The Charlie Kirk Show - April 27, 2023


Tucker Breaks His Silence— Charlie's Analysis


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Tucker Carlson released a video last night that has been viewed by well over 50 million people. It was a two-minute and 14-second clip with a message that has gone viral on social media. Fox News fired Tucker.

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00:00:04.000 We dissect Tucker's hidden message in his very viral video.
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00:01:44.000 Tucker speaks.
00:01:45.000 That's right.
00:01:46.000 Tucker Carlson released a video last evening.
00:01:49.000 Two-minute video, to be precise.
00:01:52.000 It is a two-minute and 14-second video.
00:01:56.000 Well over 50 million people have viewed at least part of the video.
00:02:00.000 Over 17 million people have watched the video in its entirety.
00:02:04.000 At first glance, it just seems to kind of be a normal video of Tucker talking about big themes, but there's a lot to it.
00:02:11.000 So first, we must get our facts right.
00:02:14.000 Tucker Carlson is still in a contract dispute with Fox.
00:02:18.000 Reports are showing that Fox is going to try to keep Tucker Carlson on the sideline, still pay him his $20 million a year salary, but keep him out of the 2024 race.
00:02:27.000 That's number one.
00:02:28.000 Number two, it's likely that Tucker Carlson has a non-disparagement clause with Fox, which means anything he says publicly, he can't bash Fox.
00:02:35.000 He can't attack Fox.
00:02:36.000 He can't go after the leadership of Fox.
00:02:38.000 Now, we know that he's under contract at least until next spring, but maybe into the spring of 2025.
00:02:44.000 Fox made a calculated move because of Tucker's effective critique of neoliberalism, because of the mounting lawsuits, or because of whatever you want to believe.
00:02:53.000 They believe that it's okay to take a 47% rating hit, which is what's happened so far, keep Tucker on the sideline and pay him $20 million a year and try to rebuild the network.
00:03:03.000 You know, there's a tall poppy syndrome that exists at Fox News.
00:03:07.000 Tall Poppy Syndrome is a Scandinavian mentality, which is that no person can be greater than the others.
00:03:14.000 And if you actually know tall poppy syndrome, it comes from this idea that as soon as you try to get too high above the rest, they take you out.
00:03:20.000 It's literally how it works in growing poppies.
00:03:25.000 Literally, if one gets too high, doesn't even allow to exist in the state of nature.
00:03:30.000 I've always heard that in Australia and New Zealand, mostly, but it's also Scandinavian as well.
00:03:35.000 It's this idea that no person is greater than the rest.
00:03:37.000 There's a Norwegian, Norwegian saying that says, no, one of us is not greater.
00:03:42.000 It's Swedish saying, not one person is greater than the other.
00:03:45.000 Yeah, it's the law of gent in Swedish.
00:03:48.000 So the point is that Fox News has actually always had this mentality, that one show is not greater than the collective Fox News.
00:03:55.000 And Tucker was the network.
00:03:57.000 Now, this all can go back to Chris Steywalt on election night, 2020, which I'm sure many of you remember when Chris Stirewalt came out and called Arizona way too early.
00:04:09.000 And that is what set off the blaze of criticism against Fox News, where all of a sudden Chris Steywalt and Fox News said, Arizona is called.
00:04:19.000 And then, so therefore, in November and December 2020, they saw their ratings plummet.
00:04:23.000 They saw a lot of Fox boycotts happening from the audience, and they try to recover.
00:04:28.000 And they saw Tucker Carlson as a way to rebuild brand loyalty and rebuild their audience.
00:04:35.000 They went all in on Tucker Carlson.
00:04:36.000 They gave him Tucker Carlson today, Tucker Carlson Originals.
00:04:39.000 They expanded his team.
00:04:40.000 They built him a studio both in Maine and Florida, an unusual offer of any sort of cable host at Fox.
00:04:48.000 Usually they make you go into a bureau.
00:04:50.000 And they did this as a way to try to save their brand identity.
00:04:54.000 They were very afraid that this might be the end of their network.
00:04:57.000 And by doing so, they also, you know, that was when the Dominion stuff came on their airwaves with Maria and not even Tucker to an extent of it.
00:05:05.000 But the point being is that this all started with a preemptive call of Arizona on election night.
00:05:12.000 I'm sure many of you in this audience remember that.
00:05:13.000 You probably have a pit in your stomach of remembering how angry you were where Fox beat MSNBC and CNN by days calling Arizona.
00:05:22.000 It was within hours.
00:05:23.000 Oh, Arizona's done.
00:05:24.000 Like, what?
00:05:26.000 What?
00:05:26.000 It just looked preemptive.
00:05:28.000 Even Brett Baer was complaining about it.
00:05:30.000 It just seems so.
00:05:31.000 And then Fox couldn't back away from it, right?
00:05:34.000 Fox couldn't back away from that position.
00:05:38.000 And so Tucker was the guy that was going to bring Fox back to large numbers, and he did.
00:05:47.000 The defection was limited.
00:05:51.000 Trust.
00:05:52.000 It was all about restoring trust.
00:05:54.000 And Tucker was a trustworthy voice.
00:05:57.000 So they went all in.
00:05:58.000 They went.
00:05:58.000 Texas hold them all in in January of 2021 with Tucker Carlson.
00:06:02.000 And his ratings soared.
00:06:04.000 He'd get 3.3, 3.5, 4 million a night, unheard of numbers on cable television.
00:06:09.000 Tucker Carlson today, he drove Fox Nation subs in a huge way, which was a huge priority for the Fox leadership.
00:06:18.000 But something started to happen in these last 90 days.
00:06:20.000 Tucker started to get more pointed in his critique of the Ukrainian proxy war.
00:06:25.000 He started to call out the vaccine industrial complex.
00:06:27.000 He started to challenge the neoliberal lies.
00:06:31.000 And of course, the Dominion stuff, it probably was the straw that broke the camel's back, not to mention the January 6th tapes.
00:06:38.000 And Rupert Murdoch himself, according to all public reporting, pulled the trigger and said, he's done.
00:06:44.000 No one is greater than the network.
00:06:46.000 I don't care how popular you are.
00:06:48.000 I don't care what kind of ratings you are.
00:06:50.000 We'll take the hit.
00:06:51.000 We're going to go through it and we're going to rebuild.
00:06:54.000 We know that we're going to see the ratings dive.
00:06:56.000 We know that the audience is there.
00:06:58.000 We'll win them back.
00:06:59.000 The ratings are down 47% so far.
00:07:02.000 So Tucker has a non-compete, not just a non-compete, but he has a non-disparagement.
00:07:06.000 So therefore, any public commentary Tucker makes, he has to be very careful.
00:07:12.000 But I know Tucker pretty well.
00:07:14.000 And again, many of our team members know him even better than I do, which is first, number one, Tucker is one of the most talented writers alive in the Western hemisphere.
00:07:22.000 I am not that good of a writer.
00:07:24.000 I'm a pretty good speaker.
00:07:25.000 I'm okay on radio.
00:07:26.000 I'm just not that good of a writer.
00:07:27.000 I'm average at best.
00:07:28.000 Tucker is brilliant.
00:07:30.000 He actually was a writer well before he was on television, a very, very good one, like an extraordinarily good reporter and writer.
00:07:38.000 I mean, you read his old stuff.
00:07:41.000 He was, wow, he was an old school magazine writer, thoughtful, interesting, provocative.
00:07:46.000 And so the first criticism people said against Tucker Carlson's video yesterday was that, well, it looks like he's reading.
00:07:53.000 Oh, if he's reading a teleprompter, that means he wrote it.
00:07:58.000 And if he wrote it, that means he spent a lot of time and thought behind every single word, knowing the parameters, right, of you can't disparage Fox, you can't manage Fox, you can't attack Fox.
00:08:11.000 At the same time, here he is on the same studio set.
00:08:15.000 He's on the studio set that we got so comfortable looking at on Fox News on the Tucker Carlson today.
00:08:23.000 And so the first 22 seconds of the video are pretty standard, saying there's a lot of hilarious people.
00:08:27.000 They have to be the majority of the population.
00:08:29.000 And then he goes right into it. 1.00
00:08:31.000 He says, the other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on TV are. 1.00
00:08:39.000 They're completely irrelevant. 0.99
00:08:40.000 They mean nothing in five years and we won't remember.
00:08:43.000 We won't even remember we had them.
00:08:45.000 Trust me as someone who participated.
00:08:47.000 And yet at the same time, this is an amazing thing.
00:08:50.000 The undeniably big topics that will define our future get virtually no discussion.
00:08:54.000 So I'm going to stop there for a second.
00:08:55.000 Basically, this is a very powerful point.
00:08:58.000 A powerful point behind this is that Tucker Carlson is basically saying the replacement of what's now happening on the 8 p.m. hour is just talking about silly stuff.
00:09:09.000 It's not getting down to the root of the issues.
00:09:12.000 It's the same uniparty discussion.
00:09:14.000 It's the same one-party rule.
00:09:15.000 He gets to that actually later in the speech.
00:09:18.000 But I want to reiterate this.
00:09:20.000 The familiarity of Tucker being on his set was a middle finger to Fox News.
00:09:27.000 Tucker did that on his set intentionally.
00:09:30.000 You better believe it.
00:09:31.000 He could have done that on his kitchen table.
00:09:33.000 He could have done it from a boat.
00:09:34.000 He could have done it anywhere.
00:09:36.000 He doesn't own that set.
00:09:37.000 It's technically property of News Corp.
00:09:40.000 It's technically property of Murdoch.
00:09:43.000 And so he goes right on his set and is basically asking Fox to go bring a construction crew to go disassemble his set.
00:09:50.000 That right there is Tucker saying, come and take it.
00:09:53.000 I'm going to keep on speaking.
00:09:55.000 The optics matter a lot.
00:09:57.000 You think about he was right there on the set that Fox financed and Fox built right in his home in Florida.
00:10:03.000 That's all publicly reported.
00:10:04.000 It's not private information.
00:10:05.000 That's Tucker saying without saying, I'm going to fight you.
00:10:09.000 That right there is a direct act of defiance of, oh, I know I have NDAs and I know I have non-disparagements, but him being on that set, that's not his set.
00:10:20.000 That's Fox's set, wearing a tie.
00:10:22.000 And the first line of Tucker's video, good evening.
00:10:27.000 Ooh.
00:10:29.000 For those of us that are avid Tucker fans, we know exactly what that means.
00:10:34.000 And we'll get through all the other elements here because it's everything that Tucker writes is done with intentionality.
00:10:42.000 He was reading, which means he wrote it.
00:10:44.000 Anything Tucker writes means that he thought through it.
00:10:46.000 He's a deeply thoughtful person.
00:10:48.000 The fact that he hasn't had a television show last couple of days means that he was probably working on this, tapping it away on his phone and editing and auditing and every single word because he knew it was going to be poured over.
00:10:58.000 And I'm going to show you some little Easter eggs, little nuggets about probably, in my own speculation, a looming cataclysmic war that is going to come between Tucker and Fox News.
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00:12:21.000 So let's play just part of this so you guys get a little taste if you haven't seen it already.
00:12:25.000 This is Tucker saying, when you step away from the noise, you realize how irrelevant television debates are.
00:12:32.000 Is he maybe foreshadowing his plan to just get out of the cable box to get into real issues?
00:12:41.000 Play Cut 66.
00:12:42.000 Good evening.
00:12:43.000 It's Tucker Carlson.
00:12:44.000 One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what's true, and a bunch of hilarious people, also.
00:12:59.000 A lot of those.
00:12:59.000 It's got to be the majority of the population, even now.
00:13:02.000 So that's hurting. 1.00
00:13:04.000 The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. 0.99
00:13:11.000 They're completely irrelevant. 1.00
00:13:13.000 They mean nothing.
00:13:14.000 In five years, we won't even remember that we had them.
00:13:17.000 Trust me, as someone who's participated.
00:13:20.000 Tucker then continues to talk about the issues that do matter.
00:13:25.000 The topics that define our future: civil liberties, emerging science, and then this is an interesting one: demographic change.
00:13:34.000 This is a total challenge to the neoliberal orthodoxy.
00:13:40.000 The issues that Tucker chose to name are very revealing.
00:13:44.000 By emerging science, I'm guessing he meant vaccine stuff.
00:13:48.000 In some ways, he was general, but Tucker picked issues that got him in the most trouble.
00:13:53.000 You see, Tucker didn't talk about tax policy and this or no, but he decided to say war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, and natural resources.
00:14:06.000 The rest of the conservative media regime never would say the phrase demographic change.
00:14:14.000 Tucker wants to talk about it more, not less.
00:14:18.000 He wants to talk more about Ukraine.
00:14:21.000 He's not just promising to hit Biden or do the, oh, Biden is sleepy and can't make sentences.
00:14:27.000 But you see, what he's showing here by his selection of issues, we'll play this tape in a second, is Tucker is making an argument that if it was not for his show or not for his commentary, who else is going to talk about this?
00:14:46.000 Are they now going to fill the 8 p.m. hour talking about how Zelensky is a corrupt foreign oligarch?
00:14:52.000 Are they going to have the 8 p.m. hour talking about adverse events when it comes to the vaccine?
00:14:57.000 Of course not.
00:14:58.000 But the tone that Tucker is setting is that I'm going to keep on talking about it.
00:15:04.000 You see, what he talks about here: war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, and natural resources are all untouchable topics to the neoliberal dogma.
00:15:18.000 You're allowed to go on TV and debate about tax policy.
00:15:23.000 You're allowed to go on television and debate about spending.
00:15:30.000 You're allowed to go on TV and debate about healthcare, corporate-selected issues.
00:15:34.000 To go on TV and say, hey, why are we funding a proxy war in Ukraine?
00:15:38.000 That's a thought crime.
00:15:40.000 Right now, we're seeing segment after segment.
00:15:44.000 For example, one on the other day showed that dad sneakers are the new Gen Z trend.
00:15:49.000 It's a real segment.
00:15:50.000 There was another segment in the 8 p.m. hour vacated by Tucker saying that the Middle East is we're getting close to the war.
00:15:58.000 We never should have withdrawn from Afghanistan.
00:16:00.000 And maybe we have to send more troops to the Middle East.
00:16:03.000 Like totally the polar opposite of everything Tucker Carlson was talking about.
00:16:03.000 It's a real segment.
00:16:08.000 And Tucker is right.
00:16:09.000 He said, when's the last time we had a legitimate debate about any of these issues?
00:16:12.000 It's been a long time.
00:16:14.000 That's not permitted.
00:16:15.000 And now this is where he not so subtly takes out the sword against the leadership of Fox.
00:16:24.000 American media, both political parties and their donors have reached a consensus of what benefits them.
00:16:32.000 And they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:16:39.000 He's talking about himself.
00:16:41.000 What is so brilliant about this video is that he third-party personed his departure without ever mentioning Fox or ever mentioning his name.
00:16:51.000 He's telling you why he got removed.
00:16:54.000 This video is him explicitly, like a reporter, reporting on his own departure without ever saying his name or saying Fox.
00:17:02.000 You just have to look at it.
00:17:04.000 He's saying, hey, if you're willing to actually listen to this video, I got removed because I talk about war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, and corporate power.
00:17:14.000 That's why I got removed, and the American media and the one-party state removed me because of it.
00:17:20.000 That's what he's saying in this video.
00:17:22.000 It's not a contract dispute.
00:17:23.000 It's not about Dominion.
00:17:24.000 Tucker is telling you clearly in this video, he got removed because of thought crimes.
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00:18:38.000 Ignore the media talk about this being about Dominion, text messages, and ex-producer.
00:18:43.000 That is noise.
00:18:44.000 What Tucker signaled to you through laying it out, and then his second part of the argument is that this was an ideological removal of Tucker Carlson.
00:18:55.000 This was because he was exposing thought crimes.
00:18:58.000 That's his own words.
00:19:00.000 And it's clear as day in here.
00:19:02.000 Now, before we get further into it, the mainstream media is very worried that you would even say that.
00:19:09.000 Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC say there's not some sort of conspiracy.
00:19:15.000 This will get you fired from any job.
00:19:17.000 Now, of course, we know that's not true.
00:19:20.000 It continues by saying: American media and both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:19:34.000 Boom.
00:19:35.000 He's talking about himself.
00:19:38.000 This reads as if he wrote a monologue about another cable news host that was popular.
00:19:44.000 This is Tucker Carlson re-emerging as a magazine writer about his own departure.
00:19:52.000 This is Tucker Carlson talking about himself in the third person.
00:19:56.000 That's what makes this entire monologue that he did, the entire thing so fascinating.
00:20:00.000 Play Cut 67.
00:20:02.000 And yet at the same time, and this is the amazing thing, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all.
00:20:12.000 War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources.
00:20:19.000 When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues?
00:20:24.000 It's been a long time.
00:20:25.000 Debates like that are not permitted in American media.
00:20:29.000 Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:20:39.000 Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state.
00:20:43.000 Looks very much like a one-party state.
00:20:48.000 They actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
00:20:55.000 He talks about the issues that they don't like, and then he talks about how he has been silenced.
00:21:01.000 He continues by saying that is a depressing realization.
00:21:05.000 But understand the argument Tucker is making about his own departure, and he would know because it's his departure, the media doesn't like it.
00:21:12.000 The media doesn't want you to believe that this is ideological.
00:21:14.000 I mean, come on, it's not because Tucker Carlson was effectively challenging neoliberalism.
00:21:20.000 No, it's because he was a sloppy employee.
00:21:22.000 Yeah, that's really rich coming from Joe Scarborough, Play Cut 70.
00:21:26.000 Several people with knowledge of Fox's discussion told the Times the messages were a catalyst for Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to sever ties with the hosts of their highest rated and highly profitable primetime program.
00:21:41.000 And so, Willie, for everybody out there, and they're, well, not everybody, there are a few people out there, but some that are loyalists and Trumpists who are shocked and stunned and deeply saddened and think this is part of some great conspiracy.
00:21:55.000 There's not, there's no conspiracy theory here.
00:21:59.000 This is just, this is something that would literally get you fired anywhere in the United States.
00:22:06.000 If what Joe Scarborough is saying is true, Joy Reed would be out of a job. 0.91
00:22:12.000 But she does not challenge power.
00:22:14.000 She upholds it.
00:22:15.000 Most of the talking heads on TV uphold power.
00:22:19.000 The reason they did not get rid of Tucker Carlson earlier is because Fox was very worried about losing their audience post-preemptively calling Arizona on election night in 2020.
00:22:32.000 It bought Tucker some time.
00:22:34.000 And Tucker being a true believer in these ideas, he understood the opportunity.
00:22:42.000 You see, Tucker Carlson was not trying to build a career.
00:22:47.000 Tucker Carlson was trying to make an impact for the country he loves and the ideas he cares about and the stories he wanted to pursue.
00:22:56.000 And Tucker saw an opportunity.
00:22:58.000 And the opportunity was, I have a very popular program and I'm going to lean into the issues.
00:23:04.000 And it seemed as if he always knew he was going to be on borrowed time.
00:23:07.000 He came on my program and said that in the end, they're going to win.
00:23:10.000 They're going to remove us.
00:23:11.000 They're going to get rid of us.
00:23:13.000 But he wanted to use every nightly broadcast as a way, how can I do a different thing that is not being done on television to improve the country?
00:23:23.000 But the talking heads on almost every other network, they're almost centurion guards for the regime.
00:23:30.000 They're safe.
00:23:31.000 They do what is told. 0.82
00:23:33.000 Tucker was the only one to lean into Ukrainian bio labs, vaccines, transgender surgeries for minors, election integrity, had Catherine Engelbrecht on about 2,000 mules. 0.98
00:23:46.000 He leaned in about the open border. 0.89
00:23:48.000 He leaned in about UFOs.
00:23:51.000 Tucker Carlson leaned in about unidentified flying objects, pharmaceutical industrial complex, Pfizer, AstraZeneca.
00:23:58.000 Tucker Carlson went after Mitch McConnell, went after January 6 tapes.
00:24:02.000 It's as if there was not a fight he was unwilling to pick.
00:24:05.000 And it bothered the regime.
00:24:07.000 Because on a nightly basis, the 8 p.m. hour on Fox News was a threat to their power grab and their takeover of the country.
00:24:14.000 But then Tucker makes, he tells you the why.
00:24:18.000 He doesn't just tell you, well, he told you the why before.
00:24:21.000 He tells you then even more details of the why.
00:24:23.000 He says, a depressing realization, but it's not permanent.
00:24:28.000 He gives you this mantra of hope in his comeback message.
00:24:32.000 It's not permanent.
00:24:34.000 Our current orthodoxies won't last. 0.99
00:24:38.000 They're brain dead. 0.96
00:24:39.000 Nobody believes them. 0.99
00:24:41.000 And that is true.
00:24:42.000 Nobody believes that unfettered free trade with China is making us wealthier.
00:24:47.000 Nobody believes that another proxy war with Ukraine is actually in our best interest.
00:24:52.000 Hardly anyone's life is improved by them.
00:24:55.000 It's true, unless you're an oligarch. 0.90
00:24:57.000 This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue. 0.89
00:25:01.000 And so it won't. 0.86
00:25:03.000 The people in charge know this.
00:25:05.000 And this is why this, so this is right at the leadership of Fox.
00:25:08.000 So now he's talking about himself, okay?
00:25:11.000 He segues about himself.
00:25:12.000 Very well, might as well say the owners of Fox know this, and that's why they're hysterical and aggressive.
00:25:19.000 They're afraid they've given up persuasion and they're resorting to force.
00:25:26.000 He's talking about his removal at this point.
00:25:29.000 They removed him, not because they want to disprove him, but because they want to use force.
00:25:35.000 But it won't work when honest people say what's true calmly and without embarrassment.
00:25:40.000 They become powerful at the same time.
00:25:42.000 The liars who've been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker.
00:25:47.000 Listen carefully, PlayCut 68.
00:25:49.000 That's a depressing realization, but it's not permanent.
00:25:53.000 Our current orthodoxies won't last. 0.99
00:25:56.000 They're brain dead. 0.67
00:25:57.000 Nobody actually believes them. 1.00
00:25:59.000 Hardly anyone's life is improved by them.
00:26:02.000 This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won't.
00:26:07.000 The people in charge know this. 0.96
00:26:09.000 That's why they're hysterical and aggressive.
00:26:11.000 They're afraid.
00:26:12.000 They've given up persuasion.
00:26:14.000 They're resorting to force.
00:26:16.000 But it won't work.
00:26:17.000 When honest people say what's true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.
00:26:24.000 At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker.
00:26:30.000 That's the iron law of the universe.
00:26:31.000 True things prevail.
00:26:34.000 Where can you still find Americans saying true things?
00:26:37.000 There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough.
00:26:41.000 As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.
00:26:44.000 See you soon.
00:26:46.000 See you soon.
00:26:50.000 Now, there's public reporting that Rupert Murdoch did not like the spiritual talk of Tucker Carlson.
00:26:58.000 What Tucker just said there was a spiritual argument.
00:27:01.000 And let me build it out for you.
00:27:02.000 Tucker is a learned man.
00:27:04.000 And Tucker knows when he says the iron law of the universe, what is he saying there?
00:27:10.000 He's talking about the logos.
00:27:12.000 The logos is an idea that is in John 1.
00:27:17.000 In the beginning was the word.
00:27:18.000 And the word was God.
00:27:20.000 And the word became flesh.
00:27:22.000 The logos is the harmony of the universe.
00:27:24.000 The logos is the idea that there is a natural law.
00:27:28.000 What Tucker is making here is a spiritual argument that would bother the head of Fox, Rupert Murdoch.
00:27:33.000 I don't like all that spiritual talk.
00:27:35.000 What Tucker is saying here is that they become weaker.
00:27:40.000 The iron law of the universe is true things prevail.
00:27:42.000 That is Christianity, believing that truth prevails ultimately, that there is a truth, that there is a telos, that there is an order to the cosmos. 0.65
00:27:53.000 And that's what he's saying, not so subtly.
00:27:55.000 He's saying that, look, those of us who speak truth, and he says that, as long as you can hear the words, there is hope.
00:28:03.000 As long as you have the spoken word, the spoken truth, which is the logos, there is hope.
00:28:11.000 When he starts with the issue, why he was removed, he's giving you a little bit of a preview that not only is he not going away, not only is he not going to disappear, but he's going to be more convicted than ever to speak truth.
00:28:31.000 If the heads of Fox did not like his spiritual talk, what he's saying right there, you guys are liars. 0.94
00:28:40.000 The whole regime that removed me is liars. 0.91
00:28:43.000 And the iron law of the universe, which is the logos in Christianity, is that true things prevail.
00:28:51.000 I believe that.
00:28:52.000 And I know you do too.
00:28:54.000 And the truth will set you free.
00:28:59.000 Tucker was very self-aware throughout the years.
00:29:02.000 And he says in his monologue, look, I got removed because I participated in thought crimes.
00:29:05.000 He might as well have just sent a press release that said that.
00:29:07.000 But Tucker came on our program and he said, look, they're going to take us all out.
00:29:10.000 They're going to remove us.
00:29:12.000 You can't control all the stuff that goes on.
00:29:14.000 The powers that B will win, at least in the short term, are they going to crush me?
00:29:17.000 Oh, yeah.
00:29:18.000 He knew there was a target on his back.
00:29:19.000 And boy, is this not a profile in courage.
00:29:22.000 He could have done what most broadcasters do on television, Operation Mockingbird.
00:29:26.000 Be boring, read the script.
00:29:28.000 Zelensky is the new Churchill. 0.55
00:29:30.000 The vaccine is safe and effective.
00:29:33.000 The border is not that big of an issue.
00:29:36.000 More immigrants are good for the fabric of America.
00:29:38.000 Free trade makes us wealthier.
00:29:40.000 China is not that powerful.
00:29:42.000 There's nothing.
00:29:43.000 It's just the rule of law.
00:29:44.000 No one is above the law.
00:29:46.000 And Donald Trump needs to be held accountable.
00:29:48.000 That is what Operation Mockingbird, RNC TV does. 0.91
00:29:51.000 RNC TV does all of that what I just said.
00:29:54.000 No challenging of orthodoxies, no exploration of the truth, no courage, no grit, zero fortitude.
00:30:02.000 Instead, it's just kind of what is allowed.
00:30:04.000 And not only did Tucker not do what is allowed, he went to the places of the third rail, of the third rail, the third rail.
00:30:12.000 Tucker Carlson could have pulled back.
00:30:14.000 He could have made 20 million a year.
00:30:15.000 Tucker Carlson could have kind of made his show a little bit more boring, had the safe, comfortable guests on, picked five or six topics that are somewhat edgy.
00:30:23.000 You know, the border thing, I don't think they would have got too worried or fired up about.
00:30:27.000 But no, no, he went after corporate power, big tech, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the trans thing, mutilation of kids. 0.80
00:30:34.000 Boom, He could have had $20 million for the rest of his life, a year, until he died with contract renewals. 0.77
00:30:42.000 He could have been safe.
00:30:45.000 But Tucker made a decision to use his period of time on 8 p.m. network television to start a movement.
00:30:54.000 You know how few people would do that?
00:30:56.000 Rush Limbaugh absolutely would do that.
00:30:59.000 I think Rush and Tucker are right up there in the last 50 or 60 years as some of the most courageous broadcasters that defied orthodoxies and leaned into the truth regardless of the cost against them.
00:31:10.000 Fearless.
00:31:12.000 People say, Charlie, what is courage?
00:31:14.000 Courage is doing the right thing when you know you're going to get opposition, condemnation, smear, or slander.
00:31:20.000 Here's Tucker Carlson admitting to me on our podcast.
00:31:23.000 He knew there was a target on his back.
00:31:25.000 And he had to focus him on what was most important.
00:31:27.000 And when you know they're going to crush you and you still speak the truth, it's powerful stuff.
00:31:33.000 Play cut 71. 0.78
00:31:34.000 Last piece of advice for young people: get married.
00:31:37.000 Yeah, get married and have a ton of kids.
00:31:39.000 I mean, get married when you're too young, have more kids than you can afford, take a job you're not qualified for, live boldly, stop getting high, stop doing anything that blurs your vision or makes time go faster.
00:31:50.000 You're going to die before you know it.
00:31:52.000 Don't waste a second.
00:31:53.000 That's the sin is living thoughtlessly and wasting time.
00:31:58.000 It's the one thing you can't get back.
00:31:59.000 I've wasted a lot of money in my life.
00:32:01.000 Oh my gosh.
00:32:02.000 I don't care.
00:32:03.000 I don't regret any of it.
00:32:04.000 Every room service meal was worth it.
00:32:07.000 It was fine.
00:32:08.000 But any time that I wasted is really bitter for me because it's finite.
00:32:13.000 And so live as fully as you can.
00:32:15.000 And you can't control all this stuff that's going on.
00:32:17.000 You can't control what Google does.
00:32:19.000 And honestly, they're going to win.
00:32:20.000 Like the powers that be will win, at least in the short term.
00:32:23.000 Ultimately, they'll all blow up.
00:32:25.000 But like, we're powerless and hated.
00:32:27.000 I think this myself all the time.
00:32:28.000 Are they going to crush me?
00:32:29.000 Oh, yeah.
00:32:31.000 Okay.
00:32:32.000 But in the meantime, you know, I want to experience my life as fully as I possibly can. 0.83
00:32:40.000 And I think that starts with having like a ton of kids, like way more than is like Mormon levels of kids. 0.88
00:32:45.000 I mean that. 1.00
00:32:47.000 Are they going to crush me?
00:32:48.000 Oh, yeah.
00:32:49.000 Living in the moment, living with joy, living with peace.
00:32:52.000 You know how rare that is?
00:32:54.000 What are they going to do?
00:32:55.000 Put me in prison?
00:32:56.000 I'll still be a happy warrior.
00:32:58.000 The tranquility.
00:33:00.000 I think of the serenity prayer that Tucker embodied almost better than anybody else.
00:33:03.000 God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
00:33:10.000 Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, taking this world as it is, and not as I would have it, trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to your good and perfect will.
00:33:22.000 Are they going to crush me?
00:33:23.000 Oh, yeah.
00:33:24.000 They've tried, Tucker.
00:33:26.000 But the final point I'll make on this is the last three words.
00:33:31.000 See you soon.
00:33:35.000 He's not done.
00:33:36.000 I don't know what his plans are.
00:33:38.000 I have no inside information.
00:33:40.000 I have no direct lines of communication.
00:33:43.000 See you soon.
00:33:46.000 Might as well.
00:33:47.000 I'll be back.
00:33:48.000 Or as Douglas MacArthur said in the Philippines, I shall return.
00:33:53.000 He's not off the chessboard yet, everybody.
00:33:56.000 They've tried everything they can to remove him.
00:33:59.000 And I think they have awoken a sleeping giant, a voice that cannot be silenced or censored.
00:34:04.000 As long as Tucker Carlson has breath in those lungs, the cockroaches destroying America are going to be very nervous because he will be back.
00:34:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:34:19.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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