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Welcome to a special Mother's Day episode of Dedicated. Today we're talking with my beautiful

wife, mother of our three kids, Megan Kelly. She is a former attorney. She was a badass

litigator for Jones Day, turned journalist and author. She was

included in Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in the year 2014, back when

that was more of a thing. I think Time Magazine's running out of influential people. She's interviewed

heads of state from around the world. She's moderated numerous presidential debates, including in December 2003. The most recent debate our country has had and the only one worth watching that entire season.

She's known for her rigorous brand of journalism in which she is tough on both sides of the aisle. But best of all, she's the architect of her own life and career. She has

built an independent media company so that she can say what she wants, when she wants to say it.

And that allows her to be fully present in raising our kids. This gets to the heart of our

Mother's Day episode. She's there to take our kids to school, to bring them home from school.

She makes all the plays and the sports. She drives them to dances and first dates. And she helps

with homework and she tucks them in at night, including last night. Our 10-year-old is super sick

right now. And you're up there reading books to him in bed. While I'm hiding downstairs downstairs thinking I'm not going anywhere near that ball of germs tonight. You're up there being a good mom, as always. So welcome to this Mother's Day episode of the show, honey. Thank you. Thank you very much. For those wondering what we were reading, it was Wolf Hollow, which has been a good book. I've been reading it out loud to Thatcher. It's good. It's intriguing. That's actually a good point. So listeners know the purpose of this episode is we're going to have a martini and shoot the breeze for a little bit, but then you're going to make three Mother's Day book recommendations for the audience. And then there will be the traditional lightning round at the end of the show.

I'm ready for you.

All right. So then I'm going to start going on the martini. We're going to do gin martini, which is, that's redundant. You don't need to say gin, just the martini. That's right. With olives, a little slightly dirty. It was kind of fun when we first discovered gin, right? We were always doing more of a vodka martini when we first started

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