The Megyn Kelly Show

The problem with regret is that it feels terrible. It's painful. And our tendency is just simply to bat away negative feelings.

The philosophy of no regrets is not an act of courage. It's an act of denial.

What's courage is looking at your regrets dead in the eye and learning lessons from them.

What I'm trying to do here is reclaim regret, get over this no regrets philosophy, which you very appropriately called bullshit.

Regret makes us human...But if we process it correctly, it makes us better. It leads us to make better decisions. It allows us to learn and grow.

It's called Apprentice in Wonderland. How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett took America through the looking glass.

This is the first interview I'm giving and I'm so excited to be talking to you.

And I think that really set the template for the campaign.

He made, according to filings, he made $213 million over the 14 seasons that he hosted The Apprentice.

But I think even more importantly for him was that The Apprentice made him into a national hero.

Suffering is universal. Victimhood is optional.

And then you have this book is called Queer, the Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens. This book is in Wake County and all around the country as well.

And it teaches you how to properly sanitize objects that you insert into your body.

It also says to, you know, put it in the dishwasher. Oh, God. Be sure to let it cool down before you use it again.

Megan, this is trash. Also written for dummies.

I wish that we had been able to talk face to face because there's so many things I would have liked to put to him.

She wrote a book on why she believes the science points to COVID originating in a lab.

Just the Good Stuff, No BS Secrets to Success.

I started Politico. I don't work there anymore.

I love the fact when people read my book, and they don't really know my story, what's out there is, hey, this guy got all shot up. And he wrote that sign on the door. And he's this top seal.

It's one of the foundational principles in my overcome book.

I've been listening to Barbara Streisand's biography, her memoir. It's almost a thousand pages it goes on, but I have to say, I appreciate the fact she talks about in the book. She never got a nose job because she was worried that it was going to change her voice. But also she says she kind of likes her nose.

OJ Simpson, shortly after I joined Fox News in 2004, OJ Simpson through HarperCollins, which the Murdoch's also owned...wrote a book with Judith Regan on sort of an offshoot of HarperCollins. And it was called 'If I Did It'.

And it was basically his confession. And it talked about how he did it. If he did it, this is how.

He called Nicole the enemy. He talked about his outreach against her when she would flirt openly with other men in front of their children.

Down to meal with Cato Kaelin, dressed in a dark sweatsuit. He sped over Nicole's condo in Brentwood. He parked in the alley, put on a knit wool cap and gloves, grabbed the knife that he keeps in his Bronco.

According to Simpson, his intent at this point was to scare her, not kill her. Encounters Ron Goldman, sees him arriving at the condo. Simpson goes on to report that he accused Goldman of planning to sleep with Nicole.

What was the one we watched recently with the tennis? That was fun. Apples by Leann Moriarty.

Apples Never Fall.

They didn't really land that very well.

Tina Brown's got this new book out about the royals and her reporting is that Meghan Markle didn't understand that Princess Diana, who she wanted to be just like, quote, had to work like a dog for more than a decade within the royal family before becoming a global humanitarian superstar.

But Meghan didn't realize that for 16 or 17 years, Diana was working like this, doing a great deal of very humdrum assignments before the world fell in love with her.

I've been reading that book and there's definitely differences, you know?

There's a really lovely book that was written by a friend of mine, David Epstein. It's called Range.

Roger Federer and Tiger Woods, two of the greatest athletes of the last generation, both had profoundly different paths to greatness.

And Roger Federer played every sport under the sun and didn't really specialize in tennis until he was 15 or so.

In other words, when it comes to sports like that, what you really want to do is to delay the moment when you specialize.

You want a broad base and you want to hold off on trying to decide what sport you want to specialize at for as long as possible.

The best thing that I read that helped me during COVID was John M. Barry's book, The Great Influenza, which was published in 2005 about the Spanish flu.

He was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, Rich, especially Victor Hugo's Les Misrables.

there is a concept that Hubbard had in his fundamental book Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health that you have these incidents that occur that cause you to have negative emotions reactions pains upsets whatever and that by addressing those incidents with a sort of a regression theory of going back to the beginning and the earliest time that you had such a feeling or an incident that you will be able to relieve that.

My favorite was in Matilda. So in Matilda, there's a reference to a series of books that Matilda reads. And it talks about how she's reading Rudyard Kipling. And it talks about how she's... Jane Austen. Right, and so they replaced it with Jane Austen and John Steinbeck.

The first name for people like you was flap doodles. And they were the ones that made an independent decision to open the flaps of the eyes and ears of the people who were running the world, which were, they looked like elephants. And it was in Daniel Defoe's Gulliver's Travels.

I'm kind of in the news business. I'm a cynical mofo, and I work a lot. I definitely feel happy a fair amount, but I'm not like cheery as a default.

I thought, why don't I take a shot at actually writing about the opposite end of that spectrum, writing about something that makes people feel uplifted, happy.

I joke that it's easier to get a crystal meth addict to stop becoming being a crystal meth addict than it is to pry the cell phone away from my children or cell phone or iPad or whatever electronic device they're on.

I'm always fearful of my children losing their innocence.

You want to buy it because you want to be happier. You want to buy it because it's a fun read, because Gad reveals some fun personal stories that will make you laugh out loud.