Name: Tucker Carlson on Leaving Fox News, Changing Views, and What’s Next
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tucker Carlson on Leaving Fox News, Changing Views, and What’s Next' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-01. Transcript available.

- What are you doing now that's different with,
you know, you got on the Twitter, right?
And so I know that, and congratulations.
I think it's interesting.
It's brave for people to get out of the system.
A lot of people--
- I was expelled from the system, but--
- Oh, yeah, yeah, well, you got laid off from everywhere.
- I have, yeah.
- Was it cutbacks, or why did you think--
- Cutbacks, no.
I love, I'm gonna use that though.
There's downsizing, just downsizing, yeah.
I'm being retrained, I'm learning to code, actually.
They closed the plant, I totally get it.
I was on third shift, and they're just the demand
was in decline.
I am gonna use that, though, next time.
Why were you fired?
- But you got out, and you moved to--
- I was thrown out.
- You were thrown out.
- And I, and Elon called me the day that I,
my show was canceled, and I was grateful that he did.
- He called you, huh?
Had you spoken to him before?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay.
- Yeah, I had, and I really liked him,
and I'm not a technology person,
to put it mildly, like, at all.
- Yeah, I've heard that.
- Very anti-technology, yep.
Like, almost on a crazy, sort of Ted Kaczynski way,
which is, I'm not defending it.
- So, who handles tech for you, then, kind of?
- The tech people, I don't, they, they live in Bangalore,
I don't know their names. - Okay, yeah.
- Just kidding.
No, we have really super smart people.
- The Bangalorians?
Isn't that a movie?
- The Bangalorians, no.
Actually, our-- - The Mandalorian.
Most of our staff from Fox came,
and Elon's, I mean, we don't work for Elon,
I'm just, I'm a Twitter user like everybody else,
but his, all he said was,
I'm gonna keep the platform open, you know,
and people with differing views,
whether I agree with him or not,
are welcome on the platform,
and that's the guarantee that I wanted and needed,
and so I've been super grateful.
I mean, that's all I've ever wanted, by the way,
is to, I've never been a,
I have made some money, but not,
I never got crazy rich, but I never wanted to,
that wasn't my goal, at all.
I mean, I guess I would like to be richer, I guess,
I don't know what I would do with it exactly.
I just don't wanna be bossed around,
and by the way, I don't mind taking advice,
or wise counsel from people I respect,
or I'm often wrong, I'm not saying that I'm always right,
I'm definitely not,
but being ordered to do things suggests a level of disrespect,
I just can't, I just can't deal with it, at all.
- And even just about like work and stuff,
were you always like that from just like with work,
like you wanna be your own voice?
- Of course, yeah.
- Yeah.
- I mean, that's where you end up, right?
- Keep getting fired.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I mean, not that I don't,
I don't wanna fight about it,
I'm not interested in being like,
you can't tell me what to do,
or, you know, give a lot of lectures about it,
but I def, especially in my business,
you have a similar job where, you know,
you're paid to say what you think.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- And so you wanna do your job,
which is to say what you think.
- Was there even a time when you were working
at different news places where you were like,
gosh, this still isn't my own voice?
- Oh, all the time.
- Really?
- It was always my own voice,
but they're just, you could feel the parameters.
I mean, I started in my twenties, mid twenties,
I'm now in my mid fifties, so it's been a long time.
- Well, you look great for fifties, man.
- I'm 54.
- Are you really?
- Yes.
- Oh, wow.
- I know.
Isn't that shocking?
It's shocking.
I don't feel it.
But anyway, but when you're,
when you're much younger and you've got little kids,
I always had a lot of kids just reproduce like a crazy person.
- Yeah.
- Which I recommend strongly to you.
You know, you feel vulnerable and like, you know,
you're not allowed to say certain things.
And I do think I, I was never censored,
but I self-censored for sure.
You know, the war in Iraq breaks out and you're like,
maybe it's a good idea, but it's not a good idea.
And you know, it's not a good idea.
You know what I mean?
But you allow yourself to be convinced because you know,
it's super unpopular to say it's not a good idea,
but it clearly wasn't war with Iran, not a good idea.
I can say that now.
- Why do we go along with that consensus a lot of times?
What is it that makes us afraid to speak out?
- Well, people have a deep need to be part of a group.
It's just, it's a human need right up there with sex
and food and shelter, you know,
it's like people want to be connected to other people,
which I understand.
And I want that too,
but that can override reason and common sense very often.
So if you're in a million studies been done on this,
but if you're in a group, I mean, everyone experienced,
you know, a group full of people and everyone's like, you know,
I hate chocolate ice cream.
And you're like, I kind of like chocolate ice cream,
but you don't say anything about it.
Cause people like chocolate ice cream suck.
And you're like, yeah, they kind of suck.
You know, it's just, it's a human thing.
And so it's, people go along with stuff that their gut tells
them isn't the right thing, but you should never ignore your gut,
your instincts, which you inherited from your ancestors,
which are encoded in your DNA and which are almost never wrong.
If you're with someone and you feel like, God, that person's lying.
That person's lying.
You may not know what about,
you don't have x-ray vision into someone's soul,
but you can smell the deception on someone.
I know that you can, we all can.
- Oh yeah.
- Or if you feel danger, you're like, wow,
this person poses a threat to me.
You're right.
You don't know the details.
You don't need to know the details.
Get away.
And if something's really stupid, like let's go to war with Ron.
It's like, what?
- Yeah.
- And I just feel like it's, you know, maybe because of my age
and my job, I have a moral obligation to say,
I think that's really unwise.
- You don't want to, you don't want to go to war with Ron.
- No, because I'm not insane.
- So what is your plans now?
Like you've already, you're on Twitter.
You're in a free space.
- Yes.
- As much as we have in today's society,
you're in a free space for free speech.
What else do you, is there like?
- We have some plans.
I mean, some of them, I mean, if I'm being honest,
include territorial expansion.
We're going to invade Canada.
- Oh, dude, they'll just knock.
- No, pillow fight.
You can take them in a second.
No, I mean, I just want to continue doing what we're doing,
which is just, you know, say things that can't be said
in other places, bring facts that maybe people haven't heard
with the spirit of humility.
You know, if you, I'm having spent my whole life in Washington,
most of it, 35 years.
- Wow.
- I'm very, I know, I can't believe I did that.
- But you know what?
I think a lot of people were glad that somebody was there.
You know, it's nice to see people that get out of a space,
because then they're, when you're not as compromised,
when people don't seem as compromised.
- It's totally right.
No, it's totally true.
But I didn't realize just how controlled my brain was by it
when I was in it, 'cause you don't, right?
But, but anyway, but I've been around a lot of people
who set out like with these grandiose plans,
I'm going to change the world.
Those people invariably, 100% of the time,
make the world worse.
So like, you know, approach every task with the knowledge.
I have no real idea what I'm doing.
I don't know the long-term consequences of this.
I probably can't fix every problem.
I'm just going to try my best with humility,
you know, to make things slightly better.
That's my goal, make things slightly better.
But anyone who tells you like,
if we pass this legislation, we're going to fix everything.
We're going to fix healthcare forever,
said Barack Obama in 2010.
Well, as soon as he said that, I was like,
I don't even know much about healthcare.
I'm hardly an expert, but I was like,
the second you tell me you're going to fix something
as complicated as one-fifth of the entire US economy
in one piece of legislation, fuck you.
'Cause you're lying actually, 'cause that's impossible.
And it turned out they made it worse, of course.
So I don't want to do that.
Not that I even have the power to,
but I just want to tell the truth
and do it without being told not to.
And I think that we can.
- And Tucker on X is your show.
- Yep. - Right?
- Yep.
Do you guys have, will you, do you think,
would you ever do a show with a partner, you think?
Or anything like that?
I'm not going to pitch you an idea.
I'm just,
because that's usually the predecessor question,
or like somebody trying to pitch you an idea.
But do you think about that sort of thing?
Like, do you have-
- Well, I mean, I have a million people
I would like to work with.
I mean, you know, I like to interview people actually,
and a lot, and I really try to be quiet
while I interview them,
'cause I'm a compulsive talker, obviously.
But I'd like a respite from that
where I can just like listen.
So I like to,
we will have a lot of people on
and we have a lot of recurring guests.
But yeah, we're making a bunch of documentaries
and doing stuff like that.
- So like a production company kind of more?
Like are you expanding in that sense?
- Mm-hmm, yep.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
- Yeah, I think that's a good thing.