The Megyn Kelly Show

However, if you are a miserable person, you are almost certainly a liberal and a Democrat.

And I prove that in my book, Liberal Misery.

There is a psychological factor to this that I that I really wanted to get to the bottom of when I wrote my book.

And I just so happened, I had no idea until I started researching it that there's all this data, all these surveys, all these studies that actually prove in every facet of life, every question you could ask a liberal, a Democrat, an independent and a Republican conservative across the political spectrum, liberals and Democrats will time and time again be the ones who are most likely to say they are unhappy, they are unhappy with their lives.

And that's why also I was adamant of using the word misery for the title, because misery is something that spreads. Misery is something that there's a phrase for it, misery loves company.

During this period that I write about, which is really the Cold War or really World War two until the end of the Cold War, there was no greater secret in Washington or American politics that was more dangerous or more destructive to a political career than being gay.

And so I figured that this would make a fascinating subject for a book and just exploring all the many ways in which homosexuality impacted American politics, the scandals, the personalities, how the presidents dealt with it.

This book is also a whodunit to rival anything by Agatha Christie.

And that's where a lot of this comes from.

And that is when this sort of obsession with gays and governments, and gays in politics really takes off. It's with the rise of the national security state.

Who Do I Think I Am? Stories of self identity growing up Mexican and American, but I didn't speak Spanish. My last name was Johnson. I wanted to be a Chola real bad, but nobody was scared of little Piazza Johnson.

who do I think I am to dream such big dreams and go for them? Like, who do I think I am to say something outrageous like I want to be an actress?

So it's like the audacity to chase your dreams and figuring out who I am.

And another one called First Survivors of Alzheimer's.

One more thing that you didn't mention my my collection, which is out Out on a Limb. It's a collection of my essays. A paperback is coming out very shortly and the the original book is out there for sale. I should have done that. But my apologies Out on a Limb, which embodies your life philosophy and that segment we just saw and everything.

It's the name of a Vaclav Havel book length interview from like nineteen eighty eight Disturbing the Peace.

We had Colin Quinn, the great Colin Quinn live show we did in New York last week and his The New York Story is one of the most amazing, absolutely brilliant specials, sort of comedy, sort of sociology, history of New York.

It's an organization that I co-founded with Lenore Skenazy, a wonderful woman who wrote this brilliant book, Free Range Kids, about how to give your kids a childhood where they'll develop autonomy.

If you want to lose weight, you really should start and realistically start with thinking about how you're eating, thinking about your nutrition and think about your metabolism because there's a reason you've gained weight in the first place.

It's not just bad for your health. It's demoralizing.

But long-term goal can be how you look.

I always like to help people to frame it up that we want it to be like a long-term thing.

And that is why I say there is no such thing as a healthy snack because it's not a healthy habit.

It was hugely intimidating, but I just knew there was something to it.

It's really hard to get started eating healthier, but it is so much better.

So you go through the supermarket and you start reading labels, and you just put it back and say, I know this is bad for me.

It's about using keto, a keto strategy to reset your metabolism, to develop this metabolic flexibility.

And now she's at a point where she doesn't need to eat keto, but she knows what to eat. She knows how to read labels.

I talked to Bill Barr about this last week, Trump's attorney general for the last couple years of his term...he bumped up against Trump because he didn't believe Trump's election fraud claims. But prior to that, he was very loyal to Trump and, you know, was, I thought a great attorney general. He was making the point in his book that all of this really mattered.

He has a book called Spy the Lie.

He wrote a book called Spy the Lie, and he will get to the bottom of it, even if there's not criminal prosecution power.

In early spring of 2021, so just a few months later, we put on Josh Rogan of the Washington Post. You guys know him by now. Right? He wrote the book on COVID and how it got started.

Well, Josh Rogan, even though he's with WAPO, was completely ignored by most in the mainstream.

They didn't want to hear him talking about the COVID, that COVID might have come from a lab.

I've watched with horror in the last years as my friends on the left have somehow decided that free speech is a conservative value that it's something that they should criticize or that it's something that they shouldn't own.

a lot of people just don't trust the government anymore and they don't trust politicians anymore

the ceaseless importation of third world foreigners

they would have no liking of the republican party but more broadly no liking of the american republic that they just didn't have democratic values

America today is much better at building this ethnically religiously diverse democracy than most societies in the history of the world but most countries around the world today and a lot better than we were 50 or 25 years ago

He writes over the first three years of Mr. Trump's presidency, blacks and Hispanics experienced record low rates of unemployment and poverty, while wages for workers at the bottom of the income scale rose faster than they did for management.

He goes on to say that part of what made the Trump boom unique was who benefited the most. The economy grew in ways that mostly benefited low income and middle class households, categories that cover a disproportionate number of blacks.

He writes between 2017 and 19, median household incomes grew 15.4 percent amongst blacks, just 11.5 percent amongst whites.

I realize you're not making this a racial issue. I just think it's interesting.

I have just finished a book. It's taken me six years to write and four years spent at Oxford.

I am going to do introduce this on any show that Megyn Kelly is on.

I want you to read my book. And I think that and if you like it, and I don't think there's an if involved. This book is called one thought scares me.

And it's about the fact that we are like the stupid jerks that we have become. We destroyed our, our audience, we have, we're not anchored to anything.

We are not anchored to anything except greed, and money.