TGS LIVE: When My Lefty Wife Met Tucker Carlson
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Last week we tried something new at TGS. I had a conversation with my lovely wife, LaJuan Loury, and my creative director, Nikita Petrov, live on three platforms at the same time: the TGS Youtube channel, the TGS Substack, and on Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica.
We went for two hours and covered a lot of ground: LaJuan and I reported on our visit to Tucker Carlson’s “barn” in Maine, and I speculated about why LaJuan and Tucker, contrary to my expectations, really hit it off. LaJuan spoke a bit about her religious upbringing, we reminisced about where The Glenn Show was four years ago, when Nikita and I started working together, and we tried to assess how we fit into the very different political and media landscape of 2025, which required us to first discuss how we see this said landscape. We capped it off with a short Q&A at the end, where we responded to questions asked during the stream.
I should also mention the conversation includes some very raw and emotional moments, especially when we discuss the dire situation in Gaza.
The experiment continues! I’ll be livestreaming again this Thursday, June 12, at 6:00 PM Eastern on YouTube and Substack. This time I’ll be joined by my editor, Mark Sussman. Planned topics include my forthcoming book Self-Censorship, the future of elite universities, how to get proactive on racial disparities in the wake of affirmative action and DEI rollbacks, faith and reason, and the recent death of Stanley Fischer, an economist I got to know back in MIT days. But it’s a live conversation—you never know what’s going to happen or what we’ll end up talking about.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me ask about Tucker Carlson. |
| 0:02.0 | We talked about our mistrust for the government. |
| 0:04.0 | That's where we bonded. |
| 0:05.0 | I asked if I could hug him. |
| 0:06.0 | He said, sure. |
| 0:08.0 | I think the fact that my wife and Tucker Carlson got along as well as they did has a lot to do with the fact that while they disagree, I'm sure, on the economic policy thing, |
| 0:17.0 | my wife is not a friend of capitalism. |
| 0:19.0 | And Tucker, I would imagine on the whole is. |
| 0:21.9 | My wife is not a friend of religious devotion and traditional values. And Tucker substantially is, |
| 0:27.8 | but they damn sure are on the same page about expertise and elites. Do you trust what Anthony |
| 0:34.7 | Fauci is telling you? Do you trust your government? What actually happened on 9-11? |
| 0:39.0 | We don't know the full story. Do you believe with the New York Times prints when something happens |
| 0:45.0 | in the world and there's the possibility that it's a false flag operation and it's not what it |
| 0:49.6 | appears to be that the forces behind the scene have arranged things? My answer is, I don't know. And I'm content |
| 0:55.7 | to say, I don't know the full story. My lovely wife, Luan, and I think Tucker Carlson Too, very often |
| 1:01.5 | supply their own answers. We talked about how I grew up in a religious environment, which I hated. |
| 1:07.8 | I didn't get a chance to enjoy being a teenager. It was hardcore. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm still recovering from that. |
| 1:13.6 | I didn't walk away from it until I was in my 40s. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm Glenn's bonkers wife. |
| 1:18.6 | Wee! |
| 1:19.6 | Nobody's going to understand that without some background. |
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