That you are genuinely talented at business, so you are an actual creator, you are an actual songwriter, not just taking other people s stuff and singing it. but you re also good at commerce and business. how did you do that? that s an unusual combination. yeah, it is an unusual tucker: you don t meet many people who can do that. i signed a lot of bad contracts, got into business with people that i shouldn t i learned the hard way. tucker: you ve met some sleazy people along the way? no, never, in the music business? there we go, conspiracy talk again. tucker: [laughs] i ve always been the kind of guy that always asks god on a fairly regular basis, hey, can you help me see around this corner? because i can see straight ahead and i can see behind me, but i can t see around the corner. can you give me an idea of what s over there? just whenever. and throughout my life he has given me little moved me
Health insurance, i d like to straighten their teeth may become i ve got to go back in the system and so i cleaned up my act tucker: you raised your kids poorer than you were. yeah, we were called progressives we were leaving the middle class and becoming peasants and then i became a professor. tucker: what were your politics like at this time? my parents were my mother had gone to stanford, she was a i guess you would call them pat brown remember pat brown? tucker: very well. can do democrats. every little town, you know, there was the wealthy guy who was the undertaker, the big car dealer, 90% tax rate and there was no mobility and they were all republicans in every body else was democrats, so my parents, it seems crazy, but they were very socially and culturally conservative. no drinking, if you go to a party you have to shake their hands, we have to look them in
Years, and my parents were dying and they said i don t know what to tell you, victor, but would you please keep the house, so i don t know if my children would live there or not, but it s in great shape, i work on it all the time and it s kind of like a museum for me because i don t want to be the first to give it up, but i walk in rooms and it s just kind of crazy. i hear my aunt. she was crippled. she lived in the living room for 65 years. i see work tucker: she lived in the living room? yes, because moby had you didn t put people who had polio she was crippled with terrible polio, she couldn t go anywhere. i remember talking to her and i see my grandmother tucker: you grew up and your aunt was living in the living room? yes! we had a little house next to them and then when they passed away i moved in there, but i visit her every day. free range, we would like 6 and they would just say go out, and we would roam all over 130 acres and my grandparents had a house, we ha
They are not empirical. you sought on january 6. i mean, we all condemn that, but within two weeks i said to myself, ashley babbitt was shot unarmed we don t know anything about the policeman. we don t know anything about when a policeman shoots somebody who s unarmed, there s pictures everywhere. tucker: no warning, by the way. they are having an officer lie in state but i want to know what evidence is that he was killed. he wasn t killed, he died of a stroke or some type of tucker: so national review wasn t on that? no. there was an armed insurrection, there were no weapons found on the people. they re not even being charged and tried with dispatch, they re sitting in purgatory, and so these issues i would get angry about and i would try to convey that anger, but i think they felt that many i can t say they all, but i think a lot of them felt it was their duty as
The eye, victor, my mom would pick us up, did you say thank you to the host, i have said i did. no you didn t, get back there. but they were also in those days you could be democratic, democratic party was different. but my siblings are all very much more liberal area tucker: still? on the black sheep of the family. tucker: interesting, so when you graduate stanford with this doctorate in classics and decide to go back to pruning fruit trees, did you have a political ideology at this point? i was conservative from a young age. i told my mom i could not vote for jimmy carter when i was and i like him, but i just couldn t vote for him. she got kind of upset about that because she was a democrat. he was a southern democrat in those days, not quite like but the biggest problem i had was i rode a book about fields without dreams. i thought it was wrong that you gave your product and you worked