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Brian Kilmeade Show

Dana Perino : Purple State and Virginia

Brian Kilmeade Show

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

A radio show like no other is Brian Kilmeade.

0:11.2

Hey, welcome back.

0:12.0

And guess who's in studio?

0:12.9

Dana Perito, if you're watching the stream, you're seeing her from America's Newsroom, fresh off that show, two hours long.

0:18.8

With some a little bit of time time she jumped into our show in

0:21.3

between co-hosting the five because she wants to see me in person and she's got a brand new book

0:27.0

out today it's fiction but it's a lot of it's based on what we're all experiencing is called

0:32.4

purple state and dana you are and people are just listening in their cars you're wearing purple

0:36.9

i know and you know it's interesting is that i actually don't really like to wear the color purple. I would never buy it on my own. But here at Fox, because we have different clothes we need to wear every day, I have this beautiful blazer from the wardrobe department. And I thought, if there was ever a day right to wear the purple jacket it was today right

0:54.2

this is not a coincidence not no right so we will be this is a shorter statement because car

1:00.1

rove likes to talk oh does he really what was that video of his too like I need to talk to him about it like

1:05.3

his face was so close to the camera yeah why was that he was pretty close to the camera Allison right

1:10.4

but it looked good it was good I mean Carl's amazing. He doesn't age. You know,

1:14.7

I've known him for 20-something years. It's like, it's weird. Maybe it's a Swedish thing. Aren't you Swedish? Oh, could you do a Swedish thing? Aren't you Swedish? Are I Swedish? A little bit. I'm Italian. My last name is Perino.

1:24.3

But is it all? Are you all Italian?

1:25.5

No, I'm not all Italian.

1:26.5

Actually, when they did 23 and me on the five years and years ago, and they surprised everyone, I was only 2% Italian and I freaked out because I've been like given awards from the National Italian American Society. And I, my, my, and trace my great, great, great grandparents back to Italy, even before it was Italy, right, in that area. But it was northern Italy, so it was a little Swiss situation. Well, I just want to tell you, they did take back OJ's Heisman because he killed somebody. I don't know if this announced to the same thing. Would they take away your Italian awards? I don't know. I hope not, because maybe they'll just consider it honorary. I was kind of mortified though during the show when we announced it because we didn't know.

2:04.4

We opened the envelopes as a surprise.

2:07.5

And I remember also I was 1% Albanian.

2:11.0

But as Gutfeld looked at me and he goes, wow, you are so white.

2:15.3

Well, that's true.

2:16.9

I would second I would,

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