Hello and welcome. Welcome to The Nerve. I'm Maureen Callahan. I'm your host. It's episode one. So I want to tell you a little bit about what to expect. This is a non-safe space. This is a space where we are going to talk about all of the things in pop culture, celebrity scandal, crime,

books, fashion, music, you name it.

We're covering it.

We're going to kick off today with an incredible little reported story involving an A-list

star who you will never look at the same way again.

I, to my mind, think this guy is worse than Harvey Weinstein.

And that says a lot because I think Harvey Weinstein is a pretty bad guy.

And I also just wanted to take a moment to thank everybody who sent me messages over the past

few days after hearing how nervous I was on Megan Kelly's show last Friday.

I saw them all. I read them. They really have helped me a lot. I was so

preoccupied after leaving Megan's studio. And I've been doing her show in that studio for, I'm going to say,

like, a couple of years now. So I know how to get from point A to point B.

And I was walking out of the studio back to the car, the lovely driver who was taking me home.

I had my head down.

I was so consumed with my own nerves and preoccupations.

I walked straight into a branch, a naughty, thick tree branch.

I get to the car door. This driver's like, you're bleeding. I'm like, are you serious? I pull out my

compact. I'm like, my entire upper face is just bleeding. I can't even see the source of the bleed.

You know, like your head head you get the tiniest

laceration and it's just like a geyser is gushing he like i get in the back of the car i'm like

sir i'm so sorry i'm not going to get blood anywhere but i am bleeding out he says do you want to go

back and i was like uh absolutely not i'm completely mortified anyway i have since gotten it together, I can assure you. And I think we should just get into it. So the first person I would like to take Amat in our very first show is one John Hamm. And this segment, I promise you, you're never going to forget what you hear. He is everywhere

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