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It came out yesterday. And at the top of your resume, is it still former Fox and Friends anchor? What do you put there? Of course.
I mean, wouldn't anyone want that on their roster description? I'm not sure. I think so.
Of course, from The View prior to that. And where were you prior to that? What were you hosting? Why were you hosting the show? Well, before The View, I hosted a show on the E-Networks called The Look for Less.
So we take designer looks and replicate them for under $100 in one hour at malls across the United States of America. Are you good at that too? Do you have like a good sense of fashion and... I mean, that's insulting that you had asked me that. Can you tell? That was insulting?
I don't know, Brian. You could have somebody dress you. I mean, you do have a big entourage. You know, we've got a big crew. No, I love design. So before, you know, before I went on Survivor, I was designing shoes at Puma.
And before that, I was a studio art major. Wow. Well, I didn't know that. Yeah, no. I forgot about that. Yeah, if I had known that.
I have lived an odd life. And so I was literally making... Do you remember the Reebok pump, by the way? Yeah.
Okay. So I worked at Reebok as an intern my senior year in college. And because Tim's dad was like, what are you going to do with this art major?
Tim Hasselbeck. He said, what are you going to do with this art major? And I was like, I don't know, I'm going to paint. And he just kind of looked at me like, I think you need a job. He was so kind. I was dating Tim at the time. And what I didn't realize was this NFL Super Bowl winning tight end, right?
Who had... Is as tough as nails, 6'8", muscle, just strength. He was a painter in college. So he knew. He's like, girl, you're going to need a job.
So I... He's like, why don't you? That's his dad. That's Tim's dad. He played for the Patriots and Raiders, right?
Tim Hasselbeck. Yes. And so he was looking out for me and I thought, well, why would he say this? So he worked at Reebok at the time. He's like, I've seen your drawings.
Why don't you try to get an internship? Well, I worked for Steve Monti who designed the Reebok pump. And remember the shroud? Remember when the football cleats had that? Like it was called the shroud. It was like, instead of spadding, they would like cover the laces.
And he was like a Geppetto to me. He taught me how to be the architect of a shoe. And my senior year I designed a cleat for my softball team that I wore. Wow. That's easy. And then Puma hired me and I had some good shoes and some bad shoes. I should have been fired a couple of times. And so you decide, okay, I'm going to be really successful.
Let me stop that and try something else. Yeah. Right? So then you go ahead and did you get Survivor after that?
Yeah. It must have been a rough work week at the design table. So one of the guys that I worked with who used to design cars in Detroit came in. He's like, hey, I have this application.
If you want to get dropped in the middle of nowhere and see if you could survive, I'm going to apply. And he was like making a photocopy or something. That's how old we are. And he, I saw it and I was like, oh, that sounds good. So I started applying for Survivor. And was Survivor established yet? I think it was in its first season, but I had no idea.
I didn't watch it. What season did you get on? Two. You got on season two.
Yeah. And how did that change everything? Changed everything. Changed everything but two things. It changed, you know, when we got there, 39 out of the 41 days that I was there in the Australian Outback, I kind of went to go see what I was made of. And I found out not much, need God.
And Tim Hasselbeck did not change. I couldn't, I was there literally starving. I knew it was finite.
It's like, all right, this is like a bad softball drill. I'm just here for a while. And I knew I could get through it. I just, but I realized then how much I missed him. And I wanted to never be that far from him again in my life.
So that was really revealing. And then it was there that I truly realized that what would get me through was not even a meal at the time or, you know, fresh water, or I think I came back weighing like two pounds. It was just one of the guys that was there brought his Bible.
And I remember reading it and it gave me comfort when it was the most uncomfortable situation, you know, that I had been in anyway. So before that, you weren't very religious? I mean, I had started reading the Bible. I grew up Catholic and I loved it. My grandmother was most devout. Like everyone's like, do you know Jesus?
I'm like, we have a big, huge painting of the last supper. Jesus was at every meal, you know, like Mary was in the garden and this was a family that the rosary was very familiar to me. And just prayer was super familiar.
I think I just didn't have like a personal relationship, like talking. I would pray the, our father, which is the perfect prayer. And I still think it is. I just don't know that I experienced like his grace and a need for him so deeply that I would pray the way I prayed. So, um, I just think it's, it's kind of awesome that even in God putting me in the Australian Outback, he was so kind because that's where the preparation had to happen before I went to The View.
Right. And of course- You know, you've got to survive first. Yeah, we're all built, we're building up to more information on God's masterpiece.
But before you get that, were you wondering if there was a God when you were stuck on The View? Were you like, this job is rewarding. I'm getting more notoriety, but my goodness, emotionally, this is killing me. I don't know if I realized at the time, I think I'm kind of a person where I forget the pain of something, much like childbirth, you know, like, let's have, let's do that again. So I just think it's, um, I like competition and I, I felt a duty, I think, to express at least one other point of view when I was there. Um, there were days that were harder than others. I tend to just kind of move on and block those out as much as I can, I think.
Just naturally, that's how I'm wired. Just, I guess I wouldn't go back if I went home and was like, that was terrible. But it was, I mean- But you were getting really, at that point, The View was, Barbara Walters was still around there. It had a view of, had a sense of news to it, more news conversation, right? And more relevance as opposed to now is like, in my view, I don't want to put you in trouble, but in my view, it's like a carnival of ridiculous opinions. I mean, we, we get it just to have something to contrast into, like, to jump off of. You know, it's, The View's really interesting, okay? So if you took a bunch of men and put them on a debate show, people would be like, that was a fiery debate, hearty, you know, and you take women and they're like, they just fight.
That's the kind of like cast over it. That, that was when I was there. Barbara did maintain a very newsworthy heartbeat on the show and it was, it always felt like we had to uphold a certain standard, even though I was wildly outnumbered. I don't even think I realized it, you know, that was total zone defense, but Barbara always, and I, I so credit her for teaching me how to research and interview and be thorough and be curious. You know, Barbara was so curious. Listen, she, she would read the entire book on someone, take notes, know almost more about them than they probably remembered about themselves, but yet left so much room to listen and be even more curious than she was confident in her research and so thorough.
I mean, if you went through with production notes, she would, you know, there'd be her hand marking all over them. She was unbelievably talented, taught me so much. I'm so grateful for my time with her and she was hard on me.
I mean, those were hard, hard days in terms of getting better. Because she was not considered, when did you realize she was not conservative or not necessarily up the middle? Or do you think she was up the middle? I think she maintained a discipline of news that was right down the middle. You could always tell by the glimmer in her eye when she thought you were crazy.
I got the glimmer often. But it was like this curiosity, like how could one sitting there before me think this crazy thought? She wanted to know why more than hold a position against you on the what.
So that's what I admired about her. And I think, you know, the view now, I haven't been there in a while and Whoopi and I are friends. But do you flip on once in a while? Once in a while, I go back to bother them. No, no, physically you go back there and you'll say hello?
Once in a while when I'm like, what would it feel like to get in an argument again? That's something that I like to do. Are you going to do your book? Are you going to go back there for your book? No. Oh, okay. No, this time.
I'm here right now. No, I know. There's always tomorrow.
I know this is the highlight. But that's interesting. So you come back and then you join the view and that really tests you. By the time we got to you on Fox and Friends, you took a few months before you started with the show. But I really felt as though it was a traumatic experience for you to be there. You know, it was, I'm really grateful for my time there.
I feel like it's an opportunity that, you know, continued to change our lives. We had all three kids there. I met Sherri Shepherd there, one of my great friends. Whoopi and I are friends even though we think the other person is completely off chain. Like, wow, that is what she's thinking.
We just have the ability to be friends even though we think completely in different directions. And I think that the view, yeah, there were some traumatic things there. There were some people there that caused trauma.
I shall remain nameless, but we know who they are. But then by the time I got here, this is such a positive work environment. Do we think so? Oh, I know so. It's so positive and so encouraging. And when you step into the building at the early hours, first of all, our team was incredible. And I walked back in here today and it's the same. I think the consistency of just respect and honor and joy and work hard and no complaining is real and it's a sustaining one. So I would, this building is so special.
It's, I don't know that there's another one like it. So yeah, but after a while you said my kids are young enough. It's really hard for me to get up in the morning and then be able to hit it a hundred miles an hour. They're all athletes, right?
Yeah, they're all athletes. And truly, I have such admiration for you, Steve and Ainsley because you've been doing, you've been getting up early for a long time now and I don't know how you do that. Like I, I'm a night owl and I didn't change my habits.
It's a problem. Tim's like, you could have kept going, but you didn't go to sleep. Like I would be up till midnight and even last night I had to get up this morning to come visit you all. And I was like, oh gosh, I got to go to bed. I can't, I'm like ridiculous night owl.
And I didn't switch, I didn't switch the habit. We're going to do another segment, but I just real quick on for people listening right now, what led to this book? Who do you want to read this book? I really hope that adults and kids get to read this book and discover in addition to 11 great works of art with masters behind it, that we are all God's masterpiece with a purpose that's specific.
We're all created uniquely and that how we see ourselves and how we treat one another should be like that. And so what age? What age? I'd say like two to seven ish or older or grown up kids like me who need that reminder as well that you are God's workmanship.
I'm his masterpiece. We have purpose in front of us and the power to do the stuff that God has set before us to do. Do you teach Sunday school type thing? Do you do the religious class? Cause it seems to me you'd be perfect for that.
Oh, thanks. That's a high compliment. Cause it's a conversational way to approach the Bible with children.
Yeah. And even adults, I actually find that sometimes when I'm writing for kids, it makes so much more sense to me. You know, I think we overcomplicate the gospel and it's, it's we're the complicated ones and it's very clear what God has done for us. So the more I write for kids, the more, I don't know, deeply connected I feel to God, but it's like, it doesn't have to be that complicated. How does Tim feel about like, you're very, I would consider like, like a very similar to Ainsley, a very religious, is Tim the same way? Tim is a super strong man of faith. Like he is, he actually, I carried with me today, like all the truths that God, because when you go to talk about things and I'll just be really honest, doubt sets in, right?
Or like, maybe I won't be good enough or maybe I won't wake up or you just start to doubt yourself and your capabilities. And he, he wrote on an index card, like all the things that God says about us for me. And I took him with me today, read him this morning. About you two as a couple or about?
Just what God says. And even Tim knows what he says about me is awesome. Always like, you like me, so like me, you love me, you know? And, but it's what he knew today that I didn't need what he had to say.
That would be great. But he knew that I needed what God has to say about me. So that's just the kind of guy he is. And he's definitely like the leader in our family when it comes to that. And even watching him as a coach, you know, when you watch a coach.
He's coaching high school now. Oh my gosh, yes. Yeah. It's intense. You coach, you know, it's intense. It's a lot. First of all, I don't know how you guys get a bunch of teenagers to do something at the same time. Like I can't even get two out of my house for school.
It's so hard to get a football team together. I looked at that. By the time you get the equipment on, you tell them where to line up when they're six and seven, eight years old.
Yeah. I mean, the chin strap doesn't work. The helmet's too big. They're a little bit late.
They forgot something. And I'm like, guys, it takes them a half hour just to set up with soccer, shin pads. We even need shin pads when I was growing up. You just go play, especially when they're little. You roll it out, you let them run, calm down.
And then you can start talking to them. But football, man, that, that is a lot for it because you can't run a play unless the kids know how to stand, right? Yeah.
How they're dancing. And they're, everyone's got to do their job. I just think, you know what Tim is good at is assembling a bunch of guys around him and half of them have Super Bowl rings and half of them are superheroes. And his dad's coaching with him too?
Yeah. Don Hasselbeck, tight dance coach, helping with the O-line. He's amazing. And then Matthew Hasselbeck is the offensive coordinator.
So you talk about his 20 years in the NFL and he's up top, like top gun. What's the name of the school? In Zorath School. Wow. Yeah. So it's a private school?
It's a private school. Right. Did they ever lose?
Undefeated this season. I thought so. No kidding. It's unbelievable.
Who wouldn't want to go to that school? Elizabeth Hasselbeck, a brand new book. When we come back, we have a few more minutes. So pick it up now. God's masterpiece. Is this something we can get on Amazon? It is.
It is? Okay. We have to go to, we could go to a bookstore too?
You can go to a bookstore. Wow. That's fantastic. Or if you have a butler, a lot of people, I have a lot of rich people who listen to me. Send a staffer.
If you have a friend, you can ask them to get it for you. Absolutely. Like you have a lot of friends.
Yeah. Hand the phone to the child. They will know how to order the book on Amazon. They really will.
Even without your permission. Back in a moment. Illuminating. Intriguing. Inculcating.
I know some of these words. It's Brian Kilmeade. Fox News Audio presents the Fox Nation Investigates Podcast. Evil Next Door.
Exploring the life and crimes of five serial predators from across the United States. Listen and follow now at foxdrewcrime.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Hey, we are back a few more minutes with Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
The good news is her brand new book is out, came out on Tuesday. It's called God's Masterpiece. And it is a book really from what, three to seven year olds, but parents should go grab this book. And you're talking about generations, nephews, nieces, you keep it in your house because you never know when a kid's coming over. That's right. And you give them a quick lesson.
Yeah. You get to learn 11 artists. You get to remind a kid that their identity is like designed and with purpose by God and that he gets to determine their value, which is so high, their high worth, and that they get to treat each other like masterpieces.
There's a mirror in the back. It's actually a great Easter basket gift, I think, because you can, a gift for generationally, that will generationally change how kids see themselves or at least remind them. It's not my idea. God says in Ephesians that we're God's masterpiece, you know, created in Christ Jesus to do the good works that he's created and gone ahead of us to do.
He's already given us the power and purpose to do it. So it's really just this cool set of friends that goes through and learns all these artists, which is amazing. Like there'll be art history majors by the time they're done with this book.
And then at the end there's a mirror and they get to see themselves framed up like a masterpiece. What a great concept. It's awesome. Now let's talk about something else that I don't know you've been following, but I thought about you too as a college athlete. How about these trans men and women's sports? I mean, do you believe that it's an 80-20 issue? Do you believe that we still have to debate this? Doesn't it honest to be fair to women? Isn't it honest that trans men have no place there? And your daughter's a college athlete.
Yeah, we have three athletes in our home. This is a really, this is a topic we probably shouldn't have to talk about, but I first and foremost want to say that even if anyone is struggling with that and their parents are struggling to remind them of this, that they were created wonderfully as workmanship by God. So when you are born and when you are in your mother's womb, God already has designed you well. He's our maker.
He's our master. And we don't answer to human masters when it comes to our identity. We just don't because those will fail. And so I really feel for kids who are struggling. So I want this to be heard that my heart aches for anyone who feels like they are in the wrong body or in the wrong gender. It does not ache for a set of adults that confirm that lie.
And so our God says you are perfectly and wonderfully made, that he knows every hair on your head, every thought before we think it. And for when it comes to athletics, it's a safety issue for me. So Grace plays with a metal stick.
They check each other constantly. She's bruised up. She plays lacrosse. If she were to go up against her cousin, who is a male, biologically a male, and he were to check her, he's two months younger than her and plays the same sport, he might absolutely destroy at best her body.
Absolutely. The physical threat is not safe. It's not safe. Concussions head to head. Some people don't think base, you know, they'll say, well, what about baseball?
Like I've seen, I saw two collisions this weekend with two bodies going after the same ball at high speed. I don't believe it's a safe space to invite a biological male body to actually bring physical harm to a female body. That's my bottom line on that. It's pretty easy. It's pretty easy. It's pretty easy. It's pretty easy.
It's pretty easy. And yet I have mercy and feel sadness that exists, but they do need the reminder. No, you are wonderfully made. I hear you, Elizabeth Hasselbeck. You are wonderfully made. If I can editorialize a little, pick up God's masterpiece.
It is out this week. You'll never regret it. Elizabeth, great to see you. Thank you, Brian. Fox News Audio presents the Fox Nation Investigates Podcast. Evil Next Door. Exploring the life and crimes of five serial predators from across the United States. It's a very disturbing case. In never before heard interviews and firsthand perspectives. Described as pure evil. That's a good description. The Fox Nation Investigates Podcast.
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