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The Dr. Phil Podcast

From Media Backlash to School Censorship: Who Controls Free Speech?

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Education, Society & Culture

4.313.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: How willing are you to stand up for what you believe - even if it means being shunned by friends, family…maybe even cancelled. All this week we’re talking to people who chose to do just that. Jillian Michaels walks away from what she calls reckless, click-driven outrage masquerading as truth, Piers Morgan warns of a growing backlash reshaping free expression across media and society, and a student’s Bible-verse parking spot—“Love is patient, love is kind” ignites a real-world legal battle over religious freedom and the First Amendment.

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Dr. Phil here. How willing are you to stand up for what you believe, even if it means

0:36.1

being shunned by friends, family, maybe even canceled.

0:40.7

All this week, we're talking to people who chose to do just that.

0:45.6

They're courageous stories only on the Dr. Phil podcast.

1:02.2

Tonight I'm welcoming a really good friend of mine, Jillian Michaels. We've been talking about you drawing a line in the sand with Anna and Amy and Lindy.

1:09.2

You walked off that set.

1:14.0

Are you ever going to walk back on it?

1:15.2

No.

1:17.2

You're done with her take.

1:20.4

Yes, I am.

1:22.1

And there were other issues.

1:38.3

This has been an ongoing conversation where I felt that some of the co-hosts had been increasingly aggressive with guests, increasingly aggressive with their positions that weren't being challenged by the appropriate people in the space.

1:47.7

So another example might be if you want to take on the issue of the gauze of war, by all means,

1:56.7

do it. But let's bring on an individual like Coleman Hughes, Bacha Ungar Sargon, Dave Rubin,

2:03.6

Ben Shapiro, Scott Jennings, somebody who has the knowledge and the expertise to provide a balanced

2:11.8

perspective on very valid issues. I don't have that, Dr. Phil. All transparency. You know, I'm a person that looks at what's going

2:19.7

on in Gaza and what I see are atrocities committed on both sides. And what I know in my heart is that I

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