# The Tucker Carlson Show

The Tucker Carlson Show is a weekly conservative political podcast hosted by commentator Tucker Carlson. It is one of the most popular podcasts in the United States. The show, available as audio and video, was launched in May 2024 after Carlson was fired from his Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight in 2023.
The podcast made controversy in September 2024, when Carlson interviewed amateur historian Darryl Cooper, who made comments that were seen as Holocaust denial without correction or contradiction from Carlson.

## History

Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News was the highest-rated cable news program at various points from 2021 to 2023. Tucker Carlson was fired from the show in April 2023 by the network's owner, Rupert Murdoch, after allegations were made over a toxic work environment on the show's set during the lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network. Weeks later, Carlson announced a live show on Twitter named "Tucker on Twitter", which lost its momentum over a short amount of episodes. In December 2023, Carlson launched the "Tucker Carlson Network" website, which hosts various conservative programs such as Tucker Carlson Uncensored and from other hosts.
The Tucker Carlson Show, a weekly podcast available as audio and video, started in May 2024. At its launch, Slate wrote that Carlson had diminished popularity and that he was readjusting his brand as a commentator to be more appealing to the alt-right rather than traditional conservatism. Tucker on Twitter, now named "Tucker on X" after Twitter changed its name, is still being broadcast.

### Darryl Cooper interview

The September 3, 2024 episode of The Tucker Carlson Show was an interview with amateur historian Darryl Cooper. Without correction or contradiction from Carlson, Cooper made comments that were seen as Holocaust denial, including saying that the millions of people who died during the Holocaust "ended up dead" as if by accident, rather than being systematically killed. Cooper said that Winston Churchill was the "real villain" of World War II, rather than Adolf Hitler. Hitler; he said "didn't kill the most people, he didn't commit the most atrocities", and the Nazi Party had expressed "humanity". Elon Musk, who owns X, tweeted that the podcast was "very interesting" and "worth watching"; he deleted the tweet later. The interview was condemned by Republican politicians Liz Cheney and Mike Lawler, the Anti-Defamation League, and White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates. All 24 Democratic Jewish members of Congress issued a joint statement denouncing the interview.
JD Vance, then the Republican Party vice presidential candidate in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, was interviewed on The Tucker Carlson Show three days later. An official for Vance's campaign said that coming after Cooper was "not ideal timing, [but] it is what it is". When Vance was asked if Carlson should have interviewed Cooper, he replied, "Tucker Carlson isn't affiliated with the campaign. He's going to do what he wants to do".

## Reception

The Tucker Carlson Show is one of the most popular podcasts in the United States. In July 2024, it was ranked the most popular podcast on Spotify and the 11th most popular podcast on Apple Podcasts.