PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: How Nick Fuentes became Nick Fuentes.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Tucker Carlson released an interview with the far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. The interview has caused a firestorm on the right, dividing the MAGA base over how Carlson handled the interview — and bringing up questions about who should be platformed. But when I listened to the interview, I heard something much more interesting that nobody seems to be talking about: the origin story of one of the country’s most notorious bigots. I thought that story actually offered some important insights. I’m going to share what I learned.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:10.8 | Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, I want to talk about the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, |
| 0:17.3 | interview. When this interview first popped up in my podcast feed, all I could do is stop |
| 0:23.5 | and just take a big, deep breath. Nick Fuentes on Tucker Carlson, I thought, man, I'm a regular |
| 0:32.4 | listener of Carlson's podcast, so I knew that in a conversation with Candace Owens just a few weeks before, |
| 0:39.2 | he had described Fuentes as a weird little gay kid living in his basement. Fentes was apparently |
| 0:44.9 | perturbed, and he responded by lambasting Carlson as a fraudulent populist. These are not the kinds of |
| 0:51.6 | attacks that I'd mount against either Fuentes or Carlson, |
| 0:54.9 | but I found some solace in the fact that someone as mainstream as Carlson, |
| 0:59.2 | who had embraced plenty of unsavory characters over the years, |
| 1:02.1 | still wouldn't go as far as big-tenting someone like Fuentes. |
| 1:06.5 | In case you are blissfully unaware of his existence, |
| 1:09.4 | Nick Fuentes is known for leading a group called the Groypers that holds a genuinely radical far-right position. |
| 1:16.6 | They've spent years attacking people like Charlie Kirk as being too left. |
| 1:20.6 | Fuentes dropped out of college to focus on media full-time after attending the Unite the Right gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, |
| 1:31.2 | which turned deadly after an extremist rammed his car through a crowd of students. |
| 1:37.6 | He was banned from the app, then known as Twitter in 2021 for repeated, racist, and anti-Semitic comments, as well as by YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Spotify, Venmo, Stripe, and Clubhouse. |
| 1:46.7 | He referred to Judaism as a synagogue of Satan during a speech at a Stop the Steel rally. He returned to Twitter, X in 2022, but Elon must |
| 1:53.2 | ban him again after he said he'd go DefCon 3 on Jews. He held a live chat where he praised |
| 1:59.2 | Hitler and he said he was going to go to war with the |
| 2:02.2 | Jews. Then, after returning to Axin in 2024, he caused another controversy when he posted |
| 2:07.8 | your body, my choice, after Donald Trump won the election. Fentes is not merely controversial. |
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