Dakota Meyer, Rob O'Neill, Bret Weinstein, and Heather Heying - Megyn Kelly's "Double Feature" of Fascinating Interviews

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**Megyn Kelly** (0:44)
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM channel 111 every weekday at NewEast.
Hey, everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and today's Double Feature episode. Today, it's a double feature of duos. First, our interview with Dakota Meyer and Rob O'Neill, two badass military veterans with lifetimes of experience and incredible advice. Then we'll have our sit down with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. Way back in 2021, one of our first interviews on SiriusXM with Practical Solutions for a World in Disarray. I really love these two. I've thought about them so many times. I love Bret. I know him better than Heather, but she was so charming too, and they've been through a lot. They've got a great podcast of their own, and they're always worth spending time with. Very provocative thinkers, very insightful, and rather fearless. Enjoy and see you Monday.
I've got with me today two guys you already love, and two guys who have sacrificed so much for our country. They know firsthand about the sacrifice of war. They know about what it's like to put country above self when freedom and democracy are on the line. Rob O'Neill is a US Navy SEAL combat veteran. He has been a part of some of the biggest SEAL missions ever conducted. He is best known, of course, for being the SEAL Team 6 member who shot and killed Osama bin Laden. But he also helped rescue fellow SEAL Marcus Luttrell in Afghanistan. And he was the lead paratrooper in the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from the Marist, Alabama. The hijacking became the basis for the movie Captain Phillips featuring Tom Hanks. I mean, I joked with him last time he was on or the first time. He's like the Waldo of military. He's been on everything and everything he touches turns into a Hollywood movie.
You've got you've got Captain Phillips, you've got Lone Survivor, and then of course Zero Dark Thirty, all of which feature some of his heroism.
And speaking of heroes, Dakota Meyer is also with us today. He is our country's second youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, our nation's highest military decoration. In 2009, under heavy enemy fire from the Taliban, Dakota disobeyed direct orders and repeatedly went back into the fight, into the ambush area, to find his fallen brothers and to retrieve the bodies of those who had died, as well as rescue those who are still fighting and needed his help. He received his Medal of Honor from President Obama at the White House in 2011

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And when they finally got to those trapped Americans, Dakota jumped out and he ran toward them, drawing all those enemy guns on himself, bullets kicking up the dirt all around him. He kept going until he came upon those four Americans laying where they fell, together as one team.
Dakota and the others who had joined him knelt down, picked up their comrades, and through all those bullets, all the smoke, all the chaos, carried them out one by one. Because as Dakota says, that's what you do for a brother. A former Marine who read about your story said that you showed how, in the most desperate final hours, our brothers and God will not forsake us. And because of your humble example, our kids, especially back in Columbia, Kentucky and in small towns all across America, they'll know that no matter who you are or where you come from, you can do great things as a citizen and as a member of the American family.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:32)
In the end, Dakota is credited with saving the lives of at least 36 US and Afghan troops that day.
These two men have gone to hell and back for our country, and when they returned home, civilian life led to a new host of challenges, which we will also discuss over the next two hours. It's my honor to have them here today. They've written a new book titled The Way Forward, Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Own Lasting Legacy. It is a book they hope will help you learn to tackle obstacles in your own life and shows a bit of how they got to become these extraordinary human beings. This is their first interview ahead of the book's release tomorrow. Rob, Dakota, welcome to the show. So great to have you back again.