The Tucker Carlson Show - Gina Carano

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

Gina Carano lost her career when she refused to lie for Disney. She seems content with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

life is long and weird and the longer it is the weirder it gets you may have noticed that but even by that unchanging standard gina crono has had a pretty remarkable life packed into a relatively short amount of time. So in 2006, she began as a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Within a few years, she was starring in big Hollywood films like Fast and Furious. Then in 2019, not that long ago, she got one of the biggest roles for her career. She was on a Disney show called The Mandalorian. In case you didn't see it, here she is. Stay back, dropper. Easy. Drop your weapon.

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Destroying your planet was a small price to pay to rid the galaxy of terrorism. So back in 2019, when you worked at Disney, the Disney Corporation, you could expect a long and pretty stable career. It's a huge company, lots of things you could keep doing there at a pretty good salary. And the only cost would be you have to follow the rules. Disney at the time was getting increasingly political, and the people who worked there were expected to go along with this. Don't say anything and you'll be absolutely fine. But for some reason, she could not follow that rule. And so she went on Twitter and pushed back on some of the things that Disney was pushing. She questioned the motives of Black Lives Matter. If it's so great, why isn't helping black people? She asked about the 2020 election.

Was it really fair? And then she suggested that maybe vax mandates were not a good idea. So what do you think happened? Well, Disney fired her. What happened next to Gina Carano? It's an even more interesting story than the first part of her life. And so we're honored to have her join us on set now. Gina, thanks so much.

Thank you, Tucker. It's so good to see you again. It's great to see you. So last we spoke, and I don't know because both of our lives have taken lots of turns since then. I can't remember how long it's been. But you were just kind of emerging from the chaos of getting fired for things that in a normal country would not cause you to be fired, like refusing to put in a pretty funny way your pronouns in your email and they fired you. So what happened now?

Like what are the twists that your life has taken since? Because I think it tells us a lot. Well, we went to the Daily Wire after the cancellation. Daily Wire in Nashville? Yes. And why'd you go there what was your expectation um because ben shapiro had given me the opportunity to you know um kind of try to uncancel me yes hey we'll do a movie with you come on out and um let's just do a movie and try to get you know be uncanceled yes and so i went out to nashville thinking that we were going to

shoot a movie there we didn't shoot it there. We ended up shooting up in Montana, Prairie, Montana. What a great town that is. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I love Montana. Yeah. And so we shot this $2 million Western movie during like, you know, the time where

SAG-AFTRA was starting to mandate the vaccines and COVID tests and masks. And, you know, I just said to the Daily Wire gave me the, you know, the option, you know, we can either do a union movie or we can do a non-union movie. What would be the difference? The difference would be, well, the difference would be we would have to basically hire more vaccinated people on the union movie just in case they did mandate it, which they ended up mandating it, which is obviously everything I was standing against. And so that wasn't an option for me. But it was an option for the Daily Wire. It was one of their options. Yes.

Yeah. And so then their second option was, well, for half the money. So we went from $4 million, um, you know, exciting serial killer movie to a $2 million, um, non-union movie where that would have given, you know, so many more people that were struggling at the time for not taking the vax for not wanting to apply by the COVID restrictions. the time for not taking the vax for not wanting to apply by the COVID restrictions and so the Daily Wire did put that on my you know my shoulders and said you know this is your decision this is your movie and I chose to go up and shoot the two million dollar western which was called Terror on the Prairie. So half the budget but you felt that it was important as a matter of principle not to participate in a Vax mandate yeah I wasn't gonna do that I mean you know

Disney didn't I mean I wasn't I didn't cave to Disney you know what I mean yeah and I like go to Nashville and be like okay I was so grateful by the way for the opportunity you know that they offered me but it just when I got there it was just two different options that I would I thought I didn't think that that you know, that they offered me. But it just, when I got there, it was just two different options that I thought, I didn't think that that was what I was showing up to. But they did, you know, they were like, okay, then let's go up and let's make this Western for $2 million.

It made it definitely a lot more difficult. It's kind of funny online and on IMDb, they say say it's we shot it for 75 million dollars and they're trying they're trying to like write up all these reports that it went into theater and it only made 800 and i'm like no it actually was just streamed on the daily wire we made it for about two million million that I know of, you know, and it could have been less than that. And we, it was never in theater. And you've got like all of the Hollywood, you know, press like, look at, you know, and it's even not, I believe it's still on IMDb listed as $75 million just to kind of like do these awful things to people like me. And the Daily Wire and like people like you. It's like, let's just put as much false information that leads people astray.

But it ended up being a really good film, Terror on the Prairie. I think there could have been, you know, adjustments made that made it better. But I love the performances in it. I love the people that made it. Dallas Saunier is a wonderful producer. I loved working with him. And so I had a really good time. So what'd you do after that? I disappeared. I think, you know, I knew that after getting canceled and fired, I knew that like even during the daily, even during that Daily Wire kind of terror on the prairie stint, I was wounded like a broken animal. And I'm not sure if you experienced the same thing after what happened with you and Fox.

But I think everybody handles it maybe differently. To me, it looks like you jumped straight back in and you were like, you know, hustling. I have maybe a different energy where it's like, you know, I got wounded. I got stabbed. Yes. You know. I'm very shallow, so it's easy to recover. No, stop.

I think you're just, you know, like a certain type of brain that, you know, you go forward, right? Yeah, have to. And mine was, I've not been like that. Like when I've been wounded in relationships or in life like you know i get i get hurt i'm sensitive so for two years i've been you know in this you know kind of desert you know kind of you know like wondering like oh god you know i see justice happening and i see people moving forward and I'm not moving forward like I thought I was going to. And like I had said, I was going to try to.

And I felt very just forgotten. And then. So when you when you were fired from Disney for reasons that no person should ever be fired, resisting a vax mandate or not putting your totally insane pronouns in an email, did you consider suing them then? Yes. Yeah. I actually confronted my family lawyer and we talked about it. And I was like, you know, if this isn't defamation or if this isn't discrimination, then I don't know what is. If this isn't wrongful doing of an employee, then I don't know what is.

So it's my fault for not telling your story more completely for those who don't know it. It's not simply that they fired you. Right. It's that they defamed you. They, I mean, and harassed and discriminated and just put me through the struggle session, which I didn't know. When you're going through it, you don't know that, you know, you're like, I was so naive at 2020. I haven't been living in the political realm at all. Yes. I just pay my taxes and, you know, hustle for that next job, you know, that next action job or that next drama job.

And that's just what I've been trying to do for my entire life, besides my fighting career. And so then it was just like when 2020 hits, like the shades got opened and I started actually looking around thinking, wait a second, wait a second, what's happening here? Why are people allowed to riot on the streets and they're not allowed to go to church and why are big businesses staying open and small businesses

are getting shut down and um you know it was just uh it bothered me it's like people forcing masks on each other and i i and and you know interesting intrinsically new lockdowns are going to be devastating to people. This is, you know, coming from a person who has, you know, been on and off work. I know what it's like to not work for a year and work for three years and not to work. When you take away that consistency, it does such an emotional, mental, spiritual thing on you that, you know, some people don't know how to handle. You know, they start drugs, alcohol, addiction, and that's exactly what we've seen. You know, we've seen all of this addiction and all this problem, you know, deaths, and I've lost two friends to overdoses. You cancer, one to, I believe, a vaccine, what's it called?

Injury. Injury, yeah. And then I've lost so many people in the last six years, or the last four years, that it's just mind-blowing, which is just a whole other subject. But it does make me feel like I stood up for the right thing. I'm not sorry I did. It hasn't made things easy. But yeah, so I did try to go and talk to a lawyer. Whether it's a family member, friend, or furry companion joining your summer road trip,

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We ended up shooting terror on the prairie there. And you liked it so much you stayed? I just being outside and looking at the sky and being able to breathe and not feeling that anxiety of a city or the possible riots coming down the streets. And just, you know, there's an interesting thing I feel like in Montana. You know, people mind their business, basically. Yes. And keep to themselves. And I feel like in Montana, you have to work your land.

You have to have a certain toughness during the winter. And I think that's really cool. So, you know, Montana is not a place where weak people go to live. And I like to be surrounded by that energy. By strong people. Yeah. And so when I, me and my lawyer were talking about it, my family lawyer, he's such a wonderful man. He was like, Gina, you know, I think it's important that you get somewhere safe and take care of that first. And so I did. And relocating your life, as I'm sure you've been through plenty of times in your life,

it's not like an easy thing. Changing a job, changing of a life perspective, and then having to completely uproot and move your life and figure out where you belong. Yeah, all of that has been going on in the last two years. And a lot of positive things, too. I look at, you know, relationships and friendships and future different. a partnership and I really value a future with someone and it's just like my whole maybe that's just called maturity but I was a really late in maturity part you were my little sister you were busy my little sister is a lot more mature than me and she's got three kids and she's like any day Gina any day I'm like well you know I don't know about the kids part, but. Did your spiritual perspective change?

Oh, I've always been a Christian, but I never felt so much like a Christian as I do these last few years. And it just keeps growing. And, you know, I think that's something that makes people cringe. And I've seen that happen. Why does it make people cringe when you say that well I think you know religion and any type of you know it's been used so wrongly you know something it's been used so aggressively and wrongly to persuade people in evil you know ways that are fake and it's it's it's really turned people off because usually when people go to God or go to a place of

God, they're searching because they're hurt and they're wounded. And when you are hurt and wounded and then you get hurt and wounded by the person, the people or a place that you feel is supposed to protect and be the safe place, I think then people just get really um angry at god and i don't think that it's god that maybe they're angry at it's at the experience you know yeah so the people claiming to represent him yes i really haven't been to church an actual church um probably in 20 years yeah um but i in the last three years have just grown so much closer and understanding and so it was actually at that point where i said you know i was like god you know all these people are getting justice you know and i i was so i know i was done so wrong it was so wrong what happened

to me and i know that there's so much more wrong that happened to so many other people. And so I even felt like, you know, don't be a brat about this, Gina. Like there's, you know, doctors and lawyers and police officers and nurses. And, you know, this is like awful things are happening all around to everybody. And so I just, I started looking at my justice as, you know, starting over in Montana and being able to see the big sky and just being so grateful for my surroundings. And then finally, it was really interesting when I finally got that out of my heart and truly gave it over to God and was just like, it's yours. If I stay in the desert of work and I never work again in this business, then okay, then I need to learn a different skill.

You know, I need to figure out what I'm going to do. And so I had to really let it go. Genuinely, you know, genuinely let it go. Which isn't easy. And a week later well yeah that took years um i tried to i tried to pretend like i was there so many times but to genuinely let that last inch of like it's gonna be okay and i'm gonna give it to you and a week later i got an email a week later i got an email from x and they said that they were some lawyers that

were taking up cases that people had possibly been fired for speaking their opinion on X. And they'd like to hear my case. So they approached you? Over email. Elon Musk's lawyers just found you yeah i don't even said by the way we'd like to pay for your your case yeah well no no it didn't go like that it was i was first of all i was like is this a scam yeah it sounds like a scam right and i was like some sort of scam so i like you know had my lawyers look into them to make sure my family lawyer um no i've never paid a dime to and he has just you know had my lawyers look into them to make sure my family lawyer um no I've never paid a dime to and he has just you know he's actually my brother's or my sister's um

husband's uh cousin and here he is just like taking on like my problems just with a smile and and I was like do you think he can you know will will lemco by the way i i love you will um he's been such a wonderful person to me he he was just like these people are legit these are actually legit lawyers get back to them and so i said because will will believes in my case he just knew my my personal circumstance was very difficult at the time and you know didn't have the money to pay for that yeah um i needed to put that money into restarting life yes and so um uh he's like call them back and so or or email them back and i emailed them back immediately and i was like ready and ed edward trent who is at the law firm, just an incredible man.

He was like, wow. He was like, we've emailed a lot of people and you got it back to us like pretty fast, you know. And then from there on, in the last, you know, I guess it's been, that was before Christmas and it was, you know, probably in November, I think. They've, we've just been like, I'm sending them everything and I'm telling them my story and we're having long conversations and they're listening to everything that happened. And then, you know, I'm sending them emails that transpired between me and Disney and Publicis and all the other people and I'm saying everything I've got and um they they took that to X and Elon and said we believe in this case very much so very much so um and they presented it to X and then X is like you know you have to they had to get the permission from them.

So I'm sure X has their lawyers looking through it because this is a completely different law firm. Yes, retained by X. Yes. So I'm sure X has their own people that are looking at it as well. So there's multiple eyes on this. And then they had to take it to Elon and, you know, brief him on it. And then, you know, they came back and they said, we're taking it on. Let's do this.

We're going to write a complaint and we're going to file. I mean, that's just an amazing story. Yeah. Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. Thanks a lot for watching that conversation with Gina Carano, who is a very cool person. You may have noticed that a lot of the e-commerce sites online are run by people who don't share your values and may actually despise you. Creepy tech oligarchs, first and foremost, selling your data to the highest bidder, also selling you garbage from third world countries,

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anyone who's free speech on x has been used against them right uh can have our lawyers look at it but what do you i mean and i responded to that which i you know i didn't think that anything would ever come of it but he he tweeted that out um and i said you know in a quote tweet i said well i think that i think i qualify or something like that smiley face. And nothing happened for months. And I was like, Okay, well, you know, I didn't expect anything. So and then when that happened, and I got that email, it's like, it's one of those, there's been a couple of those calls

in my life or a couple of those moments in my life that I've just been like, Oh, my gosh, like, I get a chance right now. I get a fighting chance to clear my name to let the world know what happened here to you know the world's a lot gone come a lot you know a long ways in three years a lot of information's come out yes so i mean you shouldn't get fired for being ahead of the curve. You know what I mean? I shouldn't have gotten fired for, you know, talking about lockdowns and masks and encouraging that. I was encouraging conversation.

You know, I shouldn't have gotten fired for my supposedly controversial tweets. They were not controversial. They were just having trouble with where I was coming from, I think. It's bewildering. It's mind-blowing what happened. Do you have any idea why, I mean, even very rich people rarely pay for lawyers for strangers on principle. Do you know why Elon Musk is doing this? You know, I've never even met him.

I've never even spoken to him. I think he's retweeted me once. And he's doing this not only for me in this big case, he's doing this for many other people. And I think there's just, I think we're living in a time of such an incredible person that would be fighting for free speech on the biggest level. I mean, if we did not have what Elon Musk is doing right now, so many of us would be in such deep trouble. Nations would be in trouble. And I respect what he's doing. And I don't know why he's doing it. You know, I think

that, you know, a lot of billionaires put their money into more selfish things, And he's choosing to put his money into the defense of free speech and the defense of injustice. And I have to imagine, you know, I have to imagine that I had to do something with May Musk, his mother, because I follow her too. And I think, you know, how heartbreaking it's been for my family to watch me go through this hardship. And I really wonder about the Musk family and what tough skin they must have had. But what an incredibly classy woman that woman is. And I love following her because I see this came from somewhere, you know? And yeah, I just think what an incredible family that has burdened such a tough moment in time that I think that he will go down in history

as one of the greats, as will you, Tucker. Well, I'm not doing anything like that. I'm just talking on camera. That's a pretty generous thing to be doing for people you don't know. Never even spoken to him. I hope I get to thank him one day and shake his hand. I don't know how you thank someone like this. Thank you, Elon, for fighting this fight for so

many of us it it is uns it's just I don't know anybody like this person and I don't even know this person amazing so what what's the suit like and it goes without saying that we're fervently rooting for you and for justice in this case but tell us about the suit well my lawyers yeah they said you know keep the lawyer talk to the lawyer talk yeah so I don't stick myself in any bad situation so I kind of leave that up to them it's all on the complaint they filed the complaint it's February 6th and Disney now has a certain amount of time to respond to that complaint and so yeah that's but basically the substance as I understand it mm-hmm you fired unfairly in violation of the law

and then defamed. Tell us about the defamation. Tell us what they did to you in more specific terms. Well, there is defamation. I'm not sure. If that's a legal claim. I mean, I should as well as a non-lawyer. But they trashed you.

They did. They did. What they really did was they put out this um awful so i put up a tweet that i this has become infamous tweet of saying that uh and i don't even know because i just put it up in like a story section i didn't post it i put it in like the you know quick everybody look through like the stories of the tweet because tweets used to have the fleet section and it was basically saying that it didn't start like uh you know nazi germany didn't start just with people just waking up being nazis and like you know demonizing you know like throwing people jews into the concentration camps it didn't start there it started before that it started with

propaganda it started with you know um you know you had to kind of start urging people to make it okay to demonize your neighbor and to hate people for whatever differences it was. At that time, it was Jewish people. And, you know, that's where it started. And that's what made it so much easier for, you know, you're living in a house and then, you know, the Nazis come and your next door neighbor is getting hauled off that, you know, maybe years before you guys were all having dinner and having this wonderful relationship. And then it gradually happened. It just wasn't something that happened just like that. And that was what the meme meant to me was that I was trying to tell people now, like, don't demonize each other. Understand, you know, we're all human beings still.

And, you know, basically just bad things have happened in the past and to learn from the past. And I thought that was something that everyone, Democrats, Republicans, independents, that everybody could understand and get. I thought that was a tweet for everybody. And the Hollywood press and every major news and media that they came against me and they said she just she compared Republicans to the Jewish community, the Jewish Holocaust. And she's denigrating, you knowrating the Jewish community. Right, so you came out against the Nazis,

but they claimed you were pro-Nazis. They called me, they smeared me as an anti-Semite, smeared me. And I was like, wait, I don't, and I still don't get how, how did you do that? Right. And why did people believe in it? But, you know, like, and then what Disney did was they put out a statement that said, we are no longer working with, there is a statement,

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We enjoy them. You will too. So you obviously know this since you worked in the business, but I mean, people who write about television and movies are directed to the word by the PR departments at the television and movie companies. So there's no independent press that writes about the movies or about television. Right.

Even cable news. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like the big cable news websites are all controlled by the PR departments. Right. It's true in Hollywood. And that's really been, you know, so I had my own, had hired my own publicist during, you know during season two of The Mandalorian.

And they were working with the publicist from the Disney people. And then they were working with the UTA who dropped me immediately as well. Of course they do. Uh-huh. Your agent who's there fighting for you. Yeah. All of them. I mean, and then the entertainment lawyer dropped me.

Of course. And the funny thing is, like, the entertainment lawyer, I think, was, they would constantly be sending out, hey, we're having this Democrat, you know, at my house. Come on over for, you know, raise some funds for the Democrat, you know, party, da, da, da, or whoever the candidate was that they were, you know. And so all of these people just dropped me immediately. And I was that they were, you know, and so all of these people just dropped me immediately. And I was like, people you've been paying to stand by your side in case there was a big problem. Yeah. The second there was a big problem, they fled and denounced you. Yes.

Immediately. May they all rot. And I was just like, OK, that's so much you know i mean i knew that like maybe something could happen where disney would might be like hey you know um as professionals i thought maybe they just okay well maybe we're gonna not work with you or maybe something like that could happen by speaking out um about the things that i spoke out about but i found the things that i spoke out about were so much more important than the the part, because I felt like, you know, we needed to be talking about, we're headed in a really bad direction. You know, the lockdowns, the mask mandates, the vaccines, you know, I felt like we needed to, I never even said who I was really voting for.

It was just, I was getting really pushed into this like you're an extremist you're an alt-right extremist you know um and so I thought maybe that that could be an option but never in my wildest dreams would I thought that they would have through twitter or through a publication without even calling me this is how I found out I was fired online on Twitter. Like they didn't call me. They didn't say, we're letting you go. We're not, we're no longer going to work together.

This is why, you know, it was just, she's denigrating people off of cultural and religious beliefs. And she's abhorrent. And I was like, for coming out against the Nazis. Yeah.

Yeah. So backwards. and i was like for coming out against the nazis yeah yeah okay so backwards yeah and but again you know that when you get attacked in the hollywood trade press that's because the company you worked for directed those reporters to right and i'm learning that more and more so now yeah you know when there when there's like a piece that somebody writes about me, I go and I look up the journalist. And I go and look up what other, you know, what other, you know, articles has this journalist written? Of course. And you can almost just trace it back. And a couple I traced right back to Lucasfilm.

And I was like, you know, right there, you guys, you know, you call up your people and, you know, it's ugly. It's the most dishonest thing ever. Yeah. A reporter at the Hollywood Reporter or wherever. Yeah. And it's all involved, right? It's the agencies, it's the managers, it's the publicistsists it's the studios and it's just this big mafioso that um does not give the independent artist unless they're willing to comply and fit in a hundred percent into that

ideologies and their narratives and be basically these manufactured robots you know um i mean i feel like there's the one percent of hollywood that can do what they want and say and think what they want and those are the very very talented people um but at the peak of my career it was like you know i think they thought let's make an example out of this one for sure um she's an action actress you know she hasn't done you know drama yet she hasn't gotten there um we'll make an example out of her and uh it had the complete opposite effect which was um just overwhelming support um uh it was pretty funny like as soon as they they were at the peak of their um stock market ever in February 2021. Or no, yeah, in February 2021.

And right when they fired me is when it started plummeting to what it is now. And, you know, they're obviously very smart people and they're trying to salvage it. But people saw, they saw what was going on. In my case, it was very obvious do your friends were still there yeah i you know everybody i worked physically with um i never had a problem with and uh you know like um you know me and pager reconnected after um you know carl weathers passed away yes um and you know there's all these lies and all these

weird stories and that people make up in their heads and you know one thing i can say is you know i adore pedro um and he said one thing to me he said said, you and Carl were protectors. And that means so much to me that he remembers me and our time together as me being a protector. And it's important, like people don't know what the real story is. Like why do you think Pedro's calling me a protector? To his fans, want I would you know there's a reason and there's stories that you don't know that happened and I was there and I

and I protect people you know like uh there was a person multiple times that's just my nature is when you know there was a person who was wearing a mask on set and they were at their end. They're over time and they're crying and they're upset and they couldn't do it anymore. They just couldn't. They were broken. There was a broken person in that mask and I, nobody was saying anything. And I just simply went up to the director at the time and I said, this person's done. They're done. They need that. They need their, they need the contacts out. They need the thing off their head.

They need to breathe. They're broken. And the director, and I was like, look, I, you know, and I worked longer hours than maybe probably any actor because my face was showing and I did like look I you know and I worked long longer hours than maybe probably any actor because my face was showing and I did all my own stunts so if you go back and you look at like the work records you're gonna find who was on set the most as like the actors and you're gonna find me at the top of that list and I said I'll you know get my coverage tonight I know you guys wanted to do it you know the next day you can get my coverage tonight. I know you guys wanted to do it, you know, the next day,

you can get my coverage tonight. You give this man a break and I will, um, you know, I'll stay later and, you know, push my time and, um, I'll show up early and, you know, don't worry about it. But I've done that on numerous sets and that's, um, you know, because I do understand that, like, well, I come from a fighter's background. And I want it. And I wanted it so bad that I feel like I can, if I can have the energy to push it, I can do it. And it crushes me when people are broken or hurting or being bullied. Yes. And which was my whole purpose of speaking out um you know in 2020 was just

the weakest got bullied the most as always they a lot of people that you know i was usually very introverted i you know get really nervous for interviews although that's getting better um i get nervous for public speaking i get nervous for performing but when I'm passionate when I mean something that's when I can speak and that's the only reason why I'm probably able to speak with you right now is because I have a clear heart about what happened I want the lawyers to look into it I want the professionals to see what happened and how ludicrous and absurd it was. And I want things to change so that it doesn't happen to other people.

What's your next chapter? Well, my next chapter is going to be, I'm going to make a movie. I'm going to produce and possibly direct it. I am going to do it. I'm going to get it financed I'm going to produce and possibly direct it. I am going to do it. I'm going to get it financed. I don't know how yet. But I'm going to make some art,

and it's going to be truly inclusive. And I think that's going to be a gift. That's where my heart has been. I thought I was going to get that a couple years ago with the daily wire. I thought that was the path that was going to happen. But I'm, you know, I think God's teaching me a lesson right now of how to do this, how to learn how to put this together and how to attract the people that you want to work with. And, you know, I lost my team when I got canceled, you know, so I didn't have anybody. And so the rebuilding of a life and everything has been

my focus in the last two years. Well, I've, I've rebuilt that now. And, you know, there's still things that I need to, you know, do, I need to rebuild my body, you know, a lot of stress and not working and, you know, depression and all of that that I need to focus on my health that's very that's at the top of my list and I've been saying that but um also to get creative and uh I think that's what's going to happen I think that's what I want to do is I want to direct and produce a movie and um start being more in control of giving getting my stories out there that I that I like I think being in control is a good thing at this point yeah well I hope you'll come back when you do that thank you thank you thank you so much Tucker it's just a great story and I'm glad to see you thriving. Gina Cronin, thank you. Thank you.