Rick Sanchez reveals how CNN fired him for refusing to conform to neoconservative agendas, then RT offered creative freedom—until Biden’s Treasury sanctions banned U.S. businesses from working with them, threatening jail for his production company. He details a State Department warning and subsequent blacklisting, calling it First Amendment violation. With Tucker Carlson, he critiques U.S. media’s state-aligned narratives, comparing it to historical mob mentality, and argues NATO expansion and $200B+ Ukraine spending reflect destabilizing propaganda over diplomacy. Both condemn suppression of non-interventionist voices, framing it as a threat to journalism’s role in representing global perspectives beyond Western homogeneity. [Automatically generated summary]
So, because I was kind of missing that when I got a call one day from an agent saying, you know, there's this group that wants to hire you, and they're a real network.
Would you come up and talk to them?
And then, subsequently, I had the call with Larry King.
I said, you know what?
I might want to do this.
Sat down with my wife and my family, and I said, you know what?
I'm going to put the healthcare company aside, and I'm going to go back to what I really want to do.
I would say the one thing, so people look at, you know, CNN and MS are on the left, Fox is on the right, but there's also this sense that, like, wait, maybe they're telling...
So, I actually did have Doug McGregor, to Fox's great credit, they allowed me to have him on, but I don't think he's been on since I left, and I think they really hated him.
But I think Doug McGregor is as offensive to Fox executives as he is to CNN executives as he is to MSNBC executives.
I would get up with a, you know, with a little skip in my step every day, thinking about what we can talk about and how we're going to explain it and who we're going to talk to.
As difficult as it was, because a lot of guests wouldn't want to come on because it was RT, you know.
But it was really a great experience, especially...
Comparatively speaking, to what I had experienced in the past.
And my old friend Larry King was right.
They generally did not mess with me.
And when they did, when we had normal editorial arguments, which happen in every newsroom and should, we would talk it out and sometimes I would win and sometimes I would lose.
I worked for the first three years and then left prior to the invasion because my friends back in South Florida who were now building this $4.4 billion healthcare company and I was one of the original partners of it said, can you come back and help us handle the marketing?
We need you to just jump back in there and there's some things we want you to fix.
And I was like, ah, yeah, yeah.
So I left and I said, okay, I'm going to go back and go back and do the, you know, the job building back this healthcare company that I had built with my friends.
And while I was doing that, I then got a call from another dear friend, Ben Swan, who's a really good journalist.
And he said, would you, you want to do a show?
I said, oh my God, I'd love to do a show.
I miss doing a show.
So after taking a little hiatus for about a year and a half, I went back and started doing a show.
He said, it's not allowed to air in the United States, but you get to produce your own show and they air it all over the world.
And you get to do it in Spanish and in English.
So suddenly I started doing this show again, Tucker.
But after reading enough and knowing enough and hearing some of the people that we aforementioned, McGregors and Sachs, I started thinking to myself, you know, I should do this because we need to have a conversation with these people.
We need...
Journalists and others and academics and whoever to start engaging with the journalists and the academics over there so we can have discussions and work out a solution before we start another freaking world war here.
I mean, so this will be a good thing.
I can make the world a better place by...
Having a show from the United States that shares the American perspective from a person who loves America, a guy who was born in a communist country and spent all his life listening to his parents say, we're in the greatest nation on earth, and sharing that with people around the world.
And RT was going to give me an opportunity to do that.
They weren't asking me to be a Russian.
They were asking me to be a journalist who happened to be American.
People would ask me, I'd say, oh my god, Rick Sanchez, I grew up watching you on TV. You know, in Miami and stuff, where I used to be on local television.
And they say, so what are you doing now?
I'd say, well, I'm doing a bunch of global stuff.
Because you just, unless the person happens to be, if I recognize that it's someone who's astute and has some kind of geopolitical observations or knows the world or is kind of smart, then I tell them and they go, oh man, that's cool.
That's great.
But you just don't want to, you know, have an argument with people during the day.
She's a much better parent than I am, but I've done my part as well in making the kids understand that we live in a world where there's a lot of different opinions and a lot of different ways of looking at things.
So you couldn't talk to my kids and come away thinking, oh, they're liberal, oh, they're conservative, or they're this.
They're smart enough to understand and recognize things for what they are.
Not to mention you always felt like if ever you wanted to do something outside or let's suppose Fox News would call.
One of your colleagues would call and say, hey Rick, we were thinking about inviting you because remember you used to talk about such and such and they'd want to book you.
And you'd think they were booking you for something, and you go, sure, I'd love to come on.
And then all of a sudden you get that famous phone call that all bookers had to get.
Rick Sanchez, we want you to talk about the new elections in Mexico, but we're not going to get you on because you work at RT. What the hell does one thing have to do with the other?
After the war in Ukraine, they decided that no one in the United States should have the right to understand the perspective other than the Ukrainian perspective.
Going to share the Russian perspective should not be allowed to continue to operate in the United States.
You know, it's really weird because if you watched my show, and many people did, and some Americans were watching the show because they'd, you know, back-channel it somehow through the internet or something.
My show was very, very popular in Latin America, one of the most popular shows in Latin America, huge in India and in different parts of the world because RT happens to be one of the most respected, you know, journalistic networks, content creators in the whole world.
It's a very viable, you know, they put a lot of money and they've got a lot of smart people working there.
And I think they generally do a pretty good job with their product.
Yeah, and my show was not necessarily every day about the Ukraine war, nor was it about Putin, nor was it...
It was U.S. politics.
It was a little bit of India.
It was about the South China Sea.
You know, we covered all the interesting things that were going on out there with interesting people from around the world who would love to come on and talk to us.
And a lot of people found it invigorating.
And interesting to watch a perspective that was different than the normal perspective you get here in the United States all the time.
And by the way, even if it's not good, or you think it's not good, you're not allowed to get in the way of it, because that's against our Constitution, which is the basis of our civilization.
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So then, I just wanted to get that as a sort of foundation for the story you were about to tell.
He goes, well, they don't necessarily like some of the things that you're saying.
And I said, okay.
And I said, well, they're welcome to come on and tell me, whoever they are.
Tell me.
I mean, we can have them on as a guest and we can discuss whatever it is.
But throughout the conversation, he was very evasive.
But was letting me know that, I guess, I guess he was letting me know that I was being watched.
And that was part of his mission.
And not only was he telling me that I was being watched, but he would kind of hope that I would somehow change what I was saying.
But he wasn't coming out and exactly saying it.
So when we were done with the conversation, I remember I hung up the phone and I thought, what the hell was that?
Was that a warning or a threat?
I'm not sure.
Or maybe both.
And then, three weeks later, all of a sudden, I'm hearing, and then it happens.
The Biden administration has decided to go through the Treasury Department, this little agency called OFAC that most people have never heard of, which controls what businesses in the United States are allowed to exist and which ones aren't.
And they shut down the place where I worked.
And not only that, they passed a measure within that provision that seemed to say, and I'm not a lawyer and I'm not an expert on it, but it seemed to say that any American working for this entity will go to jail or be fined if they continue working for that entity.
That means that they officially announced that RT, as an entity, and anybody associated with media in Russia, I think is the way they wrote it, is not allowed to hire or even contract.
I, Rick Sanchez Productions, my show, had been hired by an entity to do a show that was airing on RT. I didn't work directly for RT, but I worked for a U.S. company that was doing shows.
They sold the shows, and they sold this show.
To RT. So my show ended up being on RT. Well, the Treasury Department, under Mr. Biden, decided to follow all those little loopholes or whatever, and they went all the way back and said, not only can RT not exist in the United States, RT is not allowed to pay money to anybody in the United States for any product.
They can't buy a product.
They can't contract anybody.
Nobody can work for anybody who contracts through RT. And if any of those people are caught in the United States somehow contracting or working for RT, I don't care if you're a janitor or a carpenter or a plumber, you will be fined or even go to jail.
That's the new law, according to Mr. Biden, three weeks afterward.
And they said something in the dicta.
In the explanation about why they were doing this, that they thought that the Russians were once again preparing to interfere in our election, as they had before in the case with Mr. Trump.
So they were shutting down RT and anybody who could be in any way associated with RT, even though I wasn't doing pro-Trump stuff.
In fact, I was criticizing Mr. Trump during the campaign for certain things that he did, just like I was criticizing Kamala Harris.
It was totally unfair that here I am just doing a basic newscast every day, sharing it with them.
That was garnering tens of millions of people around the world.
And a lot of people thought it was fair and it was sharing a perspective that Americans needed to hear.
And the Biden administration said, no, you cannot practice your craft as a journalist if you're in any way associated with those people.
And it hurts being a guy who was born in a communist country and has spent his whole life saying, we are so different than the rest of the world because we allow people to say and think and work wherever they want.
And all of a sudden, here I was being told I couldn't work or think or say whatever I wanted.
We did have a secondary conversation, and interestingly enough, he suggested that he would help me if I wanted to maybe go to work at Fox or someplace like that, that they could make some phone calls.
When you're living it, and you're experiencing it, and thank God, you know, we've done well, and Suzanne and I are, you know, there's other people who are affected by this.
You know, guys who were producers and writers.
All Americans!
They hired teams of people all over Washington.
And New York, and they're good people.
People who worked with you at Fox, and people who worked with me at CNN, and people who worked in local news.
They're just regular American people, writers, producers, you know?
And they're all out on their ass, simply because Mr. Biden thought that the Russians might be mean to him.
I will say, one of the smartest people I've ever met in my long life, and most patriotic American I've ever met in my life, certainly up there, Worked at RT. Just a fact.
And I met on a news assignment in a foreign country years ago, and just a truly brilliant person.
I found the Russians in general to be, and have found them to be since I've been working with them, to be extremely transactional and extremely honest.
So I thought, I grew up in a country that took the Second World War seriously and its lessons.
Our whole society in the U.S. was based on the lessons we learned in World War II from the Nazis.
That's the country I grew up in.
So what were the lessons?
We don't judge people on the basis of their appearance.
Racism is bad.
Eugenics and all that garbage.
We're against that.
And number two, we don't demonize whole groups of people.
If an individual does something bad, we can say that and we can punish that individual.
But we can't punish his parents or his children or his neighbors because they didn't do anything.
We don't believe in collective punishment.
That's immoral.
It's anti-Christian.
But it's also the lesson of the Second World War.
And so I totally buy that.
I still believe that.
Truly.
Like, in my heart, I believe that.
Call me liberal.
But it's so crazy to see, like, our whole society doing that.
And it's like...
You don't like Putin, that's fine.
You've got all sorts of things you don't like that he's doing.
You want to do things he's preventing you from doing.
I get it.
But to turn around and say 150 million Russians are evil, or Russia is a gas station with nuclear weapons, like that low IQ buffoon McCain used to say, and all the other low IQ buffoons in the U.S. Senate, which is like 95% of them, it's a gas station with nuclear weapons.
Since you made the historical reference to World War II, last time I checked, and there's no American who knows this unless we as parents tell them, but I hate to break it to you, but the French were not the reason that Hitler was defeated.
Yeah, Normandy thing where we invite everybody but the Russians, and the French president, whoever he happens to be at the time, whether it's Macron to Mitterrand, sits there and says, oh, look what we did in Europe.
Fortunately, wars and enemies are chosen for a specific reason, and more often than not, it has to do with financial reasons, and it has nothing to do with the good people of this country.
Just like there are good people in Wisconsin who don't want to share their communities with tons of immigrants.
And it's not because they're bad people or dislike immigrants.
And they're not the ones who started the problem in Honduras or Guatemala that caused 500,000 people to leave the countryside and come to the United States.
Yeah, from Estonia to Latvia, and there's missiles pointed there, and they started getting fierce.
So now you have this here, which is Ukraine, which is almost the end of the encirclement, and they finally thought to themselves as citizens, and their president said, guys, this is too much.
I mean, now you want to take Ukraine?
We got a 4,000-year history here, going back to Catherine the Great.
And it's, now you say not only do you want to take NATO, but you're already putting military hardware in there.
And then there was this thing which they believe is very true, which our government, under a woman named Victoria Nuland in 2014, helped to foment, along with Mr. Biden, who was vice president, a coup in Ukraine that caused a democratically elected president to be removed.
Simply because he was friendly to Russia.
He wasn't necessarily a Russian, but he was friendly to Russia.
In other words, he wanted to have good relations with Russia.
What I have noticed, and that makes me sadder even than anything, because ultimately I care about what happens in my country because my kids live here.
And so watching the style of debate in America change to, you know, a system, an age-old system.
A Western system where, you know, you think one thing, I think another, we like talk it through, the guy with the best point wins, right?
To a system where we just create a villain, and if we don't like what the other person is saying, we tie him to the villain, and it ends the conversation.
And it's like, at first when this started happening, it started happening a while ago, I was like, that's so childish, I'm not even going to acknowledge it.
And then it spread the stage 4 cancer that it is.
And all of a sudden, everybody thinks like that.
Everybody thinks like that.
It's like, you're connected to Russia.
The latest is Qatar, which is a country of 300,000 people.
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It's like, oh, Qatar is running our American media.
I just, well, because I'm bored and I created a new podcast.
It's called Journalistically Speaking.
And I named it Journalistically Speaking for a reason.
I got a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota.
I've practiced journalism most of my life.
I feel good about it.
I think it's an honorable profession.
But I'm kind of trying to stick it in the eye of the other people who call themselves journalists who work at all these places today.
I started looking around and looking at MSNBC and CNN and Fox.
How the people who work at these places were former spokespersons for the Pentagon or the State Department or President Bush or President this or President that.
And I'm thinking, and they say, Russians are state TV? We've got literally the person who spoke for the President of the United States is now the anchor at such and such a network.
Yeah, and that's how they keep their jobs, and that's why the Rick Sanchez's of the world get fired from those places, and the Tucker Carlson's of the world get fired from those places.
He was on the, like, traditional, he was like free-thinking left guy.
Right.
And he started saying stuff, I think I was, worked there when this happened, and he went from being like, oh, liberal guy, whatever, abortion, abortion, abortion, to being like, hey, Why don't we pay people fair wages?
Which is a real thing, as far as I'm concerned.
And all of a sudden he disappeared.
We never heard from him again.
Whatever.
And so I thought he was impressive, but I knew that his brand of politics was not acceptable.
They did the same thing with him that they did with me.
I mean, you know, they said, look, I know you've got a new contract you signed just a little while ago, so we're going to continue to pay you for the next two and a half or three years.
And the only thing is, you can't say anything bad about us, and you can't really take another job unless it's more money.
And, you know, it's crazy.
I don't know where they get the money, but they have a lot of money in those places.
Yeah, I got that same feeling at CNN. As soon as I started challenging certain principles, criticizing, for example, certain things, then the elders at CNN, those people who were in that...
And it was like five, six, seven, eight older guys who decided what stories went on the air, why they went on the air, when they should go on the air.
And I remember I wanted to start doing certain stories about some of the mistakes and foibles that we had made in Latin America, for example, that were causing this immigration thing that was going on.
And they said, no, no, no.
We're not reporting that.
I said, what do you mean we're not reporting that?
I said, you know, to a certain extent, we kind of started a civil war in Guatemala that ended up in the deaths of 200,000 people, and we removed a democratically elected president back in the 1950s, which has led to the problems that have gone into Honduras.
And as the only Hispanic anchor in America working at your network, I'd like to tell some of these stories, not to be critical, so we can learn.
And it does make you wonder, like, the people who remain, and I like them perfectly fine.
I have nothing.
I always like Wolf Blitzer.
Always got along with Anderson Cooper.
There are a ton of people like that who've just, like, kind of been there forever at all the networks, not just CNN. And I never had any problem with any of them.
I was watching you and Cuomo the other day, and I thought, wow, the questions that you guys were going back and forth on, I was thinking, does he really not know?
Does he really think, for example, not to bust his chops, because I think he's a good guy and generally does a good show.
He's inquisitive enough to ask good questions, but guys like him who you think, this guy is really smart, and when he's kind of defending Zelensky as some kind of, you know, novel...
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What is that?
Do you think that it is a kind of instinctive deference to true power that keeps people in line?
Is there some kind of conference call I've never been invited on?
Like, how does everybody know what the red line is?
When you are hired in the United States of America as a communicator...
One of the first things you adhere to is the principle of power.
So having access, if you're a local reporter in Wichita, to the police chief so that you can go out on the buy busts that they're going to do or the investigation on a local politician, you yearn for that connection.
Somewhere along the line, that never seems to be broken for some people.
It's like, if...
All I got to do to be a good communicator is get tight with the mayor's office, the police chief, and then as you grow, maybe you end up at CNN. Now it's the State Department.
And somewhere along the line, somebody needs to slap the shit out of all of us and say, no, you don't.
No, you don't.
Your job is not to represent.
Your job is to represent.
The people down there, the workers, the people who pay the taxes, those people, they are the people you need to work for.
Your audience, the average American, and they're not.
They're like, the average American's here, but the people that I really want to impress are over here because that's what gives me access, and access is everything.
Access is growth, and it gets me the next job.
And that's a strange little thing that we've developed in this country.
And what's interesting is she just carries the, she lies, and she carries the Pentagon line, not the kind of top, you know, not the defense secretary line, he's a political appointee, but the permanent Pentagon, the interests of this agency, the largest government agency, and she just carries her line no matter what.
And when you challenge her when she's on your show, which I'm sure you had this happen, because I had this happen at CNN, I'd, you know, have the Pentagon reporter on, and I'd challenge her on a question.
She would complain to management, and then management would call me in and say, hey, take it easy with your questioning and what you were doing.
John Klein was a testive of my personal decency and religious principles because I was so mistreated by John Klein in the most dishonest way.
No one's ever been that dishonest with me ever in my life that when John Klein got fired, which was, of course, inevitable from CNN, I called him to say, you know, I heard you get fired and I'm just so grateful that you did get fired because you deserve it.
So after the Biden administration decides that they think this entity, which they really don't even understand, but apparently they thought my show was too popular and they didn't want me to be popular on a network other than the BBC or CNN. And so they essentially shut it down, thereby shutting me down by penalty of imprisonment.
And I was a little angry about it, so I went around and I started telling people about it all.
Anybody who would listen, I would say, look, this is the situation I'm in and it's very bothersome.
And I got a lot of people, including the Society of Professional Journalists, who said, look, in a country like ours, the government doesn't get a chance to decide who are the winners and losers, who can report and who can do anything else.
So they've invited me to actually speak at one of their forums, which I thought was cool.
And then a very...
Large newspaper here in the United States, in Washington no less, decided they were going to run a story on this.
And essentially they wrote a story that essentially says the headline of, you know, Rick Sanchez, former CNN reporter, challenging the Biden administration, hoping that the new Trump administration will change this law.
And it was a legitimate story, telling the story that I've been telling you, that one day I was working and suddenly this was taken away from me and it was unfair.
Perfectly legitimate story.
And it was about to air.
Or pardon me, be published the very next day and I get a phone call.
Remember we talked earlier about a mysterious phone call?
Now there's this young journalist, nice young man, worked hard on the story, smart kid.
And he says, Mr. Sanchez, I'm so sorry to tell you this, but the story that was going to come out tomorrow that you and I were both excited about it, it's been killed.
They're not going to run the story.
I said, why wouldn't they run the story?
They said, well, because our...
Managing editor, not my boss, his boss, apparently got a call last night from somebody, and they convinced him in that phone call that we should kill this story.
And I said, can you give me more details?
Do you know why?
He goes, no, I don't even know who the person was who called him.
And I don't usually work with the guy at the top.
I usually work with my regular editor.
I'm just a reporter, but I've never even heard of a phone call coming from the very top like that and canceling the story.
Not only did I get a mysterious call that led to me losing my job at RT, now my just trying to share my story with people was being killed by another mysterious phone call.
So what you're telling me and what we're coming to realize in this conversation, you and I, is that...
The State Department, who I know reached out to me when I was working at RT to kind of threaten or warn me not to work at RT, which is my choice and was taken away from me, also then followed up by calling an American newspaper to tell them not to cover me or tell my story based on what they needed as well.
I don't know anything about the mechanics of what actually happened, but I can say that there is a conspiracy of temperament and worldview that is not explicit, and I doubt it's even like a true conspiracy in that I don't know if there's communication between the parties, but the people who work at the State Department, the people who work at the Washington Post, the people who work at, you know, every big news organization in D.C. and New York have the same worldview.
And so they know that, you know, telling your story Right.
As an American, first of all, just from a constitutional standpoint, I think I have a right to challenge it.
And I've talked to enough people in the legal community who are helping me with this, who are saying, if you want to continue doing that, you have a right to petition to continue doing that in the United States.
And now that the Trump administration is there, we're getting some friendly responses from people in the Trump administration who are saying, why is Rick Sanchez not allowed to work?
No.
And I can't say definitively yet that...
The Trump administration will undo this because, you know, things are moving and there's negotiations now with Russia.
And I understand the Trump administration is trying to remove some of the silly sanctions that we have on them that are just ridiculous.
But the reason it's so hard to do any of that is because of the leash that remains in place, which is the fear people have, good people, patriotic Americans have, of being tied to Russia.
So, so total has been the propaganda victory.
You're connected to Putin.
Putin's bad.
Poll 100 Americans.
99 will tell you Putin is evil, which you may be.
I mean, I don't know more evil than a lot of our allies.
Yeah, but it's gotten to the point where that kind of lynch mob mentality is so entrenched in the United States that even to suggest that someone is close to this boogeyman...
And what could you do to Gary, Indiana, and Baltimore, and Detroit, and Minneapolis, like with that money?
In general, I think the destructive impulse is satanic, and I think it really is a dualism.
Either you're creating or you're destroying.
And if you look around and you're like, the outcome of all these different adventures is just purely destruction, I think you can say you're serving evil.
I think it's honestly that God creates, Satan destroys.
I'm sorry to get all heavy on you, but I think it's just very basic.
And I keep going back to this idea that I keep having, Call Me Crazy, that my calling is sharing stories.
And I want the right to be able to share stories.
And my parents told me one day when they brought me to America from a communist country that this was a unique place where I would always be able to share any story.
And I'm being told that I can't share stories.
And if we don't engage with Russia, if we don't talk to Russia, or any other country for that matter, even Iran or whatever other countries out there that are supposed to be the boogeymen, if we don't engage with those countries, we're creating a path which is going to be so dangerous that we're not going to be able to come out from it.
Well, I mean, that, right, from a geopolitical standpoint, we've really, really squandered American power to the point where we have less power than most Americans understand, and it's really scary.
I want America to be powerful.
I want us to be able to project power if we need to.
I want us to be able to protect our interests.
I want us to stay prosperous and free.
And the degree to which we've, like, kind of wrecked...
Ourselves is not obvious to people, and it makes me want to cry when I think about it.
You know, I was just thinking something which is really interesting and that is comparable almost.
I was thinking to myself, you had the number one show in the United States of America at the number one network and somehow that was taken away from you.
I happen to have a...
Pretty darn good show that was seen by also tens of millions of people, but mine didn't air in the United States.
It aired around the world.
Both of us seem to have that show kind of taken away from us one day.
And I think, if I'm not going too far on the perch here, that it happened as a result of the same thing and was caused by probably the same people.
I was so grateful, by the way, because I... I will always give Fox the credit.
It deserves a lot of credit for being kind to me, which they always were, of not really getting in my business and of giving me all that freedom for so long.
And I'm grateful to the Murdoch family for that.
But...
You know, clearly, foreign policy, neocon foreign policy is the red line.
They don't care what your views on transgenderism are, abortion or gun control or tax policy.
And I didn't even know until, like, I'm a huge believer in, like, just looking at stuff and, like, smelling stuff and, like, what's the obvious reality?
You can tell me any story you want, but let me go see it.
And that's why I've traveled so much.
It was just so clear when I went to Moscow.
Like, I don't want to move there or whatever.
I'm not Russian.
But, like, you've been lying to me about this in a really big way.
And if you've lied to me about that, what else have you been lying to me about?
You know, like Le Mans, the BBC, all these people.
I hear these people, my friends say, oh yeah, I don't trust American newspapers or American media, so I watch the BBC. I said, dude, it's the same damn thing!
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No, you need to watch maybe a little India, or a little Russia, or a little Brazil, or just get, if you want to get the perspective, you want to go to the Global South countries.
So it turns out that YouTube is suppressing this show.
On one level, that's not surprising.
That's what they do.
But on another level, it's shocking.
With everything that's going on in the world right now, all the change taking place in our economy and our politics, with the wars on the cusp of fighting right now, Google has decided you should have less information rather than more.
And that is totally wrong.
It's immoral.
What can you do about it?
Well, we could whine about it.
That's a waste of time.
We're not in charge of Google.
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Time for another True Life Alp story.
I got a call from a friend of mine yesterday, honestly, true story, who said his girlfriend had just broken up with him over Alp.
He wouldn't stop.
And I thought to myself, that's kind of sad.
And he said, no, it's not sad.
Imagine if I'd married her.
Now I know.
I was saved.
Then the next day, this same friend is driving at twice the speed limit through a major American city, pulled over by a cop in a speed trap.
The cop takes his license and registration, goes back to the patrol car, runs him, comes back, looks in the window, and sees a tin of ALP on the dashboard.
Pauses, stunned, says to my friend, you use ALP? Yeah, I do, says my friend.
So do I, says the cop.
We all do.
He looks at my friend thoughtfully and goes, drive safely, sir, and hands back his license and registration.
No ticket!
So in two days, he's saved from a tragic marriage to a girl who doesn't like Alp and a speeding ticket.
All true.
It's more than a nicotine marriage.
In an age of 350 million people, we're guessing there are about 350 million Alp stories.