Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, I'm Megan Kelly, and this is a special podcast only episode for you today.

As you may know, the show goes out live on Sirius XM, between noon and 2 p.m. Eastern every day, Monday through Friday.

And we release it on YouTube, among other online platforms.

But it started as a podcast, and it occurred to us that we should nurture the podcast audience and the folks who have been there with us via audio from the beginning in a special way.

So we are releasing this episode today only on podcast is only for the podcast audience.

And we hope you like it. We'll feel very grateful to all of you for helping make the show a thing and giving us a reason to get up professionally each day.

And continue our mission. And also, I just wanted to talk about the good news and the news this week was very, very good.

It was very good, very encouraging for those of us on the side of reason, meaning free speech and due process, love of country.

And a general rejection of the pernicious ideas of woke ism that are trying to divide us based on race or gender gender identity, et cetera.

Elon bot Twitter or is going to CNN plus failed John Stewart's ratings are in the tank embarrassingly bad.

Disney lost billions in value after openly pushing radical trans ideology and getting political in Florida.

So what does it tell me it tells me reason will prevail reason is winning right it's winning you can feel it.

We hear the shower grateful. I feel excited about this. I'm excited to be part of it so is my team.

We launched this program in September of 2020, which man I look back now it's like everything was happening my gosh we were in such a state.

In fact, I was sitting on my couch in between, you know, NBC and this not that motivated to do I was like I need to do something I don't want to go back into the mainstream media at all.

What am I going to do and the madness of the summer of 2020 is what got me off the couch. I'm like I got to get back out there. I got I got to own my own thing because I got to be able to talk about all these dicey issues in a way that is totally frank.

And then we did it we launched in September of 2020 and our mission statement is right in the tagline open honest and provocative conversations.

No third rails. We'll discuss anything no spinning no lying no bullshit virtue signaling let's give a platform to honest Americans with an opinion that is worth listening to who the mainstream media ignores or attacks are sensors.

As unworthy of consideration.

When we launched it was an absolutely insane time we had like five people we were not yet on camera.

We took a little screenshot of the five of us looking at one another just on our on our zoom computers thinking this is going to be an exciting news time and boy were we right.

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