Colbert's Hissy Fit Farewell Tour, Xi's Ominous Comment, and Murdaugh's New Trial, with Glenn Greenwald | Ep. 1318

The Megyn Kelly Show

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News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.4 • 38.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of "System Update" on Substack, to discuss Stephen Colbert’s embarrassing hissy fit farewell tour destroying CBS furniture with David Letterman, how late night ratings over the past 20 years show the format completely collapsed, why he should just go out like a man, the tens of millions Stephen Colbert is losing for CBS, his bizarre tactics of kissing male and female guests in his final week, how celebrities in 2026 like Charlize Theron have an addiction to attention, how Michael Jackson was for everyone and achieved fame no one anymore can, the chilling comment China President Xi said to President Trump about the Thucydides Trap, how Trump says he's fine with 500,000 Chinese students coming and staying in America and China buying up farmland, Trump saying we’re at war with Iran to help Israel and the Gulf states, what happens if America tries to get out of the war now, whether criminals Alex Murdaugh and Harvey Weinstein deserve new trials, why it's important for everyone in America to get fair trials, and more. More from Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/ Relief Factor: Break up with pain—Relief Factor targets inflammation so you can move better and feel better; try the 3-Week QuickStart for just $19.95 at https://ReliefFactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 for a free info kit and to see if you qualify for up to $10,000 back through May 29. Byrna: Go to https://Byrna.com or your local Sportsman's Warehouse today. Ethos Life Insurance: Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at: https://ethos.com/MK

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12.2	Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and happy Friday. President Trump is on his way back from his big summit in China and says the trip was a major success.
0:22.6	But his sit down on Fox last night delivered some eyebrow raising comments.
0:27.8	Plus the latest on the Alec Murdoch case as a couple of jurors speak out.
0:32.7	And Stephen Colbert's bizarre goodbye to late night is finally almost over. Praise Jesus. My God, it's gone on forever.
0:41.5	But not before he throws a hissy fit temper tantrum with the former host of the CBS program. He and Letterman
0:48.0	got together to just express how very, very angry they are about poor Stephen Colbert show getting canceled.
0:55.3	Cry me a river, would you take it like a man? Honestly, where are your testicles?
1:01.4	This is so humiliating. Like, we know you got canceled. Be a man. Jeez, Louise. This is like,
1:15.9	pathetic. When I got canned from NBC, everybody was calling me a racist.
1:21.4	They were humiliating me everywhere. Yes, I got a little teary the day after because it was overwhelming. And that was it. That was it. I didn't blubber and blubber on. I didn't ask
1:26.4	everybody feel so sorry for me on the day,
1:28.6	like days on end, nor would I have had they given me the opportunity to stay on the air. Like,
1:33.7	take it like a man. Stop it. Stop this. Put your big boy pants on and exit with grace.
1:40.5	You're humiliating yourself. Truly, you're humiliating mankind. I don't want my sons to see this
1:46.3	behavior. Like, this is so embarrassing. You didn't get cancer. You got canceled. It happens.
1:54.1	Grow up. All right. We're going to bring in our very first guest, very first guest ever here on the
1:59.2	MK show. That's the podfather of our show,
2:01.9	Glenn Greenwald I speak of. He's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and host of System Update on
2:07.0	Substack. When it comes to supplements, there are two things that matter most. You need it to work,
2:13.1	and you need to trust it. Both are absolutely essential. Many hosts have been taking and authentically
2:19.4	endorsing Relief Factor for these two reasons for over a decade. That's over 10 years of lending
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