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Bryce Carver
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Bryce Carver
What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce, and today I have an incredibly special guest I've been looking forward to having, sitting down and having a conversation. My dad's also extremely excited about this one. We have Mr. Tucker Carlson with us.
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Tucker Carlson
Thanks for having me.
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Bryce Carver
Thanks for coming on. I've been really excited about this and I have been too, and pick your brain. And I, I, you know, I, I think podcasts always do the, oh, you know, where are you from? And they spend 30 minutes getting like a backstory, you know, on someone. But I got a lot of interesting thoughts I want to get into with you. So if you could. Yeah, like condense, like, you know, how did you become a Christian? You know, you're obviously a Christian. Where are you from?
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Tucker Carlson
What was that upbringing like? Bankruptcy. It happened slowly and then all at once. I grew up, you know, I'm a baptized Christian. I grew up in a specific religious faith, Protestant, mainline, establishment, Protestant faith. And that doesn't really exist anymore. The buildings still stand, but there's no Christianity inside. Most of them, some, but not most. And, and you know, I married a very sincere Christian woman, daughter of a minister, and that's one of the reasons I loved her and married her, because she's so grounded in Jesus, but had a bunch of kids and traveled a lot and constantly for about 30 years and had religious faith, said my prayers. But it wasn't as present in my moment to moment life as it became maybe four years ago when I just saw the world moving in directions that I couldn't understand at all because they didn't conform to the template that I had devised over 30 years of watching, which is this is a political struggle between various groups. Each want to share the pie and they argue about how to get it. And all of a sudden I started seeing things that could not be accounted for rationally. And specifically I saw people destroying things for the sake of destroying them. And Black Lives Matter really had a huge effect on me because it had nothing to do with helping black people. It had nothing to do with helping anybody actually. It really was just an orgy of violence and fire and murder. And in the end, of course, it didn't help black people, didn't help white people, didn't help any people at all. And yet everyone in our leadership class was so enthusiastic about it. And I was like, if you said we're going to pay reparations to black people and we're going to shovel a trillion dollars to black people or something, I'd be opposed to it, but at least it would make a kind of sense. This made no sense. So it got me thinking, okay, what is this? And I concluded, and I even more strongly believe now, that it's just a manifestation of evil and that evil destroys for the sake of destruction. The point of evil, the evil one we're told to ask God to be protected from in the Lord's Prayer. His whole job is to destroy, including the people through whom his power flows. So that just wow. I kind of came to it in photographic negative in reverse. Like if there's evil and it's real, it's alive, it's acting in the world through people, through people I know, by the way, are not necessarily bad people or weren't when I knew them, then clearly God is at work too. And then I felt that as well. But really the pivotal thing for me was I decided to read the Bible. And I've been a daily reader my whole life because I grew up that way. And I don't like video or watching things I like reading. So I've read all my life. And I decided I'm going to just read the Bible this year. That's all I'm going To read. That's the only book I'm going to read. I read it from Genesis to Revelation and I loved it. I just loved it. I thought it was the greatest thing I ever read on many levels, but of course primarily spiritual, but also I'm interested in history. The whole thing was unbelievable. It was amazing. And by this point, beg your pardon, I didn't trust any preachers. Still having a little trouble with that. So I wasn't in a Bible study or anything like that. I just read it alone in my kitchen every morning I get up early and I read it my dogs. And I've continued doing that for four years now. And I'm just basically just cycle through the New Testament. I'm not an expert, I'm hardly a theologian. I'm actually sort of anti, I'm uncomfortable with a lot of theology because I watch it in the political sphere and I see that it's used to mislead people and I'm very upset about that. And so I just want to stay out of any of that. I just want to focus on who is Jesus? What does it mean to know God through Jesus? How do you become more like Jesus? How do you pray? Just like the basic dumb questions which reflect my basic dumb personality. I just want to know the basics. That's it. But I'm just really getting a lot out of it. And the last thing I'll say is one of the reasons that I've been very turned off by public displays of Christianity, extremely turned off, don't even want to be in the same room as that stuff, is because I have a lifelong hatred of self righteousness while at the same time, of course I believe in righteousness and I would like to be more righteous myself. And I think our country needs more righteousness. But self righteousness is repulsive to me and it's kind of hard to talk about it without becoming self righteous. And so my prayer for myself, I don't have a lot of prayers. I have a big family, so I have a lot of prayers for a lot of people. I have a long prayer list. I don't have that many for myself, but one is to avoid self righteousness.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I, I, I think it's interesting. I have a lot of respect for you and, and one of the reasons why I have a lot of respect for you is I feel like now when I, you know, scroll on social media or I turn on the news or I hear someone say something they blame, oh, a perspective on homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, all these things on politics, and they label it politics, and they say politics is a bad thing, but it's really just worldview. At the end of the day, it's really just worldview. Right. We're labeling, you know. Oh, you don't believe, you believe homosexuality is wrong. Oh, you're just political. And I'm like, well, I actually have a worldview. And that worldview is I'm a believer, I follow Jesus. And what I respect a lot about you is your worldviews and your politics are founded a lot on your faith. And one of my favorite things I watched and I loved the clip was you sat down with Ted Cruz.
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Tucker Carlson
Yes.
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Bryce Carver
And he was talking about Israel. And you know, he brought up the passage, I believe it's in Genesis, where it's like, those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. And I loved how you just went, who is Israel? I loved how you kept asking that because I, I, I, I just feel like as believers and, and, and even in today's American society, like you said, you're, you're seeing the theology being warped and used and things like that, and people just aren't reading this macro narrative of Scripture. Can you kind of, kind of talk a little bit about that? Are you tired of getting bad sleep at night? Mike Lindell at MyPillow has a passion to help people get the best sleep of their life. And so he started by creating the best pillow ever. And right now he is passing the best prices to you. When you use promo code Bryce, get wholesale pricing on the classic MyPillows for 17.98. Transform any mattress with the My Mattress topper and save up to $100. Even get a set of Giza sheets for as low as 29.98 or the six pack towel set for only 39.98. To get the best specials ever, go to Bryce or call 800-791-1953. These offers won't last long, so call 800-791-1973 or go to MyPillow.com Bryce Order now and your entire order ships absolutely free.
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Tucker Carlson
Well, let me just first address your first point, because I think it's so true. We displace a lot of things that are essential in our lives onto politics. Oh, it's a political debate. I believe this is just what I conclude from reading the Bible, but also just from living for 56 years that we're not really commanded to struggle against other people. Or at least primarily. The first struggle is against ourselves. The Lord's Prayer is structured in a way that is not accidental. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us or trespass against us. It's kind of in that order for a reason. It comes from Jesus. And my belief, my assumption is that the first thing that we focus on is the log in our own eye. Okay? So questions of abortion, which of course should be illegal. It's murder. Homosexuality, of course, it's horrible for everyone involved. It's not good. It's not liberation. There's nothing gay about it. It's a tragedy. Sorry, I've seen a lot of it. But I do think we should just always focus on our own shortcomings. First, because we're commanded to by Jesus. And two, it puts us in the right frame. I mean, I'm in a lot of political battles every day, or I'm the subject of political battles. I try not to join too many of them, but. And I find myself thinking like Mark Levin. He's a pompous piece of. Whatever I think about Mark Levin, which I do think, by the way. And then I need to remind myself that so am I. So am I. I actually am no better than my persecutors on some most basic level, which is why I'm commanded to pray for them, because it puts it all in. Both of us have fallen short of God, me and Mark Levin, and neither one of us is going to get into heaven except by the grace of God, period.
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Bryce Carver
Why do you think people are more tolerant of their own sin than other people?
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Tucker Carlson
Well, because it's yours. Because it's so much easier to blame other people, of course. I mean, Jesus addresses this in Matthew and other places at great length and with specificity. And he refers to the Pharisees first and foremost as what? Hypocrites. They're attacking others for doing what they do. I was just reading this this morning actually, and think and brooding about it and so look, you know, I'm not in charge of the universe. I am not God, which is something that's going to be posted on my refrigerator just to remind me I am not God. So, you know, I don't know how in the end everything shakes out, but I know for a fact the temptation in my life is not to do cocaine or go to hookers or whatever. The temptation is to become puffed up and self righteous and be filled with hubris and arrogance. Like I am prone to that, period. I am prone to that. And most men are, most successful men are really prone to that. So I just Want the first battle in my life every day to be against my own bad inclinations.
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Bryce Carver
Can we talk about that? Because I like that. I read this book, I read this book called Tale of Three Kings by this guy named Gene Edwards. And he writes this perspective of like, David, Saul and Absalom. And he. And when he, when he talks about Absalom, he talks about pride and self righteousness and things like that. And, you know, I. It's interesting that you brought up the thing about not trusting a lot of preachers and pastors. When I, when I, I became a Christian when I was 17, you think, yeah. And I would be in these areas, in these perspectives where I would see these preachers that I had watched, you know, for my private Christian school, you know, I had to watch the sermon and write a paper on it or, you know, people. I. After I became a Christian, I was like, oh, I look up to this person and I would go serve at a conference or at a church so I could listen. And I would be. I felt like there was a bait and switch, you know, where I was like, oh, that you're not. This isn't what I thought it was like, you know, this is. You're not. What you said up there, like, you're you. You. That hurt me. That makes me feel very. Like I can't trust. Like I can't trust anyone, you know? And so as I, as I started, like, serving and being in the background of these things, kind of looking around, I noticed that a lot of, A lot of people, particularly in the Christian space, they were surrounding themselves with people that were impressed by them.
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Tucker Carlson
Oh.
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Bryce Carver
And so, so then they just, like, they couldn't. No one could tell them no.
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Tucker Carlson
We have a rule in my office, no compliments. So when you do a live show, when you perform this true for musicians, anyone performs. I perform my whole life, so that's what I do. There's this weird. Especially if you're successful, if you hit your internal marks, like, you say what you plan to say, you say it in a way you're happy with. Well, you come off of that with this, like, here I am, Caesar, surveying the kingdom kind of attitude. And ask anyone who performs, trust me, this is why no one who tours with a band is faithful, because they come off the set and they're like, ladies, I'm here. And I've just seen that so much. And so I have always felt my whole life that flattery is far more insidious and dangerous to the human soul than attacks. Someone will attack. Imagine being if you're me, one of the reasons I have this job is because it doesn't bother me. What bothers me is you're so great. You're so great. No one's ever been, as you may be, the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. And it's like that kind of talk will destroy your soul. So we do not allow that. I've never allowed that in my office. Wow, that's.
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Bryce Carver
So who do you have in your life in your corner that's close to you that like, wounds you with their words?
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Tucker Carlson
Oh, no, no one. But I have a lot of. I mean, we. If you knew how we lived, you know, very. Not insular, but just like, same people. We have a big family. As I've said a couple of times, you know, my best friends are my college roommates. My brother is my best friend sitting right there. You know, it's just like I've been. I married my high school girlfriend. We've been together 41 years. Like, it's Emily who's sitting right there on the couch, been with 10 years, basically living with her family. So it's like it's a small circle of trusted, wise people. And in general, we have no sharp words. I'm just not into sharp words in.
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Bryce Carver
The house, positive or negative.
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Tucker Carlson
I just don't like that. No rudeness. I'm from a culture that really isn't for rudeness, period. In fact, we created politeness, if I can brag. So we don't do that. However, being honest is essential. Absolutely essential. And there are a whole bunch of people. I mean, I'm Fox, who's sitting right behind me. I've worked with Tom a long time, talking about something on the plane, and he's like, I don't think it's a good idea. I was like, you're right. So I mean, I want that. You need that. You have to have that. And by the way, if you can't accept that you've got the wrong people around you. There's people you don't trust. And I've never understood why. People, especially as they age and the stakes get higher, they surround themselves with all these like random hangers on and all this stuff. It's like, why would you ever do that? Politicians do that. It's bonkers. Hire some money obsessed kid to run your campaign. You think he's not gonna sh. The whole thing is just bad. So we have a rule in my office never. I always want talented people. That's not our top requirement. Well, first of all, I don't want any people. We have the same people. No one ever leaves. Really. We have the same people. When I got fired from Fox, everyone came. It's just like we have the same world. And I really like that because I don't have any boundaries between work and home. So it's all the same to me. It's all kind of an extended family. So it's not competence. Smart people will ultimately figure out the job. It's honesty and decency. And that would also include your personal life. Sorry. This is something I've learned the hard way after 25 years, 30 years of working in television. If you've got some freaky personal life, that absolutely affects your integrity. It affects your ability to be honest. It affects my ability to trust you. This has been demonstrated again and again and again because a lot of people on TV have really freaky personal lives. And I went from being so liberal on that. I've never had a freaky personal life. But whatever you're doing, it's not my business. That's always been. I'm 56. That's a very American attitude in my generation. I don't feel that way at all anymore. I don't want that you're having. Or your house and the weekends can't work for me. Not because I think you're worse than I am. I don't. As I said, no one is worse than I am. I need Jesus as much as you do. But because I. This will not result in straightforward honest behavior. Sorry. And I'm not guessing about that.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah.
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Tucker Carlson
Because I've lived it. Yeah. Wow.
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Bryce Carver
That's encouraging. It's nice to hear. Like. Yeah. In the. In the book of Luke, it kind of talks about the. The hypocrisy of the Pharisees being like Leaven. You know, it sours and spreads and. And it sounds like that to be true of people's personal lives.
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Tucker Carlson
Well, it comes from within. And the subversion in America. One of the reasons I don't like all the partisan stuff. First of all, the Republicans do not speak for me at all. And I know them. I mean, some do. Never voted Democrat. Probably never will. They're for abortion. I'm not voting for that. I don't care what you do. I'm not voting for that at gunpoint because I really mean it. I'm opposed. Sorry. But the Republicans are, I mean, by and large, like, repulsive to me. So, like to make it a. Because they don't. They don't have my values. Sorry. So to make it Republican versus Democrat is, like, completely false. And it also ignores the deeper truth, which is our problems start within us. And I honestly think that one of the biggest problems, Sorry, to shock your viewers. Is pornography on the Internet. And I want to say specifically, people like, oh, pornography so bad. I'm talking about a specific thing, which is, hey, sleep with my wife. Pornography, which is pushed by the pornography companies. If you think about that for a second. First of all, all the porn sites are controlled by governments and intel agencies. So nothing you go to on a porn site, you know it's all being stored and will be used against you if necessary. People don't know that. That's a fact.
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Bryce Carver
Okay.
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Tucker Carlson
Including the camera on your phone. Whoa, wisen up, boys. Okay, so that's just a fact. Okay. You don't have to believe it if you don't want. But it's true.
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Bryce Carver
Because I know so many people that, like, hide their phones, like, oh, they're watching me. But they, like, don't believe it.
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Tucker Carlson
But. But it's true on porn sites. Is true on. It's true. Yes. So anyway, whatever. There's that. But I'm really addressing the moral question, and it's too uncomfortable, so no one wants to talk about it. I'll just say it point blank. The whole point of building a society, the whole point is to make sure your wife doesn't get both from a moral perspective and from an evolutionary, biological perspective. Is that my kid? I can't be sure. Like, all the structures we build, not all, but most fundamentally, are designed to ensure paternity. Yeah, it's my son because that's my wife. And she wasn't. No one else up with her. Why do we have a military? Why does any. I don't need a military. I'm fully armed. Right. Societies build militaries to keep their families safe, to keep their children from being sold and their wives from being carried off and impregnated by somebody else. It's like the deepest. It is the absolute deepest instinct in a man is to protect his wife from sleeping with other women. What is marriage? Marriage is an agreement that I alone get to sleep with that woman and she alone gets to sleep with me. I mean, it's reciprocal, but that's like the most basic thing in a man. The most. Put your freaking hands on my wife. How many people have been murdered over the years over that? Countless. Beaten to death with a pool cue. If you subvert that in a man, if you, through repeated exposure, convince him that actually, it's really hot to have some random dude sleep with his wife. You have defeated him as a man. You have defeated him as a man. If I can't protect my wife from some other man sleeping with her, I am not a man. Actually, I'm less than a man. I'm a eunuch. And pornography and all visual presentation is incredibly good at subverting people because it sidesteps your rational brain and goes right to your animal brain like that. I worked in television. I know how this works. So if the point of pornography is to convince you it's okay for some random guy to sleep with your wife, and millions of American men believe that, or in their deepest secret thoughts, are turned on by it, you've prepared the country to be taken over. Okay? Because you have made the men not men anymore.
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Bryce Carver
Right.
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Tucker Carlson
And you often hear people, especially women, say they look around like, where all the men who are my daughters going to marry, like these men are, you know, of course they're soy boys and wuss bags and all stuff, but. But on an even deeper level, it's not about their haircuts, okay? Or how much weed they smoke. It's about the vibe that comes off them. No. No self respect and no willingness to do the very first thing that a man pledges to do for his wife, which is to protect her.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah.
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Tucker Carlson
From what? Other men? Yeah. So, like, let's just like, wake up. I mean, this last 80 years of prosperity has driven Americans and the west in general so far from what is fun, fundamentally true. But the. The most fundamental truth about marriage is it's your job to make sure other men don't get to sleep with your wife. That's number one. And pornography, more than any other thing, I am convinced has subverted that. And it should be banned immediately. And the people put on the Internet should be in jail.
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Bryce Carver
Porn, hookup culture, sexting and more have become normalized in our generation. They keep calling Gen Z, the lost generation, weak, confused and checked out. But I don't really buy it. Biblical manhood isn't about dominance or ego. It's about creating courage, sexual integrity, discipline, responsibility. It's about men who protect, build and serve. Frontline 21 by our friends at Covenant Eyes exists to call our generation back to God's word and his will for our lives. 100 years from now, our kids and grandkids won't even remember our social media posts or our opinions online. They're going to remember the example we set, the choices we made, the gifts God has given us. Will we choose truth over comfort and lies? This movement is about more than reminding us not to look at porn, to attend church or to read our Bible more which are all critical things. It's about growing in our relationship with God. Understanding is called calling for men. Linking arms with our brothers and in the faith and becoming who God has called us to be so we can lead wisely. Over the course of 21 days, Frontline 21 helps you learn how to choose responsibility over apathy, sexual integrity over indulgence. Listen to biblical conviction over comfort serve over being self obsessed. So if you are ready to join me and thousands of others in the brotherhood of men prepared to learn and live according to God's will, check out frontline21.com download the free 21 day devotional and field guide. Start your journey to sexual integrity, moral care, courage, brotherhood and purpose today. That is frontline21.com to get started with me today. I agree. I think even more than porn nowadays, all the movies, all the TVs, it's glorified cheating on. Cheating on someone. You go glorified, you know, sleeping with this person, you know, you're married, oh, go sleep with the pool boy. It's all, it's all in the movies.
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Tucker Carlson
But it's even darker. Like, so adultery is bad. I'm obviously making a case on some level against adultery, but I'm talking about something specific. It's not just your wife runs off and cheats on you. Most men are horrified by that. Men, of course, are totally prone to do that and will do that at every opportunity unless you build structures to get them not to do it. Right, because that's just in a man, he wants to impregnate as many women as he can. Obviously that's bad. That's why you have marriage and Christianity and laws and all stuff. But what I'm talking about is something way darker, which is wife sleeps with some random guy, stranger, and husband approves. That is true subversion, encouraging your wife to sleep with another man. You are emasculated on the deepest possible level. And elements of our society, and particularly pornography, do encourage that. And the rise in it is really, really noticeable and occasionally be a scandal about it. And it's really way deeper than sex. And nobody talks about it because sex is embarrassing. Okay, fine. I never talk about sex in public because I think it is private. Of course this is not private. This has an effect on the nation itself and on its men who are supposed to be leading the nation but aren't. And they're not leading their families, they're not leading the Nation. And why is that? Well, this is one of the reasons.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah. I live in la and I can't tell you the countless amount of times I hear girls who are friends, who are friends with us say man. If there was just a man. If I just met a man who was from Texas, just a real man, a masculine 6:3 protector. They always say that. Protector. Someone who would stand up for me.
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Tucker Carlson
Protect and provide are the, are the two requirements for the job.
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Bryce Carver
They say that's what we look for in a man. But here's the contrary, though. That's really interesting, which I, I want to, you know, get your take on this. The same people that are saying this are settling for the men that you're describing.
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Tucker Carlson
Well, right. Because there aren't a ton of options.
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Bryce Carver
So do you think it, do you think it's because, do you think it's because they actually want the masculine man, or do you think it's because they like this, this feminized version of.
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Tucker Carlson
I don't think they like that version at all. And, and I think in, you know, worst case, they cheat on that. That, that version, you know, the indecisive, weak man. And I have a lot of thoughts on this because again, I've lived a long time and I've always lived with women. But one of the things I think is that weak men incite aggression in women that change women. Men and women change each other. It's a dynamic process. It's not like you just find a girl and live with her. No, no, you totally change living with her and she totally changes living with you. You influence each other more than any other people in your life, including your children, your employer, your parents, doesn't matter. Your spouse influences you more than anyone. And a weak man will really change a woman a lot and not in good ways. And a bad woman will totally change a man too. They will make him weaker. But again, we understate the degree to which men and women need each other. They can't live, for the most part. They're anomalies, of course, but they cannot live without each other. They're designed to become one flesh. That's not just a theological concept. Hebrew, Christian, it's just like a. It's a noticeable phenomenon. It's just real. Anyone who's lived it can affirm that. So they don't just need each other, but they become far less than themselves when they're apart in super recognizable ways, which I could explain, but I know you're familiar with them. And so the failure of men and Women to find each other. And the disincentives that our society has erected are a way bigger threat than Iran, which is not really a threat. The real threat is, I don't know, Onlyfans, Tinder. I mean, these are threats to the civilization and they're also just manifestations of deeper problems. It's not all onlyfans fault, but if you're turning 10% of the American female population into prostitutes, you need to be in jail. Like right now. I don't care how much money you give to the ADL or whatever they're doing or AIPAC or whatever, they're paying off all the politicians you should have to answer for that. Can't turn my women into prostitutes. Who do you think you are? That's what an invading army does. That's what the Ottomans did. And everyone's like, oh, the Muslims. Oh, the Muslims, Really? I mean, yeah, okay, it's a Christian country. I'm pro Christian. I couldn't be more pro Jesus. Okay? But if we're assessing the actual threats as I see them, as they exist as can be measured rather than threats on Fox News, the threat is not the Muslims. Are the Muslims coming in here and turning our daughters into prostitutes? No, Onlyfans is doing that. So, okay, let's just identify the problem first.
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Bryce Carver
So when we were in la, when we first moved out there, we started a Bible study specifically for people that were doing social media or in the acting scene that didn't want publicly people to know that they were checking out Christianity. And the amount of, of women that would show up to this Bible study broken who were in this only fan scene. And, and I can't tell you the amount of companies in, in LA that they'll throw parties as like a dislabeled company. And then you show up and they got people in the crowd talking to the girls and even talking to the guys. You know, on the contrary, getting these guys, roping these guys in to do gay stuff on only the. But particularly the girls will come up to the girls and they'll find the ones who had a rise on social media. And you know, the lifestyle in LA is as my, as my, as fame increases and money increases, my lifestyle has to increase. And then if they begin to plateau and their, you know, their money income, it decreases. They feel like they have to keep up with an image, right? So they have a freak out. They're like, oh, I got to figure out how to make money. I got to do this. And then that's when these only fans people creep in and they're like, hey, go on. Only fans. It's not a big deal. Just take some cute pictures in a bikini or do this. And then before you know it, all these women that are coming to the Bible study, they're being pimped out and going on dates with rich men that aren't just dates, you know, and they're coming to our Bible study broken, lost and confused. This was three years ago, you know, when I first moved out there that are looking for an escape, that have been brainwashed, that have been warped, all because you've got literally these pimps coming in here saying, hey, just. Just take a cute picture. It's just cute pictures. And then it eases into that. And then even on the contrary, the amount of men that we knew that, that would say, oh, you know, I would never do such a thing. I would never do that. That's awful. That's. I would never do that. And then before you know it, in six months, they're doing things that, you know, you would have never thought and imagined. And it's. It's really plaguing. I see it more in Los Angeles than I did in my small country town in Georgia. You know, it's like if someone in my small country town in Georg, only fans, everybody knew about it, you know what I mean? Everyone would go, oh, that's, you know, let me get away from that. But in la, everyone, just about everyone under the sun is on it. And I think partially the appeal was, oh, you need money, you need to keep up with this image. And then before you knew it, they're doing a bunch of crazy stuff that they would have never thought or imagined. And think. And the amount of broken women and men, but broken women that were coming to us, seeking help, seeking refuge, going, man, what is going on? A blink of my eye. I feel like I'm not even myself. I don't even know who I am. Broken, lost and confused is plaguing.
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Tucker Carlson
So I'm a huge believer in getting to the source of problems like this. Obviously fentanyl and meth, the whole pharmacopoeia of drugs are a huge problem. They're causing the homelessness we see all around us. They're killing 100,000 or more Americans every year. I'm not that in favor of giving life sentences to meth heads. I'm for finding the people who are trafficking the meth, selling the meth, profiting from the meth, and going up as high on the chain as we possibly can. So just for the third time, I don't understand how OnlyFans specifically, since it's by far the biggest prostitution ring in the country, how the pimp at the top has been allowed to kind of live a free man, send millions of dollars to political organizations which gladly accept it, I'm sure goes to tribute banquets in his honor. I just don't. I don't understand that. And so putting him in jail doesn't solve the problem? Of course. These are human problems. They're not all his fault. But he's exploiting them to make billions. And we should at least say, that's bad. Why can't we say that's bad? I've said that's bad.
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Bryce Carver
Shut up.
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Tucker Carlson
You're a bigot. And that gets me to the question of Israel. And I don't mean to dodge your question. I'll just do it really quickly. There's a whole theological debate about dispensationalism or replacement.
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Bryce Carver
I'm not a dispensational.
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Tucker Carlson
I don't know anything about any of that stuff. I never heard the terms. It's not the world I grew up in. I think it's sort of interesting, but I don't fully understand it. And I would never weigh in on it. I would only say if you think that murdering tens of thousands of children, which the Israeli government has done, is consistent with Christianity, we're just. We're reading a different manuscript. I just don't see that at all. I understand Christianity to be a very, very different faith. And it's hard to imagine Jesus being in favor of this. And I guess we could have a debate about it. But what gets me going is watching Christian preachers who are paid by the government of Israel take free vacations to Israel, where they stock up on talking points and propaganda, and then inflict all of that propaganda on their congregations and then use the Bible to justify it. You're justifying violence against innocence. I recognize October 7th is bad. I'm hardly shilling for the Islamists. I mean, it's also stupid. I just don't think that what the Israeli government has done in Gaza, which is a crime, it's a historic crime. It is genocide. It's an effort to move an entire people out and kill a lot of them and then take their land. I thought we were against that. It happens all the time around the world. Israel's not the only country that does it. But they are doing it. We're paying for it. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, all these Christian pastors, these evangelical pastors, Come in and are like, if you criticize that you are not a Christian and you hate Jesus and hate Jews, it's like there's a debate over what the term the great deception refers to. But it could be that, because that's so crazy to me and maybe I'm the crazy one. I preface this by saying I try to maintain humility at all times. What do I know? I'm an Episcopalian, I don't know anything. But I have pressed a lot of these people, like, including Ted Cruz, who's a politician, he's not a theologian, I get it. But he couldn't even name the book of the Bible, not even the book that supported his entire Christian theology. So I think it's fair for me to say. And by the way, my version of the Bible, which is the nlt, which I like.
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Bryce Carver
Great.
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Tucker Carlson
Yeah, I really like the NLT very much. It's just clear English, right. Doesn't have that phrase in it. Sorry. So, but whatever, it's not. I guess what I'm saying is this isn't about theology. I think there are a lot of really decent, thoughtful, Bible believing Christians, Jesus followers who have been convinced of this. And maybe they're right. I don't think they are. Maybe they are. I don't think I'm necessarily always right, that's for sure. But I know for a fact that a lot of their preachers have become political actors who are working on behalf of a foreign government that's very hostile to Christianity. Do they ever try to convert Israelis in Tel Aviv? All these preachers go over there for the weekend. Jesus is the answer. They're telling their congregations. Do they try to street preach in Tel Aviv? No, not one of them. They don't. What is that? Do you really believe? So I see them as either willing or unwilling dupes of a foreign government. Whatever their motive, whatever they know or don't know, they are doing something that's inexcusable and, and it's very hard to understand what they're doing.
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Bryce Carver
I, I kind of have the same train of thought as you. You know, I, I remember when the October 7 thing went down. I'm, I, and I can, I can admit here, humbling, like, yeah, I was like the average evangelical pastor that's like, yeah, which it tends to be a trend. And I think, I think there are a lot of people that do the same thing. They're like, yeah, you know, this, you know, God's chosen people, this isn't that. And that, that's how it was. But Then it was like I had to do my own digging. When I would go, I would have to look at news sources, coming from Jerusalem, coming from Israel and all these things to kind of go, oh, shoot, wait, there's a lot more happening over there that I, I didn't know. And there's a lot more going down that I, I wasn't told when I turn on the news. And so that's, that's kind of where, you know, I loved when you were talking to Ted Cruz and you're like, who is Israel? Right? Because when the average evangelical is like, Israel, they're, oh, yes, the ethnic group, the ethnically Jewish people. That's who Israel is, and that's who it is. And I, and I would be kind of where you are. Where I'm like, I think, me personally, I personally think Israel is believers in Jesus Christ. And I, and I, you know, you read Romans, the book of Romans, where it talks about, you know, being grafted into the tree and that people who are grafted in have been given the right to become children of Abraham, you know, and it's like, who are children of Abraham?
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Tucker Carlson
Well, there's a lot throughout the New Testament about all of this, because, of course, it was written by Jews originally for Jews, but there's a lot about this. But the takeaway, from my perspective, and I think any person who reads it has trouble reaching any other conclusion, the point of this is Jesus, and getting to heaven requires faith in Jesus, that is Christianity, as far as I knew. And so they've changed the definition of Christianity, which seems like, again, I'm not a theologian. I've. I want to say that, again, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like they've changed the definition of the religion itself. Everyone has to believe in Jesus to get to God, except for these people. Okay, who are these people? Well, it's this group. It's this chosen group. Well, how do we know who's in it? Is it an ethnic group? Well, we have Ancestry.com and 23andMe. We can test for that. What percentage of DNA do you need to have to be in this group? Any question like that, just a rational question is met with an attack. Ted Cruz, three questions in Call me an anti Semite. And to my shame, it made me mad. I shouldn't have gotten mad. I should have laughed. But I did get mad. I was offended. I don't know if I'd ever been called anti Semite before in the sense I would call 100 times a day. But at the time I was like, anti Semite. Of course I'm not anti Semite, which I'm not and wasn't then. But I was struck by his, like, it's a tell for me, as someone who interviews for a living, if I ask you a question and rather than answer it, you attack me. You kind of answered it in a sense, didn't you? Right. You didn't actually answer the question. In order to avoid answering the question, you attacked me. So, no. And I think, by the way, I think it's just mostly dying. I don't meet too many people who will defend the proposition that we as Christians believe that you need to believe in Jesus, get to heaven. Except for some people who may or may not have anything to do with each other, or the ancient Israelites don't have to believe in Jesus because how. None of it makes any sense at all. And so my view is. And this is not hate, this is love. I think everyone needs Jesus. I certainly do. Much more than I have, by the way.
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Bryce Carver
Likewise. Do you believe Christianity is going to become a minority in America?
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Tucker Carlson
Yeah, it already is.
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Bryce Carver
And who, who do you think, who do you think is going to be who, who's. Who's going to be responsible for that? You know, some people are going to say, oh, you know, the Muslims, which I'm very passionate about the, about Islam. It's something I've been very passionate about recently. You know, some people are going to be like, oh, it's the Muslims. Some people are going to be like, oh, it's this. Who do you think is going to be responsible for, for the, the decrease in Christianity? You think it's going to be the.
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Tucker Carlson
People who are the real threat? And the real threat are not religious people don't have anything. Orthodox Jews have a completely different religion from mine. They're reading the Talmud all day. I'm not even sure what's in there. I'm not against Orthodox Jews. I've always gotten along with them. I'm not against Orthodox Muslims at all. Always gotten along with them. I don't think the threat to me, from my perspective, they're not the ones running onlyfans. They're not the ones selling methods. They're not the ones destroying my country. They're also not the ones shooting people. By and large, they are being watched by the God they believe in. Now, it's not my God in a lot of cases, but I feel like the threat is people who think they're God. Clearly, I don't really know any. You think Ilhan Omar Is like a faithful Muslim. No, she's a white liberal. Actually, that is the category that really worries me. Those are the most extreme, crazy. The people without God are really terrifying. It's secular people. They're the ones who committed the biggest genocides in world history. It wasn't religious fanatics who murdered all those Christians in the Soviet Union. It was atheists. Mao was not a religious person. He was an atheist. Hitler was some kind of Wiccan or something. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So that's what I'm worried about. And the world that I've lived in, I mean, I grew up in the opposite world from you. I mean, we didn't. You know, I never. I don't think I met too many Baptists in my life. You know what I mean?
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Bryce Carver
Yeah.
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Tucker Carlson
I never heard the word Jesus uttered in public except when you hit your thumb with a hammer or something.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah.
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Tucker Carlson
And I think those people are really scary. People without any God.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah. Now, I think it's interesting, like, you know, when you. When you look at people like yourself or like. Like Charlie, who were having discussions with people who have discussions with people, and people look at that. Oh, you're just arguing. Arguing so bad. This isn't that, you know, and I'm over here, like, I kind of look at it.
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Tucker Carlson
Is Jesus teaching the temple every day?
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Bryce Carver
Yeah. And I'm like, literally, most of Paul's epistles were arguments to the church. You know, it's like, what are we doing? We're, you know, we're. I believe we're growing very soft now. And, you know, that's gonna change. And I remember every. Every year, you know, when I went back in, when I was little, in my small country town, you know, I remember what it was like to be raised by my parents, and they did a good job of raising me and the things that they instituted in my life, the disciplines that they gave me, and I was. I was just raised a certain way. And now, as I feel like I'm growing older, it's, oh, you can't argue. You can't say that. You can't do this. But it's okay to talk about everything else but Jesus.
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Tucker Carlson
It's always been that way. That's what I notice about Matthew 10, which is like one of my favorite chapters in the whole New Testament, where Jesus sends out the apostles. He's just picked them. He just picked them. Is it called the Great Commission? I don't know. I didn't grow up going to church.
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Bryce Carver
He sends out the 72.
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Tucker Carlson
That's later. Right. Okay. So the initial one. Thank you so much. So you can tell how little I know, but I just love this scene. So he picks the 12 and he sends them out, and he's like, don't take any money. Don't take any extra clothes. Don't take a walking stick with you. And by the way, you're gonna get flogged and thrown into jail. Just kind of casually horrifying. Imagine if your parents are like, all right, man, head out. Just don't take anything with you. And by the way, you're probably gonna get beaten with a whip and thrown to prison and on trial for your life. But don't worry about it. It's like, he says it in this very blase way, which I love. And the reason I love it is because it's totally true. And he says in that passage, you're gonna be attacked because of me. That was true then, it's true now. And we lived in this weird nerf world for so many years in the United States. Like, oh, we're all Christian, but we're also worshiping money and excusing violence and bragging about ourselves. There's nothing Christian about any of that. Money worship is the opposite of Christian. But we could say we're Christian, so all's cool. It's totally fine. And my church has a frillian people at it. We've got 19 services and youth pastors, and we're winning. And a smoke machine. Yeah, I never have really been around any of that, but I remember thinking, I'm not really sure that's the way you measure the condition of your soul, but whatever, whatever. So now we're entering into a much harder period where people are like, Jesus. Like, that's very offensive. I gave a talk at Charlie Kirk's memorial a few months ago in September and only talked about Jesus. I was like, I don't want to get political at a memorial service. I think it's beneath a memorial. I have reverence for death because I have reverence for life. And I only talked about Jesus. And I've never been that attacked. I was anti Semitic. What? It's like, nothing to do with Jews reading them. I'm talking about the gospel. It didn't matter. People read their own interpretations. There's a secret message. Whatever. The point, what triggered people was talk about Jesus. And I was really shocked by it. And then I remembered Matthew 10, and I'm like. And huge parts of the New Testament. Jesus. I mean, Paul is writing all these different churches throughout Turkey. And he's like, oh, by the way, I'm chained to the wall in this prison. It's like, it's only about suffering. Every evangelist in the entire New Testament. I mean, where does John write Revelation? Why is he on Patmos in the first place? Because he's been exiled there. And so persecution is a natural result of evangelism. It's just. And by the way, if you're not being persecuted, you're probably not doing it right. You're probably Paula White.
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Bryce Carver
Right.
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Tucker Carlson
You know what I mean?
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Bryce Carver
Yeah, I totally understand. I think even when I read the Gospel.
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Tucker Carlson
Did I say that?
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Bryce Carver
Yeah, I meant it when I. When I read about something like John the Baptist, too, which I think applies. Which I think it goes kind of coincides with, like, even your pornography thing you were mentioning earlier. You know, John the Baptist, he rolls up on King Herod, same issue, 2000 years ago. Stop sleeping with your brother's wife.
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Tucker Carlson
I know.
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Bryce Carver
And throws him in jail.
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Tucker Carlson
Oh, of course.
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Bryce Carver
And then some lady does a strip tease on King Herod. He's like, oh, what do you want? Oh, yeah, I want John the Baptist's head.
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Tucker Carlson
The daughter.
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Bryce Carver
That's crazy. Is that not.
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Tucker Carlson
Oh, it's. It's bad.
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Bryce Carver
It's interesting, the grip sexual sin has.
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Tucker Carlson
Oh, well, I just reread the world, the David saga, because I love David.
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Bryce Carver
With Bathsheba.
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Tucker Carlson
Everybody, of course, with Bathsheba. But what I didn't.
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Bryce Carver
Well, first of all, who bathes on a roof naked?
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Tucker Carlson
That's so hot. And I get it. You know, I get it. Here's this. You know, he's just caught up in the hubris of success. I mean, that's exactly. I mean, any man who says, I can't relate to the Bathsheba scene is lying, because of course she can. And then he's like, who's that? Whatever, she's married. Go kill her husband. But the two things that I'd forgotten, I just reread this. So the two things I had forgotten are, one, his firstborn son with Bathsheba, dies, is killed by God. Second, I think that's widely remembered by most people. But second, what you forget is toward the end of his life, when he's really under the gun, the first person to betray him and give him the finger and not stand by him is Bathsheba. So he's really punished for the rest of his life. A wife who won't stand by you in turmoil is hell on earth. That's what that is. When you get married and go through stuff, you will find that the number one test of a marriage is when the husband loses his job or gets attacked or called a Nazi by Mark Levin. Just kidding. My wife doesn't even know this happening. But you know what I mean. When things go not as planned and in the wrong direction, that's when you find out what your marriage is about and what your wife is about. And the deepest desire of every man is to have his wife standing by him. Because a wife gives you strength. That's the key to success in life is a wife who believes you can succeed. That's where men's strength comes from, by the way. And he finds out the hard way that he doesn't have that. That's like the worst punishment. Why am I telling you this? Because it's so recognizable. All these years later, they have kids and she's queen and all this stuff. It doesn't matter. He still holds it against him.
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Bryce Carver
That's rough.
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Tucker Carlson
It was. It really stuck with me.
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Bryce Carver
And he thought he was getting into something good because he saw naked Bathsheba on a roof.
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Tucker Carlson
Yeah. Men's time horizon gets pretty limited in certain periods, you know, situationally.
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Bryce Carver
You think so?
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Tucker Carlson
I do think so. Yeah. I've heard that. I've heard that there are a lot of ways. Every language has a euphemism for that. I'm not gonna use any of the English ones, but, yes, it's a. It's a widely observed phenomenon. Yes.
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Bryce Carver
So I'm getting. I'm actually, I wanted. One of the questions I had for you is marriage advice. I'm getting married in January.
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Tucker Carlson
What?
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Bryce Carver
Getting married. And. And I only take relationship advice for married people.
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Tucker Carlson
Of course.
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Bryce Carver
Because you got, like.
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Tucker Carlson
What else would you take it from?
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Bryce Carver
Well, you know, everyone on Tick Tock wants to take dating advice and marriage advice from two 16 year olds that have been together for 20 days. Yo.
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Tucker Carlson
Actually.
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Bryce Carver
Oh, all the time. Yeah. Everyone's asking everyone on social media or they're watching relationships, dating relationships, but they're.
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Tucker Carlson
Right in their own social media.
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Bryce Carver
It's so bad.
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Tucker Carlson
It's inventing. It's bad. Yeah.
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Bryce Carver
So if you had some marriage advice, what would be your greatest piece of marriage advice?
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Tucker Carlson
I have two pieces. Well, one observation, one piece of advice. The foundation of marriage. A single critical piece that will determine the health, prosperity, happiness of your family or children. Does the wife respect her husband? So men are required to love their wives. Women are required to respect their husbands. And I do think loving your wife is easier than respecting your husband because men have a pretty low threshold for love. Not going to be more specific, but that just kind of comes naturally. She smells good.
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Bryce Carver
I love her.
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Tucker Carlson
Respect for your husband is harder to win, but it's absolutely critical. And when a wife respects her husband, she gives him the strength I just described. She gives a sense of security, invulnerability to the children. Everything's okay between mom and dad, therefore everything is okay, period. And that is where the peace in a marriage comes from, is that respect. And it has to be given and also earned. She has to give it, he has to earn it. And so that is the critical thing right there, in my opinion. And there are a lot of factors in our society that make it hard for that to exist, which is why so many marriages fail. I believe that after just for the record, 35 years married, 41 years with the same girl. Watch carefully. And that's what I've concluded. But my one piece of marriage advice has to do with children. And it's really simple. And there are all kinds of complex marriages and you find yourself in places where you didn't expect to be, and especially if there are drugs or alcohol involved. It's a very, very different thing. But for people who are facing just the normal challenges, which are mostly about money, that's the biggest challenge. Everyone's so caught up in sex and everything's fine. You don't have problems there. Money puts massive stress on marriage. Or ask any married couple. And in a normal marriage, facing normal stresses like the ones I just described, the critical mistake that people make is they focus on the children instead of each other. And for the obvious reason, children have immediate needs, they're not long term needs. I have to pee, I'm hungry. Will you play with me? Like, this is not long term stuff. It's like right now you love your children. That's organic. Only a freak doesn't love his kids. It just comes naturally to you. Even the hardest hearted person loves his kids. Stalin loved his daughter. Just, you can't help it. So it's really easy. And that's all great. It's all designed by God to make you into a decent parent. But the trap is, if you use your children as an escape from your spouse. And I am just amazed after all these years of living with the same woman every single day, waking up with the dogs and the same girl every morning for all these years, how hard it is for men and women to understand each other. And I'm at like 75% comprehension and really, really trying hard. I'm like a child learning Japanese. Ichi ni sango I'm really trying, right, to understand what my wife is saying. And I know that she's trying every bit as hard. And we have great communication, relatively speaking, but it's still only 75% were different sexes. And the differences are more profound than our society admits. We are all the same. You can change at will. That's the biggest lie ever told. It's absurd. Have you ever been married? You don't understand what she's saying. So it's hard. And they communicate so differently. Here's the point of this observation is that it's so easy for a man to be, like, freaking crazy, which they are. I mean, obviously. But the craziness, it's just on the surface, they actually have something important to tell you. And so many men, and I've done this a million times myself, are like, I can't deal with this. I'm super busy. You're crazy. I don't know what you're saying. I'm going to go be with the kids. If you keep doing that, you will destroy your marriage. You will destroy your marriage. You have to, as the husband who is in charge of the household, period. Doesn't mean you're an autocrat or a king or boss your wife around. You'll never boss your wife around. No man is even able to boss his wife around. It's like they're impossible to boss around. Does it? Don't even. It's not even worth trying. But it. What I mean by in charge is you have to be the leader. You have. Somebody has to make a decision at some point, and that person is you. She wants that from you. God has ordained that you were created to be the leader. Sorry. And anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to shirk their duties. I'm not the leader here. Yeah, you are. Whether you want to be or not. And if you shirk that, she'll hate you for that. Trust me, she'll hate you. Man up and listen to what she's saying until you can figure out what it is. And the last thing I will say is, as you're getting married, like, your wedding's in next month.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah, on the 10th.
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Tucker Carlson
Okay. So she's calling you all the time with like, hey, I've got all these decisions, like, what color do you want the napkins? How many people should be in the pictures? This is happening to you. I know for a fact I haven't talked to her, but I already know this.
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Bryce Carver
You're a prophet.
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Tucker Carlson
I am a prophet. And I've been around a few weddings so your instinct is always going to be, baby, you got this. I trust you. You got this. You make the decision. You're communicating to her. I have total faith in you. I know you'll do the right thing. You're going to be a great wife, great mother, running our household. She hears from you. That's what you're thinking when you say that. Because I know you've said that for a fact, because I've been listening to your calls. She is thinking, he doesn't care. He's not interested. Don't say that. What you say is, she said, should we have orange or pink napkins? Say pink. Obviously, she'll go, well, I like the orange. And you say, that's absolutely right. Orange. We need orange napkins. We don't want pink napkins. We want orange napkins. How many people should be at wedding pictures? You say 15. She'll be like, well, I wanted 12. Yeah, that's right, 12. She wants you to engage. She wants you to make the decision when in fact she's really making the decision. You'll have this problem with dinner. Let's go to dinner Friday night. Where do you want to go? And you'll be like, wherever you want to go, baby. Whatever you want. And she'll hear, he doesn't care about going to dinner with me. You say, I want to go to the Italian place. She'll say, I hate Italian. I want to go Chinese. And you say to her, italian's disgusting. We're going to the Chinese place.
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Bryce Carver
I like that.
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Tucker Carlson
It's real. It's the most real thing. And you will save so much sadness and drama in your household. She'll totally relax and be like, he's got this. Even though you just repeated her choice back to her. No, for real. And that's basically marriage in a sentence. You're repeating her choice back to her as a decision.
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Bryce Carver
Wow.
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Tucker Carlson
But if you allow her to make the decision, she doesn't want to make the decision. She wants you to make the decision. If you just say you make the decision, all she hears is, he doesn't care. He's thinking about golf. Wow.
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Bryce Carver
He's thinking about.
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Tucker Carlson
Write this on your arm, dude. This is important.
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Bryce Carver
I, like. I really appreciate that. I think.
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Tucker Carlson
Yeah.
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Bryce Carver
I mean, encouraging. And I got one last question for you.
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Tucker Carlson
Before encouraging. It's like, totally demented.
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Bryce Carver
But I've got to do this. You know? I've got to. We've got no pink napkins. Orange napkins. No, you're right. I'm like, you're telling me this stuff. And I'm like, this literally just happened 12 hours ago. Yeah, I said the same thing. So that is.
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Tucker Carlson
No, because you're going to tell her, look, you know, I'm not an expert on weddings. You got the wedding. You know, talk to your mom about it, whatever. All she hears is, you don't care. Remember, they don't hear what you say. They're different from us. And that's why marriage is still interesting 30, 40, 50 years in, by the way. That's why homosexuality is so basically unsatisfying. You get bored really fast. And there's some other problems.
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Bryce Carver
Maybe there's some other problems there other.
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Tucker Carlson
Than just saying it's boring.
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Bryce Carver
So I think something I'm seeing a lot with my generation in particular is with stuff like AI ChatGPT, things like that. They're leaning more on that than their brain. They're not researching themselves. And even, even, for example, like, with stuff like Bible Bible apps, you know, every Bible app now has got an AI feature. When there was like, oh, you know, if you're struggling with the Bible question, you know, just ask the AI. You know, the AI will tell you. And. And, oh, I bet. And I'm like, you know that to me, this is. It's hard for me to watch this go down because I'm.
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Tucker Carlson
I'm like, is the AI in about six months is gonna be like, Jesus was fake worship Moloch.
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Bryce Carver
It literally will. It literally will.
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Tucker Carlson
I think the AI is.
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Bryce Carver
But come on, man, it's bail. It's bail.
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Tucker Carlson
A hundred percent. Just throw your kids into the fire and everything will be great.
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Bryce Carver
Yeah, the worst of the fertility gods. And it's bad. But I think. I think, you know, like, so many people and, and that I'm watching are like. It's like they're losing brain power, iq, and they're leaning on a robot and a computer. And now, I mean, obviously, when I read the Scriptures, John 14, the Holy Spirit's the helper and he's the teacher, and no one wants to do their own digging anymore. They want to rely on a robot. And just. I mean, how do you see that playing out now for Christians in particular, but just people in general, like, in. In their daily lives, using their brains, being prepared, you know, being watchful, being educated, things like that. What are you seeing?
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Tucker Carlson
I mean, we're called to discipline, among other things. Discipline, you know, it's right. It's hard to do it. Narrow path. And I'm no one to lecture anyone on discipline, since I love all the rhesus products. Not just the peanut butter cups, but literally all of them. And there are like 50 of them. And I like them all. So I don't want to be self righteous once again, but righteousness requires discipline. And if you conclude, as I think any normal person would, that this stuff is making you dumber and that screen time is cutting you off from other people, you know, you need to take active steps to control yourself. You do. Sorry. I mean, just as with anything else, I mean, I quit drinking many, many years ago. Over 20 years ago, almost 25 years ago. And I have bars in my house, my office. I love to eat at bars. At dinner in a bar last night, actually, dinner and part of a liquor store last night with my brother, who's also totally sober. And we were laughing about it. We're not going to steal any of the booze because we don't drink. And it's like, you have to get to a place just because something is around you. You have to get to a place where you're just not going to do things that destroy you or your family. And one of them is spending your entire life under the control of other people, which is what it really is. These are all control mechanisms on the Internet. I mean, right, you have to carve out a life separate from that. And as you get married, man, you have to have super strict phone rules. And everyone, again, is so caught up in committing adultery, which is totally bad. But most people, that's not the number one temptation that people face. The number one temptation that people face is not having a conversation, because every sentence is punctuated with something on their phone. That is a true risk to your marriage. You have to have time for a conversation with no phones, no beeps in the background, no distractions. Like, I'm listening to you, and the other person feels listened to. That's a way bigger struggle than strip bars, right? You'll find out, and I would be a psychopath about it. We have no phones in the bedroom. We both use them as our alarm. So it's like, turn off the phone, I'll get in next to the bed. No texting in the bedroom.
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Bryce Carver
Well, I really like that.
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Tucker Carlson
Well, it's pretty minor. I mean, we're not living as monks.
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Bryce Carver
I mean, but to the average American, they're like, holy crap, I can't text in the bedroom. Like, oh, my gosh.
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Tucker Carlson
You know, dude, the bedroom has two purposes. And I'm not gonna be more specific than that, but both are great. And you can destroy both with the phone. So no how about no? Also dogs. We sleep with our dogs. So. Dogs. Frank woke up next to Frank this morning.
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Bryce Carver
Frank, beautiful dog.
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Tucker Carlson
Thank you.
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Bryce Carver
He likes me because he's sitting here.
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Tucker Carlson
So he's a good. He's a good dog.
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Bryce Carver
Would you mind praying out first before we leave?
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Tucker Carlson
Is that I'm not saying a prayer on camera. I'm too embarrassed. But I hope you will.
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Bryce Carver
I'll pray for us.
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Tucker Carlson
Good.
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Bryce Carver
Is that deal?
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Tucker Carlson
Of course.
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Bryce Carver
Awesome. Jesus, thank you so much for today. God, thank you for Mr. Tucker Carlson for coming on, sitting down and, and, and sharing some wisdom and chatting with us. God, would you bless him? Keep him. Lord, would you bless everyone watching and listening? I pray that everything that was spoken was from you, God. And that you use it to pierce the hearts of many that were watching and listening. God, thank you for this day. Thank you for waking us up. We love you, Jesus. It's in your name we pray. Amen. Marketing is hard, but I'll tell you a little secret. It doesn't have to be.
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Tucker Carlson
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Bryce Carver
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