was September 11th, and I was at the Toronto Film Festival.
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Rob Shooter
It was like 8am I'm like, today
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Maureen Callahan
I'm moving into my new apartment. And then we flew past the two towers, and then we couldn't come into the city because it was like, you know, chaos. I had to find a place to stay in Line island, and then I took the subway. And the first day I lived here was September 12th. Is she kidding? There was a little hiccup known as September 11th. If you were in New York that day, as I was, and you watched it with your own eyes, as I did. It's a sacred. Well, Heather, I'm glad you got into your apartment. I'M sorry you had to wait a day. I'm sorry you had to wait a day. And by the way, I don't even know if she's telling the story correctly because there were parts of downtown that were just completely cut off like you could not access. And I remember for weeks after going into the city and you could smell the death in the air from like Midtown. So she can off. She can all the way off. Okay, Heather. All right. Troublemaker feedback. I have friends and fam who still idolize the Kennedys. This is from a troublemaker, by the way, who shares a name with a surviving family member of, of. Of of two Kennedy victims. I will keep your name private unless you tell me otherwise. Troublemaker. She says I'm buying some copies of Ask not so they will get informed. Here is my golden doodle, Molly Brown, who just turned three. How cute is she? And it's a happy birthday note. So sweet. Dear Maureen, I get emails like this a lot so I'm gonna read this in the spirit. I am addressing every troublemaker who writes me with a similar sentiment that right now life is not great. I'm cheerless and down and out. Hang in there. Hang in there. Watching your show is like a lovely ray of sunshine. I am so happy to hear this. This troublemaker Peter writes. I know you admire classic cinema and I would like to recommend Kind Hearts and Coronets. I've never seen it starring Sir ALEC Guinness playing eight different characters. It's got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. If you've never seen it, you are in for a rare treat. A very dark British comedy. My favorite pour your favorite adult beverage and surrender to the spell. Maureen and Marlena early celebration to the Nerve one year anniversary. We instantly became troublemakers. She's tipping her hat to Marlena as well. We embraced you all the culture and have been introduced to so many awesome guests. We at the Nerve we have a really nice stable of recurring guests. She she enjoyed the nerves coverage of what went down on JFK Junior's final flight on how he wound up crashing that plane so catastrophically. She says this 77 year old troublemaker was shaking Saturday's mini with Savannah and Hoda made us angry. May you continue the mission on dismantling the fake and carry on with the truth. This is from Olivia in Oregon and she also sent us a card inspired by Timothy Shamalama. Ding dong have a ball on your birthday. It's two ping pong paddles with a ball in between and she ordered pre she pre ordered several copies of Rob's book this weekend. Love to hear it. Hi. Maureen sent this previously. Seemed appropriate for today's show topic. So glad you sent it again, Troublemaker. You didn't say I could say your name, so I won't say it. It's a mo, bro. One morning in the park, years ago, I'm gonna guess this was Central Park. While we were both walking our dogs, I found myself within earshot of Caroline Kennedy on the phone reviewing the guest list for a party she was planning. Names were proposed and dismissed the line she kept returning to, almost like a mantra. Again, just this troublemaker self report was, quote, I want it to be an A list party and he or she would make it a B list party. This went on for at least 10 minutes. I couldn't pull myself away. It was around the time of her, like, you know, campaign to take Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Dear Maureen, I was scrolling on my iPad last night and there it was, the New York Times article featuring Carol Radziwill. And she didn't disappoint. We're getting to it. Trust me, Troublemaker. We were going to do it on Tuesday's nerve, but we ran out of time. I immediately thought, maureen will be on this and dissect it. She will. Oh, you better believe it. We can't wait. Okay. I laughed out loud when this piece mentioned an article Vanity Fair wrote about JFK Jr. And CBK, aptly titled Secrets and Lies in reference to their dysfunctional relationship. Of course, Carol wrote a letter to the editor trying to douse those flames. Protecting her family. Whatever. Then she went on to the pictures, the accompanying photos. You guys should really just look at the New York Times piece. Just for the portraits that accompany this. This, this Britchick. This is our writer here. She signed off. Britchick. Dead on descriptions. Carol smoldering in her apartment wearing her hipster coat. Parenthetical. Hey, man, I'm 62, but I'm still hot. Razor sharp cheekbones, doubtless purchased at the derm. You can get injections, my derm tells me. In a casual lounge on the expensive sofa, wearing the proverbial white tee and jeans. Cool girl uniform for the ages. With her two cats, who are perfectly still, by the way. I bet that took an age to shoot. You are right, mentioning the cats. I'm sorry, Carol, but your felines are no comparison to our beautiful and heroic Teddy, Van Halen and Daisy. And even more importantly, your cats don't undertake special ops. So funny. Okay. Hi, Maureen. While recovering from a respiratory infection. Feel better Soon I languished in bed. And this is such fun. Hate reading. I would have done the same, analyzed all the scorched earth reviews of Lindy West's latest memoir. So she pre ordered the audio version from Audible and we're going to revisit this. I think I might pair my current reading of Lindy's memoir, which I kid you not, when I told Marlena this the other day, she was like, I don't believe it. And I was like, no, it's true. There's what passes for a chapter in there. It's a page and a half called Showering, and it's all about why Lindy finds it very difficult to take a shower. We're going to pair this with Lena Dunham's memoir, which is coming out in two weeks and which has already gotten its extract published in where else? This is what we're going to call it now. David Remnick's Star fucking New Yorker magazine. Okay, now this troublemaker finds Lindy and her memoir extremely grim. The saddest road trip on record with very little interaction with real people along the way. Number one. Number two, the husband who has no actual job and imper. Oh my God, please. And his quote, very thoughtful and caring, sprightly goth girlfriend. Three, the author's willingness to share what sounded like eight hours of therapy and clinical depression with the whole world. And for the quote, unquote happy ending throuple Lind living under Lindy's roof. On Lindy's dime, Maureen Fine to use her name. So I will. Shannon from Wisconsin wants us to consider other book recommendations. She says she just put in for Peter Goralnik's volume two of his excellent Elvis Presley biography Careless Love, the definitive one. I think even Bob Dylan has called Goralnik's Elvis bios the definitive ones. And she's going to get the Other man when it is re released. Any fiction you find smart and fun enough for the troublemakers? I'm thinking about it. Lastly, I'm so excited to watch the new Paul Newman doc by Adam Carolla. I didn't know that Adam had done one. I know Ethan Hawke did a six part one for hbo and I started it and I need to finish it. I have a friend who just raves about it who has excellent taste. Talk about a real man. An incredible race car driver leaving the Hollywood BS for a quieter life in rural Connecticut, committed to family and charitable giving. Are you also a fan or is there a darker side to Newman that only you would dare unveil? I Am a fan of Paul Newman. I am. I love Paul Newman. Not a perfect guy. We should maybe talk about him when this new doc comes out. I think Ethan Hawke's stock predated the Nerve, I think. Okay, finally, last one. Speaking of Megan Markle's upcoming poo balls retreat in Australia. Poop balls, by the way. I was, I was just checking Instagram and she's already on Instagram with a new as ever post. Elegant, Refined. We've got flowers in a very thin, beautiful, looks like hand blown vase. This woman is going to a beach where she is literally washing up in huge balls filled with also human hair and soap scum. It couldn't be better. It could. You know, the universe is. Is it? It wants the Nerve to win. It wants the troublemakers to win. Hi Maureen. I think we could chip in for a ticket to this shit show for Megzilla's sister to attend. If we started to go fund me, it would probably be a success. She also suggests sending Jessica Mulroney along with her. Such fun. She also loves watching Kinsey and Rob and she says she never misses a show. Please keep your feedback coming. Email me at maureen@devilmakehairmedia.com DM me on Instagram at Maureen Callahan, writer, or at the Nerve show. Remember, please to subscribe to the Nerve Substack. That is our weekly email. Just go over to thenerveshow.com you will see a prompt. Would you like to subscribe to the Nerve Substack? Just put your email address in and boom. Every Friday afternoon after, after, excuse me, the week's last full Nerve, you will get an email filled with all kinds of bonus content. And sometimes Teddy goes rogue and speaks to you guys directly without running it by me first. But I know he's in a safe space space. So it's fine as long as he's keeping his Steadman intel, you know, confidential until he gets clearance from Nerve hq. It's cool. Next up, we're going to talk about Tiger woods and his latest arrest again in a way that the rest of the mainstream industrial media, SL Entertainment spl, SL Sports Complex will not. We will see you back here in a minute. Troublemakers are banks cashing your interest checks while you are buried in debt. PDS debt can help. PDS Debt has freed hundreds of thousands of people from credit card, personal loan and medical debt with tailored plans that put you first. No minimum credit score needed. They have got an A from the Better Business Bureau and a nearly five star rating on trustpilot with thousands of real success stories. Every month you delay is just going to cost you more. So don't wait another month. Take back control in 30 seconds. Get your free personalized assessment and the best option for you at pds.com nerve that's pds.com/ nerve. 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Maureen Callahan
We are back and we it is time to take Tiger woods to the woodshed. And then he's going to the burn pile and then the stump grinder. No, sorry, I skipped the wood chipper. Nominative Determinism Tiger woods was arrested for dui. Now we know this. This is a really important story. This is the fourth such major crash that we know of and he should clearly no longer have a driver's license. And if this had been any one of us regular people out in the country doing this, our driver's license would have been suspended a long time ago and then permanently revoked. We also probably would have been looking at real prison time. The way in which Tiger is continually coddled by the culture and the entertainment media. Sports complex is going to get somebody killed and it won't be him. It's, it's, it's the exact same culture that led John F. Kennedy Jr. To crash that plane with his wife and sister in law aboard. It's that exact same culture that allowed Justin Timberlake to feel completely entitled to get behind the wheel of his car in the Hamptons two years ago. It's that sense of entitlement that Britney spe that led Britney Spears to get arrested just a Couple of weeks ago for the same. And you know what all of these people also have in common is that emotionally and psychologically they are children or were children. They remain children. They're very stunted individuals. And. And their early fame came with a lot of darkness and a big downside. That's fine. It doesn't give you license to run amok and risk the lives of innocent people. Tiger Woods, I don't care what his issues are. He's a piece of shit. And I'm going to show this front page of the New York Post, and we're going to talk a little bit about the reporting that I was involved with when one of his last scandals broke, his major, major scandal. But this front page I love. And you know why? It shows you real scale. Like, if you look at this, you can see there's an. It's an elevated fire hydrant. That's a human being. Okay, they're far. There's proportion here. They're far away. But it shows you the size of this vehicle, the weight of this vehicle, what a monstrosity it is, how it could have crushed somebody. God forbid there had been a child out there. He could have killed somebody. It's just another day in the life of Tiger woods flipping a car. What a loser. What an absolute loser. Now, we got the arrest affidavit. We're showing it here. It's detailed. It's detailed. And we will probably revisit this arrest affidavit at a later point. Because if this guy gets away with this and, and doesn't really go to go to jail, go to prison, and he gets to just walk off and be like, I'm gonna go to another rehab, you know, off. The justice system needs to get real. And so does the way the mainstream media covers this guy. You need to get real. You need to have a real come to. You know that, that, that phrase, come to Jesus moment. It's like, wake up, wake up. This Guy has had four car crashes that we know of since 2009. I'm going to read about the. I'm going to read from the con. The contemporaneous USA Today report of previous crashes. This. This was pegged to last week's. But then I'm going to read from the way I wrote about one of his, I think, was this me? I'm not sure. We'll see. We'll see. Okay, so they write about a previous crash in 2009. This is USA Today. Woods's public image took its first significant hit after the events of it's not an event. It's a catastrophic accident. Every word matters. Events is far too passive. It's far too polite. The events of November 27, 2019, when he ran into a fire hydrant with his Cadillac Escalade and hit a tree outside of his residence in Windermere, Florida at about 2:30am oh, this. I know what this is. We all know what this is. But listen to the way they word this. It's very polite. Very polite. Woods had facial lacerations and had to be freed from the SUV by his then wife, Elin Nordegan, or his former wife. Were they divorced by then? It's hard to keep track who used a golf club metaphor of all metaphors to smash the vehicle's rear window. He was cited for careless driving. Here's my report. Here's how I worded it. This is my tick tock. Based on the facts of that night and that crash, which ran in the New York Post in 2013. This was the night that she found the messages on the cell phone. And he was like in another room, passed out again on drugs. He's a drug addict. Let's just call him what he is. He's a drug addict. So Nordegren woke him up. She was yelling at him, he. That he then ran to the bathroom with his cell phone like a scared little boy. She demanded he come out of the bathroom. When he emerged minutes later, she swiped his cell phone, took one look at his last sent message, which included the words sorry, the word divorce, and exploded. She threw the cell phone at woods, chipping his tooth. She pummeled his chest and scratched his face. He rusted himself away. Nordegren reached for the nearest weapon, a golf club, and began chasing him. Woods tore out of the house barefoot, Elon in hot pursuit. Their shouts were waking the neighbors. You've ruined our Thanksgiving. Woods yelled, still running away. Are you happy now? He got into his 2009 Escalade. Elon ran to a golf cart. It was 2:25am woods pulled out of the driveway at 30 mph. He crushed some hedges. This is the event. This is. This is what USA Today calls an event. He crushed some hedges. He careened into a curb, then hit a fire hydrant before smashing into a tree. That poor tree. He wound up in the street unconscious, bloody and snoring. A neighboring couple ran over and there was Nordegren with the golf club, the Escalades, two back windows smashed out. Help us, she said. Woods was knocked out for six minutes. A neighbor. A neighbor called 911. Woods was still on the ground, but now he had a pillow and a blanket. He was sliding in and out of consciousness with cuts to his lips. Blood was pooling in his mouth. He tried to talk but made no sense because he had also taken Vicodin. 2017. Police find woods asleep in his car. Arrested on suspicion of DUI on May 30, 2017. Found by police in Jupiter, Florida. Jupiter, excuse me, Florida. Behind the wheel of his black Mercedes at three in the morning with the engine still running on the side of a road. He told the police he had an unexpected reaction to prescription medicine for his back pain. 2021. Woods was in the LA area, Los Angeles area on February 23, 2021, driving to a television shoot around 7:15am when you're doing a shoot, people typically send a car for you for many reasons. Involved in a single car accident in his Genesis suv, authorities from the LA County Sheriff's Office said that woods was speeding, going nearly 90 miles per hour on a 45 mile per hour street. He struck a tree which sent his vehicle into the air. I believe this is the accident that almost took his life. This guy is a danger. He is a mortal danger to everyone else. And the culture has propped him up because he wants us to feel sorry for him. You know, he likes to talk a lot about all the injuries he's suffered and all the pain medications said injuries just force him to take. Make no mistake when I tell you just my opinion, this guy is a drug addict and he loves nothing more than getting behind the wheel on drugs. He's worth $1.5 billion. His license should be permanently taken away from him. He should not be allowed behind the wheel of any kind of a moving vehicle. He has enough money where he can buy all the golf carts he wants and he can buy all the, all the little engines he wants to soup them up and he can take all the drugs he wants and drive around off his face on any of his properties and just keep it in your house, keep it in your extensive acreage. He told us who he was back in 2010. This is a peek behind the curtain. This is a peek behind the curtain. I found this. And I was like, yet? I mean, there are so many things, but you know, we have. Our show has a time limit. Okay. But anyway, so this is a report from The Guardian in December 2019. And you know, I talk about the National Enquirer a lot because, like, they do break stories and back when they had real money, they broke a lot of stories. The rest of the media wouldn't touch, you know, for many reasons. Okay, here's this report from the Guardian. Representatives acting on behalf of Tiger woods brokered a deal two years ago to bury a tabloid story of an extramarital affair, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. It said representatives for the golfer acted after the National Enquirer threatened to publish pictures of woods taken in a parked car with Mindy Lawton, a Florida waitress. The alleged deal, which the Wall Street Journal claims was made in August 2007. That's legalese, the lawyer said. Put in alleged claims whatever Saw would give an exclusive cover interview and photo spread to a sister magazine of the Inquirer, Men's Fitness. It is the second such claim to be made after the publication of a similar story in the New York Post earlier this month. The National Enquirer. This is me talking to you now. They did eventually report that cheating scandal. It was their front page story. And. But because the mainstream media disregards tabloid scoops and Tiger makes way too many people, way too much money, nobody picked it up. You know who saw it? His wife at the time. She saw it. Let's go to Thanksgiving 2009. A Thanksgiving, if you are an American, this Thanksgiving weekend lives in infamy, as reported in the number one best selling New York Times. Best selling. Excuse me, I got ahead of myself. In the number one New York Times bestselling biography, Tiger woods by Jeff Benedict and Armin Ktian. If I'm saying your name right, I hope I'm quoting from their book. It fell to Tiger to convince his wife he told her the tabloid story was a lie, that there was no affair between him and Rachel. You could tell this is my aside looping back to the Heather Graham piece we just did. In the middle of the show, Rachel Yukitel first became famous on the front page of the New York Post, tearfully holding a picture of her fiance who was lost in the towers on September 11th, and he died. So Rachel, you could tell, comes back into our lives as a Tiger woods mistress. And she think, I think she thought she was the only one. But on Monday, November 23, in advance of publication, the Yucatel expose began circulating on the Internet. It contained a quote attributed to her that read like a dagger directed at Elon. Quote, it's Tiger Woods. I don't care about his wife. We're in love. Close quote. Blindsided. Elon didn't know what to believe. It was the week of Thanksgiving and their second child, Charlie, had just learned to walk. To walk and was starting to say his first words. At the same time, Elon remained fixated on Tiger's phone. After he fell at this loser, after he fell into an Ambien induced sleep on Thanksgiving night, she searched his text history. She found one from Tiger that said, quote, you are the only one I have ever loved. Close quote. Tiger had not sent that text to his wife. Here we are at the presser Tiger held on February 19, 2010. So a little less than three months after that Thanksgiving, that blew up the very carefully constructed image again, like, just like we were talking about with Rob, how the, how the, the palace constructs these characters. We're looking at characters, not real people on the world stage. So Tiger blew up his very carefully constructed Persona and here he is at Oppressor, putting on his best, I'm sorry demeanor. We're going to chop this up into three distinct segments because this is very instructive. This is Tiger at the very beginning opening his presser to the world's media. Here we go.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
Many of you in this room are my friends.
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Maureen Callahan
That is highly manipulative. Manipulative to say that I understand that covering sports isn't covering geopolitics, but great reporting relies upon journalists not becoming friends with their subjects, not being their fans, not seeking their approbation or acceptance, not wanting their subjects to like them. Next, after dispensing with the pleasantries about how he betrayed his then wife and his family. And you know that that's really, that's really too bad. But what, what the heart of this apology is, these are the people and things that really matter to Tiger. Just my opinion. Here we go.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
My behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners.
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Maureen Callahan
There we go.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
Everyone involved in my foundation, including my staff, board of directors, sponsors, and most importantly, the young students we reach. Our work is more important than ever.
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Maureen Callahan
Is it? Why would it be more important than ever? You've just been outed as someone with like probably a drug problem. And when I talk about the cheating scandal, this isn't, this isn't like somebody on the side. Okay. This is not that. But what like, like a good, a good reporter in that presser would be like, tiger, why is your work more important now than ever? He's worried about his sponsorships and his viability as a, as, as a piece of commerce in the marketplace. That's what he's worried about. Now he's going to talk about his entitlement and how that entitlement has only metastasized the longer he's been in public life. Here we go.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
I ran Straight through the boundaries that a married couple should live by. I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
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Maureen Callahan
He still does.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
I have worked hard my entire life and deserve to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled.
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Maureen Callahan
He still does. He has not learned his lesson. This is clear. Take a look at that overturned gigantic SUV in a very wealthy enclave of Florida and tell me this guy has learned his fucking lesson. Now, I was at the New York Post when the Tiger cheating scandal broke. And there are there. There's nowhere else you would rather be than in a newsroom like the New York Post when a story like this that has legs for days is breaking and breaking and breaking every day. It was another mistress coming out of the woodwork. I mean, we didn't have to go looking for them. They were coming to us. The New York Post broke a record with the Tiger woods cheating scandal. His mistresses gave the New York Post a record number of consecutive front pages. Okay, think about this. Not the end of World War II, not the JFK assassination, not September 11th Tiger Woods Mistresses. It was something like 13 or 17 straight days that he was the sole front page. Now, I wrote a very lengthy piece about this for the New York Post, and I pulled out the really juicy meat on this bone. This piece was published on November 24, 2013, and some genius editor gave this SEC section of the feature, this amazing subhead called Bimbo in Every Port. Okay, that is brilliant. Okay, so reading from that piece, again, published November 24, 2013, I open quote, yucatel hired. So that was the mistress. Rachel, you could tell, hired Gloria Allred as the scandal blew up and. And scheduled a press conference, which was then canceled. Reports circulated that woods had paid her $10 million to keep quiet. Had he only been more generous, perhaps Wood could have. Woods could have avoided what came next, the onslaught of porn stars, strippers, escorts, and party girls who said they, too, had been having sex with Tiger Woods. My aside right here. Is that one of our reports? It was so we would have something at the. At the Post called the breakfast test. I think a lot of media outlets have it, and it really was applicable to the Sunday paper, which was, you've opened your Sunday paper, or you're online with your Sunday paper and you're having breakfast and your coffee. And will the details in any given story be so grisly that they nauseate you? If so, publish another day. This is really graphic, you guys. But one of the. One of the mistresses gave a level of detail where you go this has to be true. Who would make this up? They were having sex in her car, like, during the day. She was on a shift break out outside, like the Denny's, where she was a waitress and she was having her period. And she said that Tiger removed her tampon with his teeth and then flung it out the open window into the parking lot. I died. I died. Like, every time I see Tiger woods, it's like, all I can think about. Continuing from this piece. But as an. As an increasingly astonished public learned, woods was also really cheap, only ever buying one mistress a sandwich at Subway. That mistress was Mindy Lawton, a diner waitress. Oh, here it is. Here's that detail. Who said she and woods had sex at his. Sorry, I got the location wrong. At his family's home in Florida. And in his Escalade in a church parking lot. A church parking lot. Tossing her tampon out the window. There was also porn star Holly Sampson, who had sex with woods the night of his bachelor party, and her colleague Jocelyn James, who said she'd gotten pregnant by woods more than once. Exotic dancer Corey Wrist revealed Woods loved eating Froot Loops while watching cartoons. Grub said she texted woods the day after the crash, saying she'd be devastated if anything happened to him. But she never heard back. And when she tried to call, the number was out of service. By December 11, 2009, two weeks after Woods's accident, the number of known mistresses was up to 14. He lost endorsements with Nike, Gatorade, Gillette, and Accenture, the latter alone earning him between 10 and 15 million dollars per year. He announced he was taking a leave from golf, and by the end of the month, Wood woods had entered. Why do I want to call him Wood? Is it like a Freudian slip? Like, he's just always got Wood? Not with that drug habit. I'll tell you that. Woods had entered rehab for sex addiction. Not his real problem, if you ask me. Listen, I don't care if the guy's a sex addict. That impacts him and the people who choose to have sex with him. I care if he's driving under the influence all the time. And I care if. If the justice system will do nothing about it. And I care if the local PD is getting paid off by this guy. That's what I care about. Okay, These are great details. I just got to share them because, like, they're just these. Again, these are the details that really make a scandal. Sing Sing Nordegren used the time that woods was away to renegotiate her prenup. And maul the future of her marriage. The day after the accident, woods had reportedly told a friend. This is what Tiger woods said. Reportedly, allegedly that Nordegren had, quote, gone ghetto on him. His words gone ghetto. And that he. Oh my God. So, so funny that he needed to, quote, run to Zales and get a Kobe Special, a house on a finger. Close quote referring to caught cheating NBA star Kobe Bryant's gift to his wife. Run to Zales and get a Kobe Special, a house on a ring. I continue. Woods reportedly confessed to sleeping with 120 women. I would double that. I would triple that by now. I'm sure it's close to a thousand. I'm going to say that's just my opinion. But sources close to Nordgren say that she remained on the fence about leaving him until April 2010, when a 15th mistress was revealed. Her name was. A lot of these women, their first names, no matter what the first name is, they're just spelled weird. Okay. Her name was Rachel Caudre Cadre. I don't know if I'm saying that right, but here's the very salient, really alarming piece of this story. She was a daughter of the couple next door. She first met Tiger woods when she was only 14. Here's Tiger talking to the Golf Channel in an interview they published on December 2, 2021, nine and a half months after the accident in which he was going 90 in a 45 mile per hour speed limit zone on a twisty road. He almost killed himself in that crash. And you know, you get to a point with these people where you're like, just do it, man. This is a slow roll in suicide. Just, just looks to me, to my eyes like that, this looks like a slow roll in suicide. You're that hell bent on taking yourself out just like JFK Jr. Was. Go ahead, do it, do it. Just leave the rest of us out of it. Don't put us in grave danger of being maimed or murdered by the likes of you. I mean, legally it wouldn't be considered murder, but you know what I'm saying. It would be like manslaughter. Be like vehicular manslaughter. And this is after, by the way, he heard the doctors, they, they were like, we might have to cut your leg off. We might have to amputate your right leg in order to save you. You know who else we're seeing this with? I mean, I don't think she's got an addiction problem to drugs, but she's got an addiction problem to Fame. Lindsay Vaughn almost lost her leg. Here's Tiger. But this is illuminating. This gives us a window into his like this is, this is his, this is his permanent, in my opinion, frame of mind. This is what he thinks. Here we go.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
I've been very lucky my entire life. So I, I don't know what, why that has happened, but I've been very lucky to have everything transpired my entire life the way it has.
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Maureen Callahan
This is why Tiger woods is lucky. Because we still live in a culture that tells us that celebrities or sports greats actually do deserve special treatment. And that Tiger woods can get off his face on opioids or whatever his drug of choice is as often as he likes and get himself behind the wheel of 5,000 pound vehicles as often as he likes and flip them and crash them and do whatever the he wants. He's not going to face any consequences. He needs to face consequences for this. He needs to be humiliated. He needs to go to court and stand trial or plead himself out. But either way there better be a prison sentence. On the other side of that, there better fucking be a prison sentence for this. This is insane. It can't continue. The culture cannot abide this. And the media better do its fucking job and start talking about this with the alarm and severity and gravity it deserves. This isn't cute. This isn't. Poor Tiger, whose father shoved him onto a golf course as soon as he was able to stand on his own two feet. This is not that. Do you think the law. Okay, I pulled this. I pulled this. This is how we're going to close out this segment because I can think of no greater example of an extremely famous person who got pass after pass after pass for criminal drug induced behavior until he did not on June 19th. In June, rather in June 1996, Robert Downey Jr. Who had a very heavy drug problem, was stopped by police after driving naked on Sunset Boulevard. He was in possession of cocaine, heroin and an unloaded.357 Magnum. While out on parole, Robert Downey Jr. Then broke into a home in Malibu and was found what the press called asleep. I'm going to call it passed out on drugs in a child's bedroom. Eventually, after getting all of these chances which the judge we're going to hear reference, in 1997 he did get get a prison sentence. And Robert Downey Jr. Wound up serving over one year in prison. Not a Club Fed, not a fancy rehab prison between 1999 and 2000. Let's listen to Robert Downey Jr talking some real talk at his Sentencing. Here we go.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
I'm running out of resources to keep you out of state prison. I'm going to incarcerate you in the way that's very unpleasant for you. I'm doing that because I, I believe if you understand that's where you're going, maybe it'll save your life. It's like I have a shotgun in my mouth and I've got my finger on the trigger and I like the taste of the gum though.
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Maureen Callahan
Now, if you're only listening, I would encourage you to go watch this part of the show on YouTube because you'll see after the judge says, in some substance, I'm not around anymore. You're a menace. You're a menace to the rest of us law abiding citizens who give a shit about our fellow citizens and would never think to do half the shit you're getting away with because you're famous, that you're going to prison. And you see Robert Downey Jr. Like turn around, he's being led away in cuffs and he's like smirking and he's like, can you believe it? It's like Justin Timberlake's friend who showed up on the side of the road in East Hampton after he was collared for driving under the influence. She's like, stop it, don't say it. You're arresting Justin Timberlake. No, that's the culture and we have got to demand that it absolutely be abolished. Now we saw RDJ smirking there and laughing and you know, trying to play this off like it was no big deal. Let's listen to. And if you're, if you're watching, you can watch this also. And I do encourage you to watch it because he, he's, he talks about what that prison sentence did, did for him. Let's take a look at this.
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Various Audio Clips (Tiger Woods, Robert Downey Jr., etc.)
Culture is really something that's hard to explain. It's opened my eyes to a lot, I think. First it was just kind of a shock because I really, I don't know why, but some, for some reason I had expected that I was going to somewhere that was like the treatments that are next to the prison. When I got here, it was like it was a prison year. I came here and I was like, wow. You see razor wire fences, you see a lot of correctional officers, some armed, some not all of whose job basically is to protect society from you for the time being. And that sends a message. It's not a self esteem builder. I had to look at that too because, you know, I have been called the menace to society.
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Maureen Callahan
He does laugh at the end of that, but he. He. He's it. He got the fucking message. He's like, I'm in prison. There's razor wire. There are armed guards. And you get the message that you need to be contained in a very severe way because society needs to be protected from you. We need a media, a culture, and a legal system that wakes up and finally recognizes that we need to be protected from Tiger Woods. That does it. That does it. For this edition of the Nerve at Night. We will be back on Friday with a full nerve. If you haven't already, go check out our substack@thenerveshow.com Be sure to subscribe. You can also grab Nerve merch for yourself or a fellow troublemaker@shop thenerve.com now, before we go, we have a very special announcement, and I really deliberated about this because, you know, when. When people who are in the nerves crosshairs, you know, a kind of tactic to try to defang you will be to try to engage you in some way and be like, hey, you know, like, I'm not so bad now. It's not Bill Maher. Not yet. And, you know, I'm gonna have to get through Marlena. If Bill Maher were ever to reach out, you know, she would be. It's. This is all mine. But I did get an invitation from a cultural offender known as Hoda Kot B. I know. I. I mean, we. It still stands, even after our mini nerve, you know, where we ran in slow motion like the Zapruder film, that piece where she's interviewing a weeping Savannah and she, like, licks her lips and her eyes flutter in ecstasy. Even that Hoda invited your humble troublemaker in chief, you guys, to go on a joyride with her because she thinks the Nerve does spread joy. And who am I to argue with that? Who am I to argue with that? So here they let us. They allowed us to show an image. You know, they need clicks and, you know, like, hold is Joy101. I think her subs are still in the single digits. It's been like a year. They need a little of the nerve. Fairy, fairy dust. So they. They said, you know what? It's okay, Maureen. You can show an image from your taping with Hoda. So here it is. Happy April Fools. Like I'd go anywhere near Hoda. Copy. Okay? We will be back on Friday with our full Nerve. So until then, my fellow troublemakers meet us back here, same bat time, same bat channel, for a full episode of the Nerve where you will never guess what we're about to say next.