Free Speech Suppression, Woke Cultural Drift, and Becoming a Parent, with Dave Rubin | Ep. 298
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Summary
In this episode, Megynleaks back with her good friend Dave Rubin to help launch his new book, "Don't Burn This Country," which is out today. Megyn also talks about her recent LASIK procedure, and how she s feeling post-LASIK.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. I am so glad today to be back with you.
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I don't have my glasses on. I still have very, very, very bloodshot eyes from my LASIK, which was just a couple of days ago.
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So, um, my eyes feel kind of strange, but anyway, if they start to bother me with the lights and all that, I've got my glasses and they say in like two weeks, I'm going to be a hundred percent.
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Anyway, I'm also thrilled to welcome back my good friend, Dave Rubin, who I am going to help launch his book a little bit later this month.
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More on that later. Dave's a man of many talents. As you know, he has a hugely popular podcast and YouTube channel.
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He's an entrepreneur with his locals platform thriving. He's a husband. And as he announced last month, he's about to be a dad times two.
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He's also a bestselling author and his new book is called Don't Burn This Country follows up on Don't Burn This Book.
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Don't Burn This Country. The subheading is surviving and thriving in our woke dystopia. And it's out today.
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Dave, welcome back. Megan, it's good to see you. How are your eyes? I miss this news that you went under elective surgery to correct your vision.
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Are you, do you want to do this with, uh, you know, you could put on those crazy shades that the, uh, the elderly people with the glaucoma.
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I have been wearing these for the past few days right here, Dave Rubin. And actually they're pretty, they're pretty comfortable. I have to say like the, the bright lights are a little bit much post LASIK.
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I don't know if like you have increased light sensitivity for a couple of days, but, um, my eyes are kind of itchy with the makeup. I don't know. We'll see what I do, but yeah, I decided to take it off, take it all off for you, Dave Rubin. And here I am naked.
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Megan, you'll appreciate this guys. Could one of you grab my newsman glasses for me? One of the little gimmicks that we do on my show, because I bring the news to people, but I don't consider myself a journalist in any way. I just kind of tell people what I think about the world, but I'm always watching these cable news pro I don't have cable anymore, but I see these clips of these people, the cable news people. You used to be a cable news person.
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And remember when they're doing something serious, they always do this. They put on their fake glasses and then they read something, you know, Don Lemon, he's always reading something with fake glasses and then he takes it off to not.
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They're all trying to be Walter Cronkite Cronkite when it was real, you know, 40 years ago. So I have, these are unrelated to vision. They're completely fake, but I have them just in case we, here's what we used to do in the law.
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So I used to wear, you know, first I wore glasses, then I wore contacts and I got Lisa. So picture these is not sunglasses, but it's like regular glasses. So you're talking to the jury, you're like members of the jury. I am telling you the defendant did not commit this crime. Members of the jury, what I have to say to you is so important. He did not commit this crime. You take off the glasses for effect.
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And then, then I switched over to contacts. And what I realized is it's so much less effective to go over to the try or effect and be like, if you could just stand by one second, I've got a really important point to make as you try to pull out your daily disposable.
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There's something very powerful about, if people fit, my God, he can't see, he must read a lot. Thus, he's smart. I have these glasses. Anyway, Megan, it's always great to see you. I'm very happy to be spending book launch day with you.
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I'm so psyched for you. Congrats on the launch. And look at me like, I'm just looking at the back of the book and the people listen to the people who have blurbed this book. Jordan Peterson. Hello, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder. I know all those three are mentors to you. Yours truly a friend. Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I mean, this is like a who's who cast of people I admire, too. So I love this. And a lot of these people are helping you launch the book and interviewing you in various cities.
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And we'll be going up to not far from where my my nan used to live in West Nyack, New York. She lived in Tappan Z, Tappan, until she died at 101. So I love that area of the country. And I love the people's accents. They remind me of Nana. And we'll have a ton of fun.
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But there's much to go over. And the book is very, very timely. One thing I wanted to ask you about before we kick it off is in the acknowledgments, you thanked your publishing company and suggest suggested like the not that it was a hard sell, but that it was a risk, you know, to publish this.
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Is that just because it's because it's anti-woke or was there like a specific push on this? Because obviously you'd have to backdate the pitch by at least a year.
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Yeah, there were a couple of things going on. You know, my first book, Don't Burn This Book, came out in April of 2020. So it was literally two years ago this week.
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And obviously that was right at the beginning of COVID, lockdowns, et cetera, et cetera. We had canceled. I had a worldwide tour. I was going to go all over Europe and Canada, Australia and a whole bunch of stuff.
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We canceled all that. You know, the book, I couldn't do any signings. I couldn't do any events here. You know, the book was supposed to be at Costco and Barnes and Nobles and everywhere else.
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Everything was closed. The airports were closed. And then the book still managed to do pretty well, which I'm very proud of because it was a really, really weird time.
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So when I wrote that in the acknowledgments, it was sort of twofold. It was one. Well, you know, this is the woke thing first. Let's do that one first.
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That to write anything that's non-woke these days, there's a risk because we know what happens at the publishing houses that often the inmates are running the asylum and these junior editors or relatively low level employees, they seem to get veto power over what books can be published and what ideas could be talked about.
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Now, since I'm writing a very anti-woke book, to say the least, I knew there was a risk there.
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But I also knew there was a risk in that when I signed on for this book, which was basically right after the first book, because it did do well, we didn't know what the world was going to look like.
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Like, who knew what the political situation was going to look like? Who knew what sales were going to look like?
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Who knew if we were ever going to get out of the pandemic or a whole bunch of other stuff?
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So I'm very appreciative of Penguin for sticking with me throughout this and because it was a risk.
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It was a risk in that, hey, all right, the first book did OK, but it was a weird time.
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But who knows? Because as you just said, the publishing process is really slow.
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You write a book, it doesn't hit the shelves till about a year later.
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Who knows what the world's going to be like? So, yeah, I'm glad it's out.
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Look, just publishing a white male author in today's day and age takes guts.
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Just having a white male author on the roster of those one publishers, good for them. It takes courage.
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Megan, I did not know you were a biologist, but it is true I am a male.
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You know what? I'm actually, I know of what I speak because, well, not just the male thing,
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but literally today in the headlines, Durham University, as part of its decolonization efforts,
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they are calling on math professors to ask themselves, math, I say, if they are citing work
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from mostly white or male mathematicians. And if so, to rethink that, because math now can only be
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taught if it somehow originated. You got to go back and figure out, like, what color was Pythagoras?
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I mean, I don't know. I think he was Greek. I know at least that much. Okay. He was definitely
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Greek. Well, look, all of this, it's so profoundly stupid. And it's actually exactly why I wrote this
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book, because we must stop playing with these bad ideas. Look, you have to give the devil his due.
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These people, the woke people that inject all of these ridiculous ideas that we should care about,
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the skin color of mathematicians, or whether they think two plus two is five or seven, or that non-racism
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is racism and boys are girls, all the stuff that you always talk about so well on your show.
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You have to give them their credit. They have not stopped. They have marched through our institutions.
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They have destroyed our ways of communication. They own big tech. Like, they have done incredible,
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incredible damage. And we have to sit there and really acknowledge that. It doesn't mean you have
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to like what they've done, but you have to acknowledge that they've done it. But if you,
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at the end of the day, want to be in math, or you want to be an engineer, or someone involving one of
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the STEM subjects, you know, a lot of people say, six years ago, when a lot of us were talking about
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this for the first time, I saw a lot of my friends, bright people, say, oh, you know, this is just going
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to rampage through the humanities and the liberal arts and that sort of thing. But it'll never infect
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science. It won't infect math. And I think we've seen even those departments completely collapse
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under this. And I think, in essence, we need to build new systems of literally everything,
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literally everything, whether it's new entertainment avenues, get away from Disney and find new places
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of entertainment, to new educational institutions. I mean, why would you send your kid to a college
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to learn math where the professor would be talking about race? If you do that, you are a crazy person.
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Yeah, exactly. And where, you know, I mean, especially you're about to have two children,
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we'll get to that in a little bit. But I presume they're going to be white children. And I have
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three white children. And I don't want my two white sons walking into a classroom where it's a problem
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if they're learning from books that were authored by white men. I mean, if they're being taught,
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essentially, that that's a problem. Because here's the problem at Durham University and other places.
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It's not just that there are white men on the syllabus, right? It's like it's that it's not
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that they dominate the syllabus. It's that they're on there at all. More and more, they want the
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complete elimination of white men because just the existence of the white male author or the white male
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teacher or the white male historian on any of these texts or or syllabi. That's a problem. That's like
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they deem it like some sort of an overcorrection. It's racist. It's sexist. And it's what is it
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teaching the white men sitting in that class? Well, it's teaching them exactly what they want
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to teach them, which is actually they should feel guilty for things that had absolutely nothing to do
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with them. And, you know, even if you were four generations or six generations off the descendants
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of slave owners, you still are not guilty for their sins. You're guilty for your own actions.
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That's it. You are not guilty for your parents' sins or anyone else's. The idea that the non-racists
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are constantly the ones talking about racism, there there really is no one. I mean, people say
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this to me all the time. Dave, you seem more conservative now or you hang out with these
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scary Republicans or something like that. And it's like, aren't they racist? People always still ask
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me this, but aren't they racist? Don't they hate gays? Something like that. And the answer is no,
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I cannot find the ones that do. That is not to say there are not some racists. That is not to say
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there are not some homophobes. But please show me someone broadly on the right that is really trying
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to inject racist ideas into curriculum. Actually, it's now the people on the right that are trying
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to remove those ideas. And by the way, Megan, you are a living, breathing example of how you fight
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this thing because you guys had that woke nonsense at your kid's school in New York City. You voiced your
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opinion about it. And then at some point you said enough is enough. And you took your kids out of
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that school. And I know it was not easy for you to uproot your family. And it's not easy for anyone
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to do that, whether you have means or don't. But that's the only way we will beat this thing. We
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have to start removing ourselves from the systems because they're not stopping. They've given I mean,
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do you have any evidence anywhere across the board that they're stopping on any of this stuff?
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No, the only thing we've won on is defund the police. That's it. You know that once the because
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I was talking to my executive producer about this and my and like we were all having discussion about
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does it ever reverse? Does it ever go like left, left, left, woke, woke, woke, and then reverse?
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And we were kind of struggling to find an incident where it has outside of defund the police where
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people are dying. I mean, that one kind of it's like in the black community in particular stood up and
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said, our people are dying in our communities. Don't in the words of Jason Riley, please stop
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helping us. Right. Like, give us back our cops so we can live safely and we can send our kids to
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school and sit them in the back of cars on the way to McDonald's without having to worry about them
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getting shot in the head. So these politicians always motivated by their own backsides and saving
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them saw the light on that. But I don't know. I don't see us, you know, coming back from the brink on
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the crazy transgender stuff and like like all the weird sexuality that everybody's now touting as
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a thing. You know, we were talking about this, the pansexual. Oh, that means you have sex with
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like anybody. Well, that means you're by you already have a letter. And I don't know.
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I don't know. We're not coming back on the policing part. You know, even though you're right that some
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of these places, Minnesota, New York City, some of these places that really went bananas with this
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stuff and then saw their cities burn as a result. And we cover the crime numbers on my show all the
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time. Murder, every level of crime, petty larceny all the way up. Everything is up in all of these
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cities, even the ones that have slightly reversed course on that, like New York City reverse course
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a little bit. Crime is still way higher than it used to be. And there still will be cascading
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problems with that, because when you demonize the police for years and years, the way that Bill
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de Blasio did in New York City, a place that you and I both lived and loved for much of our life.
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We actually lived a couple of blocks away from each other in the best part of New York City,
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in my humble opinion, the Upper West Side. When you do that for so long, what happens is it's not
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just that you can reverse it overnight, but now all the new recruits you're getting in,
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you're going to get a lesser quality of a recruit because they are going to feel they are going to
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be treated worse by the administration. So I have a bunch of friends that are in the NYPD. I have a
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bunch of good contacts over there. Even now, although it's slightly better with Eric Adams,
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although I think he has been a major disappointment and he's still got kids in masks
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and he's doing all sorts of ridiculous stuff, there's a feeling that it still will get worse
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because it's not just, oh, we change policy and it's like you pull a lever and then magically
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everything gets better. So I think the cities, the Democrat-run cities, even if they can slightly
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reverse some of this, and by the way, I think you're also right, that the gender stuff is so
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it now ingrained and cult-like. I don't see how they can possibly reverse on that,
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that the degradation of the system will still continue even if you can slightly take your foot
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By the way, since we're talking about New York City crime, horrific crime took place here this
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morning. They're still investigating a subway attack. Subway attacks have been a trend, sadly,
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nothing like this, but there's a manhunt underway in New York right now. Between 13 and 16 so far
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reported hurt, including five to seven shot in an attack around 8.30 this morning on the
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Manhattan-bound N train coming in from Brooklyn. They believe that the suspects set off a smoke
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bomb or bombs, then started shooting inside the subway. The reports say that the gunman was wearing
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construction garb similar to an MTA worker. This is soundbite, watch this, of people running out of
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the car. Can we listen to it as well? What you can see for the folks at home is people running,
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running out of a subway train with smoke billowing around them. Listen.
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People limping. Now you can start to see some of the shooting victims come off.
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Lots of postings on Twitter this morning with blood everywhere. We don't know the number of
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dead, if any. And what we do know is that the suspect remains at large. And they haven't been
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able to catch this guy. Dave, we're looking at already 30 percent spikes in homicide nationwide
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right now. Nationwide, 30 percent. Overall crime in New York has gone up almost 60 percent, 59 percent.
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This is as of 2021. It's gone up even more this year.
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Yeah. OK. And then March 2022, felony assault up 22 percent. Robbery up 56 percent. Grand larceny up
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79 percent. Auto theft more than double transit crime. That's this would qualify up 73 percent.
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And on and on it goes. People are afraid already of the subway. And now we get this. And there's
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just a general feeling of lawlessness in the air. Megan, do you think it's possible if you tell an
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entire generation of people that the system is racist, that the entire way of life that they've
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come to know is fixed against them, that nothing is just in this world, that the police are against
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them, that the education that they've received is not true education, all of these things. Do you
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think eventually? Oh, and then you lock them in their houses, say, for two years. You don't let them
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go to jobs. You keep them on computers, on social media where algorithms are doing unimaginable
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things to them that we actually I mean, literally unimaginable. We just don't know what the
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algorithms are actually doing to us if you only communicate that way. Do you think if you take
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all of that toxic stew pandemic and all of that, that people might start behaving in bad ways on top
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of the fact that we know we have an overly medicated society already, the amount of people that are on
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prescription pills. And if you turn on any cable news channel, virtually all of the commercials are
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about depression. There's always a guy walking down the street with a cloud of depression following
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him. And then they tell you all the side effects and the side effects are actually far worse than I
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can imagine the depression to be because it's like a list of 87 other things. We've we've sort of all
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led ourselves here. And that's when I sort of referenced this earlier, this idea that we're we're in this
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sort of slow descent to hell. Every day we wake up, there's more bad news. You know, I saw this clip
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actually just a few minutes before we started the clip that you just showed there of the subway.
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And again, this is a city that that both of us used to live in that I love New York City or I
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loved New York City. I can't say I love it anymore. Most of my family at one time in my family's history
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in the early 1930s to the 50s, we had probably had 100 family members living in New York City. I think I
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have one distant cousin that still lives there. Everyone has fled. My sister and her husband and three kids
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were the last ones to flee during covid. There's a reason people do this. If you depress people,
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if you tell them that the law is not the law, that you're allowed to jump turnstiles, we're not going
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to arrest people for petty larceny, et cetera, et cetera. Well, it never stops there. It keeps moving
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and keeps moving. And you may remember when Rudy Giuliani took over in the early 90s. What was the first
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thing that he did? He started going after the petty crimes, right? When you would get in. I lived in Long
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Island. So we would take the Midtown Tunnel in when we would go visit my grandparents who lived in
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Manhattan. And right when you'd get outside the Midtown Tunnel, there were all these homeless guys
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and they'd have newspapers with wet soap or water, whatever it was. And they try to wash your windows.
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One of the first things that he did was get rid of those guys. And he did that because it was a sign
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to the city. It was a sign to the city. Hey, we are going to clean this place up. And then look what he
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did to Times Square. Now Times Square is sort of had a bit of a reversal. So everything that's going on has
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led us to a moment like this, where then you see what just happened on the subway. And obviously we
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need more info. But when I saw it, I was just like, this doesn't surprise me. And that's a very
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depressing state to be in, actually. I just look at my note from my team. Just recently, a child was
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punched in the head in Times Square. A child punched in the head in Times Square. We saw a man get shot in
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Times Square, just a tourist, within the past six or seven months. A woman in Queens was assaulted with a
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hammer, like personal. We saw a man get chopped up with a with an axe, like a hatchet inside of
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ATM vestibule. Right. Like these up close and personal, awful crimes, often with homeless people,
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often not. Right. I don't know anything about today's suspect or his, you know, the details about
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him. ABC News is reporting that it was a black man. I haven't seen anybody suggest that this is a
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homeless person. He was dressed again like an MTA worker. So query whether some homeless guy is going
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to have smoke bombs and a gun and shoot that many people and have that much methodical organization
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in terms of his skills. We'll find out more. And I'm sure they'll catch this guy. But it is
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disturbing. And I'll tell you, when we did decide to leave New York City, you know, the crazy woke
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school things was the reason. But as we were weighing the options, they defunded the police by a billion
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dollars. And Doug and I said, we're out. That's it. We're out. And as you know, the Upper West Side
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is known for being a beautiful residential neighborhood under Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor
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Giuliani. It really transformed into a place that it was all families. I mean, you could push your
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stroller on the sidewalk, has nice, big, fat sidewalks, which are great. And you'd see just other
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families everywhere, you know, all all backgrounds, all sorts of diversity and so on, but almost no
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crime. You just didn't see crime anywhere. And now it's a very different, sad picture, just a
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microcosm of what's happening elsewhere in the city and elsewhere in the in the country. You know,
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it's one of the points you're making. And BLM, you know, for all of its it's notable, its laudable
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name, something you talk about in the book, its actual purpose in case after case has wound up being
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nefarious. I mean, just today in the news, we talked about this last week, about the six million
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dollar house they purchased. And in the place you move next, right out in Los Angeles or California,
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when you got smart, you got out of there. Yeah. So you bought their six point three million dollar
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house, Patrice colors, who is one of the three founders. And she'd already spent three point one
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million dollars in three homes for herself. So this woman's rolling in cash. How is that?
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Maybe somebody would like to know. Maybe maybe it's your donation. Maybe your donation didn't
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help inner city black people who are concerned about the police. Maybe it just helped Patrice,
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who not only helped buy the six point three million dollar house out there, but Patrice,
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I guess, has a lot of people in her life because I read she's got a baby and she's got a she's got
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there's a father to that baby. But she's also got a wife who lives in Toronto to whom she funneled
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another six million dollars for that person's nonprofit, for the wife's quote, nonprofit.
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And that quote, wife bought a ten thousand square foot home in Toronto dedicated as a quote,
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trans feminist queer affirming space. Politically aligned with suppressing black. No, with supporting
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black liberation. OK, so anyway, finally, Black Lives Matter weighs in on this big scandal that New
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York magazine broke about the house six point three million than this other six million house in
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Toronto. And this is what they say. I I love I love whoever writes these press releases is a
00:22:55.920
radically amusing person. These articles are inflammatory. Well, yes, that doesn't mean they're
00:23:01.700
untrue and they're speculative. Well, right. Exactly. Like you wouldn't give him the straight
00:23:07.240
reason why you bought that house. First, you try to say it was a safe house. Then you realize you'd shown
00:23:11.740
it off on all your YouTube videos. So that wouldn't fly. And you decided it was more of a creative
00:23:15.560
space. And now you're calling it a creator's house acquired, quote, to provide a space for black
00:23:22.580
folks to share their gifts with the world, Dave, and to hone their craft as they see fit under
00:23:27.680
conditions that work best for them. Word salad, word salad, hone crafts under conditions that work
00:23:32.300
best for them and outside systems of oppression in creative industries. So basically what they're
00:23:36.960
saying is you can go there and do your arts and crafts if there's some place you don't feel safe to do
00:23:42.180
your arts and crafts as a black person in 2022 America. And for that, they wasted six point three
00:23:47.760
million bucks of donors dough. I want some kind of nonprofit to buy me a six million dollar house
00:23:54.680
so I can do arts and crafts. You know, I'm pretty good. I just was at my niece's six year old birthday
00:23:59.940
party and they're all making the slime now. You know about the slime. They make it with shaving cream
00:24:04.400
and you can make it all different colors. It's pretty awesome. And I would love a six million
00:24:08.520
dollar house, maybe on the water, something really nice on the water. Well, we could call it
00:24:12.900
we could call it a trans feminist queer affirming space. You know, it's funny when you said that it
00:24:19.080
reminded me of did you ever see Lethal Weapon 2? Remember Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson and Danny
00:24:23.640
Glover and Danny Glover in the second one, the whole running joke throughout the movie is he's kind
00:24:28.860
of too old to be a cop at this point. And he repeatedly keeps saying, I'm getting too old for this
00:24:33.960
at S8. You got the rest of the word. And that's what I'm starting to feel. When you said that, I was
00:24:39.360
like, my gut feeling was I'm getting too old for this. Like we've been through this nonsense. These people
00:24:45.460
are never going to stop. They're going to keep adding words. They're going to keep adding pronouns.
00:24:50.100
And that's what I mean about sort of disconnecting, making choices in your own life to say, hey, I can't
00:24:56.080
live in a city where my kids are going to be indoctrinated, where I won't feel safe outside and doing the
00:25:01.600
things because they're not going to stop the powers that be the Disney corporation, all of the things
00:25:08.580
that we see every day are feeding them, are giving them money, giving them power, giving them influence.
00:25:14.700
I don't know that we can stop that. Although you could, you know, cancel your Disney plus subscription
00:25:19.500
as I did, but you can at least start building some new things for yourself because no one, no one will
00:25:25.480
pay for this. Right. So $6 million, of course it was her house or her wife's house or her husband's
00:25:31.240
house or he, she's house, whatever. But now it's a creative space, you know, because you can't get
00:25:36.140
a creative space for say 250 grand. You need a $6 million. That's right. You know, I, I kind of
00:25:43.220
like the story. I have to say, I'll be honest, because it's like all these people who are taken
00:25:46.500
in, there are some meaningful, well-intended people who donate and I'm sure to Black Lives Matter,
00:25:51.260
but to those who are just virtue signaling, right. You just want to make themselves look good.
00:25:55.280
I thought they were paying insurance. It's like, ah, you have no insurance against anything.
00:26:00.060
This group's endorsement of you, whoever you are as a non-racist is totally meaningless.
00:26:05.380
And now you see that all you're doing is funding Patrice colors, arts and crafts projects. That's
00:26:10.600
it. Okay. Enjoy that. And this is the same way I feel about all these people who are like,
00:26:14.600
it's fine for Leah Thomas to swim against the biological women, you know, be more queer affirming,
00:26:20.680
right. Stop with your objections. I'm like, great, let's do this thing. Let's get a white
00:26:27.900
male tennis player who couldn't make it on the pro circuit, who then says he's trans and enters
00:26:36.480
professional women's tennis. And let's put him up against Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams and say,
00:26:44.240
he's a woman and crush them and put these people, these sort of queer affirming, shaming everybody
00:26:51.200
else. People in the toughest position of their lives. We know he's secretly a white man and yet
00:26:58.460
he's beating all of our best women of color. What the hell should we do?
00:27:03.920
Megan, I like where your head's at. Cause I actually think you're right. I know you're being
00:27:07.960
slightly tongue in cheek, but in a way it's like, we should just accelerate their nonsense because
00:27:12.300
that's where it all ends. Right. That is where it ends. I kid you not. I am 45 years old. I have a
00:27:18.340
torn ACL in my left knee. I'm pretty sure that if I said I was a woman, I could make the WNBA.
00:27:24.740
They're not that great. That's just how it is. I still got some skills left. Okay. And it's like,
00:27:30.200
at some point there is going to be a washed up NBA player who's 39 years old with banged up knees,
00:27:37.360
who had a bad back, who can't get a contract anymore. And he's going to say, my name is not
00:27:43.100
Charles anymore. It's Shaniqua or whatever. And he's going to be in the WNBA. And all of the
00:27:48.940
feminists are going to have to go, Oh my God, look at that beautiful woman dunking over all the other
00:27:55.000
chicks. So yeah, let's just accelerate the nonsense. If this is the world you want to live in,
00:28:00.660
congratulations. It'd be so fun to see like truly what does, what does professional tennis do?
00:28:05.080
If these women who they've lauded, who they've made professional stars out of like worldwide
00:28:10.820
superstars stars out of, um, and in part based on their backstory, based on their race, based on
00:28:16.180
whatever, um, certainly gender, if they start losing to somebody who's biologically male,
00:28:22.100
who just declares I'm no longer I'm trans, I'm bringing my penis and my white skin over into women's
00:28:30.840
tennis. I, I hope it happens. I really hope it happens. I hope somebody decides to do it
00:28:36.620
and then we'll see. Then that, then the rubber meets the road. All right, Dave, I'm bringing my
00:28:42.280
penis. That's they're not even going to use a racket. I'm bringing my penis and this is how we're
00:28:46.380
going to do it. I'm going to think about that during the commercial break. I might have to work
00:28:55.000
on the slogan a little. Okay. I confess. I stand by, we're going to do a commercial. We're going to do
00:28:59.600
more with Dave coming up. Dave Rubin is here today. His new book, don't burn this country
00:29:10.620
surviving and thriving in our woke dystopia is out today. It's a great read. It's a fast read.
00:29:17.680
Dave makes very salient points. He gets in and out. He doesn't bore you on a subject and he doesn't
00:29:22.220
use word salad. Uh, so you'll appreciate this and you'll laugh too. In fact, here's I, here's one part
00:29:28.520
I highlighted that I laughed out loud on. Uh, we don't want to be numbed and silenced and kept in
00:29:33.020
the dark. This is speaking to the fact that so many people in America, the majority, two thirds,
00:29:37.920
uh, are afraid to say the things they believe because they're, they fear that others might
00:29:41.620
find them offensive. I mean, two thirds of the country is censoring itself because they're worried
00:29:46.040
about offense. Just, just offend, just defend, just do it. It's fine. People survive. Anyway,
00:29:50.380
you go on to say, we don't want to be controlled by a small fraction of hysterical people
00:29:54.760
amplified by algorithms and media. We don't want to live like hamsters in a cage being fed
00:29:59.180
once a week and occasionally being put in a plastic ball that will undoubtedly fall down
00:30:03.020
the stairs. Sorry, Chippy. Wait, what? What happened to Chippy?
00:30:08.980
It's, uh, it's a sad story. Chippy. Chippy was my, my gerbil in first grade and Chippy went the same
00:30:18.020
way. Many gerbils go many gerbils, your hamsters, your other small rodents that are, you know, the
00:30:23.620
children's, uh, first pet. Chippy was in the ball. We thought everything was going to be fine. And,
00:30:28.600
uh, Chippy got a little close to the stairs and, uh, yada, yada, yada. Chippy was in a shoe box later
00:30:35.820
in the day in the backyard, but he lived a good life. He had a, he had a good run. That was 1981.
00:30:41.240
I believe he had a good run. By the way, Megan, can I just say, not only were you lovely enough to,
00:30:48.340
uh, give me a nice blurb on the back of the book and you're going to join me in West Nyack,
00:30:51.840
which I'm super psyched for. Uh, but you even worded, you even got tequila in the blurb.
00:30:56.940
You even wrote about drinking some tequila with me. And I thought that is as good as it gets. If
00:31:01.380
you would've told me 10 years ago when I was nobody, I was nothing that one day Megan Kelly
00:31:06.600
would be blurb in my book and talking about drinking tequila with me. Like how much better
00:31:11.080
does it get than that? Come on. See how I love, I see. I, I, I understand. I love, and we did have
00:31:16.060
good times drinking tequila. You, David, to whom the book is dedicated. The other David, you say,
00:31:19.920
not yourself. That's your, your husband. He's your Dave. He's David. Um, and I, you told me
00:31:25.880
a very sweet story about you guys in the 2016 election. It was, what was that? It was the
00:31:30.500
2016 election. And you were both asked that. I'm trying to remember the exact question. I'll let
00:31:36.460
you take it. Oh, well, are you talking about the Trump question you're asking? I don't know.
00:31:41.100
It's about like, no, wasn't it like, who would you, who would you sleep with if you went on the
00:31:44.680
crossover tour? Oh, no, that was at our wedding. No, no, no, at our wedding. Wow. We're really
00:31:50.220
going to do this one publicly, huh? So at our wedding, um, which we got married in August of
00:31:55.360
2015, our moms, uh, we had a very small wedding, just our immediate families. And we each had one
00:32:00.760
friend and we did a week in Sonoma. It was really fantastic at a house because our, our families
00:32:04.880
had been living all over the world and we wanted everybody to really make sure they could get to
00:32:08.800
know each other for a week. And then we got married on the last day and there was a lot of wine and
00:32:12.360
really great. So on, on the last day, uh, before the wedding, our moms did a little newlywed game
00:32:18.500
where they took each of us separately and asked us a whole bunch of different questions. And we
00:32:24.580
didn't know what the, they asked us the same questions, but we didn't know what the questions
00:32:28.020
were obviously. And I didn't know that he was being asked questions or anything like that.
00:32:30.960
The question that we both got asked was if you could sleep with one other person, a celebrity,
00:32:37.240
who would it be now in that we're both marrying dudes? Uh, you might've thought we would have
00:32:43.200
both answered men. Uh, but no, we both by total coincidence. And this was announced at the dinner
00:32:50.200
after we got married and they were going through the game. We both said, Megan Kelly.
00:32:54.600
It was meant to be, it was meant to be, it's an intellectual love affair. That's what it is.
00:33:00.720
It's intellectual. You know, this is, this could get very awkward at our next dinner, but, uh,
00:33:06.300
you know, you know what? Well, here in Connecticut, we did actually find out that there's a healthy
00:33:11.260
swinging population. No one's offered to me and to Doug to swing yet, nor will that go well if they
00:33:17.760
do. But apparently this is a growing thing, Dave, where like there's swingers everywhere. And I said to
00:33:24.360
Doug, I, my own belief is only unattractive people are swingers. Like if you're, if you're very good
00:33:29.720
looking and you marry another very good looking person, I like, why would you want to swing?
00:33:33.240
Is he like, I already got the steak. I'm not going to go swing with the burger.
00:33:37.160
You got to watch out up there because the Clintons live somewhere near there. Right. So,
00:33:41.240
you know, Bill is definitely maxing out those things right now. Nobody wants a part of that.
00:33:45.840
I mean, he is not looking very good these days. If Bill and Hillary ask us to swing,
00:33:49.620
we're doing it. We're not going to, we're not going to see it through to the end, but we're
00:33:52.580
definitely going to see how far they're going to take it. Like at what point is this going to get
00:33:56.380
shut down? Come on. Wouldn't you like to see, like, does Hillary have a sexual side? There's
00:34:01.780
no way Hillary is a sexual being in any way. Is there? No. There's like eight things that I could
00:34:08.000
say right now that would probably get us all banned from Sirius and YouTube and everything else. So
00:34:14.800
suffice to say, I don't want to do it with Hillary Clinton. Wait, here's another question for you. My
00:34:20.140
friends and I were discussing this today. Very important text chain. You know, when you see the
00:34:24.840
couples where the one half wears the mask and the other half doesn't, and they're both young and
00:34:29.820
they're, they seem perfectly healthy. It's not like somebody's elderly. Do you think, so the one
00:34:34.680
friend was asking, do you think that the woman, if it's the woman, does she wear the mask during
00:34:39.160
intimate relations? Does she, does she ever take the mask off? She's only with him. Like they're in
00:34:43.380
the car. Does she wear it when they're intimate? And the other, my other friend was like, they're not
00:34:47.960
intimate. Those, those couples are not having sex. And I was like, that's the correct answer. How, why would
00:34:52.280
you share bodily fluids with somebody whose breath you won't intake? Right. At this point,
00:34:57.220
two years later, if you're still wearing a mask, and of course there are not talking about elderly
00:35:01.560
people or immunocompromised people. Okay. But if you're just relatively young, healthy couple,
00:35:05.560
and one of you or both of you is still wearing a mask, that is the signal. You should just wear a hat
00:35:11.200
that says, I have not been laid since the pandemic started that it should just be on you or a,
00:35:17.760
you know, scarlet letter, something like that. Cause come on already with this.
00:35:22.700
My God, I'm thinking about Dr. Fauci and Rochelle Walensky now in a whole new light. No wonder
00:35:28.380
Well, no, they're not wearing masks. They just want us to be masked, but you know,
00:35:33.080
that they're the highest level hypocrites that you can possibly imagine. You know, Fauci telling,
00:35:38.640
I still can't get over the one where at the height of COVID, you know, you probably saw the email
00:35:42.840
where he told a friend of his emailed him and said, we're all going on vacation with the kids. I think
00:35:47.120
they were going to Mexico. Should we wear masks? And he basically says no. And he also says the
00:35:51.420
kids will probably touch their face more. And then meanwhile, about two weeks later,
00:35:54.860
he's telling us all to double mask. I mean, the guy, of course. But did you see the latest news
00:35:59.840
now? Now they're remasking in Philly. Indoor mask mandates are back because of this rise in this
00:36:04.860
latest variant, which of course is no, no more deadly, no more deadly than even Omicron was,
00:36:10.340
but okay. And we had just have to look at case numbers again. I thought we weren't doing that
00:36:13.540
Philly indoor mask mandate and now transportation. I can't stand Pete Buttigieg having control over
00:36:19.180
my face when I'm on an airplane, a bus, a train. I resent it. I'd rather he just spent more time
00:36:25.240
with his babies. Like, go focus on them. Your instincts were exactly right. Don't focus on us
00:36:30.300
because you're making all the wrong decisions. And now they're saying that they may, they may extend
00:36:35.060
the mask mandate that was supposed to come off next week beyond that. Because again, the variant,
00:36:41.440
but, but you've got 10 airlines saying this is absurd. All the people who get on our airplanes
00:36:46.920
can congregate in churches, in malls, at baseball games, in indoor arenas on top of one another.
00:36:54.940
But they, when in an airplane with controlled airflow, have to wear a mask. What sense does this make?
00:37:01.940
Megan, the truth is, and we all know this now, none of this has made any sense from the beginning,
00:37:05.980
but they will not stop until we just refuse to participate. So I live in free Florida now.
00:37:12.780
And guess what? While 99% of the people that I see, whether I'm at Whole Foods or at Target
00:37:17.380
or at the park or anywhere else are not wearing masks, sometimes you see people wear masks,
00:37:22.280
even riding a bike. And you know what? So be it. If that's how you choose to live and you have your
00:37:26.600
reasons, that's just fine. That's the way a mature society would operate. If you would like to wear a
00:37:31.520
mask on a plane for whatever reason you so choose, then do it. But the endless hypocrisy,
00:37:37.500
I mean, if you're a parent right now in Philadelphia and they're going to put masks on your kids again,
00:37:42.700
which they're still doing to toddlers, I think in New York city right now, there's literally no
00:37:46.740
science to back that. They are not going to stop until you say to them, either I'm leaving and all of
00:37:53.580
the productive, functional people will leave these cities and then they will be left to become the
00:37:57.980
dystopian nightmares that in many cases they are. You either have to leave or you have to bring in
00:38:02.600
new people. But the way the machine or whatever you want to call it operates, it just pushes us
00:38:09.320
and pushes us. And if you look, if you just step away for a moment and you think about what happened
00:38:14.180
these last two years, if you think about it as just a test, it was just a test. What will Americans do
00:38:20.020
when everything that they've come to know and love is challenged? Well, pretty much everybody fails,
00:38:25.580
everybody. And we could all look in the mirror to say we all did to some degree. I think I'm proud
00:38:30.900
to say that pretty quickly after the two weeks, I pretty much woke up, I would say by week three or
00:38:36.380
by week four. And I would give everybody a very long leash at the beginning of this. But at this
00:38:41.600
point, how come we never saw any videos of any hospitals anywhere that were really overrun of
00:38:48.260
homeless encampments that were run of places where they don't have proper water sanitation and
00:38:53.040
everything else in Africa, perhaps that there was mass death. We didn't see it anywhere throughout
00:38:58.080
the world. That is not to say COVID didn't exist. I got COVID in December. I had Omicron. I'm not
00:39:03.440
vaccinated. I had leg pains for three days. David got it at the same time. He's also not vaccinated.
00:39:08.980
He actually was sick for a couple of weeks, but we made the choices for ourselves. By the way,
00:39:13.020
we also got it. We had just moved to Florida where we were able to get monoclonal treatment and
00:39:18.720
ivermectin immediately, where in California, you could not get it. And the federal government,
00:39:23.820
in fact, stopped Florida from allowing the monoclonal treatment, although now they're
00:39:28.100
saying that they're going to stock up on it again. So everything from top down here has been done
00:39:33.040
backwards. The only resolution to any of this is that if they're going to start bringing this stuff
00:39:38.980
back, you must fight it or you must leave or live like a slave, live like someone that is just fed
00:39:44.920
crumbs now and again, like a fish in a bowl or a hamster in a, in a little ball and just know that
00:39:50.040
somebody, somebody above you is controlling you and accept it and move on. And it's, it's everywhere.
00:39:55.200
You know, these officials who shouldn't be controlling us in our cities, uh, school officials
00:40:00.440
who are imposing. I mean, I was saying yesterday, my, my sixth grader is home all week because he was
00:40:05.560
exposed to a COVID positive kid on Saturday night for a short time. And now it's not, I mean, it's in part
00:40:11.420
the school's fault, but it's really the CDC that's still recommending kids like my kid who doesn't
00:40:15.920
have COVID. He's a hundred percent fine. He's tested negative repeatedly and he doesn't have
00:40:19.540
symptoms. He has to sit at home for five days. Why? Why? Because he had a brief exposure to this.
00:40:24.780
Like, this is absurd. It's they shouldn't have these powers over us, you know, and it spreads to
00:40:32.160
big tech. But they don't unless they don't. But, but Megan, the point is, and this really is the
00:40:37.560
point of the book is that I'm sorry to interrupt you, but this is the point. They only have the
00:40:41.740
power over you until you say you do not have power over me anymore. So I would, I would ask you
00:40:47.340
actually, so your, your kids, I mean, have you seen a marked change in their behavior or attitude
00:40:51.420
in these last two years? Cause I know a lot of parents with kids around your kid's age that are
00:40:55.480
seeing a huge difference. Like what, what are you seeing within your kids? So no, because I've been
00:40:59.860
lucky. I mean, we moved to Connecticut, which has acres and acres of land and the ability to do school
00:41:07.340
outside and to distance the children. Now they did have to have the damn masks on and they were
00:41:11.860
driving all three of my kids crazy, but that's, I don't even count that given what's happened to
00:41:16.120
other children in this whole pandemic as, you know, ranking in response to your question,
00:41:21.520
because the masks are off now and there are kids who have committed suicide, tried to commit suicide,
00:41:25.920
been incredibly depressed, you know, not eaten, been subjected to severe abuse inside the home.
00:41:31.980
None of which counts to Dr. Fauci. None of it, none of that registers, doesn't qualify even as public
00:41:35.880
health. So anyway, my kids were on the lucky side because they went to schools that were open.
00:41:40.660
They were allowed to go. They had to do all the nonsense with the plexiglass and the mass and all
00:41:43.980
that. And our school has a mandatory vaccine, which we haven't complied with. But yeah, it's,
00:41:49.720
it's tough. And parents are placed in a tough position because Dave, like if things go south for
00:41:54.500
us here, what are we going to do? Move again and then move again. It's like, at some point you'll find
00:41:59.880
out soon. You have to offer some stability in your child's life. Right. So, so of course,
00:42:05.260
for me without kids yet, I can't speak fully to that. And I fully empathize with that. And my,
00:42:10.700
as I said to you earlier, my sister moved with her kids from New York city to Florida in the midst of
00:42:14.640
this. And I get, especially your kids are a little, my kid, her kids were, you know, three and five.
00:42:19.300
It's a little bit easier to move than once they hit 12 and, you know, they have all the friends and
00:42:22.820
all that sports and all that stuff. So I completely get that. And I can't fully speak to that from a
00:42:27.760
personal experience. But I would say actually the answer is yes, you do have to move. You have to
00:42:33.860
move. And then what you have to do, I think is the next version of this is that you then have to secure
00:42:39.060
the new place that you're in. So certainly where you are now is obviously better for a million reasons
00:42:44.920
than being in sort of the belly of the beast of New York city. For me leaving Los Angeles, I could
00:42:50.160
have gone virtually anywhere except say Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, or New York city. And it
00:42:55.840
basically would have been better. However, I chose Florida and I chose it for a reason. Not only
00:43:00.340
I live in the Miami suburbs, Miami is now a tech hub because all of the people fleeing all of these
00:43:05.780
places, all of the same people from the tech world of San Francisco, they've all moved here. I'm friends
00:43:11.240
with a lot of them. And I go to a lot of events with these people. They're never voting Democrat
00:43:14.420
again. Now that doesn't mean that the Republicans are right, but I always say you don't have to be a
00:43:19.820
Republican, but you cannot be a Democrat at this point. We have to secure the states that can be
00:43:25.240
secured. We have to secure the cities that can be secured. So it may just be that because of the
00:43:31.640
proximity to New York city and the lunacy that is focused there, that the tri-state area. And again,
00:43:38.020
I grew up there. This is an area I know really well and love for much of my life. It may just be that
00:43:43.740
that area cannot function in a decent way anymore, unless you really want to disconnect and live off
00:43:49.580
the grid, which is sort of impossible if you have young kids, but there will be places that will thrive.
00:43:54.760
I think Florida is the prime example of it. Obviously, I think Texas is going to be fine.
00:43:58.920
Actually, there's been some worry about it flipping, but I think Texas will be fine.
00:44:02.640
I think Tennessee will be fine. There are other red states that'll be fine. I think Arizona is going
00:44:06.500
to shift back red. And again, I don't mean to make this partisan, like Republican versus Democrat,
00:44:12.260
but it, but it is. And that's the weird thing. That's the weird position that someone like me,
00:44:16.840
who in 2016 was a Bernie supporter would, would be saying right now.
00:44:20.820
Right. Well, and I should say it wasn't easy for you to leave Los Angeles anyway. I mean,
00:44:26.640
I visited you guys, you had this beautiful home you had just moved into, you decorated it. It was
00:44:32.040
like an oasis for you. You had your studio built there. It wasn't all that easy for you to say,
00:44:37.360
we're out of here. You know, it's not like you had no logistical obstacles preventing that,
00:44:41.820
but you had enough. And I was with you guys as you were sort of getting to that point. It was like,
00:44:45.800
oh my God, it's gone crazy. You know, the, the, the city's crazy, the state's crazy,
00:44:50.880
but we can make it work. And then slowly, but surely the downward spiral into there's no winning
00:44:56.020
this fight here. Look, as you know, I campaigned with Larry Elder for the recall and the recall
00:45:02.400
went incredibly poorly for a series of reasons that we don't have to get into now. I will tell
00:45:07.440
you that one, one of the reasons I think it did go poorly was that they pushed everything to mail in
00:45:12.620
ballots, which where you don't have to show ID, even when you're in person. So I voted in person,
00:45:17.720
you don't have to show ID. I actually tried to show my ID and the guy kind of flinched at me
00:45:21.920
like, no, no, no, no, no. We don't do that here. As if I had pulled out a weapon, something like that.
00:45:26.260
But no matter which way you folded the ballot, because they give you a normal size envelope.
00:45:30.540
So you can only fold, you know, you can fold it three ways, only so many different directions.
00:45:34.700
You could either look through the, I kid you not, you could either look through the envelope and on one
00:45:39.720
side, see the vote for Larry Elder, or on the other side, you could see the vote for yes on
00:45:45.200
recall. So no matter which way you folded it, I swear to you, you didn't even need an iPhone
00:45:49.340
camera, you know, flashlight to look at it. You just could hold it up to the sunlight and see.
00:45:53.660
Now, do you think that maybe there's some fraudulent activity there? I'm actually not even saying there
00:45:58.460
is, but the point is my trust in the system, in the place that I live had been completely decimated.
00:46:05.080
And when you don't have trust in the system at that point, on top of the fact that, you
00:46:09.500
know, the crime was going up in the homeless and all that stuff, then at some point you
00:46:13.040
have to say, okay, this is my life. And do I want to fund my own demise with my tax money
00:46:19.600
and my skills? And one of the things that was tricky for me is, you know, I have a production
00:46:23.280
company, so I have a bunch of guys that work for me, a bunch of guys and girls. And I had
00:46:26.380
to say to everybody, hey, I want to go. Will you join me? And I was worried. Every single
00:46:30.760
person within 10 seconds said, yes, I'm coming. All right. Stand by. More with Dave coming
00:46:37.620
up. There's plenty to get to, including his children that he's now expected, two of them
00:46:45.920
Now, when I look at your book tour, it begins on April 19th. It has 14 stops, including yours
00:46:53.180
truly on April 26th and West Nyack. People would like to come see the two of us, April 26th
00:46:57.920
and West Nyack. Here's some other dates. Glenn Beck, April 24th in Dallas. Andrew Clavin.
00:47:03.200
Love him. Just was on April 21st in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dennis Prager, May 11th in Brea,
00:47:08.840
California. Larry Elder, May 12th in Oxnard, California. Douglas Murray. Oh my God, I love
00:47:13.720
these people. May 15th in San Jose, California. And the first stop on April 19th is with Donald
00:47:18.980
Trump Jr. in Florida. So that'll be fun. And I thought to myself, my God, how does he have
00:47:24.620
time to go all over these places? It's amazing. The number of stops he's he's going to. And
00:47:29.460
I'm predicting now your third book when that comes out a year from now and you have two
00:47:33.260
babies sitting there in your house, your book tour is going to look like this. Miami. I
00:47:40.200
might do a live hit from Miami, my home. Yeah. From the local pizza joint. Right. Enjoy it
00:47:47.500
while you can, because your freedom is about to change, but your happiness is too. All right. So
00:47:53.400
explain to the world that doesn't understand, because I understand how a gay man can have a
00:47:57.840
baby, but I didn't understand how you could have two different babies coming within like a few months
00:48:03.140
of one another. Like I twins, I get these are not exactly twins. Explain what's happening.
00:48:09.060
Yeah. So let me preface this all by saying this is a little confusing. And even as one of the
00:48:15.220
guys involved in this situation, it is a little confusing. And I've had to have a lot of talks
00:48:19.140
with fertility people and with doctors and with all sorts of people to make some sense of this.
00:48:24.900
But I should also say, Megan, I'm not a biologist. So you're going to have to work with me here when
00:48:29.000
I'm giving you some basics on how babies are born. But generally speaking, women have eggs and men have
00:48:34.840
sperm. When these two things meet each other, you then get an embryo, which eventually, of course,
00:48:40.440
becomes a baby. There's my husband, David and I. And yes, we also have the same name, which people think
00:48:44.780
is hilarious. But in essence, what we did do is we got one egg donor. And when you get an egg donor,
00:48:52.960
you get a certain amount of eggs. Sometimes you get a lot of eggs. Sometimes you get just one egg.
00:48:57.480
Sometimes you get no eggs. And actually, you would probably find it very interesting that in the
00:49:01.640
course of COVID, there was a huge problem. There were two problems actually related to surrogacy.
00:49:08.180
They were finding, at least our doctor, who's one of the best in the world, was finding that the
00:49:12.200
quality of eggs was not as good as usual, which they couldn't really find any scientific evidence
00:49:17.800
for. They need a lot of time, obviously, to research that. He could really only chalk up to
00:49:22.340
general stress that was going on with the women's bodies. And then they had another problem related
00:49:27.920
to surrogacy, which is that the pool of women who generally are surrogates, they tend to lean a little
00:49:35.160
more conservative. And actually, a lot of them, even those who are willing to be surrogates for same-sex
00:49:39.580
couples, they tend to be a little more religious. And that pool of women, many of them did not want
00:49:46.040
to get vaccinated. But the governing body of whoever handles the surrogacy situation, they wanted the
00:49:53.600
surrogates to be vaccinated. So you had a low quality of eggs. And then you had women who were
00:49:59.340
generally the surrogates, a high percentage of them who did not want to get vaccinated. So there was a
00:50:04.520
huge problem in the last two years related to surrogacy. But to directly answer your question,
00:50:10.720
the two boys that we'll be having, and they are boys, it is not that is a biological reality that
00:50:16.980
they are male. It is not something that we can choose or they can choose. They come from the same
00:50:22.540
eggs, so the same biological mother. And then one of them is from my sperm and one of them is from
00:50:28.900
David's sperm. And then we have two surrogates. So one will be born. So how did that happen?
00:50:35.260
Yeah, because normally you find one surrogate and you're like, great, here are the, you know,
00:50:40.440
whatever. I know it's not her eggs, but you basically are like, here are the embryos. Could
00:50:45.500
you please carry one or two to term? And she's like, sure. Right. That's how generally surrogacy works.
00:50:51.100
So how did you guys decide you were going to have two different babies and two different surrogates at
00:50:56.040
once? So what happened was, well, a few things happened. Well, first off, they really don't do
00:51:01.220
twins or multiple pregnancies as much as they used to. It's considered a higher risk pregnancy. And
00:51:06.000
although usually twins is not a real risk to the kids, to the babies or to the mother, it is considered
00:51:11.780
a higher risk pregnancy. There is some degree there. So there are less surrogates that are willing to do
00:51:16.720
twins, which we sort of knew that we wanted to have two anyway. So that was one issue. But then what
00:51:22.320
happened was over the course of the couple of years that we've been trying this, there were a
00:51:26.220
couple of miscarriages involved. And we realized that, you know, the clock is ticking. I'm 45 years
00:51:31.520
old. I want to be able to play catch with these kids. I want them to see when I'm in the WNBA, as I
00:51:36.280
said earlier. So with your penis. So basically what happened, yeah, basically what happened was when the
00:51:42.420
first one was a confirmed pregnancy and we were, you know, as enough weeks in to feel comfortable with
00:51:47.580
that, we said, let's just, let's just keep going because we didn't know is the second one going to
00:51:52.400
take three more years. And then by chance, the second, the second one took and, uh, and here we
00:51:57.860
are. So yeah, I've got till August, but I've had a pretty good run, Megan 45, you know, I've done what
00:52:02.140
I wanted basically when I wanted to do it. And, uh, it's time for that next phase.
00:52:07.080
Well, I mean, your, your life will of course change dramatically and especially having two at once
00:52:11.500
your, your, your free time is going to go away like that. You'll be shocked at how tired you are all the
00:52:16.980
time. I mean, I can speak to this, having become a mother at 38 and then I had a second at 40 and
00:52:20.860
then I had my third at 42. And all I could think was there's a reason God cuts you off. There's a
00:52:25.420
re he knows you can't, I don't have it in me. And when they're little, they're so needy. You know,
00:52:31.220
it's like every second they need you to have eyes on them and so on. And you know, if you want to be a
00:52:35.620
present parent, you want it to, even though not every moment is ideal. Um, okay. So two boys and what do
00:52:42.180
you, like, I know this is sort of a weird question, but like, why did you want to have kids? Why was
00:52:47.760
it important to you? What do you, what do you hope will happen to you, to your life?
00:52:53.900
Yeah. Well, first of all, I'm, I'm completely happy to talk to you about this personally or
00:52:58.620
professionally. We happen to do a lot of the same stuff that we do privately. We do on camera,
00:53:02.700
which can be a little weird sometime, but there's really nobody I'd rather discuss this with. And
00:53:05.920
there's a lot of issues around it that I'm happy to get into as well. You know, there were a couple
00:53:10.180
things that were happening first off, you know, I'm 45, as I said. So when I grew up, especially
00:53:14.580
first, I struggled. I was with my sexuality. I was in the closet for a long time. I never envisioned
00:53:19.920
a future for myself. That really is the truth. I never thought of a future. I didn't think of a
00:53:24.360
family either married to a woman or a man or anything. I just lived. That's just what it was.
00:53:29.460
It's hard to really fully understand in retrospect, but I just kind of lived at each day would come and
00:53:35.980
go. And that was it. Uh, when I met David, things started to change a little bit and he is a little
00:53:39.980
bit younger than me. So when he was growing up, um, you know, it was sort of becoming obvious that
00:53:44.880
gay people would be allowed to be married. It was a little more normal to be gay. You know,
00:53:49.240
when I was a kid or younger, at least in the eighties and the nineties, there were no role
00:53:53.320
models to look at. You know, you had Paul Lind from the seventies on Hollywood squares, or like,
00:53:59.640
there was only sort of these over the top clowns or Harvey Fierstein or whatever. And I'm not even
00:54:04.760
judging these people, but there were things, it just had nothing to do with who I was or who,
00:54:08.520
how I behaved. Um, and yet there was this other part of me that somehow connected with,
00:54:13.660
with that. Um, David grew up in a world that was really changing where it became sort of
00:54:17.980
mainstream to be gay. I would say we've now jumped the shark of gay in mainstream. And now
00:54:22.320
we've gone to something much different. You know, we've gone from equality to something really
00:54:27.220
bizarre related to all of the gender identity stuff, but he really wanted kids. And I, and I thought,
00:54:32.860
well, okay, I'm, I'm married to somebody who really wants something to live the best life for
00:54:37.040
themselves. Like, am I going to be the person to deny him that that was one thing. And then the
00:54:40.920
other thing that I wrote about in, in my first book was that I was on tour with Jordan Peterson.
00:54:45.500
And one of the things that Jordan talked about almost every single night was the need for most
00:54:51.540
people, not everybody, but for most people to live the fully complete life. Uh, part of that is
00:54:59.080
being a parent. And then ultimately part of that is being a grandparent that it is not to say
00:55:03.280
everybody. There are some people who through their own artistic pursuits or whatever it might be,
00:55:08.420
can live a full good life without that. But almost everybody needs that experience. And I think that's
00:55:15.060
what we inherently know. It's what you're saying to me, sort of when you're saying, oh, you know,
00:55:19.500
the free time will disappear, but something else is going to happen. There is something that you,
00:55:23.960
Megan, know as a parent about the world that I don't know yet. And I think it's probably something
00:55:28.980
worth knowing that really is the truth. It's funny. Cause in a way I, I see, you know,
00:55:34.240
parenthood is a shield against so much of the nonsense that's out there, you know, cause if
00:55:39.920
your home life is shorn up, if you're happy there, if you've set it up the way you want it to be set
00:55:44.220
up, very little can really hurt you. It's like, all right, everything on the outside can boil down
00:55:49.500
to dollars and cents. And that can be stressful. I understand. I had a part of my life where that,
00:55:53.460
that was me too. Um, but you look around, you're going to see those two boys on the couch. Let's
00:56:01.040
say when they're, you know, three or five and they're sitting next to David and you're watching
00:56:05.900
some stupid TV or you're showing them some show that you guys both loved at some point
00:56:10.180
and they're sweet. And ideally they're a little tired, like your children best, just like my dog
00:56:18.620
Strutwick's tired. He's amazing anyway. And you think I am good. I'm good. There's very little,
00:56:25.660
you know, some blogger, some nasty. I know actually I was, my team was pointing out one
00:56:30.760
of your tweets that where you were saying, I have a, this is the quote. I have a couple
00:56:34.460
hilariously bad hit pieces incoming one by a quote. Journalist who lied to me about the intentions of
00:56:38.580
the piece has repeatedly lied to over a dozen people about the story so he could get them on the record
00:56:42.960
all sending me his requests. So that can cause some kind of stress. It's like you have your book.
00:56:47.620
You don't want some jerk writing a hit piece on you and where he lured your friends into commenting.
00:56:52.720
It's meaningless. I am here to tell you. It's so meaningless, Dave, that that hit piece will not
00:56:58.600
affect a single person who is going to buy your book in one way or who is open-minded to you in
00:57:03.180
one way, shape or form. I know it just from having lived it so many years, but I also know that like
00:57:07.860
when the babes are there, like the back to the image of the kids on the couch with David,
00:57:12.220
you're going to be like, write whatever you want. I'm good. You can't hurt me. You, you know,
00:57:17.620
I always think of the line from Jerry Maguire from the crazy Kelly Preston character. And
00:57:21.800
she's like, you can't hurt me, Jerry. I'm too strong for you. That that's you and the world
00:57:27.620
when you have kids and you've quote centered them to borrow the woke left's term. But like
00:57:33.440
you really have, you centered your life around family, around meaning, around what really will
00:57:38.000
sustain you in the dark hours, not all the BS. And it's not to say there's no meaning without
00:57:43.080
the children. It's just next level when they're there. You know, it's funny. I could say, I think
00:57:48.860
you're right, but I know you're right. Right. Like that. And I think that was Jordan's point when he
00:57:52.880
was saying this about people having that need to end up living a life that is truly full to get to
00:57:58.700
that. It's like, I can listen to you say that. And intellectually I can say, well, that sounds
00:58:03.440
right, but it's not really what I'm thinking right now. It's, I know you are right. I know that that
00:58:08.320
is what the complete life is. It is something so innately human that we all sort of know that.
00:58:15.100
And that isn't to say that there isn't a part of me that right now, as our first child will be
00:58:19.300
born in August. I'm kind of like, oh man, we got to have all the fun we can and have all the crazy
00:58:24.500
nights. We, not that we do anything crazy. I usually fall asleep watching Seinfeld at 1030,
00:58:28.120
but like, like, I just got to get out there and do everything I can when I want so that I'm not always
00:58:33.020
having to take a nap because everyone keeps telling me how tired I'm going to be.
00:58:36.220
I love when people say that. Like, like you've got to store up your sleep.
00:58:40.520
You know, so you got to store up your sleep or store up your fun. Like that's how life works.
00:58:43.460
You know, people always say when you're pregnant with a baby, like make sure you sleep, sleep now.
00:58:46.960
It's like, is that how sleep works? Can I bank it? I can like, I think you can bank it. I think you
00:58:52.000
can bank it. I don't think so. All right. So I get it and I support it and I'm very excited for you
00:58:56.920
guys. And I, I'm going to have to think about like what, what I should put in. Like when Julie Banderas had her baby
00:59:02.980
at Fox, I had just had mine. So I put her together like the best new mother basket. Cause I had just
00:59:09.360
been through it. And it was like the F factor diet, which I love. Tanya, poor Tanya Zuckerberg took a
00:59:15.520
beating from some woman who wrote me mean stuff about her in the press too. But I love that diet.
00:59:18.840
It works. Um, like some exercise videos that I liked with DVDs, it was so on and so forth. I knew
00:59:25.420
exactly the liquor she liked anyway. So now I'm going to think about you guys. Cause you don't have to
00:59:29.840
lose the weight. Oh, I gave her like these nipple covers. You don't have to worry about that.
00:59:33.800
Um, so in some ways you're going to get, you know, the liquor I like and I'll take the nipple
00:59:37.560
covers. I don't know what I'm going to do with them, but they probably, they can probably double
00:59:40.500
up as something else. It rains a lot in Florida. I don't know. You can clog a leak or something. I
00:59:44.460
have no idea. That's a good point to, to, to pivot for a moment to the unpleasant reaction by some,
00:59:52.120
I think overwhelmingly it's been nice and supportive and loving, but I have noticed that like,
00:59:58.340
there's kind people like Allie Beth Stuckey, who's Christian. I know you're friends with her.
01:00:03.720
And she said, I talked to Dave before I did this piece online to tell you that I don't support this
01:00:09.180
because she's, but she believes in biblical marriage and she doesn't believe, you know,
01:00:12.980
two, two guys should be having a baby together, that kind of thing. Um, I thought she came from
01:00:17.200
a place of kindness and love and just offered a thoughtful comment on it. Cause her audience kind
01:00:22.160
of expected her to, and she had things she wanted to say. Then there's mean people who write
01:00:26.700
something like quote, this is evil, this is evil, plain and simple. They paid for the creation of
01:00:32.540
roughly 18 unique individual human beings, just so that two of them could be successfully implanted
01:00:37.560
in rented wombs and delivered to their purchasers to make it sound so trans. It's like, this is so
01:00:45.100
my friend, Melissa Francis, she talked about it on my show. She, she got a surrogate. She had a blood
01:00:50.680
issue that almost killed. She would say two of her, her first two children when she delivered them.
01:00:58.020
So on baby number three, she got a surrogate. The surrogates can play an important role.
01:01:02.120
Why should gays and lesbians not have the joys of passing on that love? The biggest losers in our
01:01:08.240
country can have babies like the biggest do nothing awful losers who are hateful, murderous,
01:01:15.360
criminal creeps can get together and have a baby. And nobody says, boo, but if it's two guys or if
01:01:21.040
it's two women, we have to say it's, that's bull. So anyway, your thoughts.
01:01:25.460
No. Well, first off, I totally appreciate you bringing this up. Look, 99% of what we got
01:01:29.940
those couple of days after we posted that picture was, was love, believe it or not. You know,
01:01:35.080
the funny thing about the internet, it has really dysregulated us in a crazy way. So basically
01:01:39.760
everyone that I'm publicly associated with or that I've had on my show that has any meaning to me or
01:01:45.640
certainly anyone that I'm friends with privately, we got endless amounts of love. There were some
01:01:50.900
people like Allie Beth who expressed her own personal religious opinion, which by the way,
01:01:54.840
I completely am okay with someone. I respect religious liberty. She's entitled to her own belief
01:02:00.760
and I'm not asking her to marry a woman and have kids with that woman. So, so that's just fine.
01:02:05.500
What I don't want is someone's personal religious beliefs infringing on my own personal liberty.
01:02:12.240
And we can talk further about the tensions between those two things. Cause I think that there are some
01:02:16.500
tensions there, but the funny thing is the way the internet works is Megan, if we put this video up
01:02:21.400
and it gets a million views, 990,000 people watch it and they don't do anything. They don't comment.
01:02:28.020
They just watch it. And maybe they watch the entire thing, or maybe they watch 10 seconds or whatever.
01:02:32.440
And maybe they agreed with us. Maybe they didn't, but we don't know because all we know is
01:02:35.480
that they watch. What happens because of the comments is the 10,000 people who comment generally
01:02:41.620
comment something more angry or, or, uh, not resentful. It's some, it's some sort of conflict
01:02:49.020
that they want to comment on. Right. And then they know that the way the album algorithms work
01:02:53.680
and to get clicks, the crazier you write, the more upvotes you're going to get in the rest of it.
01:02:57.300
And then the average person goes to that video a week later and sees the video and they go, boy,
01:03:02.340
look at this video. It got a million views and all the comments are negative. Boy, there's really
01:03:05.880
something brewing here. That wasn't the reality that we faced at all. That's not to say there
01:03:11.080
weren't negative comments. There were. And again, I believe people can have their own personal
01:03:15.760
religious liberty and come from things from a different perspective than I do. But I would also
01:03:20.640
say that, uh, you make a really good point that, you know, virtually anyone, any heterosexual couple
01:03:26.620
can have kids literally off a one night stand. And we don't have to go into the litany of horrible
01:03:32.240
things that children can be born into, whether it's a crack addicted kid or an abusive father or
01:03:38.060
a negligent mother, or just all of the, on the imaginable. And I would say unimaginable things
01:03:44.260
that can happen. Um, that isn't to say that I don't think, and David doesn't think that, that the
01:03:49.500
role of the mother is vitally important, vitally important. And families can still look a little
01:03:56.120
bit different and, and be perfectly good and functioning. Uh, we're going to have David's
01:04:00.640
mom move down with us for a couple of months. His sister is going to move down here. Who was,
01:04:05.480
has been a nanny for young toddlers, young children before my sister, who I was talking about before
01:04:10.920
just moved to Miami. She's actually pregnant with her third right now, uh, do the day before
01:04:15.900
our first is born. So we are going to have, my mom's going to be down as much as possible.
01:04:20.060
So we're going to have strong women and strong female influences to teach us some of this stuff.
01:04:24.440
And then some of this is also related to gender roles, which are real. You know, there are men,
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generally men like things and women like people, but there are men who are very nurturing and there
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are women who are not very nurturing. David happens to be very nurturing. I don't know that I'm going
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to be the most nurturing, but we're going to try to fill in all of those pieces and create the,
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the happiest, most loving, uh, safest. Cause I think that's what you want to create, not a safe space,
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but a safe place for your child to thrive and grow up to be the best as possible. But I'm not saying
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it's not a little different and a little weird. And by the way, I don't have a lot of models for
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this. I, you know, I've really only really one or two sets of friends that are gay, that have kids.
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Um, and we're going to try to learn a little bit from them, but I don't need to learn from gay
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parents. I can learn from straight parents and we're going to do the best that we can.
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Mm-hmm. I think that's great. I think, I do think, you know, having a role model is important,
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right? Like that's one of the things I like about being in my marriage with Doug, male, female,
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obviously is, um, you know, they, they get different things from him than they get from me,
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but we're not totally like traditional on our gender roles either. You know what I mean? Like,
01:05:30.780
obviously I've got this more public facing career where I, I don't think I've said before,
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I know Doug doesn't mind me saying I'm the primary wage earner in the relationship.
01:05:39.240
I wasn't always when I met him, I borrowed money off of him. I couldn't move into my New York
01:05:45.100
city department. They needed first month and last month in security department. I didn't have it.
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They get you. It was a lot anyway. So back then I was borrowing money from him, but
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whatever. My point is like non-traditional, uh, now currently in that way. Um, it works. It's fine.
01:06:00.720
I do. I like the idea of bringing in strong women just so that these young boys then have,
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they have the model. They can see there it is. And you get different things from a nurturing mom
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than you get from a nurturing dad. So I think that's a good, that's a good workaround.
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But the notion that you just shouldn't do it, uh, because you're in a gay relationship is absurd to
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me. And the notion of like, I get the problem of creating embryos that, that then are there.
01:06:25.580
And I have to tell you, and I've told you this before I did IVF on all three of my pregnancies
01:06:31.320
and I really wrestled with that. You know, like I'm Catholic, but I wouldn't describe myself as
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like religious, but there's no question to me, you're creating a life there. And now what,
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you know, it's like, my God, at some point I'm going to be forced to make a decision about those.
01:06:48.020
I lucked out in that. I wound up using all of my embryos that were usable. I mean,
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some in this sort of process don't, don't make it through. Um, and that's a blessing because
01:06:58.100
they're not all genetically well, and they're not all genetically meant to go forward, but
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I tried. So what about that piece of it? It's a Megan, it's a totally great question.
01:07:07.520
And by the way, the, it doesn't need, we don't have to mention the person that the tweet that
01:07:11.080
you just read about the 18 embryos, but first off, you just acknowledge part of it. Not all
01:07:15.880
of them survive. That's just part of the process. So it's not like we're sitting on all of these
01:07:20.400
embryos at the moment. That's just one little piece. And I don't want to get into every specific
01:07:24.600
little piece of this, but this does bring up all sorts of deeply religious, personal,
01:07:30.240
philosophical issues. So yes, if you have, if you do, if you believe as a, as a human being,
01:07:36.580
if you believe that the moment that the sperm meets the egg and you now have, you know,
01:07:41.760
you have a blastocyst, but eventually you have an embryo, you know, those first few days and
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really for the first week, you just have cells multiplying. Now I don't deny that that is the
01:07:50.720
genesis of life. If we are to believe that life begins at some point, and it obviously does,
01:07:55.000
then that's really the only marker for that. Um, to me personally, and this is where
01:07:59.700
politics and belief and religion all come in collision with, with each other. And you have
01:08:04.160
to do what is right for you. Ultimately, to me, there is a huge difference between taking a
01:08:11.480
blastocyst at two days, the cells that are multiplying that has no form, obviously no
01:08:17.160
heartbeat, no organs, no consciousness, nothing like that. Um, and whether that was to continue
01:08:23.760
to become a baby or not, that is extremely different than say a 20 week abortion. I would
01:08:29.260
say it's actually quite different than even a 12 week abortion. Uh, so even though I am,
01:08:33.860
I am pro choice to some degree, um, I I'm, I'm, I'm very strict with that. I really am. And I'm,
01:08:41.560
I am okay with some of these laws that the Republican States have been pushing through because
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unfortunately the Democrats have gone so crazy with this and are okay with eight month abortions and
01:08:51.260
post birth abortions. I mean, some really weird stuff. All that being said, that's a legitimate
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conversation to have. If everyone can do it in a somewhat calm manner that we're doing it in right
01:09:01.860
now. If you have three embryos through IVF, if three embryos have survived and you only want one
01:09:08.060
child, and these are in essence, you know, day or two day old embryos that are, that are cells
01:09:13.040
that are now frozen. What, what is it that you do with those? Now there's all sorts of things you can
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do with those. And again, this is where I don't want to get into every personal decision that we're
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making. You can give those embryos to other couples that can't get, uh, have kids naturally.
01:09:26.440
There are, there are heterosexual couples that for whatever reason, either through the woman's eggs
01:09:31.660
or the male sperm or both cannot get pregnant, but the woman could carry a kid. You could donate
01:09:36.500
that embryo. There's all sorts of things you can do. It's not just immediately that you have to,
01:09:41.420
uh, discard those embryos. So these are important discussions to have in a way, although it's been a
01:09:47.020
little bit of a headache to, to talk about this because it does feel personal, but I am a public
01:09:51.900
person to whatever extent I am. Um, if I've helped open up some of the door on some of this
01:09:56.620
so that, you know, some of your listeners can really think about these issues, that's totally
01:10:01.380
fine. Yeah. Well, it's like, there's, you know, you could, you could have a debate about the IUD,
01:10:06.960
right? Like that baby, the IUD gets, it gets rid of a fertilized embryo. I mean, a fertilized egg
01:10:13.560
inside the woman's uterus, there are a lot of pro-life people who are against the IUD. They
01:10:17.500
understand that perfectly well, but there are some people who would call themselves pro-life who
01:10:21.740
are like, Hmm, that's different the day after pill, right? Like where that's basically you've
01:10:26.960
gotten pregnant and you want to get rid of that embryo before it turns into, you know, something
01:10:31.880
more. Um, well, that's why I'm saying that that's why I'm saying the distinction, right? So this is
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where, so I actually don't fully know. I think I know your position on this mostly. I don't fully,
01:10:42.920
and obviously you don't have to say anything you don't want to say, but if you had had,
01:10:45.880
when you guys were going through this and I know how difficult it is and how long it takes and all
01:10:49.540
of that stuff, but if you had had one embryo leftover, that was a viable embryo. Did you guys fully
01:10:54.760
have that conversation as to what you were going to do? And did you and Doug agree on what you were
01:10:58.640
going to do? Cause a lot of couples don't agree on that. And then that only had one left. We would
01:11:02.340
have, we would have put it in. Like we, we would have kept going. Um, I mean, I was getting to like
01:11:06.060
as old as Methuselah. So at some point somebody was going to say, we can't put another one in you,
01:11:11.840
ma'am, madam, if you could take your, your reading glasses off and put your gray haired wig to the
01:11:16.720
side, you could hear me better. The answer is no, but we would have done it for sure. But like the,
01:11:21.660
the, the fear was that, you know, when you're going into the process that you're going to wind up with
01:11:25.500
five, you know, sitting there five. Right. And it's like, well, there are limits to what I'm
01:11:29.780
willing to do and capable of doing physically. Um, and thank God I I'm, I'm very glad I didn't
01:11:37.380
have to make that decision, but I have to say, if that had been the outcome, I wouldn't have
01:11:41.480
regretted doing what I did. I wouldn't have said this was a bad decision. It just would have been
01:11:46.200
a painful decision at the end. I don't think I could see my and Doug's child grow up with someone
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else. I don't think I could ever donate my embryo. Um, I don't think I could donate it to science.
01:12:00.260
I think probably I would have wound up like letting it defrost, you know, that's sort of an
01:12:05.720
option that you have, but I, I don't know. Cause it's my God. It's like, you think about it in the
01:12:11.420
abstract, like life, when does it begin? Whose is it? And then you think about it, like, that's my
01:12:16.000
child. That's another Yates or Yardley or Thatcher. Like all you want is to make it happen. Like put
01:12:23.960
it in there. And with all mine, you know, I put in as like as many as were safe just so that I could
01:12:28.620
sort of make sure I got pregnant and not have this problem, but it not for everybody's is lucky when
01:12:34.100
you play the numbers game, you can just wind up with a lot. So I appreciate the situation. I, it is
01:12:38.840
not my judgment that I'm asking you about in any way, shape. It's just, you know, I've read it on
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the internet, but anyway, back to the overall point, which is 99% positive and also typical of
01:12:49.220
you being so open about it, giving us a chance to question our beliefs on it, learn a little bit
01:12:54.240
about ourselves, wrestle with stuff we hadn't wrestled with before. You love that. You're not a
01:12:58.780
judger. You don't, you're not judging your haters. And, and even though the ones who are judging you in
01:13:04.140
a cruel way, you're still allowing for the conversation and not passing your judgment back. One of the many
01:13:09.580
things I love about Dave Rubin stand by Megan, you can, you can also, you can also block your
01:13:14.480
haters, which is pretty good. You can, now you tell me where I'll send you, I'll send you,
01:13:21.100
I'll text you the instructions on how to do that. I love mute where they don't know you love. I don't
01:13:27.000
need, I don't, I think it was, um, Ray Kelly, uh, right. Police commissioner under Rudy Giuliani
01:13:33.780
for a part who said, why would you give your enemies the benefit of telling them how you feel
01:13:40.540
about them? Why would you show your actual feelings to your enemies? I'm like, Oh, that right. They
01:13:46.220
don't get to know that I blocked them. They don't get to know that they irritated me. They get to know
01:13:50.440
nothing. They don't get to know that I saw their mean tweet. They just get muted. So they can't see
01:13:55.100
anymore. Ha ha. I love it. That's very ancient Chinese proverb.
01:13:59.460
Okay. Stand by much, much more with the one and only Dave Rubin coming up.
01:14:09.540
So Dave, one of the chapters you tackle in here, it's got a lot of great life advice,
01:14:13.180
just, you know, on how people can manage this crazy world we're living in right now,
01:14:17.180
the, whether it's the woke ism or the fast pace or big tech or misinformation, actual misinformation,
01:14:21.880
not Hunter Biden's laptop, um, that's being shoved on you by the mainstream media that has an agenda
01:14:26.720
or college campuses that have an agenda and so on. And chapter three is entitled protect your brain
01:14:31.280
at all costs. And you write in here about how every August you take your digital break and it's
01:14:36.860
hardcore digital break. I mean, it's not like I just stay off email. So explain to us again,
01:14:43.160
what that looks like and what, like, what do you mean to, when you say to people protect your brain
01:14:49.140
at all costs? Yeah. You know, this is something I've done for the last five years where in August,
01:14:55.240
I quite literally lock my phone in a safe with my computer and my iPad and whatever other devices
01:15:01.480
that I have my game boy, all of it, it's gone. And I do not read the news. I do not watch the news. I
01:15:07.820
don't watch television. I don't do anything with any electronic device whatsoever. We usually go on
01:15:13.000
vacation for a little bit. So try to go somewhere in the Caribbean or something just to kind of stare out
01:15:17.020
at the ocean and exercise and eat right. And, and just detox from the endless onslaught of
01:15:24.340
information that we're all inundated with constantly. You know, we got on social media 20 years ago
01:15:29.900
thinking it would make us more social. And it was originally very cool. And you could connect with old
01:15:35.260
high school friends and all of that stuff. And 20 years later, we now know, I mean, there's plenty
01:15:40.200
of studies that prove this. It's made us more anxiety ridden. We're angrier. We're more polarized.
01:15:45.360
We doom scroll. Everyone's done this. This is when you get on Facebook or Twitter or wherever
01:15:50.240
and you just ignore all the good things, just waiting for a bad thing to happen. And then you
01:15:55.840
stop and you read the bad thing and then you move to another bad thing or just the way all of these
01:16:00.400
feeds are curated. If I'm not even on Facebook anymore, but when you're, when you're on, you know,
01:16:05.080
when I'm sitting on a plane, sometimes I'll be sitting next to someone with an iPad and you watch,
01:16:08.520
you know, you just can't stop looking at what somebody's doing. And it, none of it makes sense.
01:16:12.520
It's like baby picture terrorist attack, Donald Trump sports game, Joe Biden. And it's just this
01:16:19.500
constant attack on our ability to think clearly and, and have normal human reactions related to
01:16:26.400
things. So I did it five years ago. It was sort of a joke. Actually, the first time I was kind of
01:16:30.220
like, can I do this? Is this something that humans can possibly do? The idea of taking one day off is
01:16:36.000
very scary for people. The idea of walking outside your house for five hours without a phone
01:16:39.920
is scary for people, but I've done it for five years. I think actually totally honestly,
01:16:44.660
Megan, I think it's one of the things that has kept me sane throughout all of this, because you
01:16:50.740
and I both know a lot of people that are in the same world that we're in and it can make you kind
01:16:55.160
of crazy, you know, having to talk about politics all the time and not go crazy yourself and try to
01:17:00.700
take what can often be very depressing news and do it in a way that doesn't make people crazier and
01:17:06.920
everything else. It can make you crazy. And I think one of the ways I've been able to keep my
01:17:10.560
head on straight is by doing that disconnect so that when I come back in September and I have
01:17:15.860
somebody, maybe I'll have you do it with me if you're available in September this year.
01:17:19.820
I have somebody join me to tell me everything that I missed for the month. So Glenn Beck's done
01:17:23.920
it a couple of times and Michael Knowles and a few others, Ben Shapiro. And you know what you
01:17:27.940
realize is, although this past summer I missed Afghanistan and of course it was horrific and
01:17:33.260
the repercussions will be for years to come in terms of American foreign policy. My life went on
01:17:39.200
and I don't mean to make it everything about me, but the point is the world will continue. One day we
01:17:45.020
will all be gone. And the story that existed before us, it is going to exist after us. And I think we're
01:17:51.740
all so caught up in the minutia of the day that when I talk about protecting your brain, it's like,
01:17:56.660
give yourself a little ability, you know, in the morning, how many of your viewers right now,
01:18:01.440
we all do this. I don't do it anymore. But you know, you have your phone on your nightstand and
01:18:05.880
before you even get out of bed to have your coffee or go to the bathroom, you immediately look at the
01:18:11.060
news and maybe you lay in bed for 10 minutes with that. That's not the right way to start the day.
01:18:15.480
I try to start the day every day the same way. I usually go to the bathroom, I have a cup of coffee
01:18:20.300
and I walk my dog without my phone. And, and that is to me a great way to just reset at the beginning
01:18:26.940
of the day. And if you can figure out a few things that work for you, then I think you can actually
01:18:31.820
protect your brain. And it seems like we need that more than ever. Social media has done something
01:18:35.480
very weird to us and we all know it. By the way, if you are the one sitting next to Dave Rubin on the
01:18:40.640
flight and he's looking at your iPad, consider IP vanish.com slash MK. You definitely should. Isn't
01:18:48.340
that one of those funny things? You can't not look, you know, it could be the most boring person
01:18:53.440
and reading the most mundane nothingness. But for whatever reason, your eye is just going, man,
01:18:58.320
they doing something over there. There's something happening. My last flight, I got sucked into Curb
01:19:03.180
Your Enthusiasm's 11th season. And I am not even a little sorry. It has had me laughing out loud
01:19:11.040
hysterically. And that's a guy who I know we don't share the same politics. And I'm mad that he yelled
01:19:16.920
at poor Alan Dershowitz in Martha's Vineyard, but he's hysterical. And the show is the whole season
01:19:22.380
of very anti-woke. So I just I love it. And I had such hearty laughs on it. And the reason I put it
01:19:30.180
on was because somebody else is watching it. They were laughing. I'm like, I'm gonna give it a try.
01:19:33.460
And I'm so, so glad I did. All right. So I like that. I can I just ask you about like the beginning
01:19:38.440
in the beginning of August. Do you get like the DTs? You know, is it like, oh, yeah, like phantom phone
01:19:43.440
limb situation? Yes, literally that phantom phone thing that we all know about. I mean, think about that.
01:19:49.720
That is something that we all know that experience when you don't have your phone on you and you
01:19:53.880
oddly feel a vibration in your pocket. Isn't that a little weird? Shouldn't we be thinking
01:19:57.940
about what has happened to us that we all know about that experience? What have these devices
01:20:02.820
done to us? So it is interesting. Each year, the same thing has happened where there's a
01:20:07.360
moment, you know, when I officially literally close the safe or sometimes David closed the safe
01:20:11.740
when I know that I'm off, there's initially this first few hours of like pure joy, like here
01:20:16.400
we go. It's going to be great. And then suddenly about four hours later, or maybe a little bit
01:20:20.460
after dinner, I'm like a little, ah, what did I miss? Something must have happened. How many people
01:20:24.420
retweeted me saying goodbye for a month? You know, all this real nonsense, myopic nonsense.
01:20:30.440
Right. Exactly. And then what happens, I'll tell you one cool thing that has happened every single
01:20:34.920
time. And David, although he doesn't do a full off the grid, because in case there's an emergency
01:20:39.360
or something, he keeps a phone on him that he look, he doesn't really care about the news as much,
01:20:43.260
which is one reason we've managed to say, stay sane together, but he keeps a phone so that someone
01:20:48.140
can get in touch with us if we're away, or if there was a family emergency, something like that.
01:20:52.740
But one thing that's very cool that has happened to both of us over the time that we've done this
01:20:57.680
is about a weekend. I'll say to him, it'll, we'll just be taking a walk and I'll be like, you know,
01:21:02.640
I can remember every single word to that song that I have not heard in 10 years. Suddenly your brain
01:21:09.800
just starts organizing itself in a different way. We're constantly cluttering our brain with
01:21:14.640
nonsense. And, and even the, even things that are important. A lot of this is important, obviously.
01:21:20.060
But we're constantly inputting stuff and our brains, you know, if you think of your brain as sort of a
01:21:24.740
computer, a computer only has a certain amount of RAM, meaning the immediate storage that it has.
01:21:29.380
And then it has the long-term, the ROM storage, the long-term storage. We're constantly overloading
01:21:35.060
ourselves with all of this information. And then suddenly I'll be thinking about songs. I'll think
01:21:40.220
about a friend. Like it'll literally pop, boy, remember that kid in third grade that my friend
01:21:44.560
Stefan, I wonder whatever happened to him. That will just pop into my brain out of nowhere, where
01:21:48.440
if I wasn't disconnected, I wouldn't have time to think about that sort of thing. So there's
01:21:53.820
something going on. And I think if anyone watching this, I get, it's hard to do a month,
01:21:59.460
forget a month, try a, try a Saturday, try a Saturday. As Ben Shapiro said to me once,
01:22:04.220
when I said I was doing this, he said, you know, Dave, Orthodox Jews have been doing this for about
01:22:09.820
5,000 years. It's called Shabbat. And, and, you know, and many Christians do a version of it on
01:22:14.720
Sundays and, and, or maybe for Lent or whatever it might be. But if you can just try it once a week
01:22:20.220
for a day, you might find the results actually are pretty good. I want to do the August, end of
01:22:25.640
August thing with you, but I want to do it in like in quiz form, real or fake. Did this really happen
01:22:30.460
or am I messing with you and see how you do? No, that would be incredible because there's
01:22:35.760
almost nothing you could be make up that would be more bizarre. So that's it. We're doing it
01:22:39.720
together in September. It'd be better if Trump were still president. That would be, that would
01:22:43.400
be a better quiz with Biden. Although Biden does give us a lot of fodder. I mean, more than you
01:22:47.180
would have expected. I kind of thought that the good fodder was going to be gone with Trump,
01:22:51.000
but to the contrary, there's plenty of fodder to discuss with him. Can I ask you something as you
01:22:56.880
were talking? Cause you were alive when there were no cell phones for a, you know, a significant
01:23:00.940
portion of your youth. I was about, I've told this story before, but I was 25. I was living in
01:23:06.480
Chicago. So it was 1995, 1996. And, um, somebody was walking down the street, talking on the,
01:23:13.060
on the cell phone, like on a sidewalk. And I was like, Oh my God, what an idiot. I'm like, who,
01:23:16.960
who can't wait to get to point B, you know, from a to, to have a conversation on the phone. So I was
01:23:22.120
like, what is she doing? Like what, what's happening? And of course, now look at us now.
01:23:26.080
So we all ask ourselves, would we go back? Would you go back to a time when we didn't have the
01:23:32.820
iPhone, when the Android, whatever hadn't been invented? And we, when we were talking about
01:23:36.740
getting away, I remember as a young practicing law lawyer, we didn't have email. We did not have
01:23:42.540
email. They could, the bosses could not email us. There were, there were beepers at my first firm.
01:23:47.700
You had to wear a beeper as a young lawyer, because of course you're always have to be accessible,
01:23:51.140
but we all used to take cruises for our vacations because you couldn't, they couldn't get you on
01:23:56.240
the cruise. Like the beeper wouldn't, nothing would work. So you just go away. Like there was
01:24:00.380
a place to go where you were unreachable and it was awesome. But I know you've got, you know,
01:24:05.760
big chapter in the book talking about how the work week has changed. It's changed for the better.
01:24:11.300
And, and it wouldn't have changed if we didn't have the invention of the phone, the, you know,
01:24:15.100
the iPhone, the Android, whatever. So what do you think? Were we better off before?
01:24:19.880
Man, it's really hard to say, you know, all of these devices that we have in the access to
01:24:24.320
technology and all of these things, they're, they're tools in a certain respect. You know,
01:24:28.180
if you think about it, you could think about it sort of like fire. The phone in some ways is like
01:24:32.200
fire. Fire is quite extraordinary in that it can heat your home and you can cook food on it.
01:24:36.860
It could also burn your home down and kill you if it's out of control. And that's sort of what these
01:24:41.800
things are. You have to manage your relationship with your phone, with your computer, your iPad,
01:24:46.040
and the entire thing. So I don't know that I would turn back time so that none of these things were
01:24:51.340
existed. I mean, you know, I, I live a pretty full life that is obviously very connected to all of
01:24:57.520
these devices. So I, I wouldn't turn that away. I think perhaps we should have thought about it a
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little bit more. We should have been a little more thoughtful in the way we integrated all of this
01:25:10.020
technology to our life and maybe had a little bit more of an understanding of what these tech
01:25:14.760
companies were going to do and listening to us and sorting through our information, the algorithms.
01:25:19.020
But in retrospect, there's no way we could have ever known what was going to happen here. And we all
01:25:23.080
kind of do things and we go with the tide and all that stuff. It's funny. You mentioned 1995 and,
01:25:28.440
and beepers and phones and all that. I remember in 1995, I was a sophomore in college
01:25:34.180
and a kid down the hall in the dorm was yelling because he was on, I think he was saying he was
01:25:40.880
on the internet. Maybe he was saying the worldwide web, something. And he's yelling about it. Now,
01:25:45.040
before that we had a man, I sound old right now, but we had text email and I don't even remember
01:25:50.020
that I ever used it. I remember I got to college. They gave us an email address. I didn't even know
01:25:53.000
what that meant really. But now I'm a sophomore. This kid is yelling down the hallway. I'm on the
01:25:57.620
internet. I'm on the internet. We all run into his room. He's sitting there on the computer
01:26:02.020
and I'll never forget it. It says Yankees three Royals one. And there's a picture of the Yankees
01:26:07.460
logo and a picture of the Royals logo. And just like you, when you saw that guy with the phone,
01:26:11.940
I remember thinking, this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Meaning like if I cared about this
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and I was a baseball fan at the time, you could watch sports center that night and you'd find out
01:26:21.560
what the score was. But now think about that, Megan. We're not that old, right? We're pretty hip.
01:26:26.920
We get what's going on here. You're having two babies. But look what has happened to the world in,
01:26:30.520
in basically 25 years. It's, it's unrecognizable. Yes. I I'm thinking now,
01:26:36.400
like same with the internet for sure. Back then it was like, what is this crazy thing? I remember
01:26:41.360
when I was first thinking about getting into journalism, my friend Meredith was giving me a
01:26:45.640
tour at her news station. She worked for WMAQ, which is the NBC O and O in Chicago. And she walked
01:26:51.080
me around and we saw, I met some of the reporters. Very exciting. I was still practicing law, but I was
01:26:55.200
thinking about getting out. And, um, she went out on a date with somebody and, uh, she was like,
01:27:00.520
I Googled him and I found something. And I'm like, what does that mean? What do you mean? You,
01:27:06.020
what does that mean? You Googled him? You Googled him. You usually do that after the date.
01:27:10.240
You know, she explained, I had never heard that term before, like that you could do that. And this is,
01:27:14.620
you know, I guess that would have been closer to, that was more like 2001 by that. So 2001,
01:27:20.060
one where I was still asking that question when I joined Fox in 2004, yeah, it was fall of 2004.
01:27:28.060
We were covering the 60 minutes debacle on the George W. Bush, uh, national guard service.
01:27:36.400
Remember the thing that brought down Dan rather fake news. And, um, I was doing the hits all day
01:27:44.060
on Saturday and Sunday cause I was new as I had the crappy shifts and I, I didn't screw something
01:27:49.580
up, but I, I missed something that was available to, and, and Brit Hume wanted it to have been in
01:27:54.460
my report and I had missed it. And he was like, you got to come to understand the internet.
01:28:00.800
There's so much great information on here. Like this is going to be the future. This is,
01:28:04.720
we're going to be getting so much information off of this, off of the internet. And so this is any
01:28:08.640
kind of, this is Brit Hume, who's actually very tech savvy. He's always, always,
01:28:11.900
he loves technology. So he's kind of one of those older guys who's always ahead and he's kind of
01:28:16.020
showing me how to go on the internet and figure out to get information. This is like 2004. Again,
01:28:21.140
it was a little behind my time, but that it wasn't that long ago, Dave. And I don't, somehow he managed
01:28:26.580
to make it work. Somehow the clocks still hit 12 twice a day. And I still made all my, you know,
01:28:32.500
necessary appointments. And I have to say, I think I was like, I think my serenity
01:28:38.560
was happier net net. I think I was a happier person without the devices than I, than I've been
01:28:46.740
since they were introduced. I think that's very possible. I think everyone struggles with this
01:28:51.640
to some degree. And I think everyone at some level is like, man, I wish I could just get off all of
01:28:56.160
these things altogether. Look at the way misinformation has spread and lies have spread.
01:28:59.940
And even the fact that, you know, people like us, we can now debunk the nonsense that the mainstream
01:29:05.240
is constantly pushing. It's like, unless we have solutions for that, all that will lead
01:29:09.860
is for people to be depressed, which actually sort of is why I wrote this book. It's like,
01:29:14.360
we can, we can debunk all this stuff all day long and you can show people, no, they lied about Russia
01:29:18.780
collusion and Brett Kavanaugh wasn't a serial rape. And you can do all of these things. But then at the
01:29:23.660
end, if the conclusion for people is, oh boy, the machine is lying to me all the time, but I can't do
01:29:28.380
anything about it. Well, then what did technology actually do it? It, it, it exposed something that left us
01:29:33.660
with no answers. That's why I'm trying to figure out, and I don't have all of them, obviously,
01:29:37.280
but I'm trying to figure out what some of the answers are. But I suspect that the answer that
01:29:41.920
you're looking for, that I'm looking for is that you have to incorporate it in your life in a way
01:29:46.760
that makes sense. And some parents, you know, hand the iPad to the kid at dinner and don't talk to
01:29:51.520
them at all. And then they scroll TikTok all day. And now we know that TikTok is causing all problems,
01:29:55.960
you know, all sorts of problems with attention spans and God knows what else TikTok's doing
01:29:59.920
related to the gender stuff that they don't allow in China, but in our American TikTok is here
01:30:04.380
and very prominently featured. But, but everyone has to make a choice for themselves. What will your
01:30:10.080
relationship, that's really what the chapter is about. What will your relationship with these
01:30:13.980
things be? It can be very unhealthy. You can watch porn 10 hours a day. If you want, you can,
01:30:18.540
and some people do, or you can do research all day long or learn, learn all sorts of incredible
01:30:24.220
things. I mean, go watch lectures from the, from the greatest thinkers of all time that are on YouTube.
01:30:27.840
That's wonderful. But, but even that, do you want to do that 15 hours a day? Or do you want to go
01:30:32.380
out and do something? I mean, we have to just think about how we want to live our lives to the best of
01:30:36.960
our ability. But often the, the noise and speed of this thing actually stops us from doing that.
01:30:42.720
Be mindful, be mindful. One other thing before we go, you've got a chapter called shake hands with
01:30:48.920
your neighbors and you talk about the American dream. That was a term coined, you write by author,
01:30:54.100
James Trislow Adams, 1931 book, the Epic of America. And I, I love this, this quote, the dream
01:31:01.300
has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been
01:31:06.200
a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman unhampered by the barriers,
01:31:12.320
which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders,
01:31:17.180
which had developed for the benefit of classes, rather than for the simple human being of any and
01:31:22.520
every class. And it's just a good reminder, right? Like grow to the fullest development as a man and
01:31:29.120
a woman unhampered by the barriers, which has slowly been erected. It's not about money. It's
01:31:34.280
not about followers. It's not about likes. It's about growth. And as you also make the point elsewhere in
01:31:40.360
the book, um, certitude being poisonous. When you're certain of everything, you can never learn
01:31:46.140
anything. Take in ideas, stay curious, think critically. It's up to you to figure out what you
01:31:51.560
believe. Get information, strive valiantly, not for money, but for fulfillment, right? For richness
01:31:59.120
in one's life and one's choices like family. All right. I stole the last word, Dave Rubin.
01:32:04.440
Uh, you've got to get the book. It's called Don't Burn This Country. We want to support Dave,
01:32:09.540
who's been very brave in offering his views, personal, professional, not just today, but every
01:32:14.120
day, surviving and thriving in our woke dystopia. Thank you for being here, my friend.
01:32:18.220
Thank you, my friend. See you soon. I'll see you in West Nyack on April 26th.
01:32:23.920
I'll be there. Don't miss the show tomorrow. James O'Keefe is here with new info on the way
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the feds allegedly spied on him. See you then. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show.