The Megyn Kelly Show - Deportations, Dogs, and Designers - Megyn Kelly Answers Viewer and Listener Questions ｜ Ep. 1222

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00:00:30.720 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show,

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00:00:42.400 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.

00:00:44.200 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show in this special holiday episode.

00:00:48.600 We thought for a change we would just do some viewer mail

00:00:52.120 and some questions and some fun tips.

00:00:55.460 We get tons and tons of viewer mail,

00:00:57.340 and I always feel bad that we can't get to them all,

00:00:59.360 but I do read them.

00:01:00.780 My gal Meg Storm puts them all together for me,

00:01:03.080 and there's so many that begin,

00:01:04.420 I know you don't read this, but I do read it.

00:01:08.080 I don't get to read every single one,

00:01:10.000 but I read a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of them.

00:01:12.360 So I feel like I have a very good sense of where the audience is on any issue,

00:01:16.700 and that's vital.

00:01:18.220 It's vital to me.

00:01:19.320 So anyway, let's just dig into it and see if there's anything in here that interests you.

00:01:23.060 I will tell you overall,

00:01:24.300 what I went through,

00:01:24.900 I selected some hard news questions,

00:01:27.480 some lifestyle questions,

00:01:28.880 some makeup questions,

00:01:29.940 some child-rearing questions,

00:01:31.940 so we have covered the full gamut here.

00:01:34.360 Here, excuse me.

00:01:35.280 I'm still getting over this ridiculous cough.

00:01:37.520 The cough's gone, 0.76

00:01:38.500 like the cold is gone,

00:01:39.420 but the voice,

00:01:40.480 is the real voice ever going to come back?

00:01:42.040 It's not,

00:01:42.520 not 100%.

00:01:43.780 You know,

00:01:44.580 my mom's voice is deep.

00:01:45.720 It's deeper than mine.

00:01:47.340 I wonder if this is how it happened for her.

00:01:48.760 One day,

00:01:49.080 it just shifted down lower

00:01:50.400 and do a lower gear.

00:01:53.280 Hopefully not,

00:01:54.100 because I'm not a very good singer,

00:01:56.340 but I can carry a tune a little with my normal voice.

00:01:58.920 Now I can't do anything.

00:01:59.800 And you know,

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00:02:57.680 let's go.

00:02:59.820 Here's an interesting question on immigration from Chris.

00:03:02.980 He writes,

00:03:03.700 or she writes,

00:03:04.280 I thought we were done with that Maryland man,

00:03:06.560 Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

00:03:07.920 Last I heard,

00:03:08.560 he was getting ready to be deported within a day or two to somewhere in Africa.

00:03:12.560 I think the question on a lot of people's mind is,

00:03:15.160 why is this administration having so many problems getting rid of the seemingly simple cases?

00:03:20.320 How did this guy's deportation get so screwed up that we have to keep listening and going over it six months later?

00:03:26.460 Chris,

00:03:27.660 same.

00:03:28.640 I have the same thoughts.

00:03:30.300 He's like a bad penny.

00:03:32.220 So it keeps popping back up.

00:03:34.480 Like,

00:03:34.760 no matter what you do,

00:03:35.700 you're still on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia story.

00:03:37.940 Why does everybody know this man's name?

00:03:39.680 Enough already with this guy.

00:03:41.380 And I have to be honest,

00:03:42.400 it's because in part due to incompetence.

00:03:46.840 And I'll explain how.

00:03:48.840 So,

00:03:49.320 first of all,

00:03:50.820 you know,

00:03:51.000 that's the guy who had a withholding of removal order,

00:03:54.240 meaning he went through the immigration courts when they arrested him and accused him of being an MS-13 gang member.

00:04:00.060 And he managed at that time to pitch his sob story to some bleeding heart on the immigration bench

00:04:05.200 who gave him,

00:04:06.760 instead of a deportation notice,

00:04:09.160 gave him kind of a get out of jail free notice,

00:04:12.300 which is called a withholding of removal,

00:04:14.060 meaning you can deport him if you really want to,

00:04:16.600 but you can't deport him to El Salvador because he's convinced me that there are terrible gangs there that mean to do him harm. 1.00

00:04:22.340 And I think that was all bullshit. 0.99

00:04:23.760 To be honest, 0.99

00:04:24.260 I don't believe any of that.

00:04:25.600 I think he just didn't want to go back to El Salvador.

00:04:28.880 And even that notice is no longer good when the threat is removed.

00:04:33.300 So if the gang that was after you has been disbanded 10 years later,

00:04:38.200 you can be sent back to El Salvador.

00:04:40.580 And by the way,

00:04:41.300 that's exactly what happened.

00:04:43.100 That's what happened.

00:04:44.500 But anyway,

00:04:45.560 so that's the first problem.

00:04:47.400 Some bleeding heart on the immigration bench fell for his little act and gave him that order.

00:04:52.500 Then when we were deporting people under this first year of the Trump administration,

00:04:57.940 he got rounded up appropriately.

00:04:59.780 And the one place we couldn't send him to,

00:05:02.980 we sent him to El Salvador because we struck that deal with Bukele to take these people and put them in this prison. 1.00

00:05:10.280 And it wasn't that he wasn't deportable.

00:05:12.180 He was deportable,

00:05:13.160 but just not to there.

00:05:14.920 And then the administration made the mistake of admitting they had made that mistake,

00:05:21.360 which,

00:05:22.280 you know,

00:05:22.620 it's not great to say in court,

00:05:24.600 whoops,

00:05:24.860 we made a mistake.

00:05:26.020 Would have been better to come up with an argument.

00:05:27.640 That's kind of what lawyers do. 0.98

00:05:29.880 But they thought of that too late.

00:05:31.640 They were already on record as admitting it was a mistake,

00:05:34.160 turned into a big national controversy.

00:05:36.440 And then they came up with criminal charges to slap him with while they tried to save face

00:05:42.460 and bringing him back to the United States.

00:05:44.620 And out of that is El Salvador in prison and all that after the visit and all the publicity around it.

00:05:49.980 And as soon as he got back here,

00:05:51.640 they slapped him with criminal charges relating to his alleged trafficking,

00:05:54.360 which it was,

00:05:54.720 seems pretty clear he did.

00:05:56.720 So that,

00:05:57.300 that was sort of their,

00:05:58.220 okay,

00:05:58.560 he's coming back,

00:05:59.320 but it's still not a win for the other side because now he's facing criminal charges.

00:06:03.140 And this one judge who's an Obama, 0.90

00:06:04.760 Obama appointee,

00:06:05.960 who is also a far leftist,

00:06:07.800 is judge Zinnis.

00:06:09.120 She,

00:06:09.640 she's 100% against the administration on this.

00:06:12.620 And while I'm not on her side,

00:06:13.940 I can't be too harsh on this judge because

00:06:16.220 we've been botching it over on the administration side.

00:06:20.160 I mean,

00:06:20.360 it hasn't been good.

00:06:22.160 And then finally,

00:06:23.860 finally,

00:06:24.860 they go into court for the most recent hearing.

00:06:27.540 Now they're trying to just deport him the old fashioned way,

00:06:29.620 like get out and go to this.

00:06:30.720 I don't know.

00:06:31.020 It's like Uganda someplace. 1.00

00:06:32.460 You're right.

00:06:33.080 It's some African country. 0.91

00:06:34.020 Can't remember which.

00:06:35.520 And as they're,

00:06:36.680 his lawyers are challenging that they're challenging it all.

00:06:39.120 And to his lawyer's credit,

00:06:41.140 they said,

00:06:41.940 let's let us see the order of removal that preceded,

00:06:46.340 like the order of deportation that preceded the order,

00:06:49.040 the withholding of removal.

00:06:50.520 Cause for,

00:06:51.260 before you say,

00:06:52.280 but you can't deport him to El Salvador,

00:06:54.260 you need the order that says you can deport him.

00:06:58.180 And it turns out they don't have it.

00:07:00.380 That lame immigration judge who handled this thing in the first go round,

00:07:05.140 never issued one.

00:07:07.280 So it turns out he's got an order saying you can't deport him to El Salvador,

00:07:13.460 but he doesn't have an order saying you can deport him.

00:07:16.720 So it's beyond F'd up,

00:07:19.120 which means,

00:07:20.220 and I've contacted many administration officials saying it.

00:07:24.140 Aren't you just going to now get a deportation order from any immigration judge?

00:07:29.900 And they all seem to be telegraphing.

00:07:32.020 Yes,

00:07:32.260 that's their next move.

00:07:33.740 But judge Zinnis has said,

00:07:36.000 you're not,

00:07:37.060 you're not locking him back up.

00:07:39.080 You're not doing,

00:07:40.040 you're not going to lock him back up.

00:07:41.080 So that's fine.

00:07:42.100 You can do it while he's at large,

00:07:43.400 but he,

00:07:44.620 they're going to know where he is.

00:07:45.700 And he is going to get dragged before an immigration judge.

00:07:47.920 And he is going to get deported.

00:07:49.860 He's not an American citizen.

00:07:51.300 He has no right to stay here.

00:07:52.800 He has never been given permission to stay here.

00:07:55.340 So he is going away.

00:07:57.840 Soon we will be done with a bad penny and he will be somebody else's problem.

00:08:02.240 But it's kind of a case study in government incompetence and how

00:08:07.180 crappily our immigration system has been working.

00:08:10.300 You know,

00:08:11.520 it really is.

00:08:12.760 The guy's allegedly beating his wife repeatedly.

00:08:16.140 She's seeking multiple protection orders against him.

00:08:18.580 He's allegedly trafficking people into the United States,

00:08:21.740 all these other illegals from state to state,

00:08:24.460 cross country with no luggage.

00:08:25.960 Oh,

00:08:26.100 I'm sure,

00:08:26.560 I'm sure it was legit.

00:08:28.200 Not to mention his MS-13 gang affiliation,

00:08:31.240 which has been proven to my satisfaction and to the satisfaction of the two

00:08:35.840 immigration courts who looked at this initially,

00:08:37.980 just not to the satisfaction of the left,

00:08:39.720 which wants to hang on to every last illegal.

00:08:42.400 They're hoping that they'll become voters and put Kamala Harris in office. 0.99

00:08:46.140 So it's very frustrating.

00:08:48.700 It gets almost too frustrating to continue covering,

00:08:51.040 but we will.

00:08:51.880 And I thank you for listening and for your smart question.

00:08:54.700 Okay,

00:08:55.300 moving on.

00:08:56.540 Next topic,

00:08:57.420 radical Islam.

00:08:58.220 And this one is from Joe who speaks,

00:08:59.960 I think for a lot of the viewers,

00:09:01.320 because many of you wrote in about this.

00:09:03.240 He writes,

00:09:03.700 is the West slash Christianity going to be able to contain, 0.99

00:09:07.320 stop the spread, 0.99

00:09:08.080 or possibly reverse the spread of Islam?

00:09:10.900 Or are we simply doomed?

00:09:13.880 I actually think we are capable of stopping this spread.

00:09:17.920 Joe,

00:09:18.220 we are not Germany.

00:09:19.780 We are not France.

00:09:21.400 We are not London.

00:09:22.220 We are a much,

00:09:24.500 much bigger country.

00:09:25.700 You know,

00:09:25.860 330 million Americans is much,

00:09:28.220 much harder to dilute.

00:09:30.740 And while we did have open borders for four years under Joe Biden,

00:09:34.540 mostly they came from the Southern border.

00:09:36.680 Yes,

00:09:36.880 we did get our fair amount of Muslims,

00:09:39.220 but most came from the Southern border.

00:09:41.740 And we've got a problem now with,

00:09:43.300 you know,

00:09:43.720 gang affiliated members and also just loafers who are not contributing members of society.

00:09:49.960 And then you got people like from Somalia who just want to mooch off of us while we pay for their lifestyle, 1.00

00:09:55.700 while they take their government paychecks or not paychecks,

00:10:00.040 but checks and ship part of them off to Al-Shabaab,

00:10:03.400 the terrorist group.

00:10:04.240 It's not great,

00:10:05.660 but there haven't been that many Muslims who came.

00:10:09.600 I mean,

00:10:09.780 if all the Hispanics who came from South of the border were Muslim, 0.94

00:10:12.420 I'd be more worried. 0.91

00:10:13.700 And the Muslims, 0.98

00:10:14.720 let's be honest,

00:10:15.380 they're,

00:10:15.640 they're breeding like rabbits.

00:10:16.840 That's like part of their mission is to have kids,

00:10:19.880 have tons of kids,

00:10:20.660 have six,

00:10:21.180 seven,

00:10:21.460 eight kids and win by multiplication.

00:10:24.420 So I,

00:10:25.300 Christians need to start having babies. 1.00

00:10:27.540 Sorry, 0.98

00:10:27.940 but we do.

00:10:28.980 If I had met Doug when I was younger,

00:10:30.200 we would have had three more.

00:10:32.020 But I was kind of an old lady when we got together and I did what I could in my limited time of childbearing years.

00:10:38.000 So I had Thatcher at,

00:10:39.580 I had Yates at 38,

00:10:41.660 Yardley at 40 and Thatcher at 42.

00:10:43.820 And God,

00:10:44.460 thank God they were all healthy.

00:10:45.780 But as you know,

00:10:46.920 God shut you down around that point.

00:10:49.220 So we got to have more babies.

00:10:51.140 Like the left has basically stopped having children because of climate change.

00:10:55.240 Okay.

00:10:55.620 How's that working out?

00:10:56.460 They need to have babies too. 1.00

00:10:58.200 Although let's face it,

00:10:59.560 the responsibility is mostly on the right.

00:11:01.980 So if you are a conservative Christian,

00:11:06.240 please have children more than you can afford.

00:11:08.960 Honestly,

00:11:09.540 like find a way they,

00:11:11.640 they can go to public school if you live in the right community and get a good education without being too indoctrinated,

00:11:16.400 ideally south of the Mason Dixon.

00:11:19.400 And honestly,

00:11:20.480 college right now,

00:11:21.260 like Elon's always saying,

00:11:22.280 it's not even necessary.

00:11:23.060 You can learn everything you need to know on the internet.

00:11:24.940 Hillsdale college has got so many great podcasts and courses that are for free online.

00:11:29.880 You can educate yourself.

00:11:31.900 I know this sounds like a little flip,

00:11:33.660 but I believe it's true.

00:11:35.780 And more and more people are providing education for people in a trade that where they'll pay for you to get educated and like as a plumber or an electrician.

00:11:44.400 And you don't have to pay for that out of pocket and you can go on to have a great life in a,

00:11:48.460 in a really like a well-paying job.

00:11:51.640 Anyway,

00:11:52.060 I just think we need to have more children and we need to elect people like Trump.

00:11:56.280 We need to keep JD in there after Trump is gone,

00:11:58.200 where we stop the immigration from countries who do not share our values. 0.83

00:12:02.440 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:12:03.820 I'm sorry, 0.97

00:12:04.340 but no more Muslims. 1.00

00:12:05.700 We're done. 0.98

00:12:06.800 Our values are not aligned.

00:12:08.380 They're just not.

00:12:10.180 It's,

00:12:10.800 it's,

00:12:11.340 I have Muslim friends.

00:12:12.480 It's nothing against them.

00:12:13.920 Their individual,

00:12:15.140 you know,

00:12:15.900 friendships are fine.

00:12:17.060 They as individuals are fine,

00:12:18.260 but Islam is not consistent with the values of America, 0.97

00:12:21.700 of the West.

00:12:22.980 They should stay in countries that don't care about keeping church and state separated. 1.00

00:12:27.860 They should stay in countries that don't care about protecting free speech.

00:12:31.520 They should stay in countries that don't care about women's rights. 1.00

00:12:34.720 That's where Islam can fester and grow. 1.00

00:12:38.560 It's great. 0.92

00:12:39.200 I mean,

00:12:39.400 I'm sure if that's like your thing and you don't care about like genital mutilation, 0.88

00:12:43.500 you might really enjoy living in an Islamic country.

00:12:46.220 If you don't mind living in a life as a woman where you have to keep every inch of your body, 1.00

00:12:50.820 except for your eyeballs covered.

00:12:52.900 Yeah.

00:12:53.940 Someplace in the Middle East could be for you.

00:12:55.680 It's not my thing.

00:12:56.800 It's not America's thing.

00:12:58.220 And it's not a thing that we should want or encourage in the West.

00:13:00.500 And it's definitely not a thing we should encourage at our governmental level.

00:13:04.540 I mean,

00:13:04.800 one of the tenets of Islam is to convert,

00:13:07.540 is to take over.

00:13:08.320 They want to get rid of the infidels, 1.00

00:13:09.700 the Christians. 0.93

00:13:11.060 They do not want to live peacefully side by side with us.

00:13:14.400 They want to convert us. 0.96

00:13:15.960 They want either to get rid of us or subvert our religion and our beliefs to theirs. 0.97

00:13:22.280 So it's a no on more immigrants from Muslim countries. 0.87

00:13:26.400 And on the five time call,

00:13:29.460 a prayer called a prayer being played over loudspeakers in places like Minneapolis,

00:13:34.120 that that has to stop at Dearborn in Minneapolis.

00:13:36.660 We've already lost two major American cities and we should be done with that.

00:13:40.320 So you need to get involved at your town council.

00:13:42.780 You need to pay attention when ordinances are going through.

00:13:45.740 You need to not be afraid to say we're not electing an Islamic mayor because that's not 1.00

00:13:52.480 consistent with our majority beliefs.

00:13:55.200 And if they call you a bigot,

00:13:56.720 so be it.

00:13:57.460 Remember what Christopher Hitchens said.

00:13:59.280 You know,

00:13:59.480 they're going to make up this term Islamophobia to shut us down.

00:14:02.400 And that's by design.

00:14:03.640 There's no such thing as Islamophobia.

00:14:05.480 You are not only entitled to,

00:14:07.860 quote,

00:14:07.960 fear Islam. 0.87

00:14:09.160 I would argue it's your duty as a Christian to stand up and fight against it.

00:14:12.620 It is not consistent with the values of the West or America.

00:14:16.120 And therefore you have no,

00:14:17.940 no problem.

00:14:18.740 You should have no problem standing up against it while being kind to your

00:14:22.220 Muslim American neighbors.

00:14:25.120 Okay.

00:14:25.360 You can be kind to them and say,

00:14:26.980 I disagree with the tenants of your quote religion and do not believe that people who

00:14:32.340 follow Islam should be in power here in America.

00:14:34.900 So that's that.

00:14:37.660 Forging forward.

00:14:39.020 Kamala Harris,

00:14:40.060 Jeff writes in.

00:14:40.720 Kamala Harris is coming to my area on her book tour.

00:14:44.080 Oh,

00:14:44.300 Jeff,

00:14:44.860 I plan to go to this event.

00:14:46.560 If I get to speak to her,

00:14:48.260 what are the best questions to ask her?

00:14:49.760 I actually have a strong thought on this,

00:14:51.320 Jeff.

00:14:51.640 Okay.

00:14:52.000 I'm glad you wrote this because she,

00:14:53.240 we just had news this week.

00:14:54.680 She's expanding the book tour.

00:14:56.080 She had such a fun time being loved by people.

00:14:59.720 She wants more of it.

00:15:01.420 So I do have advice for you. 1.00

00:15:04.620 You should not go and be like a shit stirrer. 0.99

00:15:08.100 Well, 1.00

00:15:08.340 you should,

00:15:08.860 but you should do it in a clever way.

00:15:10.100 So you should try to get online.

00:15:11.820 And what you should say is something along the lines of,

00:15:14.720 you know,

00:15:16.980 Madam Vice President,

00:15:18.640 there are so-called establishment Democrats who say the party will not accept,

00:15:28.840 or the country will not accept a black female president that it's not ready for it. 1.00

00:15:36.600 And that the party,

00:15:37.600 if it doesn't want to lose again,

00:15:38.740 is going to have to go with somebody who's doesn't check as many identity boxes to those people.

00:15:46.260 What do you say?

00:15:46.880 Or you could say,

00:15:48.780 there are some in the party that believe you've,

00:15:50.440 you've had your chance.

00:15:51.880 You didn't get the ball across the finish line that we need to let somebody else try because you've already,

00:15:58.520 already in effect,

00:15:59.280 been rejected by the American populace.

00:16:01.560 Are they right?

00:16:02.920 Say that,

00:16:03.700 say something that will encourage her to defend her ability to do it.

00:16:08.740 That's what I want to hear.

00:16:10.480 Like,

00:16:10.920 let's get to her actual thinking about why they're wrong.

00:16:15.660 And she can do it.

00:16:17.040 Cause you know,

00:16:17.760 in her head,

00:16:18.360 she thinks she can,

00:16:19.700 but the left's not really going to ask her that.

00:16:21.980 So you need to ask it,

00:16:23.480 Jeff.

00:16:23.780 It's much better than a,

00:16:25.640 why won't you stand up for girls in sports? 1.00

00:16:27.880 Forget that.

00:16:28.720 No,

00:16:28.960 don't ask that.

00:16:30.020 Ask something that's truly subversive and clever because she won't see it coming.

00:16:34.000 She's not that bright as you know.

00:16:35.200 And we want to encourage her to like actually do this.

00:16:38.860 So like,

00:16:39.520 this is an optimistic,

00:16:40.600 like I,

00:16:40.940 I believe in you,

00:16:41.980 but there are naysayers.

00:16:43.160 Can you help me understand why they're wrong?

00:16:45.760 Give me the ammo to like argue with them over my holiday dinner.

00:16:49.800 That's,

00:16:50.300 that's the question.

00:16:51.440 Good luck to you,

00:16:52.020 Jeff.

00:16:52.380 If you do it,

00:16:53.240 please email into us about what happened and have whoever is at the book event with you,

00:16:58.480 tape it on your iPhone and we will air it right here on the Megan Kelly show.

00:17:02.560 We really will.

00:17:03.480 So do it.

00:17:04.760 Let me know how it goes.

00:17:06.460 Okay.

00:17:07.320 Shifting now to some more personal stuff.

00:17:09.860 Parenting advice.

00:17:10.820 Okay.

00:17:12.500 From Caitlin.

00:17:13.780 She writes,

00:17:14.420 I love how your kids seem to know about politics and social issues already.

00:17:17.960 I've got three young kids,

00:17:19.240 ages six,

00:17:20.020 four,

00:17:20.200 and two.

00:17:20.920 And my husband and I always talk about the balance of sheltering them from things versus

00:17:24.240 starting to expose them.

00:17:25.640 So they know our opinions and values.

00:17:27.460 Any advice on this?

00:17:28.260 What's the right age? 0.79

00:17:29.300 Thank you for that,

00:17:29.920 Caitlin.

00:17:30.220 Yes,

00:17:30.420 your kids are the same distance apart as mine.

00:17:32.140 Mine are now 16,

00:17:33.120 14,

00:17:33.400 and 12.

00:17:33.900 So same as yours,

00:17:35.040 only with a one in front of them.

00:17:37.500 And we definitely put some thought into this.

00:17:41.300 And I would say the main thing we did was when they were little, like your kids' ages,

00:17:45.140 we just talked about values.

00:17:46.380 And church is a great reinforcement of just values.

00:17:50.760 They don't talk politics at church.

00:17:52.300 I think what they talk about at church is all the stuff you should be talking about at home.

00:17:55.400 Like, what do I care about?

00:17:56.600 Being good to other people.

00:17:58.060 Don't lie.

00:17:59.200 Don't cheat.

00:18:00.220 Don't steal.

00:18:02.400 Don't rely on other people to do the hard work.

00:18:04.660 You do it.

00:18:05.980 Do unto others.

00:18:06.900 All that.

00:18:07.780 Don't covet.

00:18:08.560 Don't be an envious person.

00:18:09.720 Um, and then the general stuff that I think we as conservatives believe, which is safe spaces are

00:18:15.720 anything but.

00:18:16.980 It's good to take risks.

00:18:18.560 Failure is fine and actually kind of welcome to your character development.

00:18:23.020 Falling down is part of becoming great.

00:18:25.600 Um, stand up for what you believe in.

00:18:27.920 Don't be shamed out of saying what you really believe, what you really think.

00:18:31.260 It's fine.

00:18:32.060 And when your kids say something that they really think, even if you disagree with it,

00:18:35.340 hear them out.

00:18:36.500 Like, prove to them that you too can accept different ideas.

00:18:40.840 And like, test them a little.

00:18:41.840 Like, well, why do you think that?

00:18:42.840 What about this?

00:18:43.500 Do a little Socratic method.

00:18:44.580 Like, well, what if this happened?

00:18:46.280 You know, oh, you like socialism?

00:18:47.780 All right.

00:18:48.240 Do the old Halloween thing.

00:18:49.240 Well, what would you think if, you know, your brother went out and did all?

00:18:51.380 Well, and did no trick-or-treating.

00:18:53.300 He stayed at home watching TV and you did all the trick-or-treating and he wanted you

00:18:56.020 to give him half.

00:18:56.820 Well, how would you feel about that?

00:18:58.080 Like, that kind of stuff.

00:18:58.980 You know, those basics.

00:19:00.000 And then when they get a little older, around, say, the presidential elections, you can start

00:19:05.060 introducing a little politics.

00:19:06.400 Like, well, and I really, really, really believe it's important not to make them feel like you

00:19:13.740 are pushing them to one side.

00:19:16.880 Like you are.

00:19:17.680 Let's be honest.

00:19:18.200 You want them to become Republicans or independents who vote conservative.

00:19:21.940 But I think it's better for you to shepherd them so that they come to that decision on

00:19:27.120 their own.

00:19:28.060 And you can talk about, like, this is what the Democrats believe and this is what the

00:19:31.180 Republicans believe.

00:19:32.160 And strongman the Democrats' argument.

00:19:34.360 Make your kid a good arguer who thinks through complex issues when they're a little older.

00:19:38.120 Like mine, at 12, 14, and 16, this is totally a sweet spot for that.

00:19:42.220 And then would debate it over the kitchen table. 0.99

00:19:46.420 And I think that's better than being like, the Democrats suck. 0.99

00:19:50.140 You know, we're Republicans. 0.99

00:19:51.300 I actually think it's better to, like, strongman the Democrats' arguments and walk your kids

00:19:57.440 through how they end.

00:19:59.960 You know, like, do battle.

00:20:01.300 Because the Democrats won't win if you actually have substantive arguments over their positions.

00:20:06.100 They won't win.

00:20:06.900 Not if you've done all those other things we talked about from 0 to 10 or 12.

00:20:11.360 And plus, you don't want them to rebel against you as teenagers when they start to reject

00:20:15.000 everything you stand for.

00:20:16.940 If they think them being a Republican is super important to you, then they're not going to

00:20:20.780 do it.

00:20:21.320 So careful.

00:20:23.100 Okay, from Carl.

00:20:25.520 We have a son who just turned two, and we have two transgender extended family members.

00:20:29.860 Our opinion on the trans issue is very similar to what you've described.

00:20:32.880 But we love our family and want to treat them with respect.

00:20:35.080 It's very important to us that our son has strong, positive relationships with his extended

00:20:39.260 family.

00:20:39.660 How do we balance all of these competing interests?

00:20:41.640 Thank you for that, Carl.

00:20:42.940 We have two trans members of our extended family, too.

00:20:48.180 And while we don't see them that often, I understand what you're dealing with here.

00:20:53.540 And my strong advice is that is not the place to litigate our issues on the trans problem.

00:21:01.000 When in the presence of any trans person, unless they're being aggressive and offensive and 1.00

00:21:05.460 like in a place they shouldn't be, like a daughter's locker room or sport, then you have

00:21:11.380 to say something.

00:21:12.080 But like, you know, if you see somebody socially at a gathering or Thanksgiving dinner or whatever

00:21:16.300 it is, I think you should just treat them with kindness and respect.

00:21:19.240 You don't mention it.

00:21:21.520 You're nice.

00:21:23.860 You don't dwell on it.

00:21:25.860 You don't have to spend like the whole party talking to them.

00:21:29.360 And odds are, if it's obvious, which it almost always is when it's male to female, and that's 0.64

00:21:33.660 probably what you're talking about, odds are as soon as you get away from the person, your

00:21:36.960 kid's going to be like, mom, dad, was that a man?

00:21:41.140 And you should absolutely tell the truth.

00:21:43.300 Yes, that was a man pretending to be a woman.

00:21:45.100 And that is a thing that some very small amount of people do, and it is not real.

00:21:52.220 That person deserves our sympathy because they're dealing with something that's very

00:21:56.540 serious in their head, in their brain.

00:21:59.700 And we don't talk about it in their presence, but it is not possible to change sexes.

00:22:05.920 It is not possible for a man to become a woman. 0.95

00:22:08.300 And while in the presence of such a person, we would no more call attention to that than

00:22:13.040 we would to somebody who is on the spectrum or has some sort of birth defect that we don't

00:22:18.740 want to talk about or they don't want to raise.

00:22:20.820 That's not nice.

00:22:21.760 We don't do that.

00:22:23.000 We don't have to accept this person's delusion as real.

00:22:25.900 And we don't accept this person's delusion as real.

00:22:28.880 And I would avoid pronouns at all costs.

00:22:31.760 I would not say to my child, this is Mr. Brown.

00:22:36.220 You know, I wouldn't say that.

00:22:37.200 I'd say, this is, you know, Pat Brown.

00:22:41.880 And I think in that case, I might say, Pat, this is my child, because normally we make

00:22:46.940 our kids call people by their honorific and then their last name.

00:22:49.940 But I wouldn't.

00:22:51.860 I'd stick with, I'd go with first names.

00:22:54.520 It's less rude than using the real pronoun because that would offend the person.

00:22:59.440 So the point is simply don't, you don't have to make the interaction political and you don't

00:23:03.720 have to be hurtful in the presence of such a person.

00:23:06.800 That doesn't mean we cede one ounce or one inch of this fight when we're back on the

00:23:11.960 playing field.

00:23:12.640 Okay?

00:23:12.980 So that's my thought.

00:23:14.640 One more from Joel.

00:23:17.140 As a conservative parent, what can I do to make sure that I know as I send off my oldest

00:23:21.280 daughter to college next year that she won't get indoctrinated at college and get radicalized? 0.99

00:23:26.440 Oh, Joel, it's scary.

00:23:28.500 I think hopefully you've already done the work because it probably requires longer than

00:23:33.740 one year of training, you know, instilling values in her that are not corruptible, you

00:23:40.240 know, that she knows all this is coming.

00:23:41.860 But you really do have to inoculate your kids before they go away.

00:23:47.660 And that's why some dose of wokeism at the high school level is good.

00:23:51.440 I used to think I didn't want a touch of it.

00:23:53.080 Now I actually think it's good.

00:23:54.760 In our schools, there's not a touch of it really, even in our boys' school.

00:23:58.560 Maybe like a 5% touch.

00:24:03.020 But in our daughter's school, there is some, and I can't stand it, but we use it to teach.

00:24:10.060 And we use it to teach even our boys who sit around the dinner table and hear the story.

00:24:13.340 So it's working for the whole family in some ways.

00:24:16.400 So you got to start early.

00:24:17.720 That's number one, start early.

00:24:19.960 And if it's just a year away and you haven't started early, do it frequently and obsessively.

00:24:25.840 Like you got to start talking to her exactly how they're going to do it, how the indoctrination

00:24:30.460 happens, how when it's a male white author, they're going to bash him if they see him

00:24:34.540 at all, how there will be an obsession with anything relating to identity, how she will

00:24:40.760 get patted on the head for embracing anything touching identity politics.

00:24:45.320 And she will get judged and ostracized if she doesn't say the things they want her to and

00:24:50.320 how she might even get bad grades and how you don't care.

00:24:53.020 You don't care.

00:24:54.020 You'd rather she get a D for standing up for what is true and real and honest and what 1.00

00:24:59.000 we really believe in than get an A by going along with some woke asshole leftist professor 0.99

00:25:05.540 who would downgrade a co-ed based on her politics. 1.00

00:25:08.940 That person can fuck off. 1.00

00:25:10.520 And we might as well start teaching your daughter that nice and early. 1.00

00:25:13.740 And I know you're saying, oh, but what she wants to get into med school. 0.99

00:25:16.020 She's got to have great grades. 0.97

00:25:17.280 They're not all going to be like that.

00:25:18.720 She's going to have a bad grade here or there if she does this, but not all the professors

00:25:22.340 are going to be like that.

00:25:23.340 And if your daughter's a squeaky wheel and starts going to the dean of the school saying,

00:25:27.040 here's why this happened to me.

00:25:28.720 And you back her up.

00:25:30.120 You will get results even at these left-wing colleges.

00:25:33.620 Excuse me, my throat's starting to bother me.

00:25:35.780 You will get results.

00:25:36.800 And even if you don't, um, there are enough universities out there that will understand

00:25:42.860 why your daughter has perfect A's, but two big D's in the humanities classes.

00:25:48.120 Okay.

00:25:49.000 I just think her character is more important than her grades.

00:25:54.000 And you have to start teaching that lesson right now.

00:25:57.700 And she has to live it right now, or she's going to live a life of timidity that will serve 1.00

00:26:00.840 no one.

00:26:02.220 Okay.

00:26:02.840 Keeping on.

00:26:03.460 By the way, I, I bought these.

00:26:07.100 I realized it's basically a candy, but they're so good.

00:26:10.080 It's Luden's watermelon flavor.

00:26:13.460 They do help and make my throat feel better when it gets scratchy.

00:26:16.620 Thanks to this ongoing voice thing of what vocal cord now. 0.98

00:26:20.320 Um, and they're really good.

00:26:22.440 I don't even want to know the sugar content, but every once in a while, they help me.

00:26:28.280 Um, okay.

00:26:30.700 Faith books.

00:26:31.640 Danielle, you've mentioned reading different faith-based books recently.

00:26:35.660 Which books have you read?

00:26:37.320 Charlie's death has inspired me to dig into my faith even more and to be able to make more

00:26:41.520 intellectual arguments for Christianity.

00:26:43.480 I'm praying for you on your faith journey.

00:26:45.640 God bless you, Danielle.

00:26:46.580 Thank you.

00:26:47.040 Um, I will pray for you too.

00:26:49.780 Um, a lot.

00:26:52.420 I've read a lot over the past couple of months.

00:26:55.020 I actually wrote them down because I, I wasn't sure I'd remember them all.

00:26:58.180 I went on my phone list.

00:26:59.040 I listened to them.

00:26:59.800 I listened to the books because I read so much news.

00:27:01.960 I try to save my eyes.

00:27:03.140 So many of these I got from you guys.

00:27:07.960 Thank you so much.

00:27:09.320 And I'm taking more suggestions.

00:27:11.020 Danielle and I could both use them.

00:27:12.800 Um, and I'll read them on the air when I get them in an update.

00:27:16.460 But here are some.

00:27:18.420 The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.

00:27:20.820 By far the best.

00:27:22.580 It was great.

00:27:24.080 So many of you recommended it and it was a game changer.

00:27:27.240 Um, he sold something like 15 million copies of this thing.

00:27:29.760 And when you read it, he reads it himself, Lee Strobel.

00:27:34.000 Really great.

00:27:34.880 And you see why.

00:27:36.200 Um, related.

00:27:37.400 The Case for a Creator.

00:27:38.840 He's got a whole Case for a series.

00:27:40.640 And I also really enjoyed that.

00:27:42.780 Um, I loved Frank Turek's I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.

00:27:47.460 Loved.

00:27:48.400 I love him.

00:27:49.280 I've been listening to his podcast too.

00:27:51.340 He's brilliant.

00:27:52.180 He was Charlie's teacher.

00:27:54.140 And when you spend two minutes with Frank, you see why.

00:27:56.360 But definitely recommend I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. 0.60

00:27:58.760 It's a clever title.

00:28:00.300 And you, he makes the point very effectively.

00:28:03.440 Um, let's see.

00:28:05.820 Uh, On Guard, Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision by William Lane Craig.

00:28:10.600 That one's much more technocratic.

00:28:12.780 Um, he spends a lot of time on things like the universe.

00:28:16.700 You really got to sort of pay attention to that one.

00:28:18.220 It might be better actually, frankly, to read it with your eyes instead of listening to that one

00:28:21.380 than the audio.

00:28:22.520 But I enjoyed it.

00:28:23.140 But I enjoyed it.

00:28:23.720 And it led me down a whole pathway on YouTube of watching him debate atheists, which was 0.77

00:28:30.100 super fun.

00:28:31.160 I really recommend that because he's excellent at it.

00:28:34.100 He debated Christopher Hitchens and so many others.

00:28:36.560 Um, really fun.

00:28:38.140 William Lane Craig.

00:28:39.040 And he's featured in the Lee Strobel book too.

00:28:41.660 The Shack by William Young.

00:28:43.540 That was recommended by you guys.

00:28:44.820 Really enjoyed.

00:28:46.180 Um, Imagine the God of Heaven.

00:28:48.700 Near Death Experiences by John Burke.

00:28:50.760 Enjoyed that thoroughly.

00:28:51.680 I love anything with near death experiences.

00:28:53.540 You know, the, whatever, you die, but you don't really die.

00:28:56.380 You come back.

00:28:57.680 Really good.

00:28:58.840 Evidence That Demands a Verdict.

00:29:00.800 Uh, Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World by Josh McDowell.

00:29:05.420 Really enjoyed that too.

00:29:07.400 Uh, Who Moved the Stone by Frank Morrison.

00:29:10.780 Who did move the stone?

00:29:12.120 That's a good question.

00:29:13.540 I enjoyed that too.

00:29:14.320 And that was recommended in the Frank Turek book.

00:29:16.020 Um, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.

00:29:18.940 So those are just a few.

00:29:20.720 I've been into C.S. Lewis as well.

00:29:23.540 And, um, it's given me a lot to think about.

00:29:26.740 Now on my to-do list, I may do this over the break.

00:29:29.360 I want to watch The Chosen.

00:29:31.440 I was going to watch it and then I realized it's multiple seasons.

00:29:33.500 So I didn't have the time.

00:29:34.280 I never have the time when I'm on the air.

00:29:36.020 Honestly, I just consume so much news for you guys.

00:29:40.040 Honestly, I do it for you.

00:29:41.300 So you don't have to do it.

00:29:42.060 So I can condense it for you into like, what's really salient?

00:29:44.320 What do you need to know?

00:29:46.380 It's a calling.

00:29:48.380 You know what I mean?

00:29:49.020 It's not just a job.

00:29:49.860 It's a calling.

00:29:50.560 Like I feel called to understand the day's news really thoroughly and completely so that

00:29:57.460 I can help you understand it.

00:29:59.820 And the only way you can really help somebody understand it is if you know it yourself forward

00:30:02.740 and backward.

00:30:03.920 The volume is so large that my team and I consume that it doesn't leave a ton of time

00:30:08.360 for other things.

00:30:08.940 So I listen to my audio books when I'm all done with the news at the end of the day and

00:30:13.380 I don't have a lot of time to watch anything.

00:30:16.800 Like every once in a while, Doug and I will take up a series, like watch a little before

00:30:21.080 we go to bed, sneak in an hour here or there, but it's a challenge.

00:30:25.000 Anyway, The Chosen is on my list.

00:30:28.660 Then someone asked, okay, Chad, what music would your listeners be surprised to find

00:30:36.960 on your Spotify or Apple music playlist?

00:30:39.660 I actually went to my Pandora.

00:30:43.180 I don't know if you'd be surprised.

00:30:45.860 It's a lot of eighties.

00:30:46.940 I'm not going to lie.

00:30:47.800 You know, they say you love the decade of music that you like went to high school for

00:30:52.940 and that would be, yeah, I was there at a great time in the eighties, the late eighties.

00:30:58.400 Great time for music, early nineties too.

00:31:01.000 So here are a couple of like my most played men at work, The Cars, Morrissey, I love The Cure.

00:31:07.400 Um, Talking Heads, Green Day, Love Kid Rock, Love John Rich.

00:31:14.680 Um, then there's a whole other strange, so maybe this would surprise you.

00:31:20.540 I love Frank Sinatra.

00:31:22.520 I do.

00:31:23.540 I love the Frank Sinatra channel on SiriusXM, channel 70, one below the holiday channel,

00:31:29.640 traditional holiday music, 71, which I listen to all the time this year.

00:31:32.640 But I love Frank Sinatra, like mixes. 1.00

00:31:35.820 Like if you just take any Frank song and plug it into Pandora, Spotify, uh, Sonos, anything,

00:31:41.700 what you get, you know, like you get the Dean Martin, you get the Ella Fitzgerald.

00:31:45.180 I love Billie Holiday.

00:31:46.280 I play Billie Holiday almost every morning.

00:31:48.480 Um, I love just that sort of genre of like yesteryear, the crooner music and a little bit

00:31:56.680 before the crooner with the Billie Holiday stuff.

00:31:58.740 It's just so good.

00:31:59.700 I love the way it makes me feel.

00:32:01.500 It's so much better than like light jazz, which I don't love.

00:32:04.880 That puts me to sleep.

00:32:06.920 There's stuff like crooner music is kind of upbeat.

00:32:09.060 You can put it on at any time.

00:32:10.120 Like that's usually what we have on a dinner in the background, even if it's just the five

00:32:14.100 of us with our kids.

00:32:14.900 So I don't know if that surprises you, but I do love it.

00:32:17.480 And there's nothing better than John Denver, though.

00:32:19.620 It always makes me cry.

00:32:21.140 Always makes me cry.

00:32:22.040 We went out to Montana in the summer and we climbed a mountain.

00:32:27.400 We were camping and we climbed a mountain in the daytime.

00:32:32.160 And you know that you're in the middle of the Rockies.

00:32:34.560 We were looking out at God's green earth and the, you know, the Rocky Mountains, my God.

00:32:39.180 And we played John Denver, Rocky Mountain High.

00:32:42.040 Then we played a bunch of John Denver songs.

00:32:43.620 And it was honestly one of the most spiritual experiences I have ever had in my life.

00:32:50.200 With my kids, my husband and I, all like truly like arms out, listening to the music, looking

00:32:57.080 at God's green earth and sky and creations all around us.

00:33:02.360 And I don't know.

00:33:04.100 I'm not sure you can get closer to God than that, but he does bring a tear to my eye.

00:33:09.100 I think it's not just me.

00:33:10.960 Love everything by him.

00:33:11.880 Love Annie's song.

00:33:14.460 Love the song today.

00:33:16.740 That's what my dad used to play to us on his guitar.

00:33:19.000 It's so beautiful.

00:33:20.880 Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine.

00:33:23.420 Can't sing now.

00:33:24.640 I'll taste your strawberries.

00:33:26.440 I'll drink your sweet wine.

00:33:28.680 A million tomorrows may all wash away.

00:33:33.200 Ere I forget all the joy that is mine today.

00:33:38.160 I love it.

00:33:40.040 I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover.

00:33:43.620 You'll know who I am.

00:33:45.980 I can't get down here by the songs that I sing.

00:33:49.580 Okay.

00:33:50.080 Sorry.

00:33:50.900 I digress.

00:33:51.560 But my dad used to sing that song to us all the time.

00:33:54.120 And I played on the guitar now for my family and myself.

00:33:57.520 And I think of him.

00:34:00.120 You know, on Monday, we're taping this on December 17th, a Wednesday.

00:34:02.880 On Monday, the 15th, it was 40 years since my dad died.

00:34:10.600 40.

00:34:12.280 Can't believe it.

00:34:14.280 1985.

00:34:14.680 And it was, you know, it was 10 days before Christmas.

00:34:20.040 It was a total shock.

00:34:22.060 My dad was only 45 years old.

00:34:23.660 He was fine one second.

00:34:25.400 And he was dead of a heart attack in our house by the twinkly lights of the tree.

00:34:30.080 The next.

00:34:32.760 Those experiences change you.

00:34:35.080 And one word to all the parents who have had this happen in their families, many of whom

00:34:41.760 you write to me and say, well, what, what can I tell my kids?

00:34:45.860 Or what do I need to know about my kids?

00:34:47.620 We're now dealing with the loss of a parent or a sibling.

00:34:52.420 And I say the same thing, which is, it's awful.

00:34:55.160 And there's just no two ways about that.

00:34:57.080 But I do believe one real gift that comes with losing someone early is you live your

00:35:05.980 life differently.

00:35:07.700 You don't waste time. 0.98

00:35:09.780 You make still some crappy decisions.

00:35:12.260 It doesn't immunize you against that. 0.84

00:35:14.000 But you realize them faster.

00:35:15.600 You correct them faster.

00:35:17.660 You know you could go at any moment.

00:35:19.360 You know it.

00:35:20.040 Everyone knows it, but you know it.

00:35:21.680 You know it on a gut cellular level.

00:35:25.160 And you act differently as a result.

00:35:28.380 In the same way somebody who has terminal cancer makes different decisions in the time

00:35:31.880 they have left because they know it's limited and they will make different choices.

00:35:35.900 You kind of have that from the get-go.

00:35:39.180 Because death is not this ephemeral thing that, you know, is just theoretical to you.

00:35:45.100 You see it.

00:35:46.340 You really believe it.

00:35:48.080 You do worry about it.

00:35:50.200 And that's not such a bad thing.

00:35:51.620 That's not such a bad thing.

00:35:52.640 So God rest my dad.

00:35:56.360 He was a good man.

00:35:57.300 I only had him for 15 years.

00:35:59.140 But boy, he was a great father.

00:36:01.080 And I was so lucky.

00:36:02.500 So many people don't get that at all.

00:36:04.880 You know, they have their dads their whole lives and they're crappy or they ignored them

00:36:09.100 or they were angry dads or alcoholic dads or absentee dads.

00:36:13.200 We see that a lot.

00:36:15.080 My dad was super fun.

00:36:16.380 He was present.

00:36:17.160 He used to sit down on the floor after he'd come home from teaching.

00:36:19.240 He was a college professor.

00:36:19.960 He played jacks with us.

00:36:22.260 He never spoke down to us.

00:36:23.660 He always kept his vocabulary elevated.

00:36:26.420 He never just said, like, you're super smart.

00:36:28.560 He never told me that.

00:36:29.400 He just treated me like I was.

00:36:31.580 He just gave me, like, real tasks to complete that others would have thought would be beyond

00:36:36.820 the capacity of a 10- or a 12-year-old.

00:36:38.900 And that's what really leads to self-confidence.

00:36:42.960 You know, like, it wasn't even a discussion.

00:36:45.160 He just gave it to me and knew I could do it and expected something more of me.

00:36:49.840 That really, that helps.

00:36:51.280 People ask sometimes, like, you seem to have a natural confidence.

00:36:53.960 Stuff like that helps.

00:36:54.880 And also, no false praise.

00:36:56.700 None.

00:36:57.240 Do not false praise your children.

00:36:58.860 They know it.

00:37:00.340 They know it.

00:37:01.780 So you're just undermining your trust relationship with them.

00:37:05.480 And you're undermining their ability to be confident, successful humans.

00:37:09.560 Stop giving them false praise.

00:37:10.920 Only praise the things that are real.

00:37:12.580 Presumably, there will be many things about your child that are real that you can praise

00:37:16.280 truthfully.

00:37:18.780 Check the other BS.

00:37:20.340 You know, I've told you many of these times.

00:37:21.880 My parents never told me I was special.

00:37:24.400 Truly, they were like, eh.

00:37:25.580 They were like, she's going to be with us for a long time.

00:37:31.740 I was not an attractive child.

00:37:34.020 Okay, keeping going.

00:37:37.040 I think I have your Strudwick's soulmate, writes Cody.

00:37:40.820 Her name is Nala.

00:37:42.100 I like that.

00:37:43.220 And she's a total mess, word. 1.00

00:37:45.680 I feel you, Cody.

00:37:47.280 I was curious where you got the names for your dogs.

00:37:50.220 Well, Thunder, we stole from Thatcher, our youngest, who said he was going to grow up

00:37:54.660 and he was going to have two sons and he was going to name them Thunder and Lightning.

00:37:59.980 Thunder and Lightning Brunt.

00:38:02.300 And then we got Thunder shortly after that and we liked it and we stole it.

00:38:07.200 Then when we had, had, like I birthed Strudwick, we didn't know what to name him.

00:38:14.000 But my husband had a family member named Strudwick.

00:38:18.640 And his name was Strud Nash.

00:38:22.640 They used to call him the Carolina Flash because he played football for Carolina.

00:38:25.960 I guess he was pretty good.

00:38:27.900 And it was such a good name.

00:38:30.060 It needed to be recycled.

00:38:31.380 We weren't going to use it on a kid.

00:38:33.200 So we used it on a dog.

00:38:35.520 And we call him Strud most of the time.

00:38:37.340 But sometimes I call him Strudwick too.

00:38:38.920 It's just a fun, I love those, like, fun, unique names.

00:38:44.280 Yeah, for my children too, they have unique names.

00:38:47.560 But Strudwick was a bridge too far, even for me on a child.

00:38:50.340 But it's fun to call my big boy.

00:38:52.780 He's a good boy now.

00:38:53.960 He is.

00:38:54.460 He still does a bunch of naughty stuff.

00:38:56.280 But I am in love with that dog.

00:38:59.000 He is so sweet.

00:39:01.120 He's just a big galoot.

00:39:03.240 And he's getting better. 0.91

00:39:04.700 He's still naughty.

00:39:06.360 But not as naughty.

00:39:07.460 So that's progress.

00:39:08.560 Maybe the same will happen for your Nala. 0.98

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00:40:21.820 Connections with lifelong friends?

00:40:24.480 Peaceful moments of reflection?

00:40:26.880 Feelings of joy and freedom you can't wait to experience again and again?

00:40:31.220 Or is it the vehicles that help you make all those special moments possible?

00:40:36.100 Whatever your answer is, Toyota is here to bring you closer to the things that matter to you.

00:40:41.600 Because they matter to us too.

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00:40:44.440 For what matters most.

00:40:46.500 Hey everyone, it's me, Megyn Kelly.

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00:41:22.580 Last but not least, a couple of fashion and beauty questions.

00:41:26.740 Um, Wendy, you are so stylish.

00:41:31.240 Can you please tell me where you buy your outfits from?

00:41:33.660 Wendy, I'm going to give it to you straight.

00:41:35.980 I have a stylist.

00:41:37.180 Her name is Molly, and she does most of the work for me.

00:41:40.040 I'm not very stylish, to be honest with you.

00:41:43.040 I just do what Molly tells me.

00:41:45.540 So I pay her, you know, a fee, and she does the shopping.

00:41:49.560 And I realize that's a luxury, but you can get this yourself.

00:41:52.340 We advertise a lot of these companies that will help you do it too.

00:41:54.920 And I do think it's worth your while, because when you're pulled together, fashion-wise, you feel better about yourself.

00:42:01.220 You project better.

00:42:02.100 You project more confident.

00:42:03.800 And you can do it for any budget.

00:42:07.340 On my budget, I will say one of my favorite designers is Victoria Beckham.

00:42:12.120 I love her clothing.

00:42:14.860 She makes stuff.

00:42:16.200 It's almost like it's just for me.

00:42:17.680 You know, it's very rare that I don't like a Victoria Beckham offering.

00:42:20.760 I just think her dresses are so beautiful.

00:42:22.800 Her style is impeccable.

00:42:24.040 And I admire her too.

00:42:26.600 But I don't always shop at that level.

00:42:28.660 I'll go down to the Aritzia and get a couple of cute tops for the air.

00:42:34.000 I'm constantly wearing aloe baggy pants.

00:42:37.020 I love those.

00:42:37.900 They feel so good.

00:42:39.420 I don't like...

00:42:40.500 Sometimes I still wear my Lululemon leggings, but I don't know.

00:42:45.020 I've been more into the aloe pants.

00:42:49.240 So that's the long and the short of it.

00:42:51.780 But Gail writes in, I listen to you daily.

00:42:54.000 You often mention that you use red light on your face.

00:42:56.380 Which red light mask do you use?

00:42:57.880 Oh, Gail, I do not use a red light mask.

00:43:00.080 It's a machine.

00:43:01.240 It's a machine that the facialist I go to recommended.

00:43:05.240 And it wasn't cheap.

00:43:06.240 But you can do it with just a red light mask.

00:43:09.180 So you don't have to go big.

00:43:11.120 So mine is just like a machine where like you bring the, I don't know, the face.

00:43:16.580 It's like a big rectangle in front of your face.

00:43:19.300 And you sit there and you just put on the setting for 10 minutes.

00:43:22.060 But you can do it with a mask.

00:43:23.880 And I think they all work well.

00:43:25.760 So check it out because it definitely has evened out my skin tone in a very nice way.

00:43:30.900 Okay, Sherry, S-H-E-R-R-Y.

00:43:35.460 I love your eye makeup.

00:43:37.020 What eyeshadows do you use?

00:43:39.080 Sherry, I'm going to tell you exactly what it is.

00:43:42.080 I'm going to give away one of my best beauty secrets because you asked.

00:43:47.200 About two years ago, I stumbled upon a certain palette.

00:43:52.520 And I fell in love with this eyeshadow palette.

00:43:57.340 And now I use it as my eyeshadow and as my eyeliner.

00:44:03.040 And I can't get enough of it.

00:44:05.100 I'm going to, I had Abby bring it over.

00:44:08.160 It is by Urban Decay.

00:44:11.820 And it is Naked 3.

00:44:13.960 Naked, I say.

00:44:15.640 Naked.

00:44:16.380 And I'll show you what I love about this.

00:44:18.220 Okay.

00:44:19.560 All right.

00:44:20.340 I'm opening it up for the listening audience.

00:44:22.020 You can see the mirror is kind of dirty with all the colors.

00:44:24.520 You can kind of see the ones that I use more often than the others.

00:44:27.920 But like over here, there we go.

00:44:30.260 Trying to do the reverse imaging.

00:44:31.580 Are like the lighter pinks.

00:44:33.000 And that's a very nice sort of base for your lid.

00:44:37.700 And then I love, let's see.

00:44:39.360 Hold on.

00:44:39.560 I want to get it right.

00:44:40.400 Like these, these over here.

00:44:42.740 These are like a little bit more brown.

00:44:44.680 I will either put those on the crease or sometimes I'll put them right on the lid too.

00:44:49.200 I'm like the lower lid, not, not the upper because they have a little sparkle.

00:44:53.800 And I'm telling you, I've loved the way my eyes have looked since I started using this.

00:44:57.760 And then this dark one over here on the end, I'll use that as an eyeliner.

00:45:02.800 Upper, not usually lower because it's a little harsh on the lower.

00:45:06.900 I mean, for air, I use harsher stuff.

00:45:09.740 If I were just going out, I would just use like this brown one here on the lower and upper. 1.00

00:45:15.380 But I love this palette.

00:45:17.160 You can get it at Sephora.

00:45:18.620 You can just Google it online.

00:45:20.520 The Naked 3 Urban Decay.

00:45:22.500 I am not being paid to say this.

00:45:25.380 If I ever do get paid for an endorsement, I will tell you.

00:45:28.460 If I'm not telling you that I'm getting paid, it means I'm not.

00:45:32.240 And then last but not least, Leslie writes in,

00:45:35.240 I heard you mention using a sunless tanner.

00:45:38.720 What product do you use to get such a natural look?

00:45:41.320 Okay.

00:45:42.180 Leslie, I've tried them all.

00:45:44.020 I mean, I am as pasty as they come.

00:45:47.700 So you have to have some options when you are me.

00:45:50.740 And I love the Luxe Tan.

00:45:54.540 It's the spray.

00:45:55.780 It's like a, hold on.

00:45:57.320 It's called Water.

00:45:59.280 I got it.

00:45:59.740 I'm going to look it up right now on my Amazon.

00:46:02.580 Because I think it's W-A-T-R. 1.00

00:46:05.620 Going to my buy again.

00:46:07.200 Hold on.

00:46:08.380 Stand by.

00:46:09.160 I'm going to tell you exactly what it is.

00:46:12.460 Come on.

00:46:14.240 What is it?

00:46:14.800 A-T. 1.00

00:46:16.920 Okay.

00:46:17.280 Self-tanner.

00:46:20.520 And I just want to make sure I get it exactly right for you.

00:46:23.020 Sarah, my hairstylist, who is on a mission to make us all hotter than we are,

00:46:28.080 turned me on to this.

00:46:28.880 Yes, it's called, no, it's called, it's the proper spelling of water.

00:46:32.180 The water.

00:46:33.080 The water, tan luxe, T-A-N-L-U-X-E, the water, it's called.

00:46:41.620 And it looks clear.

00:46:42.940 It's got just like a normal size bottle.

00:46:44.880 It's got a silver top.

00:46:47.800 And it is, you can get it in the 6.76 fluid ounces.

00:46:52.700 I get the light medium.

00:46:54.840 And you put that on.

00:46:56.020 By the way, you can get one that, it's pink and it operates in like 30 minutes or two hours,

00:47:00.920 something like that.

00:47:01.840 That does work.

00:47:03.060 That one smells bad.

00:47:04.220 So you're going to smell bad for like an hour or two.

00:47:06.780 And then you wash it off.

00:47:07.620 But if you're in a hurry, it's helpful to have.

00:47:09.840 But I love this tan luxe because that you can put on, I love the way that one smells.

00:47:14.180 Usually the self-tanner, by the time the day is done, you're like, I'm disgusting.

00:47:17.560 This one, you tell me.

00:47:19.460 Maybe it's just the way it interacts with my body chemistry.

00:47:22.100 But I enjoy the smell.

00:47:24.040 Like I look forward to it as it like sort of matures as the day goes on, which is so rare

00:47:28.880 and a self-tanner.

00:47:29.800 And it gives you such a nice, natural look.

00:47:32.880 In fact, it was a very funny story for you.

00:47:34.840 Over the tour, you know, on the road with Abby and Sarah, Sarah's like, she's so great.

00:47:41.520 She's truly, she's made us all feel better about ourselves.

00:47:44.400 And she's just got this natural ability to elevate your look. 0.99

00:47:47.600 And she's like, you know, you need a self-tan.

00:47:50.140 I'm like, oh, do I?

00:47:51.080 She's like, yeah, you do.

00:47:52.320 I'm like, I didn't bring it.

00:47:53.260 She's like, I'll meet you in your hotel room.

00:47:55.140 So she came over and I'm telling you, she was like one of these like Russian spa ladies 1.00

00:48:00.420 doing the rub down with the, with the, you know, the mitts on her hands.

00:48:07.040 It was, it was aggressive, but she got her done.

00:48:10.040 And a couple hours later, I look great.

00:48:12.440 Her, it worked like a charm. 0.63

00:48:14.040 You do have to have somebody do your back.

00:48:15.780 Don't do your back by yourself.

00:48:17.780 Sometimes I'll make Doug do it at home.

00:48:19.260 Then he has to wash his hands, but it's great.

00:48:21.700 I love that product.

00:48:22.760 And there is no self-tanning product I've used that I like as much as that one.

00:48:26.840 Okay.

00:48:27.100 So that, there was a lot.

00:48:29.680 Covered Islam, immigration, Kamala, and self-tan and an intimate moment between Sarah and yours

00:48:38.740 truly.

00:48:39.220 No, I'm happily married to Doug.

00:48:40.720 I have not gone lesbo, but I do think the world of Sarah and appreciate her tanning mitts, 0.79

00:48:47.140 which made me look better than I deserve to on the tour.

00:48:51.320 I love all of you too.

00:48:52.760 I love your questions.

00:48:53.980 I love your loyalty.

00:48:54.900 I love that you spend whatever amount of time you can give me on these days, whether

00:49:00.020 it's consuming the show on Insta, on YouTube, on Spotify, on Apple, whatever, however you

00:49:06.540 take it in, I'm grateful.

00:49:08.580 We couldn't do it without you.

00:49:10.340 And I know you're out there and I loved, loved, loved meeting so many of you on the tour.

00:49:15.780 So God bless you all.

00:49:17.280 I hope your holidays were truly magical.

00:49:19.460 And if they weren't, let's just work on making 2026 truly magical.

00:49:24.620 Pick your word, pick your one word for this year and like, let's, let's work for it.

00:49:29.340 You know, I'll, I'll tell you the one that I I'm using this year.

00:49:33.900 My word was wisdom this year is wisdom.

00:49:36.620 I'm really praying for it.

00:49:39.560 I just think like the conservative movement is fracturing and I really hope I get the wisdom

00:49:46.680 to know how to handle it.

00:49:47.700 Um, I don't always make the best decisions, but I always do the best I can.

00:49:51.680 And I just think some people are depending on me to make good decisions and I would like

00:49:56.160 to come through.

00:49:56.860 I would like to, I would like to have the wisdom to know exactly how to handle it and

00:50:02.460 to try to keep the coalition together as best I can.

00:50:04.680 That's my goal.

00:50:05.320 I'm inspired by Charlie Kirk, you know, who saw the party changing in certain ways and

00:50:10.880 would always try to make room, make room for the people who were changing within it so that

00:50:15.340 they understood it was a big tent and they didn't have to leave if they thought differently

00:50:20.640 on this issue or that.

00:50:22.460 That really has been one of my chief goals over the past six months and three months,

00:50:26.740 especially.

00:50:27.140 And it's tougher than it looks.

00:50:30.940 We could use Charlie's example, uh, of course on that and many things.

00:50:35.300 So hope you say a prayer for me in my quest as I will be praying for all of you.

00:50:41.400 Uh, and I do every Sunday.

00:50:42.920 Um, so God bless and I will see you back on the air.

00:50:46.220 Uh, as soon as break is over, if my math is correct on when we're airing this, I will

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00:50:52.880 Lots of love.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - January 02, 2026

Deportations, Dogs, and Designers - Megyn Kelly Answers Viewer and Listener Questions ｜ Ep. 1222

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