Tucker Carlson

Like, every time I've thought I've won and I'm like, get cynical and decadent and like, yeah, I'm in charge now, then I get fired or humiliated again.

And then I look back and I'm like, oh, thank you, God, for humiliating me because it restores

a sense of purpose and takes me down from hubris to reality, et cetera, et cetera.

But underneath it all is the fact that the more you've been given, the greater your obligation to others.

And as I said, as I told you in great detail at breakfast, I'm not gonna bore your listeners, but I just went through this where I was like, fuck this.

Fuck this.

Like, go wreck your society.

I'm out.

I'm gonna do my interviews and like...

But I'm not getting involved in this process because it's hopelessly broken and, like, I can only be frustrated by it.

I can have no material effect and I'm just out and I've got a million interests.

I have a huge family who I am very engaged with and, like, I'm just gonna tend to their needs and I'm not gonna be a... participate in anything beyond my world.

And then a really close and honest friend of mine wrote me this very long letter the day Charlie was killed.

And I was like, actually... And it was very nice.

It wasn't scolding, but it was actually corrective in that he said...

You are self-indulgent, which I am.

I am totally self-indulgent.

I know that about myself, of course, and it's obvious.

But you are being self-indulgent, and you have a moral obligation to do everything you can with the ever-present knowledge.

It mostly won't work, but it doesn't matter whether you live to see its fruits.