 Good day, May 40 here. Shocking to hear that Taco Carlson was fired. So I'm going to bet All these reasons go together. Number one, just too huge of a legal liability so he had no standard for What is accurate or true when he wanted to put something on the air when it Fit in with his view of the country. So, you know, he promoted a lot of anti-vaccine stuff that was completely bogus and He was willing to indulge He was willing to indulge the the Trump craziness about vertebrate fraud for a long time so Yeah, I lost another carousel Riccardo, that's brilliant. It's opened up a huge keeping hole in my my nightly show So I'm going to bet number one reason he was fired just too big of a legal liability combined with two apparently he was planning a show for tonight and he wanted to bring on gas and build segments defending himself with regard to the recent dominion lawsuit and Fox said no and that led to a conflict and a fight and Taco Carlson getting fired. So Apparently unwillingness to follow direction three Perhaps overestimating his own importance to Fox Four You know Rupert Murdock and Fox executives. All right, we're getting a lot of criticism from Taco Carlson as revealed by the dominion lawsuit discovery and filings so But we're Sean Hannity being my new co-host now. I'm not particularly interested in what Sean Hannity has to say I agree with Richard Hananya that Fox news going forward is going to be much more like Sean Hannity than Taco Carlson I'm deeply ambivalent about Tucker like I appreciate and respect some of the things he does and I Loathe and disagree with an equal amount of of things that that he does so I suspect Fox news executives felt that Tucker had gotten too big for his britches that he wouldn't follow direction He saw himself as bigger than the corporation Rupert Murdock in particular probably didn't appreciate that Rupert Murdock probably didn't want to hear or taco Carlson's forminations about the You know stock price going down Will it be Ben Shapiro? Ben Shapiro already has its his own operations. I think it'd be someone more like Jesse Waters So taco Carlson If you remember the dominion lawsuit He was talking about how that uh you know fox's viewership and stock price was plunging after the 2020 election because they'd Uh weren't sufficiently on donald trump's side pushing voter fraud. So on the one hand, you know, taco Carlson, you know pushed an inordinate and silly amount of A voter fraud. Yeah, could it be greg gutfeld? Who's I think with the five the five is the top rating show on fox? so Maybe they'll they'll learn something from that So in the dominion lawsuit, there are a lot of very critical comments by Tucker about fox news executives And so people are willing to buy their time by their time, but then eventually You know the empire strikes back So with regard to taco the empires has struck back The five is a chick show So what now for taco? So I would like to see a run for president like I think that would be That would be very compelling Maybe you know a period a quiet period for him of Going to work for oann on newsmax. It'd be a quiet period for him of introspection good works and You know acts of piety But yeah, my favorite option for him is is to run for president now He probably needs a pretty big operation behind him because he has so much legal liability Like so many of the things he says are kind of out there beyond the Overton window. So I'm not sure that rumble or newsmax can they provide him with the the legal firepower and the corporate shield to to protect him from Litigation because all sorts of people will be gunning for him in litigation after the dominion revelations So daily wire seems to have a lot of money to daily wire and glenn beck's operations both glad to have him Just not sure they have the resources. I'm sure rumble would like to have him and he was You know a huge part of the fox news plus online channel All right, so tucker carlson specials. I mean, I would think that'd be the primary reason that anyone subscribed I heard the young turks. Yeah, I don't think Tucking carlson is going to the to the young turks. Will he set up his own online operation? There is abundant money for influences Well, I'll be watching fox news from now on. I mean, I'll have it in the background They're just like whenever I stream I have it in the background in case There's something happens or I just need to take a break or I just there just needs to be some visual variety to the show I have it in the the background so I can just click through on my obs Fox news is one of the rare tv networks that doesn't send you takedown requests or copyright infringements so Fox news seems to be pretty happy to have people live stream them and to abundantly Quote and use their their content So one of the the big differences between now and in 2020 Is the the right is much more willing to invest in influences So daily daily wire ban Shapiro has gotten tens of millions of dollars Prager University has gotten tens of millions of dollars Rumble has thrown around millions and millions of dollars To to bring out live streamers so I'm sure that there would be billionaires who'd be willing to fund Tucker Carlson's own media operation now Success isn't always good for people like people tend to exaggerate their own importance And have an overestimation of their own sagacity and wisdom And so all the success that Tucker Carlson has had That may have left him feeling invulnerable against this kind of uh cancellation Uh, Fox news paid a huge price in cancelled advertising. So If you listen to Dennis Prager or to most, you know, right-wing talkers right there Their advertisers are really prestigious Yeah, you can imagine Tucker starting a new new platform for himself But you'll notice with like Dennis Prager show. It's all like a relief factor You know supplements supplements to to boost your your memory or your brain power or stuff like that Tucker couldn't maintain almost any advertisers beyond my pillow Because the pressure would just be get become too intense on advertisers. So In at least that one sense Fox news will make more money with a more conventional TV host remember they part of ways with Glenn Beck who had huge ratings All right, but he was just too controversial and too many advertisers pulled their content Yeah, Richard Ananya says that fox will probably go in a shorn entity boomer direction Play it much safer after the dominion lawsuit. So I'm not sure how much shorn entity went along with the The lies against dominion. I don't think he was some sterling exemplar About how to respond to bogus claims of voter fraud Now Tucker Carlson was a week ahead of shorn entity in warning his viewers about COVID so Tucker took COVID more seriously than than shorn entity Tucker are far more willing to be critical of republicans the republican leaders from from Donald Trump to You know the republican leaders in congress republican establishment Tucker much more willing to criticize them uh The daily caller Tucker Carlson's Operation that he started web operation that he started maybe he'll go back to that and Get get a ton of funding so Tucker talks a lot about the virtues of free speech, but he didn't really exercise free speech He he told mickey calse when mickey calse was a columnist with a daily caller that he couldn't criticize fox news so I suspect that uh Tucker Carlson going forward is not going to restrict his his writers from criticizing fox news and Usually when when a star parts ways with a big network, right? We usually see the networks bigger than the than the star But occasionally like and quarter part of ways with national review She showed that she was much bigger than conservatism conservatism incorporated Glenn back hasn't exactly flourished since parting ways with with fox So who are individuals who've gone their own way on the right? and and become bigger than the conservative institutions that they You know were canceled from So usually the institutions win, right? Usually institutions have their more financial resources and often individuals overestimate their own Michelle malcon, right? She's been Actually canceled from conservatism incorporated, but has she become bigger since then? I don't think so Nick Fuentes He's become bigger. Not that he was ever a part of much of a part of conservatism incorporated, but Nick Fuentes went his own way and got pretty big Maybe uh, Tucker Carlson would join cozy tv so Good debate on twitter is Tucker more or less based than he comes across on tv So some people are arguing he is less based than he comes across on his tv Just hires a lot of writers who are more based than he is then There's no there are no respectable conservative outlets. It's either bugot reganism or Q kukeri. I'm not sure about that Maybe claymont reviewer box Christopher cordwell has a long piece in compact magazine. So Yeah, Tucker is friends with jim goad. So maybe he's more based than he comes across on on tv So I'm going to have to renew my subscription to compact magazine to read christof cordwell's essay on the implications of The dominion lawsuit So nine dollars. I'm going to spend nine dollars to read that essay So fox's stock tanked four percent Yeah, I should have a I should have a Tucker Carlson a seat at my streaming table Fox news stock went down four percent Yeah, I have an opening. Tucker needs a job I'll split the super chats with him So the immediate Conventional wisdom on wall street is that this is a big big significant hit for fox news What super chats? Hey, I got a two dollar super chat the other day, bro. Don't don't knock it Okay, uh, stay tuned. This is fascinating story. Bye. Bye