Free Speech To Reputational Damage: Piers Morgan, Jillian Michaels & More
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week we focus on people standing up for their right to be heard. Courageous voices - young and old, famous and not…daring to speak their mind and stand by their convictions in the face of a culture that would rather have them cancelled. Jillian Michaels calls out media hit pieces and refuses to play into click-driven outrage. Piers Morgan says the backlash to years of speech policing is already reshaping free expression in America. And when a student’s parking spot sparks a legal fight, it raises a national question: is neutrality protection or censorship?
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| 0:00.0 | This week we focus on people standing up for their right to be heard. |
| 0:04.6 | Courageous voices young and old, famous and not. |
| 0:08.9 | Daring to speak their mind and stand by their convictions in the face of a culture that would rather have them canceled. |
| 0:16.9 | You need to hear what they have to say All this week on the Dr. Phil podcast. |
| 0:26.6 | Pierce Morgan is one of the most recognizable voices in journalism and broadcasting. |
| 0:33.6 | Starting his career as the youngest editor ever for one of the most popular British newspapers at the time, |
| 0:41.3 | known for his exclusive headline-making interviews and his unapologetically direct opinions on the world's biggest topics and stories, |
| 0:51.3 | Pears has become one of the most influential and listened to media figures in the world. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, he is the host of Pierce Morgan Uncensored, which is described as a global arena for fearless debate, |
| 1:06.2 | bold opinions, and major high-profile interviews. He is also an author, and his latest book, |
| 1:14.6 | Woke is Dead, How Common Sense Triumph in an Age of Total Madness, |
| 1:21.6 | Pears argues how wokeism created more division, confusion, and mistrust, and discusses what a post-woke future can and should look like. |
| 1:33.5 | In addition to all that, he is also a dear friend and someone that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. |
| 1:41.5 | So please welcome Pierce Morgan. |
| 1:43.3 | Pierce, how you doing? Bill, what a lovely |
| 1:45.8 | intro. Thank you very much. Hollywood has long been so tone deaf and yet they're the ones that |
| 1:52.9 | get up and take the most self-righteous positions of anybody. And I wonder if they ever try and |
| 2:00.2 | just read the room. And of course they don't. |
| 2:04.8 | I'm answering my own question as I'm saying it. But, you know, when you live in that bubble, |
| 2:10.4 | I guess it gets easier. But, you know, we talk about woke. And when you talk about it, |
| 2:17.4 | it was not always a dirty word because |
| 2:20.3 | woke culture originally referred to the social and political movement to emphasize awareness |
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