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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

Maureen Callahan Talks Vogue, Meghan Markle, Tom Cruise, and the Art of Writing on "Next Up"

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

MK Media & SiriusXM

News, Society & Culture

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this special episode of "Next Up with Mark Halperin," featuring a long-form interview with "The Nerve" host Maureen Callahan, about Vogue Magazine, Meghan Markle, Tom Cruise, the art of writing, the next book Maureen wants to write, and more. Subscribe to Mark's show Next Up: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-up-with-mark-halperin/id1810218232 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2f0n8G4xqUo8aGxbbbtRjH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nextuphalperin?sub_confirmation=1

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0:00.0

Hey there, fans of The Nerve and Maureen Callahan, it's Mark Kalpern, host of Next Up, also here on the Megan Kelly Network.

0:06.4

I recently had the pleasure to sit down with Maureen.

0:10.3

I want you to enjoy that discussion, and while you're at it, subscribe to NextUp wherever you get your podcasts.

0:18.8

Welcome into Next Up, you Nexters from North America around the world.

0:22.3

I'm Mark Kalprin, editor-in chief of the live interactive platform Two-Way and the host here of everything next up.

0:29.0

Another week, it's Tuesday, and you know what that means, a brand new episode.

0:32.9

We're happy to have you here.

0:34.4

I'll bring you my exclusive reporting on a topic that we've talked about a little

0:38.2

bit, but I think it's super important now in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Stories

0:43.3

that matter most to us are important, and this one is as big as anything. And then next up after

0:47.9

that, Maureen Callahan, columnist for the Daily Mail, host of the Nerve, my sister program here

0:53.8

on the Megan Kelly Network. Ma morin and i are going to talk

0:56.1

about writing arithmetic pop culture and celebrity so you won't want to miss that but first up is my

1:03.9

new reporting on charlie kirk put aside the day-to-day headlines of what's happened since his assassination

1:09.6

i think the bigger thing here is what Charlie represented, the person and his death, of course, matters extraordinarily to the people in his family, his friends, business associates, colleagues.

1:22.9

But I've been thinking a lot about what it means more broadly and talking to a lot of people in the

1:29.2

conservative movement who can explain this so well, MAGA folks who I've talked to in the last

1:34.3

few days reflecting on Charlie's life and why this has been so impactful. You hear about the impact,

1:40.9

not just from the president and the vice president and people who knew Charlie

1:44.3

personally. But I've been struck on two-way and other conversations as I've traveled the last few

1:49.4

days. How much people who never knew Charlie and weren't even particularly aware of what his

1:54.2

day-to-day activities were, how much they've been struck by this? Now, part of it is just the horror

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