0:02

I'm Brian Teda, executive producer of

0:04

The View. It's Tuesday and

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I'm here with Joy Behar.

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This is behind the table. I

0:11

do think that supplying you with

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the kettle corn. I'm concerned that if you figure

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out how to buy it outside of here... I

0:17

won't ever get you a podcast. Exactly. No, I've

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got you hooked. That's how we get you here.

0:22

You were upset this morning. Well, first of all,

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hello, Joy. How are you? Welcome to the behind

0:26

the table podcast, which I'm, this is Tuesday, but

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I'm going to come back to Wednesday. Well, I was

0:30

going to bring this up back to Wednesday. Well, I was

0:33

going to bring this up. This is Tuesday, but I'm going

0:35

to come back to Wednesday. You were going to bring

0:37

this up. This up. I'm going to bring this. I'm going

0:39

to bring this. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going

0:41

to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going

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to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm

0:45

going to. I'm going to. I'm going to.

0:47

I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going

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to. I'm going to. So that's what happened.

0:52

So it's not really my fault. But I

0:54

agree. And I think people will be excited

0:56

because they weren't expecting you. They wake up

0:58

and hey, I got joy on the podcast.

1:00

I'm not that popular. You're pretty popular. People

1:02

love you. All right. Speaking of popular, today's

1:04

show was really good. I thought we had

1:06

Senator Alyssa Slockin here and basically she's kind

1:08

of like the Democrat of the moment a

1:10

little bit, you know. She kind of... Because

1:12

he gave the rebuttal. Her big message

1:15

for Democrats was that Democrats need to

1:17

be ruthless in what we prioritize. She's

1:19

basically saying that you can't go forward

1:21

on every issue, which is, I think,

1:23

that it floods into that whole flood-the-zone

1:25

thing. You're multitasking and you get

1:27

nothing done. Pick the one thing that matters to

1:29

you and fight for that. Do you agree with

1:32

that? You kind of gave that advice to somebody

1:34

in our audience today, too. Well, we were

1:36

repeating what she said. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's

1:38

a good idea only because you can't

1:40

do everything. Like in the middle of the

1:42

show, I got a text from a friend

1:44

in Florida and she's saying, you know, if

1:47

they take my Social Security away, we are

1:49

in, we are screwed. So that's, so I

1:51

wrote to her right to your Senator, right

1:53

to your Congressman, March, protest, resist. So let

1:56

them do it to you. That's the thing.

1:58

So what is the one thing for you?

2:00

They're saying economy, or at least Senator Slockin

2:02

said for her to see economy. What's your

2:05

one thing? Democracy is for me. I don't

2:07

want to live in an authoritarian state. I

2:09

don't want to live where free speech is

2:11

not allowed, where they lock you up because

2:14

you disagree with them. That's my thing. You

2:16

are not a fan of dictators until totalitarian

2:18

governments. You also, you just broke out Social

2:21

Security. So Elon must set an interview yesterday

2:23

that he wants to cut spending for entitlement

2:25

programs, which includes Medicare and Social Security. Is

2:27

this surprising to you? I mean, if you

2:30

always suspected this is the end game? Well,

2:32

you know, I think that the Republican Party

2:34

here and there over the many years has

2:37

been trying to overthrow FDR's new deal every

2:39

time they're in office. They give it a

2:41

shot. And now these people came in here

2:43

and they have the capitulation of the Republican

2:46

Congress and can do whatever they want. Listen,

2:48

I remember Watergate. The Republican Congress got rid

2:50

of Trump. Not Trump. Nixon. Nixon. This is

2:53

the same group of people who refuse to

2:55

get rid of this guy that they know

2:57

is going to kill them in the end.

2:59

It's going to kill them at the at

3:02

the at the election, the midterms. Yeah, you

3:04

think so? Oh yeah, because now people are

3:06

starting to catch on. You know, Bernie Sanders

3:08

is attracting thousands of people I noticed. Yes,

3:11

he's at a thousand people at one of

3:13

his rallies. And you know, the same people

3:15

who voted for Trump. I think a lot

3:18

of them voted for Bernie when he was

3:20

running against in the primaries against Hillary. Hillary.

3:22

both he and Trump promised to help the

3:24

little guy. But Trump was lying. Trump was

3:27

lying. And I think that if Bernie had

3:29

become the candidate, I think he would have

3:31

won. I'm looking back. It's funny because, you

3:34

know, you get those memories on social media

3:36

where they say five years ago, this happened,

3:38

ten years ago, this happened. I recently saw

3:40

pictures from Bernie Sanders first appearances on the

3:43

view. We played basketball with him. Really? And

3:45

we brought him a pizza and we have

3:47

like a running gag about you having a

3:50

big crush on him. This is like a

3:52

recurring thing that we went on for a

3:54

long time. The show was different but the

3:56

same. It's interesting. All right, I know there's

3:59

one thing that Flacken said that you really

4:01

agreed with, which was that if generations before

4:03

us didn't fight for civil rights and women's

4:05

rights, none of us would be here right

4:08

now. I heard you say similar things. If

4:10

previous generations had gotten exhausted and gotten into

4:12

their homes, that would have been it. So

4:15

we have to do this. We have to

4:17

do this for our Our grandkids. Well, when

4:19

you think about the 20th century, which was

4:21

a very bloody century, you know, a lot,

4:24

there was World War I, there was the

4:26

Korean War, there was the Vietnam War, and

4:28

I was, I'm old enough to have been

4:31

there for all of them. I was born

4:33

during the World War II, not World War

4:35

I. Give me a break. But my father

4:37

was in the Navy. My uncle got a

4:40

purple heart. My uncle Tony was in Germany,

4:42

face-to-face combat. My uncle, my uncle Dickey was

4:44

a, Uncle Dickey, you know, who else has

4:47

an uncle Dickey, Prince Charles? Really? Mount Baton

4:49

was his uncle. But my uncle Dominic actually

4:51

was his name. He was an MP in

4:53

the Korean War. My, my husband, my present

4:56

husband, Joe, not Joe, that's the first one.

4:58

Steve Janowitz, he was a in the National

5:00

Guard of Vietnam War. My husband at the

5:03

time was married and he got an exemption.

5:05

Yeah. But I mean, all of these people

5:07

have fought for democracy, we've fought fascism, and

5:09

now he's in bed with Putin. It's in

5:12

the outrage. People should be outraged at that.

5:14

It's been an incredible situation. My mother, when

5:16

I was a teenager and growing up and

5:18

really into my early 20s, used to say

5:21

all the time, you guys haven't experienced anything.

5:23

Nothing happened to your entire generation. And then

5:25

9-11 and everything that's happened since and suddenly...

5:28

Yeah, yeah. Basically Obama got rid of Osama

5:30

and that whole crowd. Sure. He needs a

5:32

lot of credit for that. Absolutely. All right,

5:34

switching gears. And by the way, since when

5:37

does Lindsay Graham and the rest of these

5:39

Republicans, since when are they pro-Russian? In my

5:41

whole lifetime, it was against Russia. Do you

5:44

remember Huak, the House on American Activities Committee?

5:46

Which you were obviously not born. I was

5:48

a child. People's lives were ruined because they

5:50

insisted that they were in league with Russia.

5:53

And now they're back in league with Russia?

5:55

What the hell is going on? It is

5:57

puzzling. Let's switch gears for a second, because

6:00

you're getting worked up. I'm getting worked on.

6:02

Yeah, have some, have some cattle corn. All

6:04

right. We'll bring it. I was talking to

6:06

Anna Navarro about the, you know, Anna, Anna

6:09

Navarro. Oh, yes, I remember. You know, Anna.

6:11

We were asking her if she would ever

6:13

go on one of those space rockets like

6:15

Katie Perry and Gail King are about to

6:18

do. Gail King is shaking in her boots.

6:20

I saw a thing on, on. Social about

6:22

that. Yes. She's scared. Why is she doing

6:25

it? I don't know the answer, but here's

6:27

the question. Is there any version of you

6:29

that would be interested in doing this? Never.

6:31

No, not in this lifetime or the next

6:34

or the next or the one after that.

6:36

See, I guess I'm wrong. I thought I

6:38

could get somebody to do this from the

6:41

view hosts. Do you think any of them

6:43

with? Maybe Sarah. All of us, I think

6:45

she would be the most game. Yeah. Yeah,

6:47

I think that's my best shot. She's like,

6:50

you know, that commercial, Mikey, he'll eat anything.

6:52

Yeah, she's like that. She's like our Mikey.

6:54

Give it to Sarah, she'll do anything. All

6:57

right, so here's what I'm going to do.

6:59

She doesn't listen to the podcast. So when

7:01

she's on the podcast and next time, I'm

7:03

going to present it to her like a

7:06

dreel. I'm going to present it to her

7:08

like a dreel. I'm going to the podcast

7:10

the podcast the podcast the next time. I'm

7:13

going to present to her. I'm going to

7:15

present to her, I'm going to present, I'm

7:17

going to her, I'm going to present, I'm

7:19

going to present, I'm going to her, I'm

7:22

going to present, I'm going to her, I'm

7:24

going to her, I'm going to present, I'm

7:26

going to present, I'm going to her, I'm

7:28

going to her, I'm going to present, I'm

7:31

going to Hello?

7:34

Hey Sarah, sorry to bother you. We just got to

7:36

feel her out from the Blue Origin people, Jeff Bezos.

7:38

Is there a world where you'd consider going up on

7:40

the Blue Origin rocket? I consider it. All right, great.

7:42

Thank you. I'm lying at the moment, but I was

7:44

talking to Joy about who would actually do it on

7:46

the staff. We're doing the podcast. Sarah, we're in the

7:48

podcast, and he said, is there anyone who would do

7:50

it? And I said, Sarah will do it. Sarah will

7:52

do it. She said Sarah will like Mikey. She said,

7:54

Mikey. She's like Mikey. She'll like Mikey. She'll try, Mikey.

7:56

She'll try, she'll try, she'll try, Mikey. She'll try, she'll

7:59

try, she'll try, she'll try, she'll try, she'll try, she'll

8:01

try, she'll try, she'll try, she'll try, she'll, she'll, she'll,

8:03

she'll, she'll, she'll She is like mighty. I hope you're

8:05

not disappointed. I was excited. Well, I don't want you

8:07

to go. She doesn't want you to go. I do

8:09

not want you to go. Yes. Because Joy loves me.

8:11

I'm her favorite. I do. I do love her. All

8:13

right. That's all we got time for. But thank you,

8:15

Sarah. Thank you. Bye. Bye. So Sarah we're going. I

8:17

told you. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's interesting. Whoopi. Whoopi.

8:19

Whoopi said hell. Hell Noopi. We said hell no. Hell

8:21

Noopi. We said hell no. We said hell no. We

8:23

said. We said. We said hell no. We said hell

8:25

no. We said. We said. We said. We said. We

8:28

said. We said. We said. We said. We said. We

8:30

said. We said. No, I'm fine now. She doesn't trust

8:32

Republicans. No. And Sunny's risk averse as she likes their

8:34

fellows. And so am I. And so are you. All

8:36

right, fine. I just think it'd be cool to do

8:38

something that so few people have gotten to. Why don't

8:40

you do it? I mean, no one wants me up

8:42

there. But I was thinking I'd go with one of

8:44

you and like film it on my iPhone. I'd be

8:46

in for it. My wife wouldn't want me to go,

8:48

but I'd be so sure. Don't be so sure. Don't

8:50

be so sure. Hello,

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12:00

right, so love is blind. So you think

12:02

you're not a fan. You're not a fan

12:04

of the idea of marrying people you haven't

12:06

seen. No, not at all. Okay. No, I

12:08

mean, I want to know the person. I

12:10

like to be friends a little bit first

12:13

before. Look at, remember how long it took

12:15

me to get married? 18 years. I married,

12:17

I met the guy in 1982 got married

12:19

in 2011. Okay, that's a long time. You

12:21

felt confident at the end. Yes. And by

12:23

the way, we are on the same page

12:25

politically. He's worse than me. He cannot stand

12:28

to look at Trump. When he sees him

12:30

on TV, he walks out of the room.

12:32

I got engaged a year after dating my

12:34

wife, and we got married nine months after

12:36

that. That was it. So that was fast.

12:38

And that's fast. Yeah, and 20 years in.

12:40

I wouldn't want my kids to go that

12:42

fast. No, but yours worked out, but a

12:45

lot of times they don't. I got married

12:47

at 22, I was, I had just turned

12:49

22. I knew him for a year and

12:51

a half maybe. Okay, same kind of, yeah.

12:53

And then we didn't know who we were.

12:55

We were like two unformed pieces of protoplasm.

12:57

And here we are getting married and starting

13:00

a family. It was crazy. And you're supposed

13:02

to allow yourself to change in your 20s.

13:04

The problem is the eggs dry up. That's

13:06

the issue. Yeah, plus they're very expensive. All

13:08

right, we have a viewer question. Are you

13:10

doing the other eggs there? Joy, I'm a

13:12

big theater fan and sadly will never get

13:14

to NYC to see your shows. Where is

13:17

it from? I'll go there. Oh, he doesn't

13:19

say. Do we know? Doesn't say. But I

13:21

am very curious. My show, my first ex-husband,

13:23

is going to be on the road eventually.

13:25

It's coming. It's coming to a town near

13:27

you. Yeah, I mean, we're going to London

13:29

in the summer to make out to see

13:32

if we can do it in London also,

13:34

because somebody's interested in it in London. I

13:36

mean, it's the kind of show that can

13:38

travel. You're going to be very hot. You

13:40

don't like the heat. In London, I can

13:42

handle. All right. All right. We'll see. By

13:44

the way, your ability to work the show

13:46

into absolutely every conversation rivals that of the

13:49

great Barbara Walters. Now, what do you think?

13:51

I learned from the best. I mean, it's

13:53

really, really impressive. Yeah, it's, it's, you want

13:55

to hear a story about her? I would

13:57

love one. So when I was, when I

13:59

was fired from the show. Yes. I love

14:01

all those stories. Yeah, so let's say I

14:04

was fired on a Wednesday. And by Thursday,

14:06

Diane Sawyer got wind of it. And then

14:08

on Friday, I was one of the stories

14:10

on World News Tonight. In other words, there's

14:12

a war in Mozambique, whatever, and Joy Behar

14:14

was fired. Okay? So now, I come back

14:16

on Monday because I wasn't leaving right away.

14:18

But she got the scoop on dying. And

14:21

Barbara said to me, you've been working. And

14:23

she, Barbara's the one who fired me. And

14:25

she said, you've been working here all these

14:27

years and you did not give me the

14:29

scoop? And I said to her, Barbara, when

14:31

your book came out, you gave it to

14:33

Oprah. And she said, two wrongs don't make

14:36

a right. Here's my question. She obviously had

14:38

all the relevant information. She could have given

14:40

herself the scoop. I don't know exactly what

14:42

happened there. I think they were trying to

14:44

underplay it. Because I was pretty popular. Well,

14:46

Hillary McLachan begged me to come back. I

14:48

know, I know. Again, I was a part

14:50

of that process. I know, I know. Again,

14:53

I was a part of that called me

14:55

to come back. I know. Again, I was

14:57

a part of that process. We were a

14:59

part of that process. Again, we had part

15:01

of that process. Again, I was a part

15:03

of that process. Again, I was a part

15:05

of that process. Again, I was a part

15:08

of that process. Again, I was a part

15:10

of that process, I was a part of

15:12

that process, I was a part of that

15:14

process. Again, I was a part of that

15:16

process, I was a part of that process,

15:18

I was a part of that process, I

15:20

was a part of that process, I was

15:22

a part of that process, I was for

15:25

a drag show. That's what I was doing.

15:27

Where can we go see a drag show?

15:29

The phone rings. Would you like to come

15:31

back just on Fridays? Because Whoopi's not going

15:33

to be working on Fridays. And I said,

15:35

well, let me get back. I'll think about

15:37

it. Next thing I know, I'm there five

15:40

days a week. Yes, we lured you in.

15:42

All right, enough about that. I enjoy all

15:44

that. What else did Barbara teach you about

15:46

having a long successful career? Publicize. Publicize publicize

15:48

publicize publicize yeah, she started with on 2020

15:50

on Monday and it was airing on Friday

15:52

Mm-hmm. And that was that was she was

15:54

ahead of the game on that. Yeah, very

15:57

good at that. Yeah, she also told me

15:59

don't go to the bathroom if you're looking

16:01

to book somebody Because she never peed you

16:03

know, she's drink less water probably everyone's saying

16:05

everyone's saying hydrate hydration is key, but no

16:07

she was dehydrated. It'll hold you back. It'll

16:09

hold you back. That's the rule. You rarely

16:12

book things, but occasionally you come through with

16:14

something pretty big. Well lately, you've been listening

16:16

to me because I got you Pritzker? Yeah.

16:18

And somebody else? Somebody else? Well, you know,

16:20

you showed up in an event with Governor

16:22

Walsh when he was, yes. That's right. Well,

16:24

you know, you showed up in an event

16:26

with Governor Walsh when he was going to

16:29

be the VP. That's right. That's right. We

16:31

have a question from Joe in Virginia. My

16:33

question is for Joy. What has the gay

16:35

community meant to you throughout your career or

16:37

life? Oh, the gay community. First of all,

16:39

when I was a stand-up comedian, the gay

16:41

community, I would work in the village, you

16:44

know, in time of the day, any time

16:46

of the night, anywhere I can get a

16:48

spot. They always got every... reference. They get

16:50

every reference. They are smart. They watch everything.

16:52

They read things. I mean, as a group.

16:54

I don't want to lump them all together,

16:56

but a lot of them do. And they

16:58

knew everything. That was one thing. And then

17:01

I'm there to, I will go to the

17:03

back, go to back for them because I

17:05

think that they are unjustly and unfairly attacked.

17:07

as they are being again in this environment

17:09

with this administration. And I was the recipient

17:11

of a GLAD award. Yes. Which I'm very

17:13

proud of. You should be. I'm more proud

17:16

of that than any other award I've ever

17:18

gotten, including the Emmy, because it means that

17:20

I actually meant something to somebody. that I

17:22

did something good for some community. And I

17:24

appreciate that. Absolutely. They appreciate me and it's

17:26

vice versa. Absolutely. Absolutely. I feel like there's

17:28

a large gay fan base to the show

17:30

in general. Well, they come to see my

17:33

show at night and it's about my show,

17:35

my first ex-husband, which is playing at the

17:37

MMAC theater on West 60th Street in New

17:39

York City. Every four weeks, by the way,

17:41

we changed the cast. Did you know that?

17:43

I did know that. But tell it's again.

17:46

I hear Barbara's voice, say it again,

17:49

say it again. I forgot what I

17:51

was saying. You were plugging the show

17:53

again. No, before that, there was a

17:56

reason that I jumped in. Gay community,

17:58

every four weeks, a change of cast.

18:00

Oh, now the show is about women

18:03

telling the story. of their marriages. It's

18:05

really women, but the gay community comes

18:07

to see the show. That's great. Yeah.

18:10

Again, it's a kind of cliche, and

18:12

maybe it's not true, not everyone, but

18:14

the theater community and the gay community

18:17

have some overlap, I think, for sure.

18:19

I will say, I am never recognized

18:21

more often. than at intermission at a

18:24

Broadway show. It's my greatest play. It's

18:26

my greatest moment. Those are the bright

18:28

guys. Those are the bright guys. They

18:31

love the podcast and occasionally they'll be

18:33

in the theater. The best day ever

18:35

was Whoopi's Broadway show. Then I had

18:38

everybody together. So that was good. It

18:40

was, yeah, that was great. My kids

18:42

were like, people know who you are.

18:45

It was amazing. So. Anyway, all right.

18:47

Thank you for joining me today, Joy

18:49

Behar. You're quite welcome. Tomorrow I'll be

18:52

back with... Why can't I find this

18:54

kettle corn anyplace? I look, the King

18:56

Cullen doesn't have it, Whole Foods doesn't

18:59

have it. It is very available. Where?

19:01

I don't want you to find it.

19:03

I want to keep you under my

19:05

lot, my thumb. Nobody tell her where

19:08

to find skinny pop-hop. You know, if

19:10

you go to my office sometimes, it's

19:12

all over the floor like this. It's

19:15

all over the floor here too. It's

19:17

like some kind of toddler. No, we've

19:19

got like high paid producers sweeping up

19:22

after you. Wait a minute, sometimes it

19:24

falls into my Brazilian. I have to

19:26

like dig in here to get it

19:29

out. You know how on your birthday

19:31

we do like the yard sale? I

19:33

think next year we should auction off

19:36

autograph. bags of skinny pop for people.

19:38

No one once. Oh they all love

19:40

it. They all love it. All right

19:43

it'll be sunny hostage here with me

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