 G'day mate 40 here. So I really like Tucker Carlson the person from what I know about him. I am Embivalent about his show so some good stuff on his show some bad stuff overall I didn't know whether it's more of a force for good or for bad in the world So I disagree with the left in that I don't think it's primarily a force for bad in the world I disagree with Tucker Carlson's Shows fans and I don't believe that it's primarily clearly a force for good in the world I'm quite ambivalent So did a little more reading Ellie Time story it says that Rupert Murdoch made this decision And he did it based on the Abbey Grossberg lawsuit against Tucker Abbey Grossberg it was Tucker's primary booker and She complained that Tucker fostered an Anti-Semitic and bullying workplace So it'd be interesting if That is accurate that it was Abbey Grossberg and her lawsuit against Tucker That was the primary reason for finally firing him Other thought that occurs to me Is that I don't think Rupert Murdoch likes being overshadowed by his stars So I think the Murdochs were glad to get rid of Roger Ailes So the man who built fox news and they were glad to get rid of Glenn Beck and the other Fox News star who threatened to become bigger than Fox News and they were glad to get rid of Who's that tall Irish guy Bill O'Reilly right another bloke who threatened to become bigger than Fox News and I think they're glad to get rid of Tucker Carlson So I think the Murdochs are glad to get rid of everyone who threatened to become bigger than Rupert Murdoch They're bigger than the institution itself. So I think they're glad to get rid of Bill O'Reilly Glenn Beck Roger Ailes Tucker Carlson and anyone else in the future who threatens to become bigger than than Fox News Maybe you know part of this is just ego on the part of Rupert Murdoch I Just not wanting any individual star to overshadow the brand and then the other thought I have is that Tucker is probably much more of a web personality than a cable TV personality like he was the Closest thing the distant riot had to a talking head on cable TV He's probably much better suited for the web than for the comparatively staid world of cable TV so perhaps the Internet could unleash him and he could produce edgier shows So Tucker is a lot like Dennis Prager and that he radiates personal happiness But if you just track the things he says, he's consistently saying we're doomed This is bizarre. Yeah, we're living in There's some totalitarian regime like this is awful. This is a dystopian nightmare, right? That's the kind of rhetoric that he's filled his show with well at the same time. He does radiate happiness So kind of a bizarre Combination that Dennis Prager also pulls off like Dennis Prager's got his happiness book is dedicated happiness hour There's hundreds of happiness lectures. Yeah, there's some total of his show consistently would make people less happy And they were prior to the show and so watching Tucker Carlson I would expect and consistently make people more angry and less happy than they were prior to the show Even though Tucker and Dennis both radiate happiness so I guess for the individual who's pumping out poison and to the extent that Tucker Carlson and Dennis Prager along with most of the famous right-wing pundits pumping out the Message that we're living in a dystopian nightmare and that things have never been so bad that we're living through a civil war that We're becoming more and more like Nazi Germany and Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin every day, right? So to the extent that Tucker and Dennis Get attention right get importance get get fame get feeling of power and status By attracting a large audience and developing a rabid following all right the best way to engage is to enrage I get people enraged so Dennis and Tucker got people enraged and that was good for Dennis and Tucker Like good for their careers good for their income good for their status good for their feeling of importance All right, we all want to feel like very important people but bad for the people who Take in this content and to the extent that they allow it to affect them So Tucker Carlson consistently portrays America's in much worse shape than it is he consistently portrays Our elites is much more devious than they are in my understanding our elites are just like us, you know flawed human beings So the dystopian nightmare But Tucker and Dennis and all the other major right-wing pundits push all right that You're a victim that the elites are out to get you I think that's bad for people it makes them less happy and less effective and so to that extent the show was debilitating all right one of the Prime ways to get healthier is to develop an appropriate level of safety Which meet which is just another way of saying a reduced level of unnecessary anxiety All right, so anxiety is when you're in fight or flight inappropriately When you're in fight or fly when you're in a fight-and-flight real-life situation, that's not anxiety That's an appropriate level of arousal to deal with the situation anxiety is inappropriate levels of arousal to deal with your daily life and right-wing pundits such as Dennis Prager and Tucker Carlson and The other the other ones on nationally syndicated radio and Fox News right to the extent that they promote Anxiety that we're in a dystopian nightmare. All right They're making people less happy less effective and they're pumping poison into the American soul at the same time while they're doing this they get to feel very important and Make money and feel like that power and influence and that they're brave truth tellers and that They're the ones who are staring into the abyss and letting people know what the real score is So they get happy and get to feel important, but at the cost of the roots who take them seriously