On Friday, May 2nd and Saturday, May 3rd, Jason Whitlock is hosting a live stage show with guests like Tucker Carlson, Doug Wilson, comedian Steve Byrne and country music star Randy Houser in Nashville called Roll Call 3.0.
Whitlock, The Blaze Media star who helms his Fearless podcast for the Glenn Beck-founded enterprise, says the opportunity to converse with Tucker Carlson in front of a live audience is too good of an opportunity to pass up.
“Anytime you get to engage with Tucker and have a provocative conversation about American culture, I think it’s a great thing,” said Whitlock. “I think it’s a great thing for Nashville. And I just think Tucker is one of the brightest minds we have in the media space. I’m just appreciative of him supporting me and what I’m doing here in Nashville in trying to encourage men to engage in the culture war in a bold way that supports biblical values and American values, and try to take some of the tension out of racial conflict. It seems like they’re trying to promote in the social media matrix with all their hot takes and race-baiting and trying to elevate the conversation.”
The two-day event includes a variety of programs, including meet & greets, breakfast with the guests of Roll Call 3.0, and musical performances in addition to his conversation with Tucker Carlson.
“This is just an opportunity for those of us with shared beliefs to get together and have a little fun,” said Whitlock. “We’re gonna cap the night with me and Tucker talking for 90 minutes about American culture.”
When asked what he hoped to discuss with the former Fox News star and current conservative media titan, Jason Whitlock said he had a bevy of topics he wanted to broach with Tucker Carlson.
“I want to talk about the online race divide and wonder if it is the same in real life,” said Whitlock. “That’ll be interesting to explore. Are the opinions and particularly super racially divisive opinions that are spewed on social media. Are they real or are they fake? And are they just a product of an algorithm or or is it just people with keyboard muscles saying things that they don’t really believe?
“My philosophy on Twitter always was ‘Judge my columns, enjoy my tweets.’ Maybe that’s still true, but maybe not. Obviously, we’ll talk about what’s going on in the political space and some of it is related to the sports world, the whole conversation around Boys and men competing in women sports and just the insanity of that. All the pivoting that’s going on on the left. The left trying to move back to sanity … Should I be buying this? Is this real? Have they learned a lesson or are they licking their wounds and in a momentary retreat?”
The Fearless podcast host added that he isn’t afraid of any ramifications for his thoughts presented in speaking with Carlson because he doesn’t say anything in private that he doesn’t also share in public.
“I don’t really think of myself as having any private conversations. I’ve lived long enough to know that anything I say can and will be used against me in the court of public opinion, so I just say the same things in front of a live audience or if I’m at a restaurant. My conversation is no different if I’m on a podcast. So, for me, I don’t think it’ll be any different,” said Whitlock. “It certainly won’t be for Tucker. He just did a full live tour last year.”
Jason Whitlock added that of everyone participating in the show, he might be the least experienced in front of a live audience. But he said he’s the most fearless of the bunch, which is something that he believes came naturally to him.
“When I was just a young boy in Indianapolis, 6 or 7-years old, I used to have dreams of being a Martin Luther King Jr.-type figure, and speaking to people about race and harmony, and trying to get people to understand that we’re more alike than we are a part, as long as we agree on a certain set of values,” he admitted. “I’ve been writing and talking about race my entire career,” he added, pointing out that he began his career in 1990.
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