Tucker Carlson Firing, Fox News Primetime Audience Decline
Fox News parted ways with Tucker Carlson, leading to a significant decline in the network's primetime viewership. Speculation regarding the dismissal includes Carlson's recent segment featuring a pizza delivery boy, his planned appearance on Megyn Kelly's program, and potential friction with Rupert Murdoch over religious expressions. The departure is characterized as a pivotal moment for mainstream media influence.
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00:00 Wait, you're bumped by a staffer? Flishing my day away and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where we take one day off and in retribution Fox fires Tucker Carlson? I'm John C. Dvorak It's crackpotting buzzkill! So did anything happen while I was gone?
00:37 They fired Tucker Carlson because we missed one show. No, no they parted ways mutually! Oh yeah... You know there's a lot of speculation just to be honest for a second There is a lot of speculation as to why they fired Tucker Carlson and I have The clip. I have a whole bunch of clips this is yeah but i have the most that i'm convinced no because it happened right after this right after this happened he was gone even though he was finishing off his show, This is why they forced Tucker last segment clip He...this is the last thing he did on his show before signing off saying he's gonna be back on Monday and within this clip
01:23 I can see why they got fired. Sorry, it is so great to meet you in person. A couple of Coco's pies? So we at these are from Coco's established 1978 everybody loves Coco's pizza that's right where's Coco's based? Aston Pennsylvania and Delaware County. Delaware County best part of the state. I think we have a special cheese pie. We have a special pie for you here okay here's Tucker's Pie.
02:00 a pizza aficionado. I was a pizza delivery boy for two years Is it warm at all? Yeah, it's totally warm These warmers are just like Oh! I know why I know! I saw this and I know exactly why Exactly, you got it. Should I tell... should I do it? Should I reveal...? Let everyone figure out. I mean, I am guilty of this myself! This is sausage and pineapple And really quick as a pizza professional Do you look down on this order? I do, I think that guy consider criminal I agree that's a fireable offense right there. He was fired on the spot? I love pineapple pizza, I make no bones about it and at first time ever had it curiously the story is...I never had it before always felt the same way I was a bigot and one day it was at Mevio Pizza Bigot
02:59 I was at Mevio and they brought a bunch of, I forget what pizza company but they brought about 10 pies over and there was the pineapple pizza amongst them. And I looked at it and said huh let me try this. I tried it and in one bite, I was sold. It's a perfect combination that sweet pineapple and the rest of it? It was...I've been a pineapple nut ever since! Welcome to the dark side! And people who don't like pineapple on their pizza try it!! You know as a Chicagoan, I am surprised by this you know Tina of course lived most of her adult life in Chicago
03:38 That is the one thing we really differ on. She feels she's a pineapple pizza bigot, although the other day she did have... I think she did order it for me? I can't remember! I think she might've eaten around it but she was kind enough to order it for me Well yeah that of course could be the reason. I think the reason is they heard I was going to appear on Megyn Kelly on Monday and they had to make sure that stopped That's a possibility. I got bumped! I gotta tell you this story... Oh, you got bumped? Yes! I was supposed to do Megyn Kelly on... I was wondering why didn't hear anything about this Yeah so this is two days before my operation everything was yeah everything was all scheduled perfectly it's you know it's great uh on Sunday show you would even told me like hey man play up the trans Maoism stuff she doesn't have all that right so
04:36 You know, I'm very prepared for that because she's all about the men and women sports. And you know she's not seeing the big picture so i was very prepared for that and 10 minutes to it was going to be at 11 a.m my time Tim and I'm on this on the zoom I mean the green room pretty sophisticated the way Zoom has that I might add They've got a whole setup for broadcast. We got our green room and the producers come in and talk to you, and the booker... And of course I'm friends with The Booker because—and by the way if you recall last time or the first time almost two years ago when I was on Megyn Kelly I got bumped from the first hour because Sharon Osbourne got fired
05:19 It's like when Adam Curry is booked on the show. You know, if Kelly really wants to build up her audience she should just keep booking you and then keep firing people and she'll have a great show! Yeah I'll make a note of that i'll mention that. I'm re-booked for the 31st so five minutes before Steve Krakauer comes on... Steve's our executive producer he's a really nice guy How many people do they have on this podcast? Quite a few. They have quite a few people, yeah and you know she financed it all herself she started with just the podcasts and then added YouTube She's got nothing but money. She got a lot of dough and she added YouTube and then SiriusXM so she's got money coming in from all over the place
06:01 And so Steve comes on, it's like hey breaking news! What? It just broke Tucker Carlson got fired. Oh wow okay So I said I'm gonna go on for the first 20 minutes and what Okay to the executive producer goes on for the first twenty minutes Wait you're bumped by a staffer Yes That was Steve has been on on Tucker Carlson several times so he has some standing I guess in that area And he's a Texas guy, so I'm like alright Steve that's fine. And then Megan will bring you in after the break So i'm sitting there and to be quite honest it was...I was pretty happy because I mean I was ready. I said okay Dr Carlson I've got everything. There is kind of a lot going on with him particularly Big Pharma and other things. And I was ready! Okay I am pretty prep for this
06:54 And then the break is over and then it's going on like, oh we're gonna get to Glenn Beck on! I'm like okay. Glenn Peck wants me on again too by the way scheduling that. And so then Glenn Beck, you know Glenn of course was X Fox like okay that makes sense now we're like now it's like he would be the He's a good guy. Either Glenn or O'Reilly would be good people to have as yeah I got fired from them too right and then Well now we have Glen Greenwald on Oh, that's great. That was a low blow Megan Kelly! That was bad. You're higher profile than Greenwald Well her angle was you know we've all gone independent this can be done without big media networks and I kind of appreciated it Well that's kinda you isn't it? She at one point said We pioneered this she says to Glenn Beck And will have the actual pioneer Adam Curry on in a little bit
07:53 Of course, that never happened because she just kept going and then she's bringing on... Oh they're all giddy because he got fired. You know it's that crazy idea where you I think they took glee in it Well, it's a big media story. I don't think anybody felt sorry for Tucker or they thought there was an outrage? No but these are all people who were like you know who parted ways with mainstream and they're very excited and i understand that and you know i got the occasional email or text message hey man bring tucker into podcast 2.0 value for value okay yeah okay yeah we had that at dinner table
08:34 I had to shut it off because they say, hey you know it's a different medium. You just don't go from one to the other like willy-nilly And so I had a lot of time to reflect on it listening to everybody and I was quite happy with that because what It gave me was a lot more opportunity To think about what had really happened here for our own show which if you know to be honest I like Megyn Kelly I was excited to be on you know um I don't think she I Don't think she's ever really listened to the show Otherwise... I'm sure she's never listened to the show. And I don't even think the Booker has listened to this show No, you know they keep saying hey can we redo this on every date? It was like Thursday Thursday no no I kind of had the SHOW ON THURSDAY! So yeah which is so rude when they do that and and to be fair about it so yeah Glenn Beck's Booker did the same thing Hey can you do Thursday? No what do you know about me?!
09:32 Unbelievable. I mean it's beyond rude, it's indicating that they've never... this is like the kind of...I send you these letters all the time. It's like the emails that you get saying hey we're evaluating for a big client advertising on No Agenda Like okay thanks for evaluating. Oh yes! We have a guest and I always send them to you. Joe we have a perfect guest for your show Dicks, dipshits. I always send them to you but sometimes i'll send a note back oh really well how do you think they're gonna work in? What segment do you think they'd be really a good guest on our show? The donation segment would be perfect for them. I think we slip him right in there so it gave me some time to think about what is going on and really this to me was the rest in peace M5M moment
