Former ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Sage Steele was living the life that all sports anchors dream of — until that dream job turned into a woke nightmare.

“When you kind of get pushed into a corner so many times, you have a decision to make,” Steele tells Dave Rubin. “Obviously, I made the decision I thought was right for me, to stand up and have a voice about being treated differently compared to my peers at the network because I didn’t fit the narrative.”

Steele was removed from the network in 2021 after she spoke out against vaccine mandates, telling a podcast host that while she respected an individual's decision to get vaccinated, she thought that mandating it was “sick” and “scary.”

Steele had also come under fire for her comments regarding female sports reporters and harassment, saying that women need to take responsibility for the way they present themselves.

“When did you start to see that something was not quite right?” Dave Rubin asks Steele, who tells him that there was one major catalyst for the woke shift.

“When Trump got elected,” she says, noting that on the night of his election, high ranking ESPN executives were tweeting about his election and how “sickened” and “disgusted” they were.

“That was the beginning of the end to me,” Steele says.

While ESPN’s blatant wokeness became a problem for Steele, it’s not the network's politics that rubbed her the wrong way.

“At the end of the day,” she says, “I don’t care who you vote for, I don’t care who you sleep with, I don’t care about any of it. Are you a good human? Are you kind? How do you treat me? Most importantly, how do you treat others when the lights aren’t on?”

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Megyn Kelley EXPOSES a major journalist who is SUPPORTING Hamas terror

The list of atrocities being perpetrated by Hamas are endless, and yet so is the number of people on the left who support them.

“The women, the babies, they are being murdered. They are being beheaded. The elderly ladies sitting and waiting for the bus are being shot multiple times by machine guns, and they’re posting the pictures online,” Megyn Kelly says in disbelief.

According to Kelly, while these horrifying images are circulating, there are Washington Post journalists liking tweets that say things like: “What did you think decolonization meant? Did you think it meant vibes? Losers.”

“That happened,” Kelly says, disgusted. “Her name is Karen Attia. She writes for the Washington Post.”

The post itself was written by Najmia Sharif, a self-described “Somali savant from Minnesota.” Her X account has now been set to private.

“I like to remind myself,” she continues, “that my adversaries on policy or ideologically are not necessarily evil,” however supporting the murder of women and children is evil. “That was a bridge too far for me.”

Kelly is shocked that these leftists can’t see Israeli citizens as people.

“It’s not even about exactly the Jewish thing. It’s about the humanity thing,” Kelly says, “where is your humanity?”

Dave Rubin agrees before asking Kelly what we should do about the “Hamas caucus,” aka members of “The Squad,” who Rubin believes, along with other detractors of Israel, are weaponizing free speech in a terrible way.

“If you constantly defend people who are calling for genocide and murder and beheading babies and everything else and always excusing it,” Rubin says, “I think we’re veering into something else.”

Kelly thinks it’s actually a good thing.

“It’s kind of good to see them posting these statements and really taking away all doubt. It’s wonderful actually, now we’ll always have these statements, so we can always dismiss all of their arguments because we understand that these are vile people,” she says.

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Megyn Kelly EXPOSES the truth that MSM news anchors hide from you

The mainstream media doesn’t care about the truth, it cares about clicks and views.

The Israel-Hamas conflict is producing precisely that, and Dave Rubin and Megyn Kelly are well aware.

“Most of these anchors on CNN or MSNBC,” Kelly explains, are “a bunch of twits who have absolutely no education on any of this stuff and are too lazy to do their homework.”

“They want to be stars, Dave,” she continues, adding, “they want what gets them clicks, and what gets you clicks amongst the young people today is to say that Israel is a [colonizer] and that they’re the oppressor and that you’re on the side of the oppressed.”

Kelly notes that on the Israeli side, there are plenty of videos showing the horrifying rape, murder, and torture of Israeli civilians — but she’s uncertain whether or not it’s moral or even okay to expose the world to these atrocities.

“There were certain lines that you wouldn’t cross as a news organization, you know, on cable, and I’m having that same feeling now. Like can you show the absolute rape and murder and torture of human beings in Israel? Can you?” Kelly asks, adding, “We can show it. It’s just there’s only so much the human heart can take.”

When Kelly was at Fox News, she believes the anchors there did an adequate job of showing “what was being done to Israel by its enemies, Hamas included,” however, the mainstream media anchors in general “have gone exactly the same way that we saw them go during BLM.”

Despite holding completely different opinions on most everything that Kelly and Rubin believe, even Joe Biden has strayed from the mainstream media narrative with the Hamas-Israel conflict.

“His core message was a good one, and I agreed with what he was saying,” Kelly says.

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Russell Brand roasts MSNBC

Russell Brand has been ruffling some feathers.

The Hollywood actor turned podcaster is no stranger to telling it like it is, but his latest appearance on Bill Maher's show truly solidified his spot as one of the freer thinkers in the public eye today.

Brand absolutely roasted MSNBC, Pfizer, and Big Pharma to the face of MSNBC analyst John Heilemann — and the result was glorious.

Brand rattles off behind the "Real Time" desk, saying, “It’s disingenuous to claim that the biases exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC. It’s difficult to suggest that these corporations operate as anything other than mouthpieces for their affiliate owners in BlackRock and Vanguard.”

He continues, looking directly at Heilemann, “I’ve been on that MSNBC, mate, it was propaganda, it’s nutcrackery.”

Brand then says he’s been on the "Morning Joe" show and called it “absurd.” And the shots keep coming.

He says, “There was no one called Joe there, no one could concentrate, they didn’t understand the basic tenets of journalism, no one was willing to stick up for genuine American heroes like Edward Snowden, and no one was willing to talk about Julian Assange and what he suffered trying to bring real journalism to the American people — and I think to sit within the castle of MSNBC throwing rocks at Fox News is ludicrous.”

Heilemann responds, saying, “I’d like to hear a specific example of an MSNBC correspondent or anchor being on television saying something they knew was false.”

Heilemann seemed satisfied with his retort, but he was sorely mistaken in thinking he had proven a point, as Brand quickly brought up the criticisms of Joe Rogan and ivermectin. He then points out the media said if you got the vaccine, you wouldn’t get COVID.

Brand sat down with Dave Rubin after the showdown and had this to say in reflection: “Why don’t we acknowledge ... for the sake of simplicity that there are progressive ways of being a human being and there are traditional ways of being a human being. Neither of those ways are wrong. Why don’t we allow one another to express ourselves how we want to within the obvious bounds of consent?”

He adds, “And then perhaps we can organize different alliances so that we can organize around the systems of centralized power that will elsewise continue to dominate and annihilate.”