The debut episode of FOX News Podcasts’ "the Girls" delivered an unfiltered conversation where no subject was off-limits, as the hosts discussed the Lindsay Clancy trial, Ms. Rachel's political activism, the realities of grief and more.
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Each episode features a rotating cast of women with distinctive voices and experiences spanning news, politics, sports, comedy and culture.
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Thursday’s premiere brought together Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Kat Timpf, former secretary to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Melissa DeRosa and former ESPN host Samantha Ponder.
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The conversation got intense as Ponder weighed in on Clancy, the Massachusetts woman charged with murdering her three young children, whose trial ended in a mistrial last month.
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"If I’m a mom and this has been done to my kids, I want this woman put away forever," Ponder says in a preview clip.
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You can say things were hard, [but] you still gotta be in prison."
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The group also debated whether children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel is a bad influence because of her political activism, with Timpf defending her and Faulkner questioning how much parents should know about the political views of children's entertainers.
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I don't think it's that deep," Timpf said.
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"She just sings songs...
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I still listen to Michael Jackson.
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Where do you draw the line?
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I grew up listening to Nirvana.
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I love Kurt Cobain.
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I wore flannel.
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I've yet to shoot up heroin," she added.
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Faulkner said that parents should consider the political views children may absorb from online personalities.
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"When she says she wants to do away with ICE, when she says that she’s more for letting those people come across our border illegally, when she says those things — why do I know that about her?" Faulkner said.
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The premiere also took a more personal turn when Timpf opened up about losing her father shortly before becoming pregnant with her second child.
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"Not to make it weird, but I think about death pretty much all the time because my dad died," Timpf said.
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Timpf said she had spoken to her father the morning he died and later learned from a doctor she had never met that he had suffered an aortic dissection after initially going to the hospital with a stomach ache.
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Her father had been intensely focused on his health, which made his sudden death especially difficult for her to process.
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He would not drink out of a plastic water bottle," Timpf said.
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"When he died, he was going up north for a day of sailing."
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Timpf said the loss left her questioning whether people have any real control over their health or fate.
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She noted that her mother also died before turning 60 and that she battled cancer during her first pregnancy.
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"I almost learned the wrong lesson of like, ‘What can you do?’" she said.
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"Do I want to live forever?
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I’m scared so much to die.
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The conversations capture the podcast's freewheeling nature, covering an array of topics across news, politics, sports, comedy and culture.
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"the Girls'" is available on Fox News Digital, Apple, Spotify, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
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