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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Dana Perino’s Must-Read Books of the Year

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Dana Perino returns with her annual reading recap, sharing her must-read books of the year. The Co-Anchor of America’s Newsroom reveals exciting news: her novel, Purple State, will be released in April 2026.    Plus, Dana reflects on her recent trip to Sierra Leone, where she worked with Mercy Ships, a nonprofit hospital ship providing medical care across West Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you know what you want for Christmas?

0:02.8

A cute toy.

0:04.1

No, I just want my family back.

0:06.2

That's what I want for Christmas.

0:08.2

We'll see what I'm saying I can do, okay?

0:10.4

It's Christmas, though.

0:11.4

Be off a good share.

0:12.8

Merry Christmas.

0:14.0

Tis the season to watch Tully on Channel 4.

0:16.5

Stream now.

0:31.9

Hello, everybody.

0:35.6

It's Martha McCallum, and this is the untold story.

0:54.7

I'm going to say every Christmas, Dana and I get together, Dana Preno and I get together. And we talk about the end of the year. We talk about Christmas books. We talked about things that we loved reading or watching this year. And I really enjoy this kind of wrap up at the end of the year. And of course I look forward to it all year.

0:59.7

Being with Dana. So thank you so much. Actually, I keep notes in my notes app all year for this podcast.

1:05.8

Oh, she's so organized. So, you know, there's a lot of things I want to talk to you about. So I want to jump right in.

1:12.4

Of course, you all know, Dana Prino. She needs no introduction, former White House press secretary and star of the five,

1:17.3

which was number one on the mediaite most important. I don't know if I'm the star of the five,

1:21.8

but they called me the glue. So we weren't sure if that meant like I was like the old horse.

1:28.5

No, being the glue is very important, but I think you're, I think you're more like the center of the wheel. Yeah, we're in our 15th year.

1:31.0

Isn't that incredible?

1:31.8

It's kind of strange.

1:33.2

15 years of the five?

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