Blog: We Need to Talk About Tucker Carlson on the Bryce Crawford Podcast.

Well, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve talked about Bryce Crawford. In that time period, he’s updated his Patreon, so it looks less grifty and more like a normal YouTuber’s Patreon and he’s gotten married to Maddy Dodd, the lady who became famous online for posting Insta-floozy pictures on her Instagram and TikTok. To her credit, since getting married, she’s updated her socials and gotten rid of a lot of those pictures, though she still has some of them up, such as the pictures from Coachella where she’s dressed in an outfit that someone described as “2000s sleaze fashion.”

But the most notable thing that’s happened in the interim is the first episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast for 2026 featured none other than our favorite Qatar-sellout, conspiracy theorist, and antisemite, Tucker Carlson.

I know. You thought I was going to say Candace Owens.

Jokes aside, we need to talk about why this interview is so concerning. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Tucker Carlson first became famous on Fox News where he soon became the most watched person on television. Then he was fired in 2023 and soon after, began his podcast. In recent days, while he used to be a hero for conservatives, some have started noticing that he’s been going off the deep end as he praises Russia, makes bad ideas more palatable, partakes in antisemitic conspiracy theories, and has now been praising Islam. Unfortunately, none of this has affected his viewership, as people still tune in to his show and he’s still being invited to places like TPUSA where he subtly serves these bad ideas to young conservatives.

These bad ideas were also put on display on Bryce Crawford’s podcast. For example, around the five- or six-minute mark of the podcast, Bryce mentions a Tucker Carlson episode in which he talks to Ted Cruz about Israel. Bryce tells Carlson that he “loved” his response of “But who’s Israel?” when Cruz brought up Genesis 12:3, where God tells Abraham that He will “Bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.” God is very clearly talking about the nation of Israel that would come from Abraham, and it’s very clear in the rest of the Bible that, while many of the promises to Israel were fulfilled by Jesus, the law of double-reference is at play, meaning that they still literally apply to national Israel.

But Tucker and Bryce sadly seem to be leaning away from that into a more replacement theology view. Bryce says: “I just feel like as believers and […] even in today’s American society, like you said, you’re seeing the theology being warped and used and things like that, and people just aren’t reading this macro narrative of scripture.”

If the “macro-narrative” means leaving out entire portions of Scripture to support your view, thus creating massive plot holes, then is it really the full story? If there’s anyone reading this who takes the replacement theology view, I’m sorry if I’m coming off as harsh, but I have major questions about how well this view stands up to scrutiny when compared with what the Bible says and what the implications of it are in the church’s dealings in the socio-political realm.

And then we get to the main topic that Tucker focuses on in this interview, which is the porn industry. Now, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and I do agree with him that porn is one of the biggest threats to America because it does weaken both men and women and subverts the morals and values that have kept civilization healthy for centuries. However, because he’s Tucker, he also subtly incorporates some ridiculous claims into his rant. He says, quote:

“And […] and so the failure of men and women to find each other and the disincentives that our society has erected are a way bigger threat than Iran, which is not really a threat. The real threat is […] I don’t know, Only Fans, Tinder. I mean, these are threats to the civilization. And they’re also just manifestations of deeper problems. It’s not all OnlyFans’s fault, but if like you’re turning 10% of the American female population into prostitutes, you need to be in jail like right now. I don’t care how much money you give to the ADL or whatever they’re doing […]AIPAC or whatever. They’re paying off all the all the politicians. You should have to answer for that. Can’t turn my women into prostitutes. Who do you think you are? That’s what an invading army does. That’s what the Ottomans did. And everyone’s like, “Oh, the Muslims. Oh, the Muslims. Really?” I mean, yeah. Okay. I […] It’s a Christian country. I’m pro-Christian. I couldn’t be more pro- Jesus. Okay. But if we’re assessing the actual threats as I see them, as they exist, as can be measured, rather than the threats on Fox News, the threat is not the Muslims. Are the Muslims coming in here and turning our daughters into prostitutes? No, Only Fans is doing that. So, okay, let’s just identify the problem first.”

I want you guys to look at the sentence I just highlighted in red. For those of you who don’t know, the ADL stands for the Anti-Defamation League, a group that combats and identifies antisemitism, extremism, and online hate and harassment. AIPAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a bipartisan lobbying group that advocates its policies to the legislative and executive branches of the government to better strengthen America’s relationship with Israel. These are the people that Tucker is saying are allowing people to get away with prostituting American women because the owner of OnlyFans donated money to them.

Do you see the problem here? While I agree that it’s shady that they allegedly took money from the owner of OnlyFans, I’m not sure this constitutes evidence that Israel or pro-Jew groups are protecting the porn industry, which seems to be what Tucker is insinuating. I think that problem is a broadly cultural thing that the Democrats especially are trying to protect.

Then Tucker goes on to say that Muslims aren’t an actual threat to American society because they’re not turning our women into prostitutes. Apparently, he hasn’t seen the reports of the Pakistani grooming gangs which were grooming, trafficking, and raping young British girls, a problem which continues today. I suppose he also hasn’t seen the reports of Muslim men singling out white women in the UK to rape and degrade, saying they (the white women) enjoyed it, calling them “white sluts,” the c- word, etc. because of their 1400-year-old religious and cultural belief that all white-women are nymphomaniacs who are just there for Muslim men’s sexual enjoyment. How long before we begin seeing more reports of Muslim men raping women here in the U.S. as their numbers grow, Mr. Tucker Qatar-son?

But don’t worry, it gets worse.

After talking about the issue of OnlyFans for a while, Tucker gets to the question of Israel. At this point, I wanted to start banging my head on the wall as Tucker started attacking Israel for attacking Hamas and Hezbollah. But I’ll just let the transcript speak for itself:

TUCKER:“[…]and that gets me to the question of Israel. And I…I don’t mean to dodge your question. I’ll just do it really quickly. There’s a whole theological debate about dispensationalism or replacement. I don’t know anything about any of that stuff. I’ve never… I never heard the terms. Yeah. Um […]it’s not the world I grew up in. I think it’s sort of interesting, but I don’t fully understand it and I would never weigh in on it. I would only say if you think that murdering tens of thousands of children, which the Israeli government has done, is consistent with Christianity, we’re just we’re reading a different m a different manuscript. I just don’t I don’t see that at all. Um […] I understand Christianity to be, you know, a very, very different faith and I […] it’s hard to imagine Jesus being in favor of this.

“ And I guess we could have a debate about it, but what gets me going is watching Christian preachers who are paid by the government of Israel, take free vacations to Israel, where they stock up on talking points and propaganda, and then inflict all of that propaganda on their congregations, and then use the Bible to justify it. You’re justifying violence against innocents. Yeah. I recognize October 7th is bad. I’m hardly shilling for the Islamists. It’s also stupid. I just don’t think that what the Israeli government has done in Gaza, which is a crime. It’s a historic crime. It is genocide. It’s an effort to move an entire people out and kill a lot of them and then take their land. I thought we were against that. It happens all the time around the world. Israel is not the only country that does it, but they are doing it. We’re paying for it. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, all these Christian pastors, these evangelical pastors come in and are like, if you criticize that, you’re not a Christian and you hate Jesus and hate Jews. It’s like I you know, there’s a debate over what the term the great deception refers to, but it could be that because that’s so crazy to me. And maybe I’m the crazy one.

“I preface this by saying I try to maintain humility at all times. Like, what do I know? I’m a Episcopalian. I don’t know anything. But I have pressed a lot of these people like including Ted Cruz who’s a politician. Like he’s not a theologian. I get it. But he couldn’t even name the book of the Bible, not even the book that supported his entire Christian theology. So, I think it’s fair for me to say, and by the way, my version of the Bible, which is the NLT, which I like. I really like the NLT very much. It’s just clear English, right? […] doesn’t have that phrase in it. Sorry. Uh, so, but whatever. It’s not I guess what I’m saying is this isn’t about theology. I think there are a lot of really decent um thoughtful bible believing Christians, Jesus followers who have been convinced of this. And maybe they’re right. I don’t think they are. Maybe they are. I don’t think I’m necessarily always right. That’s for sure. But I know for a fact that a lot of their preachers have become political actors who are working on behalf of a foreign government that’s very hostile to Christianity. Do they ever try to convert Israelis in Tel Aviv? All these preachers go over there for the weekend. Jesus is the answer they’re telling their congregations. Do they try to street preach in Tel Aviv? No. No. Not one of them. They don’t. What is that? Do you really believe? So, so I see them as uh either willing or unwilling dupes of a foreign government. Whatever their motive, whatever they know or don’t know, they are doing something that’s inexcusable and it’s very hard to understand what they’re doing.“

BRYCE: “I kind of have the same train of thought as you, you know, I remember when the October 7th thing went down and I can […] I can admit here humbling like yeah, I was like the average evangelical pastor that’s like yeah, which it tends to be a trend and I think I think there are a lot of people that do the same thing. They’re like, yeah, you know, this you know, God’s chosen people, this this and that and that that’s how it was. But then it was like I had to do my own digging when I would go I would have to look at news sources coming from Jerusalem, coming from Israel and all these things to kind of go, “Oh, shoot. Wait, there’s a lot more happening over there that I didn’t know. There’s a lot more going down that I I wasn’t told when I turn on the news.” And so that’s […] that’s kind of where, you know, I loved when you were talking to Ted Cruz and you were like, “Who is Israel?” Right? Because when the average evangelical is like, “Israel,” they’re like, “Oh, yes, the ethnic group, the ethnically Jewish people. That’s who Israel is and that’s who it is.” And I and I would be kind of where you are where I’m like, I think me personally, I personally think Israel is believers in Jesus Christ. And I […] and I, you know, you read Romans, the book of Romans, where it talks about, you know, being grafted into the tree and that people who are grafted in have been given the right to become children of Abraham. You know, it’s like who are children of Abraham?”

TUCKER: “Well, there’s a lot throughout the New Testament about all of this because of course it was written by Jews originally for Jews, but um there’s a lot about this, but the takeaway from my perspective, and I think any person who reads it, I has trouble reaching any other conclusion. The point of this is Jesus and getting to heaven requires faith in Jesus. That is Christianity as far as I know. And so they’ve changed the definition of Christianity, which seems like, again, I’m not a theologian. I want to say that again. Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like they’ve changed the definition of the religion itself. Like everyone has to believe in Jesus to get to God except for these people. Okay. Who are these people? Well, it’s this group. It’s a chosen group. Well, how do we know who’s in it? Yeah. Is it is it an ethnic group? Well, we have ancestry.com and 23 and me. We can test for that. like how what percentage of DNA do you need to have to be in this group? Any question like that, just a rational question is met with like an attack. Ted Cruz, like three questions in, called me an antisemite. And to my shame, it made me mad. I shouldn’t have gotten mad. I should have laughed. But I did get mad. I was offended. I don’t know if I’d ever been called antisemite before in the in the since I would call like 100 times a day. But at the time, I was like ‘Antisemite? Of course, I’m not [an] antisemite,’ which I’m not and wasn’t then.

“But I was struck by his […] like it’s a tell for me as someone who interviews for a living. If I ask you a question and rather than answer it, you attack me. You kind of answered it in a sense, didn’t you? Right. You didn’t you didn’t actually answer the question, you in order to avoid answering the question, you attacked me. So, um, no. And I think, by the way, I think it’s just mostly dying. Like I don’t meet too many people who will defend the proposition that you know Christian we as Christians believe that you need to believe in Jesus get to heaven except for some people who may or may not have anything to do with each other or the ancient Israelites don’t have to believe in Jesus cuz how none of it makes any sense at all. And so my view is and this is not hate this is love. I think everyone needs Jesus. I certainly do much more than I have by the way.”

BRYCE: “Likewise. I do. You do you do you believe Christianity is going to become a minority in America?”

TUCKER:“Yeah. Oh, it already is.”

BRYCE: “And who do you think […] who do you think is going to be […] who […] who’s going to be responsible for that? You know, some people are going to say, “Oh, you know, the Muslims, which I’m […] I’m very passionate about the about Islam. It’s something I’ve been very passionate about recently.” You know, some people are going to be like, “Oh, it’s the Muslims.” Some people are going to be like, “Oh, it’s this.” Who do you think is going to be responsible for the decrease in in Christianity?”

TUCKER: “The people who are the real threat and the real threat are not religious people […] don’t have anything I you know orthodox Jews have a completely different religion from mine. You know they read the Talmud all day. I’m not even sure what’s in there. I’m not against Orthodox Jews. I’ve always gotten along with them. Yeah. Um I’m not against Orthodox Muslims at all. Always gotten along with them. I don’t think the threat to me from my perspective; they’re not the ones running Only Fans. They’re not the ones selling meth. They’re not the ones destroying my country. They’re also not the ones shooting people by and large. They are being watched by the God they believe in. Now, it’s not my God in a lot of cases, but I feel like the threat is people who think they’re God. Clearly, I don’t really know any. You think Ilhan Omar is like a faithful Muslim? No, she’s a white liberal.”

First of all, Israel has never committed a genocide in response to Hamas and Hezbollah’s attack. I have spent countless hours writing blog post after blog post debunking that utter lie.

Secondly, the Bible allows fighting in self-defense. Hamas attacked Israel, took a ton of hostages, murdered a bunch of people, and ran across the border into Gaza. On top of that, Hezbollah started firing rockets from Lebanon into Northern Israel. Israel had a right to retaliate to get the hostages back and secure its safety. In fact, it would have been more evil to not do that and let the terrorists get away than to start bombing the crap out of them, while trying to keep civilians out of the way. It’s no different than if the US were to go to war with Mexico to stop the cartels.

Third, I would seriously like to know which pastors are being flown out to Israel for free to feed quote-unquote “propaganda” to their congregations. I would also like to see any evidence of the Israeli government being “hostile” to Christians. So far, the evidence points in the opposite direction, as they’re the safest place to be a Christian in the Middle East, with 371 churches. Compare that to Qatar, which has exactly 6 government sanctioned churches with 50 offshoots, and where it is capital offense for Muslims to convert to Christianity. You want to talk about that, Tucker?

Fourth, it is a strawman argument to say that Christians who say that the prophecies in the Bible still apply to modern-day Israel are arguing that Jews don’t need Jesus to save them. I actually got into a tense argument during a small group session about this with one of my youth leaders at my last church. My former youth group was being taught the view of Fulfillment Theology as being the only correct view of Scripture, something I strongly disagree with. During this argument as I was explaining my belief, my youth leader asked me, annoyed, “So do you believe that someone is saved just because they’re ethnically Jewish?”

I looked him dead in the eye and said, “No. Obviously the Bible says that the only way you’re getting into heaven is by confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that He died for our sins. What I’m arguing is that God made a promise to Abraham that his biological descendants, the nation of Israel, would be blessed and be a blessing to the nations. While much of this foreshadows what Jesus would do later, it is also still meant for the Jewish people specifically.”

While some do believe the Jews are saved by their ethnicity (which is heresy, BTW), the majority of Christians who believe God isn’t done with Israel do not believe that. For Tucker to say they do is a broad generalization and a strawman.

Finally, when you have a religion that teaches that you should kill the infidel and take over by any means necessary, even if it means siding with atheists who have no principles and just want power to push their agenda, then Islam and atheism are equally dangerous. And to say that Ilhan Omar is not a real Muslim and is actually just a liberal white woman can be debunked with a simple Google search and a bit of understanding about what Islam teaches.

Meanwhile, Bryce is doing absolutely nothing to push back on this. At all.

Then Tucker tries to play off the accusations of antisemitism at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service at the 43:14 mark. For those of you who don’t remember his speech in which he compared Charlie Kirk’s death to the death of Jesus, here’s what he said:

So it’s about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop: ‘This guy’s got to stop talking. We’ve got to shut this guy up.’

And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about — what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us? We must make him stop talking. And there’s always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, “I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we just kill him? That’ll shut him up, that’ll fix the problem.”

This was also after he had openly flirted with the idea that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had something to do with Kirk’s death.

Overall, this podcast episode from Bryce Crawford raises a lot of questions about his integrity for me. Sure, you can have anyone you want on your podcast, be it Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Carl Lentz…whatever. You’re allowed to do that. However, when you have a guest on your show who’s a very controversial figure and you’re nodding along as they spew subtle lies and do nothing to ask them what they mean by something or why they believe something, I have a problem with that, especially when the lies have been thoroughly debunked. Either you don’t want to rock the boat, or you agree with them. I think that is what we saw here and that should concern us.

Another issue that I have with this is that it’s a perfect example of the ecumenicalism that’s plaguing the Christian sphere. While there are certainly things that I can agree with other denominations on and that the church should unite on, there are also other issues that we should divide on. In Tucker Carlson’s case, we should absolutely reject him because he is doing more harm than good in the church and in the conservative movement. Promoting him as a large Christian YouTuber only makes it worse.

Until next time,

M.J.