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00:00:31.000 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:42.800 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to this special AM episode.

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00:01:09.980 to get past this and have a relationship and make people they care about feel better. And we can talk

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00:02:22.340 First, we had great news in the fight to get boys out of girls sports this week, in addition to

00:02:31.380 President Trump winning, which is going to really, really help. But there was a massive

00:02:35.320 legal ruling on a story that we've been watching and following very closely here at the MK show

00:02:40.200 since we were a baby, since we launched back in September of 2020. So as you know, I live in

00:02:47.220 Connecticut now and September 2020, I still live in New York, but we were moving here. And this story

00:02:53.220 was making national news. There were runners, young female runners in the public schools in Connecticut

00:02:57.900 who had been saddled with boys running against them in track and field. And these brave young women

00:03:03.640 stood up to say, this is not fair. They're taking our medals, our first place finishes.

00:03:09.200 They're taking our scholarships and we can't win against them. This is totally unfair. And they

00:03:15.720 ultimately filed a lawsuit with the help of the, of Alliance Defending Freedom. Love ADF. If you want

00:03:21.480 to give money to support a group, that's a great one. Um, and they bumped right into this absolute

00:03:28.820 douche bag of a judge. This guy is a jerk. He's on the U S district court in Connecticut. And his name 1.00

00:03:36.680 is judge Robert Chadigny, C H A T I G N Y, a bill Clinton appointee. Now in the spring of 2021,

00:03:47.380 we had on the girls and they told us firsthand why they were suing. And it's for all the reasons I just

00:03:54.280 discussed. And then their lawsuit moved through the process. They came back on in, um, 2023,

00:04:02.220 their lawsuit at that point had been dismissed by this jerk. And they were seeking an appeal with 0.98

00:04:11.180 the second circuit court of appeals, which is a federal court of appeals right underneath the U S

00:04:16.680 Supreme court. You know, they're all across the nation and that's the last stop before you get to

00:04:20.160 the U S Supreme court. And they outlined some of the reasons why, again, that they were involved in

00:04:25.680 this lawsuit to begin with. We chose a soundbite from that episode because by that point we had

00:04:29.840 video and you might want to see them. It's episode five 67. And here are Chelsea Mitchell and Alana

00:04:35.380 Smith. So my sophomore year, actually Terry raced on the boys team in the indoor season. And then in the

00:04:43.300 outdoor season switched to the girls team. Terry was blowing us girls out of the water. I mean, 0.92

00:04:48.540 I remember at the state open championship and everyone by like over half a second, um,

00:04:54.300 to the, um, second biological male. And then the, me and the other female finishers were after them,

00:05:01.620 but, um, the, both of them just blew us out of the water consistently. Yeah. It was so frustrating

00:05:08.580 because I know, I mean, I used to spend hours, um, a day at track practice just to shave off. I mean,

00:05:14.900 tens of a second hundreds of a second tracks, the sport were just like a little bit of time off is

00:05:20.280 huge. And it was just so frustrating to line up and just feel like I was racing for second place.

00:05:26.360 And even if I was trying my hardest, I knew that I wasn't going to get the top spot. And then just

00:05:30.860 to know that me and the other girls were, we would do, we didn't have a level playing field.

00:05:35.480 This is so annoying. They had to race against these boys posing as girls because it's the 0.94

00:05:43.880 Connecticut state policy. Connecticut, along with some almost two dozen states have a policy that

00:05:51.120 requires you to be able to race in the sport and in the league that aligns with your gender identity,

00:05:59.040 as opposed to biological sex, which is a blatant violation of title nine. It is a violation of

00:06:04.400 girls equal protection rights. All of this is going to get reversed. It's going to get reversed 0.60

00:06:10.400 thanks to Trump and thanks to the courts and thanks to this U S Supreme court. So these girls filed a 1.00

00:06:18.060 lawsuit trying to say all of that. And this jerk judge rejected the lawsuit, threw it out. And let me 0.99

00:06:25.320 just give you a little color about this guy's ruling, which came down in April of 2021, right around

00:06:31.380 the time when they first came on the show. Alliance defending freedom came out and said that this

00:06:38.440 judge would not allow them as the lawyers for these two girls to refer to the biological boys as 0.93

00:06:45.360 biological boys. The judge required them to call the biological boys females, which the lawyers made the 0.72

00:06:55.000 point that obscures the entire issue that has brought us into court here, your honor. The whole

00:07:03.380 question is, should biological boys be allowed to play in girls sports? And here are all the reasons why 0.93

00:07:10.600 they shouldn't. It completely muddies the waters to say, should females be allowed to compete against 1.00

00:07:19.160 females in girls sports? And this is something we've been talking about in this show is for a long time,

00:07:24.200 as you know, which is they try to control the language to already win the argument. If you

00:07:30.160 cede the language, you've already lost the argument, especially on this issue. And therefore you must

00:07:35.940 fight over the language, including pronouns, even if it makes you feel impolite. If you don't,

00:07:42.480 you're hashtag part of the problem. And this judge was hashtag part of the problem. He dismissed their

00:07:50.200 case. So they appealed up to the second circuit. And when you first appeal, you get a three judge

00:07:55.720 panel from the court of appeals. That panel ruled against the girls again, but the girls were not

00:08:02.180 done. And Alliance Defending Freedom was not done. They appealed to the second circuit on bonk, which

00:08:07.540 means the entire second circuit, all of the judges who otherwise would make up random three judge panels,

00:08:12.580 all of them hear the case. And they agreed to take it. And guess what happened? They reversed.

00:08:20.120 They won. The girls won in front of the second circuit court of appeals, which is huge. And then it went

00:08:30.480 back down as it must to this judge Chadigny, the guy who had originally dismissed the lawsuit. I mean,

00:08:39.140 I just want you to know, this is so egregious. This wasn't not that it makes a difference,

00:08:42.580 whether the boys are on testosterone suppressing hormones. It doesn't make a difference. These

00:08:48.740 boys had been through male puberty. If you're listening to us, go look at, go look at our 0.53

00:08:52.900 youtube.com slash Megan Kelly. You will see these are boys who have been through boy puberty. They are

00:08:58.000 very well-developed. They look like boys. They're strong, like boys, their legs, their muscles are

00:09:04.880 they're boys. Um, and listen to this extra bit of color from one of the girls who was forced to race

00:09:13.180 against them. Listen, were there any requirements, you know, in your state that you know of, um, that

00:09:20.800 they, that they, you know, take, that they reduce their testosterone, that they do something to reduce

00:09:26.940 the biological advantage as, as if we could get rid of all of them, but at least on the testosterone

00:09:31.000 front, Chelsea, no, the, the CIC policy was pretty much just, if you identify as a girl, then you can

00:09:39.200 run on the girls team. There was no policy that you had to lower testosterone or anything.

00:09:45.540 So these two boys were racing as boys in the previous season, the year before and had done

00:09:54.300 nothing, nothing, nothing again, not that it would make the difference, but I guess you could make

00:10:00.180 the case. It would be better than running with your full testosterone and full male advantage as

00:10:04.960 they were. And the Connecticut policy is that's, that's fine. You're good. The girls need to compete 1.00

00:10:11.620 against that. That's fair. So race after race, these girls saw just the glorious joy of winning 0.96

00:10:19.160 slip away from them as an impossibility. As they looked down at the start and saw two boys getting

00:10:27.340 ready to win though, they gave it their all. So it goes back to this judge and what happened last week

00:10:35.720 was reading here from just the news, a chastened judge Chattagny switched his stance and ruled that

00:10:43.920 the amended complaint did plausibly allege disparate treatment under the law based on the female

00:10:51.520 athlete's sex saying the defendants are indeed potentially liable for discrimination under title

00:10:58.380 nine and that the plaintiffs may be indeed able to recover damages, including attorney's fees and costs,

00:11:04.360 depending on what happens in the course of discovery here. Listen to this. Unlike in 2021,

00:11:09.780 the judge's ruling is replete with references to biological sex. He even twice used the phrase

00:11:18.380 biological males, which years earlier he had deemed needlessly provocative in this case. How about

00:11:28.140 that? The girls are asking for these nominal damage. They're not looking to get rich off of this. They just 1.00

00:11:33.760 want this policy changed and declared unlawful. And they also want more than 40 state and local

00:11:39.440 race track records revised, removing the names of the two transgender athletes from their winning

00:11:46.980 places and replacing them with the names of the female athletes who also competed, but did not win.

00:11:59.560 It's justice. This judge was forced. He's been brought to heel by the second circuit court of appeals in a very

00:12:08.880 liberal court. Everybody. This is like the ninth circuit almost that said, you cannot do this.

00:12:17.680 This is huge. And this judge was brought to heel, to acknowledge there is such a thing as a biological

00:12:25.400 male. And that is the language you must use in weighing the relative rights in this situation.

00:12:30.760 So FU Connecticut and FU Judge Chattagny, who only was forced to come around to reason and FU to these

00:12:38.940 boys who tried to run as girls and they knew it was unfair. And to the school that didn't create an

00:12:44.280 open category and say, run there. There's two of you can run against each other. Um, this is just so

00:12:50.180 wrong on every level. And, and here's another piece of it. You need to know.

00:12:54.160 So this case got started under the Trump administration. Number one, the first,

00:13:00.420 the first Trump administration and the department of education was on the side of the girls 0.68

00:13:05.340 and filed a brief through the DOJ, the D the department of education and the DOJ were on the

00:13:09.680 side of the girls and filed in support of the girls saying you have violated title nine Connecticut. 0.99

00:13:16.140 This is not okay. And then we had a switch in administrations. Biden came in, Miguel Cardona

00:13:23.120 came in and they withdrew all of the government support. The DOJ was out. The DOE was out and they

00:13:32.040 actually took the other side of this issue. So these girls were left alone with God bless Alliance 1.00

00:13:37.640 Defending Freedom to pursue this case in court, which they did. But as you can see, it was an uphill

00:13:43.600 battle. And I'm sure it was an expensive battle. Another reason to donate to Alliance Defending

00:13:47.220 Freedom. Um, and now, I mean, even before Trump gets back in office, but now they've won,

00:13:53.860 they haven't won the whole case. They now have to, they get a trial now and they get to make their

00:13:56.940 case and that's, that's all they're entitled to. And that's great. They weren't kicked out just based

00:14:00.260 on the papers by this judge saying, Hey, Connecticut law says it's too bad. You have to suck it up.

00:14:05.140 So now they get to go forward. And now thanks to Trump coming back in office, he will make the

00:14:11.440 necessary revisions to vital to Biden's title nine changes. He'll reverse them. And he will send his

00:14:17.340 DOJ and his department of education in to support the girls like these who need help against woke 1.00

00:14:25.180 schools, systems, States, and judges who want to tell them referring to these kids as biological males

00:14:33.360 is needlessly provocative. And you must lose just based on language alone. This is great. This is all

00:14:41.420 going our way. This is before Trump gets in. We got a big ruling out of the second circuit back down

00:14:46.380 to this judge who's been humbled and hobbled. And that's, what's going to happen to all of you judges

00:14:51.560 who continue to rule the wrong way. And you know, what's even more beautiful will be when one of these

00:14:58.660 left wing courts, like the ninth circuit or what have you rules the other way. And it goes up to the

00:15:05.220 Supreme court. Oh, I hope it goes up to the Supreme court because this court will rule in our favor.

00:15:13.080 I realized that judge Gorsuch cast the deciding vote saying you can't discriminate in the workplace

00:15:18.380 setting against trans people. But he made sure to point out in that opinion that it did not apply to

00:15:25.620 girls sports. That was a separate issue. That was not before the court. We have not lost on that issue

00:15:31.680 before the highest court in the land. And we won't, we will not lose on that issue. I would love to see

00:15:38.600 that go up ASAP. So it's great. We're, we're winning ladies and gentlemen, we're winning the side

00:15:45.400 of reason. The normies are restoring order, fairness, safety, and justice right on second circuit, right on.

00:15:54.820 Okay. Um, there are still a lot of very abnormal, strange people out there. And that leads me to a

00:16:02.260 woman, a writer named Emily gold, who writes for New York magazine and it's publication called the

00:16:09.640 cut. Now you may remember this woman. I believe we talked about her piece when it came out, um, about

00:16:17.060 the lure of divorce in February of 2024, seven years into my marriage. She wrote at the time,

00:16:24.560 I hit a breaking point and had to decide whether life would be better without my husband in it.

00:16:31.480 In this piece, she goes through, this is the old one. I'm going to get to the new one in a sec.

00:16:36.640 She goes through how, um, in the summer of 2022, she lost her mind, her words first. She thought

00:16:43.880 she was just overwhelmed because life had become difficult. And then it became clear. It was more

00:16:49.000 than that to cope with the stress. I asked my psychiatrist, she writes to increase the dosage of

00:16:53.740 the antidepressant I'd been on for years. Sometime around then I started talking too fast and drinking

00:16:59.280 a lot. Drinking felt necessary. She goes on to say she would drink with breakfast, lunch, and dinner

00:17:05.880 some days, which she would eat at restaurants. So the drink order didn't seem too unusual.

00:17:10.020 Who doesn't have an Aperol spritz on the way home from the gym in the morning? I became convinced too

00:17:14.840 that my marriage was over and had been over for years. I spent money like it was water, never budgeting,

00:17:19.720 leaving my husband to make sure we made rent every month. She writes about how they had their last

00:17:25.060 fight. After a long day spent at a wedding upstate, I'd been drinking spiked lemonade at lunch alone,

00:17:30.880 then boxed wine during the wedding reception where I couldn't eat any of the food because it all

00:17:35.340 contained wheat and I have celiac disease. Perfect. Of course. Okay. So she's drinking too much.

00:17:42.200 She's of course allergic to wheat and she has celiac disease. She's depressed and on antidepressants

00:17:47.140 and she's got a psychiatrist. These are the things we've learned about her so far. Um, she tells her

00:17:53.060 husband it's over, really over the definitive moment I'd been waiting for. I had a concrete reason

00:17:58.360 to leave because her husband, I guess, wasn't paying her enough attention and was giving her some

00:18:04.620 hassle about her finances. My therapist and my psychiatrist. Okay. So it's more than just the

00:18:10.520 psychiatrist. Both urged me in no uncertain terms to check myself into a psychiatric hospital.

00:18:15.720 It's not going well here for Emily therapist, psychiatrist, marriage and disarray, drinking

00:18:23.360 breakfast, lunch, and dinner on an antidepressant had to increase the dose. Um, celiac disease is yet

00:18:31.040 another alleged problem. And then they started her on lithium right away in a meeting with my team

00:18:38.120 of psychiatrists. Now it's a team. They broke the news. I had bipolar disorder. They weren't sure which

00:18:45.540 kind. And into the inpatient psychiatric facility. She went where she insisted that her mother and her 0.90

00:18:55.280 husband were not allowed to visit her. Instead, at some point she got out and she decided to do

00:19:01.540 couples therapy with the husband. So now we've had a psychiatric institution, a team of psychiatrists,

00:19:07.880 a therapist, an antidepressant, alcohol, morning, noon, and night, uh, celiac disease, cutting off

00:19:14.560 the mother, cutting off the husband, and then a re-entry by the husband in couples therapy. 0.52

00:19:19.500 Um, my husband would have to forgive me for cheating. Oh yeah, I forgot. She cheated. She, 1.00

00:19:24.960 she cheated on him. Um, he would have to forgive her for doing that and for wasting our money. And I would 0.82

00:19:30.700 have to forgive him for treading on my literary territory, uh, our family's life, my own life. He would

00:19:37.400 have to forgive me for having a mental breakdown, leaving him to take care of our family, etc. And I would

00:19:43.360 have to forgive him for taking for granted that I would be available on a sick, sick day or to do an early

00:19:47.980 pickup or watch the baby while he wrote about our other child. Okay. This, I, I read all that because

00:19:53.580 you need to know who Emily Gould is before I tell you the following fact. She is now an advice

00:20:00.400 columnist for, for New York magazine. Oh God. This is the same way they make all the kids write about

00:20:13.980 their severe traumas and adverse childhood experiences and how effed up they are in order to admit them into 0.93

00:20:19.800 the Ivy leagues. You write your admissions essay about what a well-adjusted kid you are, what a

00:20:24.680 loving family you have that's taught you to love yourself and America and be open-minded to different

00:20:30.620 points of view. You're out. You can forget it, but I guarantee you lithium, inpatient cheating, SSRIs

00:20:38.820 and celiac disease. You'll sail right in. Welcome to Yale. So Emily is now doing advice columns

00:20:47.080 at the cut. And that leads me to this particular piece of advice. The headline is my daughter's New

00:20:55.220 York city public school teacher supports Trump. There's the big reveal. Of course, everybody who

00:21:05.460 reads New York magazine has the same reaction, which is, Oh my God. Oh, go on. We understand where this is

00:21:11.420 going. Dear Emily, you tell me who's crazier, the writer or Emily. I'm struggling with how to respond to a

00:21:19.580 recent incident at my daughter's New York city public school. She said her ninth grade English teacher

00:21:24.720 made all the students in the class watch Trump's acceptance speech. Ah, what? The next president of the

00:21:34.440 United States, you say they forced the children to lay eyes on him and ears to, and not just that, but take notes

00:21:44.060 on his values and then ask them to pay particular attention to how positively the crowd responded during his

00:21:53.060 speech. I, I mean, how soon can we fire her? What? They had to watch the next president take notes on the values he

00:22:04.340 was expressing and to pay attention to how the crowd responded. I mean, what have we come to in this

00:22:12.420 country? I was waiting for, for more. Like what? Then did she say how right he was, how unfairly he's been

00:22:18.400 character. No, that's it. I've completed now the list of offenses that this teacher committed. Though the

00:22:27.320 teacher did not say anything directly about how she voted. My daughter said she's a known Trumper. And so I can 0.91

00:22:32.580 only assume her attention assuming was in some way to promote his ideas, promote or just explore, just

00:22:42.760 present because there's a difference present and to call their attention to the fact that as the results

00:22:50.260 have made clear, there are millions of people who do support him. Perhaps we'd spend a minute

00:22:55.460 seeing why, what is it he's saying and how are they reacting? That is not promotion, madam. It's

00:23:03.220 presentation and an airing that most of these students will never get. Trust me. I was in the

00:23:08.360 New York city schools. I was there in those privates. Um, when my daughter and many of the other students

00:23:15.140 voiced their objections and said, they found this exercise upsetting. It's upsetting. The teacher said

00:23:22.520 it was her lesson and she would teach the class the way she wanted. They had to do it. One brave

00:23:28.460 student got up and left the room to go to the principal's office and was not required to go

00:23:33.180 back to class. Of course, the principal was like, you stay here, sweetheart. That is traumatic. Hold

00:23:37.540 me, hold me. Uh, at 14, my daughter is old enough to be politically aware and was excited by the

00:23:45.020 possibility of electing our first female president. She was extremely sad that Kamala lost. Of course, 0.97

00:23:50.840 as a family, we share her views. I wish the teacher had given the students the space

00:23:55.360 and time to decompress after such a divisive election. No matter how the kids felt about

00:24:01.300 the outcome, I'm not totally sure how to tell my daughter she needs to respect and listen to this

00:24:06.020 teacher after she acted with so little empathy toward her own students, the way she made them look

00:24:12.960 at and listen to Trump. What do I do now in terms of talking to my daughter about how to tough out the

00:24:20.780 rest of the year in this teacher's class? Or if I can make myself take on having the conversation

00:24:29.160 of talking to the school. I just don't know if I'm ready. I don't know if I'm ready for this.

00:24:34.900 I don't know. I can't talk about Trump and this incident signed. Can't believe I have to deal

00:24:43.300 with this right now. I'm going through enough. I've got to shave off my hair, get my big glasses,

00:24:50.720 post on the internet, find my chastity belt, get the abortion pill. I got, I've got enough to deal

00:24:56.860 with Emily. Now, do you think Emily responded, dear, can't believe I have to deal with this right

00:25:02.240 now? You and your daughter need to toughen up. Diverse viewpoints are what make the world go

00:25:06.920 round. Your teacher didn't push a particular POV on the students. She just introduced them to their

00:25:12.560 next president and let them hear from him directly before he takes the oath of office. You should show

00:25:19.000 them controversial Trump videos if that's what you want them to know, or Kamala Harris videos if you

00:25:25.560 want them to see what they missed out on. But the answer is not to stifle any discussion of politics.

00:25:31.400 or the news in class. That's not how it went, folks. Emily responded, waking up to the news last

00:25:41.460 Wednesday that Trump won the election was brutal enough already. I know as a parent, it was difficult

00:25:46.540 for me to go through the motions, to answer my kids' questions, to get through drop-off without

00:25:50.920 bursting into tears once or twice. I mean, it might've been the lithium, Emily. I don't, I just,

00:25:55.800 you should call your team. I'm so sorry your daughter had to deal with this added burden.

00:26:01.400 From what I've heard from parents with school-aged kids, most teachers handled the situation with

00:26:05.140 appropriateness and grace. They set aside class time for kids to discuss their feelings

00:26:10.600 in a non-confrontational, non-partisan way. Too bad this isn't what happened for your daughter.

00:26:16.660 It's also the school's fault. And if you can't find the energy to take it up with them, I think

00:26:20.620 you definitely should. Basically, we need you. We need you. Can't believe we do.

00:26:24.840 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. When you're strong enough, go to the administration and calmly, factually lay out

00:26:31.400 exactly what you think the teacher did that was inappropriate. Be ready to counter them by asking

00:26:36.120 you how you'd feel if Kamala Harris had won and your daughter's English teacher had taken class time

00:26:40.760 to let the students watch her victory speech. Don't you let yourself get sidetracked though.

00:26:45.500 But the fact that this comparison isn't just apples and oranges, it is apples and convicted felons.

00:26:51.820 That's literally in the piece. I'm quoting. It's not apples and oranges. He is an orange,

00:26:57.540 but he's a convicted felon orange. That's the relevant point. Instead, calmly point out that 0.97

00:27:04.180 this teacher didn't just have the students watch the speech. She made them take notes on his values.

00:27:11.060 Got news for you, Emily and unnamed mother. That could be his values suck. He's saying things about 0.99

00:27:18.640 immigrants I don't agree with. He seems to be against me on the trans issue. Whatever the values

00:27:23.580 are that you've definitely instilled in these children in the New York City system, he could be

00:27:28.420 opposed to them. And you might actually hear that when you hear him speak. How is telling the students

00:27:33.200 to take notes on his values in any way an indoctrination attempt? And she goes on, the teacher

00:27:39.260 drew attention to the positive crowd reaction. Frankly, in New York City schools, that was probably an

00:27:45.740 attempt by this teacher to show how many of them are also Nazis. Honestly, it could easily be going

00:27:52.980 the other way. You can draw nothing from any of this. Or it could be a teacher who's more fair and

00:27:59.360 balanced trying to let the students know half the country does love him. See how they react? That's

00:28:04.580 how we got Trump. When everyone around you is saying, how did he win? You can say, well, he's got a lot of

00:28:10.580 supporters. I saw how they clapped. This is not indoctrination. It is education. Fine. Does it

00:28:16.940 need to happen in English class? I'm with you on that. Probably not. It's a current events thing

00:28:21.820 or a government thing, maybe social studies. I'll give you that point, which comes up next in her

00:28:27.100 response. Then she goes on. But by the way, can I just say something on that? Because it actually

00:28:33.740 does, like she says in here, none of this has anything to do with teaching English. It all amounts to

00:28:38.640 what I'd consider to be a breach of trust. I mean, this is very rich coming from the math is racist

00:28:44.700 crowd. Remember all the videos we've seen of students at MIT standing up to protest the Palestinian

00:28:49.780 thing and all the memes about how two plus two doesn't equal four. And if you think it does,

00:28:54.500 you're racist. I mean, DEI and this nonsense has made its way into every single class our kids take,

00:29:01.880 PE, art, song, you name it. And in English classes across America, both at the high school level,

00:29:08.640 and in college, they are pulling anything written by a white man out because DEI must rule

00:29:15.000 everything. So if you're going to stick your political agenda into every class other than

00:29:19.300 current events, be prepared when some rogue teacher decides to counterbalance it with one

00:29:25.400 night of watching a Trump speech. Anyway, she goes on to say the following.

00:29:31.460 Now it's on the administration to find a way to reestablish trust between these teachers and

00:29:38.340 the students. If this teacher goes on to assign essays about how Trump is making America great

00:29:43.560 again, for example, your daughter's within her rights to refuse, refuse to do the assignment.

00:29:49.040 And of course, if she and her fellow students are comfortable doing so, they are well within the

00:29:52.440 rights to take their grievances to the administrations themselves. Take a moment here

00:29:57.140 to congratulate yourself on being a good parent. Just like you, Emily, with all the lithium and the

00:30:04.380 SSRIs and the inpatient stuff and all the boozing and the cheating. Okay. I mean, all right. It's a

00:30:09.540 sliding scale. Then use that confidence to gather the strength and momentum you will need to get through

00:30:15.920 the next four years. Um, the lunatic left is alive and well, and really grappling with what to do in

00:30:25.520 the wake of this election. I don't, I don't think they're going to get over their TDS. And I don't 0.93

00:30:32.200 think New York Magazine or any of the people who read it are reachable. I don't, I think they're the

00:30:38.120 reason we're seeing pics like Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth and people who upset them for various posts

00:30:47.120 because Trump and his team are done giving two Fs about how they react. They're not gettable.

00:30:55.300 They're not reasonable. They really just have to be brought to heel like that judge. They must simply

00:31:01.720 be defeated. And if I were a Democrat trying to revive my party, I truly would just ostracize them.

00:31:08.820 Alienate them, like disown them in the way Republicans have diminished the Lincoln project 0.54

00:31:15.740 and these other never Trumpers as really having nothing to do with them. That's their only way,

00:31:20.340 like Emily. Yeah. She's not gettable, not with reason, not with lectures by Jim Carville about how

00:31:28.440 wokeism need to go. Um, these people need psychiatric help, maybe a different kind than she's getting.

00:31:35.300 And really, frankly, to like rethink the way they're approaching life, like get outside more,

00:31:42.820 um, maybe stop the alcohol and all that stuff. And the wheat problem might clear up, um, consider

00:31:50.920 changing your media diet. That's probably number one to lower your stress and open your mind and,

00:31:57.880 um, keep on trucking because I think, you know, while there might not be political reconciliation

00:32:04.100 for you, there could be a world in which you don't get institutionalized regularly. So good luck.

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00:34:17.040 Now we bring you another edition of Thanks But No Thanks, where we say thanks but no thanks to a

00:34:26.820 story bubbling up in the news. Today we're going to talk about a wholesome new movie that hits theaters

00:34:31.420 next week called Wicked, a movie adaptation of the popular musical featuring Ariana Grande and

00:34:38.100 Cynthia Arribo. It is a twist on the Wizard of Oz story focused on the two witches at the center of

00:34:45.480 it all. Take a look at a little bit of the trailer. The wonderful Wizard of Oz summons you to the

00:34:52.540 Emerald City. Come with me. What? To beat the wizard. Why couldn't you tell me this is your moment? I'm coming.

00:34:58.580 See, it's just a sweet little film for the whole family. A PG rating, nice, innocent entertainment.

00:35:10.400 And they've been promoting this thing like crazy, of course, for a Disney movie. I mean,

00:35:13.920 you got to have your dolls. And Disney partnered with Mattel for Barbie-like characters, which you

00:35:19.800 can see Grande and Erivo enjoying in a video they posted from July. It's perfect.

00:35:28.580 So fun. Surely these product tie-ins will be hugely popular with the young impressionable fans

00:35:49.060 of the film as we approach the holiday season. But you see, there's just one problem. The front

00:35:56.060 of the package, as it turns out. $25 for this thing, by the way, looks totally normal. But on the

00:36:02.540 back, there's a website at the bottom for you to find out more about the movie, www.wicked.com,

00:36:11.080 it says. But Wicked.com does not bring you to Disney's website for the film. Oh, no. It brings

00:36:17.680 you to the website of the pornographic movie company, Wicked Pictures.

00:36:26.660 For research purposes only, our executive producer, Steve Krakauer, was forced to go there

00:36:31.600 last night. And what you will find is not Ariana Grande, but films like Sunny Gold Melons and

00:36:40.400 Kenzie Loves Girls 2, splashed on the front page for little girls across America to go check out.

00:36:49.680 To get to the film website, you need to go to www.wickedmovie.com. Well, this is a huge mess.

00:37:00.460 On Sunday, Mattel was forced to issue a statement. Quote, Mattel was made aware of a misprint

00:37:06.360 on the packaging of the Mattel Wicked collection dolls, primarily sold in the U.S. It said,

00:37:12.120 we deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this.

00:37:18.480 Parents are advised that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate for children. 0.94

00:37:24.680 Yeah, no shit, Mattel. You see, Wicked.com has all sorts of movies on it that seem like Disney films, 0.93

00:37:33.480 but I assure you, they are not. You should not share these with your children.

00:37:38.740 We asked our guests yesterday, the fellas from Ruthless, for their favorites behind the scenes.

00:37:43.440 Holmes liked Cinderella XXX, while Duncan liked more of the new stuff and Captain Marvel's XXX.

00:37:50.880 Ashbrook went with Snow White XXX. You sensing a theme here that the guys found appealing?

00:37:56.420 These are all real movie titles that are being made available to your children if they click on this

00:38:01.080 website. Smug picked Operation Desert Stormy starring Stormy Daniels, of course, one of the

00:38:10.260 dozens of movies you can find at Wicked.com featuring the star of the New York Business Records trial

00:38:15.240 against Trump earlier this year. Okay, I'm kidding. We didn't actually ask the Ruthless guys for their

00:38:19.620 picks. I had you, though. Apparently, a lot of people are getting confused by the packaging

00:38:25.780 mishap because, according to Variety, website traffic to the Wicked Porn Company is at its

00:38:31.520 highest level in 12 years. The power of Mattel. So go enjoy the movie, if you would like, with your

00:38:41.140 kids. And buy the dolls, if you like. You can find them at Target or Kohl's. But at the Megyn Kelly

00:38:46.400 show, where we keep things very wholesome, unlike those perverts over at Ruthless, we're saying

00:38:51.300 thanks, but no thanks, to the URL on the back of the Wicked box. Okay, before we go, I'm going to

00:38:58.500 answer some of your questions. Let's hope they're PG-13. And you can submit them to Megan, M-E-G-Y-N 0.93

00:39:08.740 at megankelly.com. I read them all. Now I'm joined by my executive producer, Steve Krakauer, who wrote

00:39:14.340 that bit. Steve Krakauer, well done, my friend. Well done.

00:39:17.520 I really hope that Google understands that sometimes I have to do research that I'm not

00:39:23.760 interested in. I have to look up weird movies, and it's part of my job. I'm not interested in that.

00:39:28.920 I hope your wife Megan understands. Forget Google.

00:39:32.020 I need to clear my search history, just in general, with this job.

00:39:35.980 Well, you know, I just realized this. I just realized that, you know, when you go on Twitter

00:39:39.500 and people write the word pornographic, if they're writing about a story, and they put

00:39:44.060 like a number, the number zero instead of an O for porner, they misspell it. I just now realized

00:39:50.480 they do this so that the algorithm doesn't think they want those things served up to them.

00:39:58.540 So we all need to take a lesson.

00:40:01.140 That's good advice. Okay. Well, I'll have to learn that for next time. But right now it's too,

00:40:05.340 it's too late. Okay. We've got some great questions.

00:40:07.940 That one was very funny, Steve. I have to say it very well. How do you find these stories? I mean,

00:40:12.300 really like, it's a good, how do you find this one? I mean, the amount of promotion that they're

00:40:16.560 doing for this wicked movie is, is everywhere. I, I, they're, they're, uh, and, and so the story

00:40:20.480 is in a lot of places. I mean, this is a, this is a huge problem. These dolls are everywhere.

00:40:24.660 Wicked.com. Do not, do not go there. We would not suggest that.

00:40:29.000 We are not looking to promote the website. Okay. So, but we are looking to promote our viewer mail

00:40:33.280 and we apparently got a ton of it, uh, over the past week, which I received a huge download. So Meg

00:40:38.620 Storm will call through a lot of them and she sends me a huge download every Monday. And I

00:40:42.220 love reading them. You know, what I do is I put them, everybody knows I love voice stream,

00:40:45.800 put them, I download them on voice stream and then voice stream reads all the emails to me,

00:40:49.940 which I love, but you've pulled some where people are actually looking for, uh, advice or an answer.

00:40:56.000 Yeah. And these, these first two are similar to a lot of emails. We got hundreds that fit in

00:41:01.300 this general category. So one is from Ellen who says, how do I talk to my 20 year old niece

00:41:06.220 who believes that the world has just ended, which is an important one to know. And then Rebecca

00:41:11.020 says, how do we move forward with our fellow Americans that are Kamala Harris voters?

00:41:17.380 Well, those are, you know, similar, similar answers to both of those questions. I mean,

00:41:22.340 I really think like, look, if I were trying to make my friends who are liberal feel better about

00:41:29.020 Trump, I would say we've had four years of Trump before we moved on and the Democrats were back in

00:41:36.180 power. And if you look at the history of our country, that's how this will go to more than

00:41:40.500 likely Trump will do a bunch of controversial things that Republicans love. And then if history

00:41:44.940 is any guide, the Democrats will vote Democrats back into power in the house or the Senate in the

00:41:50.020 midterm elections. And the Dems will reclaim one of those bodies and we'll be able to thwart Trump's

00:41:55.920 legislation right now. They don't have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. 0.99

00:42:01.000 So the Democrats can thwart major Trump legislation that they feel is too right at this very moment.

00:42:09.760 So they haven't, the Republicans won, but they didn't win enough to really, you know,

00:42:13.600 push through all their favorites. And they only have a four seat majority in the house. So all

00:42:18.040 that's good news to Democrats who want to see Trump stopped the executive order game that was on for

00:42:24.060 real. And it will make an impact, especially when it comes to immigration. But look, Trump issued a

00:42:29.520 bunch of executive orders on immigration. Biden undid them all and had a massive impact on places

00:42:34.260 like the border. And Trump's now going to try to reinstitute them. And then it will flip back the

00:42:38.520 other way. If again, history is any guide because the Democrats could win the white house in four

00:42:42.660 years. So it's like, you just need to calm down. We have these four year terms in the white house for

00:42:47.760 a reason. We only have two year terms in the house. So it really does allow one side to regain power

00:42:53.160 and also like take a deep breath and realize a lot of what you've been told about Trump 0.81

00:42:59.740 is by crazy media people who just loathe him. Like turn off MSNBC, turn off CNN, tell them every

00:43:08.880 morning in their leftist. So tell them to do what I do. Listen to NPR and their little up first,

00:43:15.160 you know, 15 minute broadcast, which is totally insufferable. I cannot stand it more than anything.

00:43:21.060 I hate their stupid, weird music. I hate the way it makes me feel like it resonates something deep 1.00

00:43:27.420 in my soul that is very jarring the way like you'd feel if a serial killer came into your bedroom and

00:43:32.680 that's something. I hate it. Okay. But I listened to it because I want to know what the left is

00:43:38.300 saying and spinning and then go get a broadcast like ours or like morning wire on the other side

00:43:44.040 that will offer a more fair and balanced view of the news. And that way you can prevent yourself

00:43:50.360 from being totally indoctrinated and rattled by news about Trump. But during the Trump presidency,

00:43:56.240 the last thing these people should do is just consume a diet of MS or CNN or even the mainstream.

00:44:02.700 It's only going to lead to more stress and consternation.

00:44:07.720 Good advice. I hope they take that. We've got a long road ahead here, but it should be fun.

00:44:12.220 It'll be fun to cover. We got a lot of questions also about your appearance last week at the Trump

00:44:17.620 rally. Jane says, flawless job at the rally, persuasive, smart, and well delivered. And then

00:44:22.980 she wants to know, what did Trump whisper to you when the two of you hugged at the end?

00:44:28.600 I don't remember specifically. I think he said something like, great job. Thank you.

00:44:33.960 He was very, very nice. He and I spoke beforehand behind the scenes when I greeted him there. And

00:44:38.800 that was really nice. We caught up. He was very, very happy with my appearance on Bill Maher,

00:44:43.540 which I think I told you. And was saying all sorts of really, really nice stuff. You know,

00:44:49.220 he and I are in a good place. And so I enjoyed that. And, you know, after the actual speech,

00:44:55.260 it was just pleasantries and then goodbye. So it was a thrill being up there. It was great to see him.

00:44:59.820 And it was just, you know, so much better to the next night, watch the returns come in and see that

00:45:04.820 man over the top and restored to power in a way that's going to make profound difference in the

00:45:09.780 country. That's great. All right. Last one. A little fun here. Tracy says you make a lot of

00:45:14.900 movie references and you do. That is definitely true. When do you have time to watch movies?

00:45:19.740 And what is your favorite movie? Well, you'll notice most of them are from the, you know,

00:45:25.040 seventies, eighties, nineties, and early aughts. Like I, I used to have a life. Now I just,

00:45:28.940 now I just consume news in almost all my waking hours. We all do. It's a sickness. Honestly,

00:45:33.460 if you could see the amount of time, I've got a question for you, Steve. Like when you get your

00:45:38.300 little notification from your phone about how many hours you've spent online on an average daily

00:45:42.900 basis, do you get that thing? What is it normally? Uh, well, I should just say, I have to be on my

00:45:50.220 phone for the show because it's, I can't, so it's, that's three hours a day right there. Uh, it's about

00:45:56.440 nine hours. Yep. Same. Mine is like at least 10, 10 hours. You average 10 hours a day because I'm

00:46:04.180 constantly listening to you on podcast, or I, I download so many news articles on voice stream

00:46:08.160 and I have them read to me, or you can go to national review online. They already have the

00:46:11.100 press play to have their articles read to you, which all of them should have. I wish all of them

00:46:15.460 would do it. The New York times does it. Wall Street journal does it anyway. Uh, or you're on

00:46:20.100 Twitter, you know, it's like, or we're all texting, you know, we have our producers text chain

00:46:23.580 where we're all exchanging news. Like it's a full-time job. So I don't really have a lot of time for

00:46:28.340 movies these days, but I do watch some Netflix. I'll tell you what we watched lately. I mean,

00:46:33.100 I, all I did was watch TV growing up. I really didn't study. I didn't do that well in school.

00:46:37.160 I had some friends, but we just watched it. I was seventies. My mom paid no attention to me.

00:46:41.280 So I watched TV and ate a lot of McDonald's. Um, so now we watched some Netflix. Doug and I just

00:46:47.760 watched, uh, it came out a couple of years ago, escape at Dannemora, which is about those two

00:46:54.240 prisoners who use that prison guard up in Northern New York to help them break out of prison. And then

00:47:01.300 they went on a whole wild goose chase with the cops. Very after this was over, Doug spoke to Sarah,

00:47:08.940 my hairstylist who she comes in the morning three days a week. And he said, Sarah, we're going to

00:47:13.340 have to have a talk about curating our list that you recommend such that it, it doesn't have so many

00:47:20.320 unattractive characters. And it certainly doesn't have them finding carnal knowledge of one another

00:47:26.000 so frequently in the film. It was, I mean, very, they were, I guess they were made to look

00:47:31.860 unattractive because Patricia Arquette is not that unattractive. And, um, it was so jarring. I did not

00:47:38.220 need to see. It was like that, that wicked.com website, the scenes I saw in there, uh, putting

00:47:45.040 that aside. It was interesting to watch that, watch that movie. And I enjoyed that when, when it's

00:47:50.520 available, we watched that show severance, which I really liked also by the same director, by the

00:47:55.980 way, Ben Stiller, who I can't stand his politics, but I'm enjoying his output. I'm not going to lie.

00:48:00.920 Escape at Dan Amor was a little slow as eight episodes could have been done in four. Um,

00:48:05.380 God, I don't know what else. Oh, we watched the Martha Stewart documentary. Steve, have you seen this?

00:48:11.260 I haven't seen it yet. I know. I'm, I hear more and more people watching it.

00:48:14.380 It's really good. I was, I had no idea. Like all the stories about her. She, she's pretty frank

00:48:22.540 about her poibles. She had an affair on her first husband, which she, it's, it's amazing. She's like 1.00

00:48:28.160 her, her first husband, she says cheated on her with this woman. She brought on their property as 0.99

00:48:32.960 she puts it in the film. I, I gave him a snack, provided a snack for him on my own property.

00:48:38.500 But she apparently cheated on him first, but there's a scene in which she's like, 0.99

00:48:43.120 I guess I'm just a swan. I'm a swan who mates for life. And then he betrayed me. And the producers

00:48:49.200 are like, well, you, you cheated with that Irish guy. And she's like, what, what? And she admits it.

00:48:55.260 Like, well, so, so you're not a swan. Anyway, I loved it, but we don't have a lot of time. Long

00:49:01.100 winded answer to tell you, I don't have a lot of time for TV. If you've gotten any recommendations

00:49:04.860 though, I'm taking them. Megan at megankelly.com. All right. We'll gather them for next week.

00:49:11.300 I'll pass them along. Cool. Cool. Thank you, Steve Krakauer. And, um,

00:49:15.280 good luck to you and your algorithm on your Google feed. Um, okay. So thanks to Steve. And thanks to

00:49:22.240 all of you for joining us today. We are back, um, on Monday with Glenn Greenwald. He's back.

00:49:28.880 Glenn is not out. Glenn is in and he will be on the show Monday for reals. See you then.

00:49:34.960 Thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.

The Megyn Kelly Show - November 16, 2024

Megyn Kelly on Massive Title IX Victory, Terrible NYC Advice Column, and Tips For Dems Freaking Out About Trump ｜ Ep. 946

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