The Tucker Carlson Show - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Tucker, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this. But THANK YOU for hosting Calley and Casey Means. That interview was eye opening, informative, and terrifying. I quit processed food cold turkey upon hearing this podcast. I am working out, it’s only been a week but I feel better than I have in years. I think you’re right that she is going to change the world, she changed mine.

Tucker has the best guests. Excellent interviewer, he lets the guests speak. Follows up with intelligent questions.I learn things that were never presented in school.

Take Tucker for who he is and listen to the eye opening dialogue he encourages. His guests share incredibly knowledgeable perspectives.

This podcast has altered many thoughts I have had over my last 68 years. Many things that I thought were inviolate have changed. Growing up in the post World War II era and living through the 60s and 70s I thought the US were always the good guys. Maybe that’s not true anymore. January 6 a set up? The civil rights act responsible for destroying the African-American family?, etc.. always thought-provoking, certainly not the end all, and be all of information, but certainly ideas you that I don’t hear in the mainstream.

The Tucker Carlson Show—a nightly spectacle of raised eyebrows, exaggerated pauses, and a delivery style that falls somewhere between a village gossip and a pompous town crier. Mr. Carlson’s program is less a news show and more a theatrical production, complete with melodramatic monologues and an ever-present undercurrent of indignation.

The man speaks as though he’s perpetually on the brink of uncovering the world’s greatest conspiracy, which, as it turns out, often boils down to something utterly mundane. Watching him is a bit like listening to a pub regular expound on how the government’s out to confiscate everyone’s pigeons—equal parts absurd and bizarrely confident.

Subtlety, as one might imagine, is not Mr. Carlson’s forte. He delivers his arguments with all the finesse of a bouncer ejecting a rowdy patron, relying heavily on inflammatory rhetoric and the occasional bemused glare to convey his point. His method of persuasion seems to involve shouting “Can you BELIEVE this?!” until you feel guilty for not already agreeing with him.

As for the substance, well, calling it “thin” would be a kindness. It’s more of a soufflé of grievances, puffed up with outrage but prone to collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. His interviews are particularly painful, with guests either agreeing wholeheartedly or enduring the conversational equivalent of a rugby scrum.

In the end, The Tucker Carlson Show is best appreciated as unintentional comedy—a performance art piece on the art of indignation. Two stars, though only because it’s hard to look away once you’ve started watching, much like a slow-motion train wreck.

This pod would be hilarious if the listeners were in on the joke that the joke is on them. If you’re looking for bigotry in monetized form, you’ve found it. Tucker and the same retread cast of characters that appears on every other alt-right neo-nationalist woman hating pod, program, stream, or platform are up to the same tired tricks here, with the same immunity to reality you’re used to by now. There’s a reason even Fox News couldn’t stomach the host.