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understand the style points! but at the moment Tucker is a spectacle, a lone person vs. The Media, and he is going to draw max cume audiences because events external to his show (Fox suing, Elon & Twitter, 2024 election, etc) are going to act like fuel injection.

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it was authentic, not glitzy. we know glitz is propaganda. Does he need props, yes, he’s just getting started. Rush Limbaugh used headsets in his simulcast. Carlson is a combo of broadcast/podcast. Del Bigtree’s set is well done. If Tucker is to model anyone, it should be Bigtree’s Highwire. Both are also easy on the eyes to female viewers. They are men...

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Too early to tell empirically (numbers, ratings, etc.), but I'll go out on a limb and disagree. I thought that Tucker on Twitter Episode 1 had an appealing mix of Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox News) and Tucker Carlson Today (Fox Nation). Could it benefit from all that was suggested in this Other Side of Fear offering? Definitely. PS: I cast it onto my TV monitor. That was impactful for someone like me who is used to seeing Tucker on an 75-inch screen.

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I'm unsure about this take. You definitely are an expert in this field and so I tend to defer to you. That being said, some of the most popular videos on Youtube are sort of boring --like Carlson. Meaning, I've come to realize you can be somewhat boring in your presentation (i.e. stop with the distracting jump cuts) if your content is right. Time will tell. I'd definitely be more interested in Tucker doing a more casual show with guests--maybe even with a living room or den-like atmosphere.

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Fair and good points. Im thinking of some fast 10 minute YouTubers and how they do it. So Russell Brand will have himself talk to you, do half a screen with another person sometimes, or articles, images, and then full screens with him reading, then back to Russell. Tim Pool in his one off clips are him in a smallish square, whatever the propert word for taht is, and a bigger view of a news clip and/or video. Scott Adams is just him at his computer screenin his kitchen. Mark Dice is his head in a small cut like Tim Pool, but not framed, and news and video clips. And of course Joe Rogan is two or three cameras, one on him, one on hiss guest, one on both, but you dont need to watch it. You can have any of these shows on while youre cutting the lawn or making dinner... I think he keeps it like this, makes it like his Fox show, or his Fox sit down show where he is in a barn with a person chit chatting. I forgot the name of that show. Hed open with a little vignettee -- Here is Cernovich smoking a cigar, here he is with his wife and kids, here he is in a clip at the White House making fun of the shitlib journos, then voila...we are in the barn with you and Tucker having it out. Maybe thats the easiest format.

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there's no chyron or graphics

it doesnt feel like a news anchor anymore

it feels like a youtube guy

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True dat!

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