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Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show. I am so glad today to be back with you. I don't have my glasses on.

I still have very, very, very bloodshot eyes from my LASIK, which was just a couple of days ago.

In my eyes feel kind of strange, but anyway, if they start to bother me with the lights and all that I've got my glasses, they say in like two weeks I'm going to be 100%.

Anyway, I'm also thrilled to welcome back my good friend Dave Rubin, who I am going to help launch his book a little bit later this month, more on that later.

Dave's a man of many talents, as you know, he has a hugely popular podcast and YouTube channel. He's an entrepreneur with his local platform thriving.

He's a husband and as he announced last month, he's about to be a dad times two. He's also a best selling author in his new book is called Don't Burn This Country.

Follows up on Don't Burn This Book. Don't burn this country. This subheading is surviving and thriving in our woke dystopia and it's out today.

Dave, welcome back. Megan, it's good to see you. How are your eyes? I missed this news that you went under elective surgery to correct your vision. Are you?

Do you want to do this with the, you know, you could put on those crazy shades that the, the other people with the black coma.

I have been wearing these for the past few days right here. Dave Rubin and actually, they're pretty, they're pretty comfortable.

I have to say like the bright lights are a little bit much post-lacic. I don't know if you have increased light sensitivity for a couple of days.

But my eyes are kind of itchy with the makeup on. I don't know. We'll see what I do. But yeah, I decided to take it off. Take it all off for you, Dave Rubin. Here I am.

Megan, you'll appreciate this guys. Could one of you grab my newsman glasses for me? One of the little gimmicks that we do on my show because I bring the news to people.

But I don't consider myself a journalist in any way. I just kind of tell people what I think about the world. But I'm always watching these cable news pro, I don't know, cable anymore.

But I see these clips of these people, the cable news people, you used to be a cable news person. And remember when they're doing something serious, they always do this.

They put on their fake glasses. And then they read something, you know, Don Lemon. He's always reading something with fake glasses. And then he takes it off to not.

They're all trying to be Walter Cronkite. Cronkite when it was real, you know, 40 years ago. So I have these are unrelated to vision. They're completely fake. But I have them just in case.

We here's what we used to do in the law. So I used to wear, you know, first I wore glasses and I wore context and I got Lisa. So like picture. These is not sunglasses, but it's like regular glasses.

So you're talking to the jury, you're like members of the jury, I am telling you the defendant did not commit this crime. Members of the jury. What I have to say to you is so important. He did not commit this crime.

You take off the glasses for effect. And then then I switched over to contacts. And what I realized is it's so much less effective to go over to the trial effect and be like, if you can just stand by one second.

I'm going to really important point to me. You try to pull out your very difficult, very powerful about. If people fit my god, he can't see. He must read a lot.

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