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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. OMG, you're just not

going to believe what we have to do today. Like I've been looking forward to this my whole

life, my whole life. We have got Peter Oström and Julie Don Cole, better known as Charlie

Bucket and Varuka Salt from Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory. Now let me tell you

months ago, I was sitting down with my team and they were saying, what's your dream list?

Like who are your dream guests? You know, and for a long time it was Bashar Alassad. It's

a weird turn because I really think I would do a good interview of him. But in on a lighter

note, it was these two. I idolize them. I grew up breathing this movie. There is no movie

that compares to this one when it comes to importance in my own life. And I threw it out there.

You know, I don't know. It's like, is that going to work on a podcast? Well, people listen

to that. I think they will. I think it's a cult hit and people will feel my love for it

and understand why I think it has a larger cultural significance. But I don't know. Then

a couple weeks later, my executive producer Steve Krakar sends me the update on the guest

bookings. And it's like, okay, on this date, we have this person on that date. We have

another person on this date. We have Peter and Julie Don Cole. I'm like, but what? He just

threw it out there. Like it wasn't even a thing because we don't know each other well enough

yet for him to understand how life-changing that would be for me. And I've been looking

forward to it every day. My kids and I talk about it every day. My husband Doug and I talk

about it. I've talked about it every day up until this day of taping this show. So just

a word on this movie, Willy Wonka and the talk of factory. Why it means so much to me. There

are many reasons. And I'm going to get into some of them with my guests. But first, we know

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