Meghan McCain still cringes when she recalls the viral “schooling” she received during a 2009 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.

McCain recalled the moment in conversation with conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings on her podcast Citizen McCain on Monday.

The “one and only time I went on Bill Maher—I’ll never do it again. Literally, I was so traumatized from it,” McCain said. “It went mega viral back when things could actually go viral because there were so few outlets on the internet, and Paul Begala is schooling the living s--t out of me,” she explained.

“I cried afterward. It was a mess, like a horrible… and I’m still kind of scared of Paul Begala. Like, I still—if I were in a room with him, I would be like, very…” She trailed off, indicating she’d feel standoffish.

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