David Marchese

Yes.

No.

And now you're saying at least he's fit.

Yeah.

This feels like a good trade off to you.

I hate to keep just going back to your books, but there was something that, in particular, that was interesting to me in a book you wrote a couple years ago called The Plus, where you sort of lamented a problem that you called the opposition toxin, which is the inclination of the media to always see two groups as in conflict.

Could Gutfeld, the show, or your career be possible, or could they exist without the opposition toxin?

You know, we can't help but view the world through our personal context and particularly our personal emotional context.

You know, emotions are kind of where all ideas come from.

So I have some questions about your formative years.

I know that when you were growing up, your dad was sick with cancer for most of your adolescence.

And I think you wrote about how you would come home and help clean his wounds and do things.

physical therapy with him when he was yelling in pain.

Yeah.

How does that shape someone?

And so you have a one-year-old now?

Are there ways in which being a father has sort of changed your disposition to the world or sort of what you would like the world to look like?

I know we're scheduled for another 15 minutes.

Sorry to interrupt.

Also, just so you know, then we talk a second time.