Jessica Tarlov

So this question makes me really sad, because...

it feels as if A, people watch the show and think that I work in like an insanely hostile environment where no one would want to be my pal or that I wouldn't want to be their pals.

And two, that maybe they don't have kind of

politically adversarial friendships or relationships in their lives that can also be fruitful friendships, which is what we do have.

So I talk to my five colleagues outside of work and outside of politics all the time.

Like, Greg Gottfeld has a baby who just turned one.

If he has a medical question about his kid, can't get to the pediatrician, like, I am the first call, right?

That's like, what's going on?

You know, she had croup before my baby had croup, those kinds of things.

Dana Perino, who is softer, obviously, than the rest of them.

I talk all the time about everything from, like, we both love, you know, Emily in Paris and junk TV to what are you wearing today to going to the theater, visiting her down the Jersey Shore.

So...

Yeah, everyone is actually friends.

And I think that you have different kinds of friendships, obviously, for people that you're connected to through work versus the friends that you might meet in college or, you know, out in the world, your SoulCycle pals or whatever it is that you're doing.

But we do have genuine relationships.

And I think that when you only consume clips of the show, which is how most people at least take me in, that they don't see the entirety of the dynamic.

Now, I'm not trying to minimize the fact that there are times where it looks totally awful and can even feel awful to me.

Jesse Waters and I definitely get into things where I'll say, even on air, like, you're being such an incredible jerk.

And that's very real and genuine.

But I think it is important for the sake of your workplace, but also in terms of modeling yourself.