 Get a mate 40 here. So YouTube has a great new function I can go live and simultaneously invite guests like even here on my cell phone. So that's awesome All right, so I'm looking forward to doing that in the future I know there are a lot of other platforms That have that function, but I don't have to be an OBS now to invite guests So I've been reading a ton on the Fox News firing of Tucker Carlson Here are some of the things that jumped out of me So it was Tucker's January 6 documentary that was so over-the-top that was Important in the Murdoch's decision to part ways with with Tucker. So Rupert was about to get married again to his fifth wife and she believed that Tucker was a messenger from God and Rupert said no, no, he's not Now remember it Tucker got accessed at thousands of hours of previously unseen footage and Tucker just showed a little bit of it and then he stopped showing it So why did Tucker stop showing the previously unseen footage that came into the possession of the House Republicans? That why did he stop showing that that footage? Was he told to shut it down? So So Did Fox tell him to shut it down now if Tucker hadn't misrepresented the footage that he had like and release that crazy documentary saying that the January 6 riots were not what they were seeing But you know, there's some kind of deep-state Plants and intervention like he hadn't said such crazy stuff and given such crazy contacts in the footage That he could have released You know a lot of more of that unseen footage, which I think most of us would want to see so why why did Tucker stop? Showing the previously unseen footage. I think that's important It's very safe here in downtown LA. Just please ignore the sirens Very safe here. It's all under control Another thing that jumped out to me about the articles on Tucker's firing It's how unpopular he was with his peers that the cheering erupted at Fox when particularly in the news division when it was announced that Tucker had been fired so Tucker had alienated himself from his peers and so it's not a safe position to be outside the herd or even on the edges of the herd You really want to live life if you possibly can't inside the herd and that may mean saying a lot of things You don't really believe in Just going along with the herd in a lot of ways so you can say and do all sorts of things Let's stay independent in your mind. I'll give you know new meanings to what you're saying and doing But but you're in a much less safe position when you're outside the herd also Tucker was working from home essentially from Maine and from Florida and so he wasn't coming into the office I think he got out of touch with reality like some people do when they Choose remote work rather than in the office work So he had less you know face time with many of his colleagues at Fox I suspect that may have played a role in him getting out of touch Yeah, so I think you stop thinking about what was in his employer's best interest So when you stop thinking about what's in your employer's best interest or you know, what is it the? Closest friends one or your community ones or your spouse wants right? That's when you're gonna have to start shopping for a new job new spouse new friends when you don't retain a sense of the people Most important to you and what they're all about So yeah, I suspect that he developed an exaggerated sense of his own importance So whoever Fox replaces him with will probably get at least 80% of Tucker's audience and May very well cause 10% of the problems. So if you can get someone Who brings in 80% of Tucker's audience causes 10% of the problems of Tucker cause You know brings back elite advertisers instead of the low low-grade advertisers currently on Tucker's show Then that's a winning decision for Fox News Another thing that Eric Wampal of the Washington Post noted that then other people have noted that Tucker loves cruelty And there's someone who's been online a long time You know, I identify with that You know, there has been a streak of cruelty in my online adventures and they're having times when I've you know resonated with it with being cruel and it's usually a dysfunction and Chuck Johnson made the point hurt people hurt people and it sounds cliche, but I think it's absolutely right hurt people hurt people and Tucker, you know, it's talked about his rage at his mother how much he loves his mother and that probably gives an avenue to understanding the alleged Misanthropy that he is directed in the Abbey Grossberger lawsuit where his former female booker on the show alleged an atmosphere of you know careless cruelty and discrimination against women anti-semitism stuff like that so Her people her people her people, you know, probably really enjoy hurting people Articles talk about how it used to be in AA and so people are addicts and alcoholics They tend to have a lot of resentment and that tends to be what what drives their addiction So maybe Tucker fell out of recovery, you know, rage and resentment does seem to have driven the show And some people can use rage and rage and resentment in adaptive, you know useful ways But tends to poison people So Chuck Johnson wrote an essay that Tucker was very likely being used by foreign powers such as Russia China I don't buy that but it's an interesting substack to read, you know Chuck Johnson's analysis of this He said that he told Roger Ailes to give Tucker a TV show because he Roger Ailes with Vox News needed a wasp with his own show So Chuck Johnson is incredibly connected. So he's very smart incredibly connected I am highly skeptical of many of the things he says, but there is some gold in in all the dross on his comments so I don't believe that Tucker Carlson was, you know, doing the work of foreign powers like Russia and China, right that that doesn't ring true to me But other parts of Chuck Johnson's analysis do ring true and you know Chuck Johnson has been in places and has been connected to people that would give him insights that You and I don't have. The guy is incredibly well connected and no matter how wrong he may be about various things He's the type of brilliant connected individual who can change the direction of a republic of a genre of a society of history Wouldn't surprise me if you know Chuck Johnson Changes the whole direction of various things of which we have absolutely no idea right now so another interesting angle on this is will truck will Tucker Carlson run for president right, I think that would be Mentally entertaining and I think that Tucker Carlson has a substantial base in the Republican Party and He may very well be I don't know if he decides to run I'd put the odds at 5% 10% that Tucker could win the Republican nomination and And possibly win the presidency of the United States so Donald Trump being scorned by Barack Obama, you know gave birth to Donald Trump running for president of the United States So when Obama used a press gala to roast Donald Trump, right? Trump didn't enjoy it and it fired him up and let him to run for presidency So getting fired by Fox News may well fire up Tucker Carlson free him to run for run for the presidency Certainly not too late to jump into the field Tucker Carlson's only TV pundit who I find interesting right no one else Registers on my radar and I'm not a fan of Tucker Carlson. I like Tucker You know what I know about it personally, but I think his show was equal parts good stuff bad stuff and Nothing stuff, but I'll be interested to see where he goes from here