 Good day. May 40 here. So Gabriel Sherman's got an amusing article in Vanity Fair online about Why Rippert Murdoch may have wanted to push out Tucker Carlson. So apparently Tucker flew out to Bel-Air Here in Los Angeles where Rippert owns a winery Can you imagine how expensive that real estate must be operate a winery in Bel-Air and They had dinner apparently Rippert's then fiancee was convinced that Tucker was a messenger from God and Rippert replied no he isn't and so Apparently Rippert had enough of his fiancee's like Visions about God and so he got rid of her. They're all sad to get married, but he got rid of her about three weeks ago and Now he got rid of her favorite TV show To some extent this might have been this Rippert's FU to his fiancee and Another thing that may have tipped Tip Rippert to firing Tucker is that on Friday night Tucker gave a speech to the Heritage Foundation And he invoked God and he evoked that we're in a battle of good versus evil and That may have just been a little too much for for Rippert this constant invocation of God and good versus evil so Obviously if you invoke God right, you are appealing to a more traditional conception of reality and Rippert Murdoch in this respect is very much a modern all right quite suspicious of these calls to ancient ties and their medieval ways of thinking and being and I don't look at Tucker Carlson as You know this unadulterated force for good I don't agree with the left that he's this overwhelming force for bad that to me is just a completely mixed bag He's just more interesting than than any other pundit on TV Or any other pundit period. I mean Short of Christopher Cordwell Christopher Cordwell writes long-learned essays from the New Republic and Compact magazine claim on review of books the New York Times So Christopher Cordwell is the one person who I will throw down a subscription to read what he says But Tucker is always entertaining and even Andrew Morance made that point in his New Yorker essay on Tucker Carlson getting fired so no matter the Tucker Carlson content that Andrew Morance Consumed you know whether it was on Fox Nation or on Fox News It was always compelling But it has grown increasingly bizarre unhinged from reality conspiratorial over the past few years, so There's something that happens as you grow more powerful right, there's something that happens as you Get get more influence right you start to throw your weight around and expect deference and so as Tucker has become more powerful He's you know thrown his weight around the Wall Street Journal has an article today about How Tucker consistently disparages colleagues in text messages. There are emails There are unearthed by the Dominion lawsuit so apparently he caught some female executive at Fox News of the Seaward and Just had a lot of disparaging things to say about his co-workers so Just as you see China becoming more assertive as China has risen in relative power status over the past 20 years, so two individuals, all right Very successful man like Dennis Prager, you know pretty amiable easy to get along with guy But he expects deference when you interact with him. All right, they're powerful people expect deference Generally speaking ironically Rupert Murdoch one of the most accessible Powerful people in the world who doesn't expect deference like you can talk to Rupert pretty much like you can talk to an ordinary bloke Like he enjoys the interchange. He enjoys sharing gossip. He enjoys, you know, real talk. He's just interpersonally very Easy to get along with but you see people change when they get power, right? They start expecting more and more deference. They start asserting themselves more and on the other hand when people lose power and prestige You can just see them shrivel before your eyes So getting on TV regularly is one of the most common ways that people feel more assertive and Kind of blossom and they start throwing their weight around because they feel The influence that they at least that they imagine they have and so The Wall Street Journal article in the case of Tucker Carlson became little too Full of himself All right, get over yourself. All right. I'm not that important. Tucker Carlson is not that important All right, I'm not gonna change your life with this video All right, what what's most important is your family and then if you have room in your life after your family then At your work your education your extended family Your community you're at your church your synagogue That's what counts. All right, so I see trees of green skies of blue. I think what a wonderful world and pundits aren't that important But it's very easy when you get on TV or you get on the internet All right to fall under the delusions of the e-personality All right, that you're much more important than you are that you have you know wiser insights than you really do that You have more influence than you really do So all sorts of ways that people become deformed either by it going on the internet or by going on TV or just experiencing any kind of success Their people just start swelling. It's not you know throwing their weight around and frequently disparaging others and And what does the Bible say pride goes before a fall?