Tommy Vitor

I mean, but, you know, he's completely spun this story about how,

it was horrible that protesters came to his house and frightened his wife, but he makes it sound like, you know, the, the DC sort of political class supported that.

And that actually is not the case.

I mean, everybody denounced that, like even people that he was, you know, at war with, like, you know, Max boot and people like that, you know, said like, you shouldn't do this, but he's sort of allied at that and just kind of lumps them all in together.

I mean, when I talk about incentive structure, I do think that's, you know, that's an instance of this.

I do think, you know, I think Tucker's calculating that is that is how you stay current.

You know, he in sort of creating this this new media company that he has in this video podcast, like he does not he can't he doesn't have Fox's built in audience anymore.

And, you know, in the intention economy, which he's proven to be kind of a master of, like you need to generate outrage.

And and one of the ways you generate outrage is you have guests like, you know, Vladimir Putin or Trump.

you know andrew tate or alex jones you have these guys on because people are going to pay attention to that they're going to tune in so i do think that's part of his strategy i mean i also think you know at fox like he roger ailes always had this you know sort of rule that no one was bigger than the network like tucker who you know came along after ailes was gone he violated that rule he did become bigger than the network in a lot of ways and there were a lot of lines that he crossed there and then they just kept on moving the line to allow him to cross

That said, like, now there are no guardrails.

And people talk about sort of the second Trump term and how there are no guardrails anymore.

Like, I think that applies to Tucker, you know, just as much.

Like, there's no one to tell him no.

He doesn't have bosses.

It's not a publicly traded company.

There are no shareholders to worry about.

And they actually bought back, you know, they paid off all the investors who originally invested in the company.

They bought it back from them.

So, like, he truly has no bosses.