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April 26, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Tucker Carlson Axed at Fox News

The day the music died.

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East McKeesport.
See?
Not New Jersey.
Where?
What's the name of the city?
Long Island.
Again, what's the name?
What's the name?
Don't give me this generic.
Give me the name.
Boise.
There we go.
Las Vegas.
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That's Queens, of course.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Welcome.
Welcome to this thing of ours.
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And let's begin by going through what happened yesterday.
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Now, first question.
Sounds silly.
Where were you yesterday when you got the word that TC, Tucker Carlson, was axed, shown the door, given a copy of the home game?
Where were you precisely?
Where were you?
Where were you when this happened?
And what did you think?
How shockingly shocking was it that you would be this shocked?
It was almost like where were you if...
Again, the names of this.
This is incredible.
Where were you?
Did you look at your device and say, wait a minute, hold on a minute.
What's going on here?
What...
What's happening here?
Tucker Carlson?
Tucker Carlson?
Fired?
Wait a minute.
What?
What?
Got a call from a friend.
I talked to a friend of mine yesterday.
I know this sounds kind of corny, but he was in Dubai.
He heard it!
Heard it!
In the kitchen, at home, on their computer.
People were perturbed.
It was just wonderful.
Now, a couple of things first.
Our friend in Dubai.
Boom!
This is the part that is so shocking to me and so incredible and so fantastically amazing is that it's instantaneous!
It's it!
Somebody told me one time, they said, you know what the real problem is with injecting narcotics?
This is the problem.
You know what the real problem with injecting narcotics, other than the obvious, is that your bloodstream is 160 miles an hour, whatever it is.
I don't know.
Don't quote me on that.
And if were you to, once you put this in, it's gone.
It's through.
There's no calling it back.
It's there.
It is airborne, so to speak.
And that's where information is today.
There's no waiting.
There's no, hey, I've got to wait until...
In the old days, they didn't break in for anything.
In my generation, they never broke in for news of any kind.
Now it's always breaking.
Everything's breaking.
I'm thinking, what?
What?
And I sat back and I said, oh my God, look at this.
They're acting like someone died.
But in a weird way, they did.
I told Mrs. Ellis to watch what happens.
Watch the reactions.
Watch the reactions from people who don't react to anything.
The complete and total decimation of our society, one could argue.
That doesn't bother them.
They don't say anything, but this is a different story.
In New York City, there were people on the streets singing and yelling and whooping and hollering over a show being cancelled on the Fox News channel that no, but no, that's not a...
It's a statement.
What was this statement?
It was a statement about the end to this right-wing nationalistic racist replacement theory.
This is what some say.
This was a statement.
This was a decline.
And then this is a Trump statement.
It's about Trump.
This is the decline, the decimation, the destruction, the decomposition, the fetid and feculate and putrescent.
Rotting of a...
Oh, please!
That's one side.
Yay!
I said, but it's only one show.
It doesn't matter!
It's Tucker Carlson!
And finally, a nail in the coffin of right-wing nationalistic GOP Biden!
Biden!
Biden!
My God!
What about the other side?
This is the end of free speech.
It was because.
Why?
It was because of what he said about January 6th.
It was what he said about Ray Epps.
It was what he was saying about vaccines and Orban from Hungary and the fact UFOs.
And he had on all these people.
And he had on...
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
That's what it's about.
Do you understand that?
He was too good.
He was too good.
He spoke for us.
Two completely...
Antithetical pieces.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
That's not it.
What do you mean that's not it?
That's not what happened.
You want me to tell you what happened?
You're not going to like what happened.
You're not going to like what happened.
Because it's the simplest thing ever.
It's the simplest.
It's like sometimes when I remember years ago, we had a relative who passed away.
I said, Doctor, what happened?
What do you mean?
Organ failure.
Well, I can see that.
No, it's just...
No, no.
What happened?
Why is Aunt Phoebe...
What happened to Phoebe?
What happened?
Well, it's, you know, old age.
What do you mean, old age?
There are old people, 100 years old.
What does that mean?
What is it?
Give me a name.
I don't know.
It's a heart attack, maybe.
It's always a heart attack.
Sometimes things don't have a reason you like.
You want something that is more noteworthy of the dispatch.
Now let's go through this.
Number one.
Will this be the end of Fox News?
No!
Was Tucker Carlson the beginning and the end of Fox News?
No!
Will his numbers ever be replaced?
Yes!
They don't need numbers.
This is cable.
This is different.
It doesn't work that way.
You know that, right?
They make their money before one person says anything.
It's the subscribers and who buys this and that.
It's not like people think.
It's not like a radio station with numbers and what about the numbers and the stock market?
Okay.
Do you think Rupert Murdoch cares about this?
No.
He doesn't care about $787 million.
He got $8 billion in cash on hand.
Liquid.
Here, $8 billion.
I hate to break it to you, but do you think that...
They're going to go nuts over him?
Are you kidding me?
Not even close.
Who are they going to put in?
Anybody.
You can put in the Missouri dial tone, which most people don't understand.
It's Fox News.
It's not one person.
I don't know how...
There's no way to do this.
You can do a thought experiment.
If you got rid of all the people...
From the evening side.
There's day side, night side.
If you got rid of Hannity, Tucker, Ingram, the other one, whatever they are, whoever these people are, and replace them with...
Let's assume you could replace them with Don Lemon.
Think I'm kidding?
What if I replaced him with Don Lemon?
Replace him with Dylan Mulvaney?
Replace him with Joy Behar?
I'm telling you, and listen to what I'm saying, the numbers might go up.
Because it's Fox News.
They go to Fox News.
You don't go to Fox News for a perspective.
You go because it's Fox News.
It has a name.
And because it has a name, it's always going to be there.
And it may be a long time before you say, wait a minute, Joy Behar, wait a minute, hold it, wait a minute, wait a minute, these aren't the people I like.
You know how long it'll take?
Because you might say to yourself, this isn't that bad, this is kind of interesting.
Why?
Because it's Fox News, it's a different, it's a different everything.
It's like Brandon Fraser, guy couldn't get arrested, does one movie, all of a sudden he's a genius.
Why, it's the same guy, you know, with a fat suit or whatever the prosthetics are.
So, let me just explain this to you.
The dynamics of this.
You're not going to lose.
You're not going to go out of business because Tucker's not there.
They already make their money ahead of time.
It doesn't work like regular convention.
Number two, it's Fox News.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
This may bother you.
Number three, please keep track of this.
People say, well, you know, it's what Tucker said.
Tucker never revealed anything.
It's a limited hangout.
Tucker revealed little bits and snippets of stuff you already knew.
Or he didn't care about.
He had Orban from Hungary.
Okay.
That was rather esoteric.
We're here in Hungary.
Okay.
That's not an American story.
That's...
That's...
That's for the bow-tied crowd, I guess.
What?
His UFO stuff was nothing.
It was comical at best.
Comical.
They had even the graphics.
Little green men.
Are we alone?
Question mark.
Remember that?
I always say, what does that mean?
Are we alone?
You have a question mark.
Or no, no, excuse me.
We are alone.
Pardon me, that is a question.
We are alone with a question mark.
We are alone.
And you'd have Elizondo with the usual people on the Tic Tac guy.
We knew that.
Wasn't that great, the way that Tucker did what?
Did what?
What did he tell you?
That's right.
Well, it seemed like.
It seemed like.
Exactly.
That's what a limited hangout is.
It's a little bit.
It's like the big Twitter files from Matt Taibbi.
Remember that, in my opinion?
Wow.
They gave him the Twitter files.
Elon Musk gave him.
Do you understand this?
Do you understand this?
Do you understand how this works?
When Nixon gave the White House prosecutors, here, here's the tapes.
No, no, no, no, no.
What about this one?
We'll give you a transcript.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
What about the 18-minute?
It doesn't work like that.
But his fans thought, oh, it's great because he's talking about it.
He's not talking about it.
It was nothing.
Well, maybe, Maybe it was all that vaccine talk.
What did he say?
What?
Did he say anything that was that outrageous?
Not really.
Marty McCary?
The best one?
Never said don't take vaccines.
In fact, I'm not sure what his position was.
Bobby Kennedy.
Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Bobby Kennedy Jr. says, I'm not an anti-vacciner.
My kids take the vaccine.
I'm not against vaccines.
Bobby Kennedy!
Which we'll get to in a moment because it doesn't matter what you actually say.
It's what they think you say.
What did you learn that was so on?
What?
How about January 6th?
There we go.
That was it.
That's why they got rid of him.
Really?
What did he do?
Oh, there was that shaman guy with the helmet.
What about him?
Well, they showed some film.
Uh-huh.
Did you know this?
Yeah.
What did he tell you that was that shocking?
What?
And he kept telling you, now we're not saying we don't like this.
What was it?
What did he say that was that outrageous?
Nothing!
Nothing!
He talked about it.
What did he do?
Now, you're missing the point.
People never listen to me.
I think He was the only reason to watch Fox News, in my opinion.
I had this little Fox News app.
Canceled that, done.
Not because I'm making a big statement, but I don't want to see it.
I only liked it because I could watch, and I liked, to be honest with you, the first segment of his show.
Nothing else, because when his guests came on, I'm out of there.
The usual suspects, I'm out of there.
Bored me to death.
I'm very easily bored.
He was the best talent they had.
He had a unique style.
He had a way of speaking, a way of prose, a way of addressing the subject.
It was a quirky, kind of a persnickety, sarcastic, sardonic, erudite, egg-head-y kind of thing.
I liked it.
Other than that, What was it?
Nothing.
He tried everything.
Bobulinski, he really hit Biden hard.
Okay, fine.
The laptop.
Miranda Devine did that.
Other people did that.
Maria Bartiromo.
I would venture to say Maria Bartiromo was more, she's more China.
Maria Bartiromo was serious.
As far as Dominion goes, So what do you think?
Do you think it was what he said?
No.
No.
Let me tell you again.
It's not what he said.
What do you mean?
Aunt Phoebe died of what?
Her heart stopped.
Hey, don't tell me her heart stopped.
There's got to be a reason.
There's got to be a reason.
You don't get rid of this powerhouse, this Goliath?
This Colossus?
You don't get rid of him unless he poses a threat to the shadow government deep state.
No!
Never!
He did more to help whatever that group is than anything else.
With his replacement theory, January 6th stuff.
He was the lightning rod.
It was the best thing that ever happened to them.
I'm telling you right now, if you think he was let go because of what he said on the air or the subject matter, what?
You don't think Rupert Murdoch knows ahead of time?
What's he talking about?
I can't do an Aussie accent, but what do you think?
What is he talking about tonight?
January 6th, that again?
Ray Epps, that again?
Okay, go ahead.
Did you ever hear anything about his Ukraine stuff?
Now that was kind of interesting.
Was it shocking?
Not even close.
It was shocking by news standards.
Maybe by whatever.
Nothing.
Oh, he could have talked about a lot of stuff.
But you see, it works like this.
We have infantilized the notion of news today.
We have people who are infants.
We have people who think that he's the enemy.
They hate him.
They don't even know why.
They don't even watch it.
There's a video you've seen of people in TikTok walking around.
Oh my God!
Dude, you watch Fox News?
Well, I don't watch it.
No, but just like there are many people here, bless your heart, who despise Alec Baldwin.
You mentioned Alec Baldwin, Joy Behar, and the old days before that, it was Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon.
She just mentioned their names, and they go crazy.
Well, what did she say?
I don't know.
Well, Jane Fonda was...
Okay, I got that.
Or the NVA, actually.
That's not it.
What was it?
Can I tell you the three things that he did that I loved the best?
And I know this kind of being a little bit kind of inside the biz, so to speak.
Three things he did, which I loved.
First, when he was listening, when somebody was talking, he had this look.
If you've ever had a little baby on your lap, and your baby is giving you a present in the diaper, looking at you, there's a look he makes.
It's called a Valsalva maneuver.
It's a...
You know, bearing down.
What are you doing?
Are you going?
Oh, no!
Because you know immediately thereafter you're going to clear the room out.
He had that look.
It was when he was listening.
And it was nice because he was listening because most people aren't listening.
There are people on Fox who never listen.
There are people on Fox, one in particular, who has an introductory the introductory question is longer than the guest.
There was one host who said, bleach bit 70,000 times a show.
I'm exaggerating, 50,000.
You say, would you let the guests talk?
And the bleach bit, we know about the bleach bit.
Would you shut up about the bleach bit?
Tucker would listen.
With that look.
I love that.
It was befuddlement.
And shock and horror all combine in this admixture.
That's number one.
Number two, the laugh.
The laugh!
That Amadeus laugh, that high-pitched, high-frequency cackle, whatever.
It was like, oh my God.
And he would talk about Brian Stelter.
Remember Tater from CNN?
He would talk about his voice.
Look, not everybody can have a Stentorian Robert Goulet baritone like me.
So I, I mean, this is a gift.
But for Tucker to make fun of people's voices, when he does that high-pitched laugh, I always thought, boy, the C.O. Jones on this one, what are you doing?
But the laugh killed me.
But the third thing I love, which is the most important, the prompter.
Oh, I love that.
When you're reading a prompter, there's some rules.
First, write your own script.
Don't let somebody write for you unless they really know your voice and your cadence.
When you write your own script for the prompter, you know what words are coming.
It's like, you're your own ChatGPD.
That's number one.
Number two, always make sure that you have the best...
Normally, there's a person, there's a little box with a wheel, and they turn it, and it adjusts the speed.
There was a...
A young lady years ago who worked with me, I swear to God she was the best.
And when she was out, if I had to read, because I would write these long screeds, other people didn't know my style.
It was terrible.
She knew.
She slowed down watching.
It was wonderful.
There's a foot pedal you can also use or touch, like little devices, to run your own prompter.
But for some reason, the prompter would slow down and Tucker would make these incredible points and then you'd have to catch up.
And the biggest problem with the Biden administration is the fact that Hunter and he's waiting for this thing to catch up.
I howled.
Loved it.
Loved it.
Oh my God.
Very talented.
Next point.
Next point.
The fact that they kept it quiet since Friday.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
They kept it quiet.
They didn't say a word since Friday.
We didn't know.
Other people said, I don't believe.
I think some people may have known, but you, you.
They kept this thing quiet.
Now, where were you when you found out Don Lemon was excised, ablated, baudelarized, expurgated, amputated, removed?
Don Lemon!
Don Lemon!
Now, I know you love To believe in everything being coordinated.
And you always say, there's no such thing as coincidences.
Yes, there are.
Chris Licht, he doesn't know what's going on.
Chris Licht, come on.
Come on.
Don LeMond, as he would be called, the best thing he ever did, the best thing, was in 2014, I think, Where he said, when they were talking about Flight 370, when he asked with a straight question, could this plane, could this plane, could this plane that is missing, could it have been sucked up by a black hole in our atmosphere?
Not in the others, not light years away.
Here!
A black hole in our atmosphere!
Wait for it.
Dollar Tree.
Here!
Not here!
Don!
A black hole in our atmosphere?
Here within the...
What?
I would have fired somebody immediately.
You can't work.
You can't even hold sharp objects.
I don't want you to work in a microwave.
You believe there's a black hole here?
Do you know what a black hole is?
Oh my god!
That's it.
Now, you realize that there are some things you go, this can't be.
There has to be a reason for this.
Now, here's the next one.
Where could Tucker go?
What do you think?
Number one, what are his options?
Well, first, this is going to be a real kick in the pants to Newsmax.
Newsmax is going to maybe, maybe pick up...
I don't watch Newsmax, so I don't know really what's there.
I can't comment on it.
I don't know.
But I would think that's it.
They're going to offer him something they cannot possibly...
What was he making?
$25, $30 million a year?
I don't think so.
It's cost prohibitive and it doesn't matter.
Plus, you're not going to believe what I'm telling you.
Once Tucker goes someplace else, it's not Tucker.
Tucker, like certain plants, you know how you can't transplant certain things?
You know how when you take a pineapple plant from Hawaii, It may not work in North Carolina because of climate, because of soil, because of whatever.
Even though it's the same plant, even though it worked different climate, he may not work anyplace else.
When I mean not work, it just may not be the oomph.
It may look kind of sad.
It may be like kind of the, oh, Mishkino.
Now, he can do a couple of things.
First of all, he can do OAN, One American News.
He can do Newsmax.
Or, you can go on something called News Nation, which is the refugee channel, where you have Fredo.
Oh, no way.
Probably, Lamont's going there.
I would guess.
I think Elizabeth Vargas is there.
Ashley Banfield.
It's like the Island of Misfit Toys.
You just go over there.
Whoever had a show, come on over.
Okay.
And we'll talk about it.
Nobody knows where it is.
They can't find it.
Put it this way.
If you want to be in witness protection, If you're out on the lam, go to News Nation.
You'll stay there and they'll never find you.
But it's a fine group.
But he's not going to do that.
They don't have the money.
No.
And plus, he's got to make sure of this image.
This guy was...
This was the biggest...
He was in the biggest field, the biggest stage, the biggest place.
Everything is a step down.
So, what would be the best thing?
What would be it?
What would be it?
Elon Musk.
That would be it.
Elon Musk says, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to compete against whatever it is.
We're going to do our own.
And it's going to be you.
And it's going to be like nothing else.
Where is the answer today?
Joe Rogan!
What are you talking about?
Don't go on Joe Rogan.
I love the fact that he hasn't said anything.
He hasn't said anything.
He hasn't said anything.
Now let me say something to you right now.
Let me disabuse you of something.
And I know you don't like this.
Because you want to hear happy news all the time.
Just tell me happy news.
You want the truth?
No.
I told you in 2016, in 2020, what was going to happen to Trump.
And you didn't want to hear it.
You got upset.
He is not going to go into politics.
He is not going to team up with Trump.
He is not going to do that.
That is stupid on so many levels, I can't even count them.
I can't count them.
It's absurd.
First of all, stupid for Trump.
No!
No!
No, no, no, no, no.
People are, but I like him.
Well, you're crazy.
I want him.
No!
You're not going to have somebody who's going to outdo you.
You don't pick a vice president.
It's a tough thing.
That's number one.
Number two, you got two people with, well, not so much Trump, but his baggage?
Forget it.
You're going, no!
No, no!
You can't, unless, unless Trump says, I don't want to win.
I miss one.
Fun.
Okay.
Then do it.
That's what Larry Elder does.
Larry Elder runs every couple of years.
Great for publicity.
Great for the...
Alan Keyes did it.
Gary Bauer did it years ago.
People run for their own, you know.
Nikki Haley, she knows she's not going to win.
Mike Pence.
Come on.
It's the...
So, if he wants to do it, when Trump does that, he'll be signaling to the world, I'm not serious about this.
Tucker Carlson.
Now, you don't like this.
You don't like this.
Because you live, you think that somehow the world thinks like you.
I'm sorry.
I realize that certain things that I like and don't like has no currency elsewhere.
Let me give you an example.
You can look at it this way.
Number one.
We're not very far from Times Square.
Right around noon, 1 o 'clock, you should see this.
And on Wednesdays, matinee day, Broadway, oh!
I could go there and I could ask people, Americans, not necessarily foreign, if they recognize the picture of Tucker Carlson or could name him or ask him, have you ever heard of this?
We could offer them money.
You would not believe how many people would tell you, I have no I know this is shocking to you.
When Dale Earnhardt tragically was killed, NASCAR, parts of America shut down.
Other parts of America had no idea what you were talking about.
None.
None.
They don't.
Some people live in a world where they think everybody Shares my ideas.
No, they don't.
No, no, no, they do.
No, they don't.
Yes, they do.
No.
Or, they think something is so big.
You know, when O 'Reilly was bounced, he had three million...
So what?
There's reruns of Name That Tune and Wheel of Fortune and Vanna and...
I mean, you...
I'm sorry.
You may say, well, for cable, that's good.
Excuse me?
That's not it anymore.
Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan is the template.
And others.
You want numbers?
You want numbers?
The world?
But he's got to be careful with this.
He's got to be careful.
He hasn't said anything.
How does he re-emerge?
Plan this carefully.
What does he do?
What's the first thing he says?
Now, do you really want to talk about what the problems are?
Do you really want to talk?
What do you think was the real reason?
What was the reason?
You think dominion had anything to do with it?
Do you?
Do you?
I'm going to go Who thinks Dominion had anything to do with this?
Seriously.
And tell me how.
Tell me how Dominion.
How is Judge Jeanine there?
Or Bartiromo there?
Or whoever these people.
Tucker was like, I don't even know if he even talked about it.
He certainly, in his emails, said a lot of negative stuff about it.
How does that even work?
How does that even work?
How does that work?
Tell me how this works.
Tell me.
I don't understand how this thing works.
I don't understand.
He read his emails.
Why do you think who?
Why do you think he was let go?
Who?
It's not his ideas.
They knew what he was going to say.
Every night they said...
Believe me, if he said, I got this crazy idea, they would have said, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
There's script supervision.
Nobody ever...
You know what it's like in a weird way?
It's like the Dylan Mulvaney Diet Pepsi.
I didn't know.
We didn't know that she...
Wait a minute.
What?
We didn't know that she was...
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Are you telling me that you didn't...
They put this on?
Whose idea was this?
Are you kidding me?
Go to Anheuser-Busch.
Try to do something.
Try to say, we're going to do this new ad.
You've got to sign off on a million divisions.
You've got to get people.
You've got to get the production.
Don't give me that.
Don't even begin to tell me.
We didn't know that.
And those two ad execs, well, they're going to be fired because of...
You know about this.
Don't blame them.
Come on.
So let me ask you something.
What happened?
Had to get rid of him.
What was it?
What was it?
I love...
People will...
They just go for these deep, deep...
Think Aunt Phoebe.
Remember, if you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't think zebra.
Occam's razor.
What was the biggest problem?
Nobody really gets it.
Nobody wants to talk about it because it ruins the story.
Because nothing that he said ever was shocking.
Nothing.
Nothing that he said ever.
What was it?
It was the harassment stuff.
And it builds up.
There were these lawsuits.
And there were people who all of a sudden...
And let me tell you something.
And listen to me.
Listen to me carefully.
Especially if you're young and especially if you're out there and especially if you're in the world and you're trying your very best to try to get through to whatever it is.
Let me tell you what this is.
And I've seen this a million times.
People get into media and they think they're bulletproof.
They think they're the biggest star ever.
You know who's the smart one?
You know who's the genius?
Hannity.
At Fox.
Hannity.
He's been in the business longer than Rush was.
Bless his heart, Rush was the king of this.
Hannity's the luckiest person in the world.
Anybody who follows Rush Limbaugh and Bill O 'Reilly, come on.
He's a genius.
Remember when they tried to water down?
And I liked Alan Combs a lot.
He was a good friend.
And a nice man.
But that was the most ridiculous combination because it diluted Sean.
And Sean came along and he said, I'm going to give you I'm going to give you kind of like Denny's.
You know Denny's?
Do you ever go to Denny's?
You know what it is.
Denny's is there.
You want breakfast?
That's the Denny's.
Nothing fancy.
Nothing...
No flambe anything.
No, no, no, no, no.
No clotted cream scones.
No, it's Denny's.
Denny's, you know what you're going to get, right?
That's him.
Hannity took this Rush Limbaugh model, America, the flag, goodness.
If you know, the Fox News was very pro-Ukrainian.
Hannity never, Rush veers into the oncoming traffic.
Never takes a position that can't be justified.
Never!
Ever!
It's so meat and potatoes.
And it's genius.
This is not an insult.
He tells you exactly...
He's Denny's.
He gives you exactly what he wants.
There's no...
You don't have to worry about it.
You turn it on now, five years...
I mean, the subject matter may change, but it's the same thing.
Rush did the same thing by virtue of...
You're not going to hear, wow, that's interesting.
Wow, you're not going to hear about Chad GPT or recursive self-improvement on the Hannity show.
Now that's not to make it sound like it's a dumb show.
I'm not saying that.
You're just not going to hear anything that veers from this.
You know exactly what you're going to get.
He's McDonald's.
This.
Never gets in trouble.
Never!
Never!
He gets you mad.
He's very good at what he does.
But Tucker thought, oh no, no, no, I'm Tucker Carlson.
I'm Tucker Carlson.
Remember something, I'm telling you.
We don't know anything.
We're standing outside a stadium, I've said it before, listening to the noise, trying to catch the score.
But what I put some money on, if I had to bet, just my opinion, the lawsuits.
Let me hear about this.
Who is this disgruntled, disgruntled producer?
Uh-huh.
Sexual ooh, antiseptic ooh, mmm, mmm.
No, no, no.
That's no good.
That's no good.
That's a problem.
That's the stuff that gets to you.
I met a judge one time.
It was in Division A. His name was Hang and Harry Co.
He was the scariest dude anybody, anybody.
But he was a wonderful judge, and he was the nicest.
If you were a first-timer, he didn't care who you were.
Probation, no problem.
But he said, if you come back, and you violate probation, after I'm nice to you, that's it.
Well, one day, I was new in the division, and this old-timer, who's been there maybe two weeks ahead of me, says, here comes the dog speech.
I said, what?
The dog speech.
Listen to the dog speech.
I said, what's the dog?
You'll hear.
He's going to pound him.
Get ready.
The judge said, he kind of talked like this.
And he had this finger like this.
And he would talk like this.
And I was mesmerizing his fingers.
He said, you know, we used to have a dog.
Loved the dog.
Kids loved the dog.
I loved the dog.
But the dog would make a mess.
We tried everything.
We tried getting a trainer to come in, maybe moving, putting little pads out, try to walk the dog, I don't know how many times a day.
But the dog would always make a mess.
And we loved that dog.
The dog was with us for years.
But one day, I don't know what it was.
I don't know what was so special.
I came home one day and there was a mess.
And I said, that's it.
We don't have that dog anymore.
I don't know what he did with it at all.
He said, well, you're like that.
We gave you a chance, but you just kept it up.
And you know what?
We're not going to take it anymore.
We can't.
We're going to give you away.
When you work in a corporate environment, then you are a pain in the neck for a variety of reasons.
Number one, I'm just opining.
Just my opinion.
Jealous co-workers.
Jealous people who say, I'm so sick.
You look at it.
Look at that crew there.
And you tell me whether anybody...
Hey, did you see the great...
Hey, Tucker.
This is great.
Congratulations.
You're the face of the network.
They love you.
Everywhere I go, Tucker, Tucker, Tucker, Tucker.
That's great.
They never talk about me.
They talk about you.
And I think that's great.
You believe that?
Come on.
That's number one.
Number two.
Don't worry about the money or the numbers.
Like I told you before, the math, they already make their money.
Numbers are good.
Don't get me wrong.
But then there's this attitude.
Then there's this stuff about he said what?
Then he starts talking about it.
And then we have all these emails.
And the stuff that they say.
And let me tell you something.
Be very careful whenever you have...
Office emails or internal stuff.
Oh my God!
They get tired of that.
And you build that up.
And then there's a pain in the neck.
And then there's stuff that you don't even know about.
There are people from the Biden administration or others who most probably have friends who are either in the FBI or this...
Remember a while back when Tucker said he had this...
Remember when he had something about they were somebody he knew.
I'm trying to remember the story.
Maybe you remember it more.
Somebody he knew says, hey, I want to talk to you.
You know, they're watching you or something.
I forget what it was.
Who?
NSA or something.
I don't know where the story is.
It kind of went nowhere.
It's like the Bobulinski thing.
It kind of went nowhere.
And that tells you, I'm so good, they're following me.
Who remembers that?
Am I making that up?
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
Tell me.
Tell me.
And please like this.
Please like what I'm doing.
Please.
Please like this.
Do you remember when it was, there was some event where he said, somebody told him, they're listening to you.
Or something like that.
Remember that?
And I thought to myself, you have got to be kidding me.
You have got to be kidding me.
First of all, they're listening to all of us.
They're listening to all of us.
And what you're telling me is, look how important I am.
I had to go to...
I met with somebody who said, hey, listen, be careful.
And I met and I called them.
Are you listening to me?
Are you watching?
What are you talking about?
Do you know...
What year are you living...
Are you tapping my phones?
Tapping your phone.
This is metadata.
What are you talking about?
What is this?
The Stasi?
We come into your apartment or your home and we're going to put a microphone in your lamp?
What do you think this is?
Big Polly at Toad Hill?
Come on!
I remember that.
See how important I am?
I'm important.
I'm really, really important.
Ho, ho, ho!
I'm important.
Okay?
That one killed me.
That killed me!
Now, that's not the reason.
So all of a sudden these things build up.
And when they talk about, and by the way, don't believe anything here.
Don't believe who said what and this and that.
Oh, they were clapping.
They were, maybe, maybe it was a pain in the neck, whatever it is.
But it's a lot of things.
But it's, I promise you.
In a show, in a format where you get to approve what they're saying, and they do.
I don't care if you're Hannity, I don't care who you are.
Nobody says, I swear to God, Rupert, I didn't know he'd be talking about that Hungary thing.
I had no idea.
What?
I had no idea.
He flew to Hungary, I know, but...
And you know these people fly private.
They're not taking the shuttle to Budapest.
Come on!
They know what he's saying.
Yeah, but he's talking about the replacement theory.
I know, I can read the script.
You know that script that goes into the prompter?
The one that's slow?
Yeah, I get to read that too, you know.
They go in before...
What are you talking about?
I know who the producer is.
Don't tell me we didn't know.
It's stuff.
Now here's the bottom line.
This is the most important.
What happens?
What does he do?
You're going to advise him.
What do you do, Tuck?
You haven't said anything.
Good move.
Good move.
Does he keep his account?
Does he keep his Fox News account?
Will he?
If you saw Tucker Carlson in his bedroom, What would you think now?
I have a friend of mine, Anthony Cumia, Spartus guy, and he went from Opie and Anthony to Sirius, and then he got rid of him, and he was one of the first to say, I'm on my own, right around the time of Joe Rogan, this and that and blah blah blah.
Okay.
Okay.
When you go from Fox, it's one thing when you go from a radio program to this, that's one thing.
But there's...
Remember when the Lone Ranger couldn't wear his mask?
Remember that?
When the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore, had to wear sunglasses?
Remember that?
Oh dear God.
It was the saddest thing.
Have you ever seen...
Shows where they sign, they probably make a lot of money, but do you ever see, like, you go to a wrestling show and you can see, oh, it's Junkyard.
I don't know if he's alive, but you go, oh, look, it's so-and-so.
Oh, look, there's an old baseball or rock and roll, sometimes a cruise.
Who are you?
Well, I'm in Starship, the fourth.
I don't remember you.
Well, I was, whatever.
There's a...
So what he's got to do, first, he's got to reemerge, he's got to lose that Fox News connection, so somebody's going to cut that.
So now he pops up.
You know he's talking to Elon.
You know it.
Elon absolutely is not going to let this moment go by.
Elon Musk is a genius.
Elon Musk is a genius.
You know and I know he is going to make this thing.
He's going to milk it.
The biggest platform ever!
But it's got to be Tucker and it's got to be really Snazzy.
I don't mean some bedroom thing or inside your closet.
No, no, no.
Hey, guys.
No, no, no.
Not the hey, guys.
I mean really, really professional.
And you know what the best part is?
You know what you do?
You never, ever mention Fox.
Ever!
Never!
They're not mentioning him.
Did you see Harris Faulkner?
Did you see that?
Did you see that tearjerker, honey?
Tucker Carlson's not here.
And I knew him.
Okay.
Okay, fine.
Nobody says anything.
And they bring the poor Brian Kilmeade in.
Oh my God.
Brian Kilmeade.
Oh my God.
Hey, you know what?
He's going to do great.
Why?
It's Fox.
You can take a sock puppet, put it in there, and somebody's going to watch it because it's Fox News.
I don't know how long it'll last, but remember, they already made their money.
And here's the best part, too.
They're going to forget about this like it never happened.
The question is, if they're...
I don't have any inside information, but if Elon says, we're going to do something just for the hell of it, how much do you need?
I want to go after Joe Rogan.
I want to have a consortium.
The future is what Rogan and other people are doing.
That's it.
That this.
Rogan.
He's the man.
And remember, they're going to go after him too.
They're going to go after him.
They're going to go after him.
They're going to go after Tucker.
And they're going to go after Bobby Kennedy Jr.
When I mean go after, talk about his ideas.
I want to also tell you something.
And this may This is the most important thing.
And if you have any kids, bring them up.
Make them listen to their old Uncle Lionel here.
There is no such thing as freedom of speech.
Now, what you mean by that is free of repercussions?
No.
No.
Free of ramifications?
No.
No.
Doesn't work like that.
Nope.
Can I say anything you want?
Yeah.
You can say anything you want.
You're not going to be arrested, but no.
Nope.
You mean I can't say?
Nope.
And even if you say, by the way, I'm going to talk about this, but I'm not...
Because once...
Here's the thing.
This is like the Higgs field.
Once the label gets attached, and whoever gets to do that, whoever is there first, wins.
But once the label is attached, once the word, let's say, racist, or sexist, or conservative, or liberal, or lefty, or whatever it is, once it's there, and depending upon what the label is, it's there.
It sticks.
And you've got to figure out, what do I do accordingly?
How do I handle this?
And you can say, but I never said that, but I never said that, but I never said, but I never did this.
What the Dominion case did to popular opinion and the like, you can't even put into words.
It changed everything.
Everything.
And many people don't even know why.
It changed everything.
Dominion is the most shape-shifting event.
That ever happened.
Because it made people say, I don't know if I'm going to do that or not.
There is a world of folks, many of us here, many of us here, who have this group of subjects that they want to talk about that you cannot.
Now, what you might want to call the left, there is no such thing.
I guess lists that they can't talk about.
Let me also say something.
I would be remiss if I didn't say this.
As you know, Joe Biden announced today.
Quick question for you.
Does Joe Biden have a chance of winning re-election?
Have a chance.
I'm not going to say will he win.
Does he have a chance?
When I say a chance, I don't mean a theoretical problem.
I mean a really substantial chance.
One is for yes.
Two is for no.
Does Joe Biden have a chance?
Not what do you think.
Not whether you think it's a good idea.
Not whether you will vote for him.
Not whether it's fair.
I'm not saying that.
I'm saying is there a substantial chance that Joe Biden will be?
Or could be, in any reasonable way of looking at it, the 2024 winner of the election?
And the answer is absolutely.
And let me tell you what the Democrats are going to do today.
They're going to stick together.
They're going to love each other.
They're going to celebrate his name.
They are going to act in concert in a choreographed sense of yes!
And they will not veer from that.
They will not veer from that.
They will not in any way get out of the lane.
Republicans fight over Kevin McCarthy.
You've got Nikki Haley yelling against this one.
DeSantis and Trump.
Trump against DeSantis.
Mike Pence.
There's all this fractionalizing.
You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She doesn't get along with this one.
She doesn't get along with that one.
That's the Republicans.
The Democrats?
Solidity.
Solidarity.
Unity.
Complete and total unity.
Absolutely.
So that's that.
Alright my friends.
By the way, tomorrow is Administrative Professionals Day.
I just thought I'd let you know.
I don't know what that means.
But I just got this notice of this.
We will be back.
Please follow me here.
Make sure again you like this video.
Make sure you subscribe to this channel.
I've got more videos coming up later about this in greater detail to explain this.
Remember what I'm trying to do.
I'm not telling you what you want to hear, what you wish would be true, what you would like to be true or like to be false.
I don't do that.
I have no interest in that.
I want to tell you the truth.
Especially when it comes to politics and reality.
Realpolitik.
That's it.
I'm a realist.
Whatever the reality is, that's it.
I don't have time in my life to sit here and wish for things that may or may not happen.
There's no such thing as right or wrong, left or right, up or down.
It's reality.
This is going to happen or this is going to happen.
There's no fairness.
There's no meritocracy.
There's no equity.
There's no equality.
There's no nothing.
It's just this or this.
Just like I said, sometimes when Aunt Phoebe goes, it's for reasons that we don't understand.
Thank you.
We love you.
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Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your generosity.
Thank you for your belief.
Thank you for your focus.
Thank you for keeping on maintaining this and showing this incredible interest in not only the country, but the world and what's going on.
You are a very special group of people.
You are an audience that, I'm sorry, nobody on conventional media platforms are catering to.
Because your interests are diverse, They're very complicated.
Very prismatic.
Very mosaic-like.
Brilliant.
You've got so much.
And I'm not trying to be gratuitous here.
I may sound like it, but I'm telling you.
You are the smartest people.
There is.
And I mean that.
There is no other group of people who know more than you do.
The only thing, the only problem you have is your verve.
You don't accept defeat.
That's your only problem.
And that's the best problem to have.
Alright, friends.
See you tomorrow.
Same bad time.
Same bad channel.
8 a.m. Eastern Time.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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