Five years ago yesterday, we launched The Megyn Kelly Show out of my children’s playroom on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. My assistant Abby ordered me a very cheap desk online that could fit in the corner. There were three of us at the time – me, Abby, and my executive producer Steve Krakauer. Abby sat on a beanbag chair on the floor next to me as I recorded. And that is how we started the show.
It is crazy to me that that was five years ago. Now, thanks to all of you, the show has just exploded. We are getting something like 150 million views a month on YouTube, and that is not even counting the podcast downloads and the social media reach of the show.
If you have listened from the beginning – as I know many of you have because I hear from a lot of you saying you’ve been here from the start – then you know the show has changed dramatically in that time. I have changed dramatically in that time. It has been a fun evolution to get used to giving my opinion and figuring out my opinion on certain things.
At the same time, the world has changed dramatically underneath us, in large part, thanks to all of you who voted Donald Trump back into office and restored sanity to our nation. We are having different issues now, but we defeated wokeism. We won that hugely important battle.
Despite what has changed, the core purpose of the program has not. My team pulled a little bit from our first episode on September 28, 2020 (you can go back and listen to it here), and here’s how that went:
“I need to create a show that I control, in which my only fealty will be to the audience and to the truth. So, that’s why I’m here… I’m sick and tired of the news today. And I hope to be a place that you can come for information that you trust… that you know I’m not in the bag for either side or for anybody, and [that can be] a place in which opinions – even heterodox opinions – can be expressed freely, and we can debate ideas… and then you guys are sophisticated enough and smart enough to handle it.”
That is still how I feel. You are smart enough and sophisticated enough to handle it. We have talked about everything. There is not a third rail we haven’t touched on this show in those five years. And I definitely feel that I have grown personally and professionally from it, and I hope you have too.
The number one comment I get from viewers and listeners is: ‘You make me feel less crazy in a crazy world. You help me understand that I am not the only one who is feeling this way.’ I love that the show has served that purpose for people.
It has been an incredible journey, so thanks to all of you for making it possible. I love you all. Here’s to another five, and five beyond that, and beyond that.