miss a show. tell them to come visit us in nebraska." nebraska doesn't deserve that. that's it for us. dvr "jesse watters prime time." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to a special and unusual addition of "tucker carlson tonight," a happy addition. it's the new year. as the new year begins, 2023, everything that's going on in the world, it's easy to feel a sense of impending doom. you could watch 5 minutes browsing td or watching social media and you will come up with a million reasons why this is done. despair is more tempting than

ever. but it's not the whole story. because it's not, we are taking the next hour to show you the other side. this country has problems. it wouldn't be interesting if it didn't. this country also has an awful lot going, more than any other country in the world. great people, deep national beauty, and a culture wide love of animals. even where there is tremendous suffering, all of that shines through. laurie simmons is the perfect example of this. she rescues dogs across the country, including those abandoned at the southern border. we spoke to her in november. >> when we got down to legal pass at the rio grande last week and saw hundreds and hundreds of starving and abandoned dogs left to fend for themselves from illegal immigrants that crossed the border with their dogs, they

get on buses and leave them behind. these dogs can't survive on their own, and the national guard and a friend of mine from blue line moving who had gone down there to do border cleanup had reached out to us, and we were shocked at just how big the problem was and how much these problems were -- these animals were suffering. and this couldn't come at a worse time. shelters throughout the country are overflowing everywhere. this is the largest no kill dog rescue in the country. the palm beach lana coke -- colocation, palm beach county, 750 dogs, we are overflowing. >> since that interviewed aird, $600,000 were raised from the shelter, the big dog ranch rescue.

it's a good place to send your money. she joins us now. thank you for coming on. i hope that what you are seeing and the response to that segment is a deep love of animals who are, in some ways, the weakest among us. a measure of our decency what we do. it's a measure of the fact that americans still love animals. >> tucker, we can't thank you enough for airing this story. it has helped us with your extremely generous dog loving viewers. it's going to allow us to save his own anymore. currently about 900 dogs between long beach county on the alabama which all need medical care.

the place is starting off our new year in a great way, and it's heartwarming to me to see how many people have reached out to help. many dogs will be loved and have a chance at a wonderful new home. >> it's meaningful that you are under no kill shelter. about judgment, there a lot of shelters, but i think people care about a shelter that is about dogs and keeping them alive. >> there are so many dogs still being surrendered because of inflation, the high cost of rent rent, fuel, groceries. shelters are so overcrowded, so the need for rescue, for us to grow and save more as at an

all-time high. we are just extremely grateful to all of you that join the cause, whether you donate, volunteer, adopt. thank you so very much for getting this out. people need to know. there's wonderful dogs out there that need homes. don't buy from a breeder. spay and neuter your pets. lots in this problem of dog homelessness. the dogs need us, and we are thankful for all of you. >> they love us unconditionally, we should love them back. great to see you. >> happy new year. thank you so much. >> all of you who we've interviewed over the years, which is a lot of people, one of the wisest, may be unexpected -- but it really stuck out, it was tony robinson. i shouldn't be surprised by that, because he's famously one of the most positive people in

the industry, amazing speaker. there is a reason he is famous if you listen to him. here's a clip >> you are telling me i failed because i didn't have the resources. resources are never the problem, a lack of resourcefulness is why you failed. the ultimate resources are the emotional states. if you are creative enough can you find the answer, yes or no? if you are determined enough, can you find the breakthrough? if you are passionate/loving enough, can you get someone to help you? if there is no way that you are committed, can you find the money even if you don't have it? i said that creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, love -- these are the ultimate human resources. when you get these resources, you can get any other resource on earth. >> we've never been to a tony robinson seminar. trusted that that man was

insightful, and it turned out to be true. on this new years, we thought we would ask tony robbins who would know -- what all of us can do in 2023 to improve ourselves deeply. tony robinson joins us. thank you for doing this. >> happy new year. >> i am sold on your insight into the human condition. what can all of us do to improve ourselves? >> i think the first thing you have to do is develop a compelling future. after three years of covid and -- all the lies we are told, and now we have young people today who say they don't want to have kids, because after all in 12 years, the world is going to end -- which is totally false. all these stories get stacks, you worry about inflation. we need a compelling future. that means anybody can -- they have a really compelling tomorrow and a way to get there. that's not affirmations, not

positive thinking. that's not sitting new year's resolutions. you need a plan. there's lots of things that we can't control. there is plenty that we can control in our minds and bodies. for life to get better, we have to get better. for things to change, we have to change. my focus is starting with your energy, for example. the program i started in covid, everyone stuck at home -- its travel, time, money. i'm doing one more this year, january 24th-28th. what i do is two hours a day at no charge, no money involved at all, your friends and family or by yourself, i walk you through the tools that make your 2023 effective. if you are exhausted and tired, you won't build a great business, you aren't going to push through difficult times. what are the emotions that we just alluded to -- if you are

having creativity and passion and decisiveness, that's different than if you've got the emotions feeling overwhelmed and stressed out when you see people are depressed. just saw today, but there was a new report out by the cdc that saw the 45% of high school students being interviewed said they were so depressed and disappointed in 2021 that they could not participate in normal activities. one in five said they considered suicide, 9% of those said they attempted suicide. that's how insane it's gotten. with your compelling future, need to shift our emotions, create the shift in our bodies. said "here's what you do: invest in yourself, no one can take it away." get stronger and better, even if the dollar goes down and its shackles. if you are the best lawyer, doctor, podcast or, whatever, you are going to do well. make sure you have a good time in your relationship.

have a good time with the ones you love at the end of your show, usually. the things we deal with there. it's so true. that's the safe harbor for all of this. what are you going to do in each of those areas? in all of those five days, people have a plan, not just excited about the future falsely or feeling overwhelmed or stressed by the future. they are starting the transformation. >> that is absolutely right. you have to have a slight picture of where you are going. then you can be excited about it. so wise. i'm not surprised, but i am grateful for that advice. thank you. >> going to become -- if they want to join us, they can go to becomeunshakable.com close web. there is no charge. we will have over 1 million people from around the world there. >> thank you. happy new year. >> thank you for having us on. happy new year.

>> you just heard tony robinson say that there's a lot of pressure on people not to have kids, the future is so scary, don't have kids." if you are getting that message every day constantly, we wanted to hear the other side. what's it like to have a really big family? she wants more. why does she want more kids. they will tell us after the break. who's looking? there is no time. they will kill you....but my daughter. mama.

♪ ♪ >> there's a lot of anti-child propaganda everywhere. it's just in the air. our treasury secretary decided she was our family planning secretary. she announced not long ago that if you don't like the economy, just have an abortion. >> i believing that -- i believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would be -- and would set women back dec decades. >> that's what you are seeing everywhere on social media. there are some people that aren't going along with it, finding joy and meaning in

having children. he's definitely one of them -- she is the mother of 12 children, says she wants even more children. what is she finding in children that janet yellen hasn't? we thought we would ask her. thank you for joining us. >> hello. >> why did you have so many children? >> when i first started having kids, i was really young. i think that when i started, i did not expect to be a large family mom. i didn't really plan for it. as i started having kids, i really liked seeing them together. i had a really rough childhood. i was really sad, really lonely. when i started having a bigger family, i was like "this is exactly what i needed, this is what i was missing."

it's not always perfect, but it's so awesome. it's awesome seeing everyone together. it's awesome birthdays and holidays. i love showing them how special they are to me. it's hard to explain. something about having a large family -- -- >> i love how you said twice seeing them together, their relationships with each other bringing you so much joy. it's not even about you, it's about them and each other. that's a cool observation. >> yes, and you are right -- like you said, i didn't have a lot of people when i was younger. i have one sister who wasn't around that much, so i don't have a lot of memories with anybody. i didn't want my kids to grow up without someone else. i had my first born and i waited

until i finished school to have a kid. she used to tell me when she was little that -- wished there were more between them because they are almost five years apart. i guess i took that to heart, and so i had several back-to-back. i didn't really expect to have some money, but the more i grew my family, the more i loved it, and the more i just accepted that i am a large family mom, and that's -- what i wanted to be. >> i love that. life is comp located in messy, families are complicated and messy. the joy is more than enough in return. how old are you? >> 37. >> you've done your part to repopulate the earth and make people happy. >> thank you.

>> one of the things we've learned in 2022 is it's hard to forecast the future. you don't know what's going to happen. >> that was -- the case for a lot of people over midterm elections. i guess that's bad. we think it is, but it's probably also a chance to learn. a perspective on what we learned, next.

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facility exploded -- which contributed to the high number of deaths. thousands are paying their final respects to the brazilian soccer great pere. there will be -- and his town for his funeral tomorrow. long battle with cancer. he won three world cups and helped popularize soccer in the u.s. back to the "tucker carlson tonight" spe special. ♪ ♪ >> of the midterm elections were a crushing disappointment for conservatives and anyone who says that "this isn't right." we aren't sure what happens, but pretty sure we can learn from what happened anyway. that was the speech given recently. >> the midterm elections taught me a number of new things.

i should preface the story of what i've learned by telling you that you never learn anything except through pain and humiliation. i wish that weren't true. unfortunately, no one has put me in charge of the laws of nature, so that is the law and it is unchangeable, but you never learn anything from succeeding. i have never learned anything from succeeding in getting what i want. i have only learn from failure and particularly from humiliation. the midterm elections were a grave disappointment to every normal person, but particularly to me because i got them so completely wrong. have never gotten anything more wrong in my life. people are getting more poor, the country is getting more chaotic. in a normal system, the party in charge of deciding what we do next -- they aren't even promising to make your life better. they aren't even pretending.

"castrate children, okay." a war that we have nothing to do with. there is no way a party -- it's not even up for debate. they are going to be destroyed because they are not even trying, and then they win. my mind was blown. we don't know what the future holds. not to be morbid, but we can all get hit by a bus on the way out of this building. we probably won't be, but we could be. that is a truth that we live with every day and if we are wise we won't forget it. we don't know what's coming. we control the moment we are living in now, and barely even that. we have less power than we think. we can't even care -- cure male pattern baldness.

hair at the top of our heads. to tell ourselves that we've got it all figured out, we know it's going to happen, we are lying to ourselves, said out loud that we are lying to others and misleading them. we should start with the knowledge of our own limitations. we are limited. that is the beginning of wisdom. if you will look back, you are honest at your life, one of those sad things that happens, they are real for everybody, if you are honest, you will see that it is only out of those that happiness grew, that there was a foundation for something better, that all wisdom is accrued during those moments, but in the victory you lose a little bit. that's always true. thankfully, the flip side is true. i am completely over my brief flirtation with pretending to predict the future. not going to read your poems. i have no idea what's coming. but, i am totally certain in my heart, and i mean it, that when

i look back in this moment and if you are not even conservative, you just think what's going on is really wrong, and really destructive to the country you love and dangerous for children and grandchildren in future generations -- playful you will look back on this moment of despair and confusion are, what has happened no one knows. it's bad. we don't know how or why. we will look back on this as the beginning of clarity. he will this is the beginning of what you can understand -- and changing for the better. suffering causes growth. it's true now. if you go on tiktok, you may have concerns about the state of the american economy. there are white-collar employees marketing majors from davidson filming themselves at work and it turns out they don't do a l

lot. they take a lot of breaks. we aren't being mean. these are their words, twitter employees in san francisco. >> welcome to it day in my life as a twitter employee. this past week, went to sf for a first time at a twitter office, badged in. it took a moment to soak in everything. started my morning off with -- then i had a meeting. quickly scheduled one of these rooms, which were so cool, they are literally noise canceling. got ready for brunch. look how delicious this food looks. i was so overwhelmed. made my way down to this log cabin area. i don't know what this is, but it's really cool. just kind of unwind a bit. also, found this really cool meditation room. >> mike rowe has spent his life reporting on work and working.

he saw that segment, reached out, and said that it's more important than ever to show the fact that a lot of americans are doing real work. he's got a whole sure about this called "dirty jobs" and joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. when we did that segment, i thought of you banging out that script the whole time. this is the opposite of the kind of actual work that mike rowe has dedicated his life to telling the rest of us about. >> you didn't tell me you were going to do that segment. had i known, i would have insisted on following it up with something. thank you for the chance to do that now. let me just say, i can't really speak for anybody but me, but i would bet big that millions and millions of people jumped out of their chairs, screamed words that we can't repeat on your program as a result of watching what you show them. again, it's not about being mean. our relationship with work, the

definition of what a good job is, that something that we can control. you are right. betrayals of work shift. i think part of the reason the dirty jobs has been on the air for so many years, we are the antidote -- we go to places where there is no meditation room. there is no five-star breakfast to start the day. there is the baghouse and the asphalt plant. just example after example, 350 jobs we have done so far of people who are still doing things that look like work. we can talk about a ton of different things, but fundamentally, our country still needs to be reminded of -- forgive me, i'm going to say it: what real work looks like. >> it's interesting, what you are calling real work is -- the

work that people stop doing, we would all pay for it immediately. you would die in a lot of cases. this is the actual indispensable work. >> and it makes us angry to be reminded of that. we don't like the idea that we are reliant and dependent on such a small and marginalized chunk of our workforce. this episode is about good news, so let me give you some. mike rowe works, my foundation, founded -- 15 years ago. based on the last however many years, we've raised over $6 million in scholarships. we are awarded that money to over 1500 people who are welding, steam fitting, pipe fitting, plumbing. they are thriving again and again. you see that it still possible to achieve something that looks like prosperity if you master a

skill that is in demand. a shameless plug. we are going to do it again. tapping the country on the shoulder as you have done, and reminding them that real jobs still exist, 11 million of them are out there. the opportunities are everything. don't let anybody tell you otherwise. >> i love what you said about these being marginal. that is exactly right. the guys who look at asphalt plants to make it possible for us to travel are marginalized. shouldn't be the case, and can do everything we are doing to change that. what is the key to happiness? since this is a show about happiness, we thought we would get closer to that. we are about to speak to a man who was unhappy as a young man and is happy now. joins us after the break.

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anything, but what is the key to happiness? we thought we would ask someone who has learned that. he was very unhappy as a young man. he is happy now. what did he learn that made the difference? the author of a couple of fantastic books. they join us now to explain the roots of happiness. great to see you. i love your story because you were so desperately unhappy, and now, you have a lightness about you that suggests you are not. what made the difference for you? >> a lot of factors. i would say to everyone listening and watching, think about anything you've ever achieved that you are proud of in your life, whether it's starting a business, being a good parents, learning to play the guitar, whatever you have achieved that makes you happy. that thing you are proud of required a huge amount of sustained focus and attention.

had to really concentrate on it. a huge crisis of focus and attention. when your ability to focus and pay attention breaks down, your ability to -- goals breaks down, solve problems breaks down. it's happened to so many people who are watching. at the moment, the average american office worker -- focuses on only one task for only 3 minutes. for every child identified with attention problems when i was six years old, 100 children have been identified. one of the key factors that is making people so unhappy is that we cannot focus, cannot pay attention. i will go on a big journey all over the world. i interviewed over 200 -- and what i learned from them is that scientific evidence for 12 factors can make you attention -- or worsen. it's doing it to your kids, loads of factors that can make your attention worse.

a huge rise in recent years. my book is called "stolen focus." your focus has been stolen from you. the reason why this is an item for the happy show is that once we have understood those, we can begin to get our attention back for us and our kids. >> you can't be happy unless you are grounded. being grounded means being focused, being able to take something in and fully experience it. >> i think you are absolutely right. that's a good way of putting it. my professor said to me "there's one thing you've got to understand about the human brain more than anything else. you can only consciously think about one or two things at a time. that's it. it's a fundamental limitation of the human brain. we have fallen for mass delusion. the average teenager believes they can follow six or seven forms of media at the same time,

they study them. what they discover is always the same. can't do more than one thing at a time. what you do is you juggle very quickly between tasks. what did they just ask me? what's this message? what does it say on tv? what did you just ask me? it turns out that juggling, which we are all doing all the time is coming with a really big cost, the switch cost effect. it's having a profound effect on our attention and focus. i will give you an example. anyone can order this. the punch between 5 minutes and a whole day. i go through dozens of things like that that we can do to get our attention back. we do not have to live like this. we can get our attention back if we want to. >> if you live near a large body of water, you can just -- great to s see you tonight. >> great to see you tucker.

>> a child actor in 1994. he starred as the goalie in the film "mighty ducks." >> we are america's team. shouldn't we concentrate on hockey? >> might i suggest -- >> i agree. >> wow. that's not a bad idea. >> goldberg. >> yes. school will be optional. >> 29 years ago -- well since then, sean weiss has had major struggles with drug addiction, but there is good news tonight that we want to celebrate. sean weiss is about to hit three years of sobriety, and joins us now. thank you for coming on. in a country beset by addiction, to talk to someone who has spent three years and come as far as you have -- how did you do it? >> i had a lot of help. i went to residential treatment, and after that, i had been in sober living.

i basically do the 12-step program. that really changed my life. i started praying to god, trying to increase strength in my religion, god, prayer through religion. that was probably the biggest thing that it did for me. >> you hear that again and again. a lot of people who go to rehab, a lot of people who against her rehab, then died of drugs or alcohol. the ones who make it, as you have, seemed to be the ones who decide that they are going to appeal to a higher power. >> definitely. first of all, you have to get god to return you to your sanity. that is big. i don't know what else can do it for you if not a higher power. that was definitely the key for me. >> you are an actor in l.a. how hard was it for you to admit you needed a higher power? >> it was difficult to look

myself in the mirror when i was in residential treatment. it's not easy to admit you are insane. my thinking had become insane, my behavior had become insane. it's difficult to reconcile that, but that was a major turning point. it's impossible to remedy a problem when you don't know that it exists. >> what you are saying can be applied across all kinds of different areas, not just addiction, but yes. it is hard to admit you are insane. >> and i'm not so sure that i am sane now, but i'm better than the guy using drugs on the streets of los angeles. my message is no matter where you are in life, if you want to turn your life around, it's completely possible. literally, the 180 that i have made, for years, it is diff

difficult. once you set your mind and energy towards getting well, support is in abundance. people pull you out of the woodwork. that's another boom, the love and support of the fans that watch to those mighty ducks movies. that was really a blessing for me. i don't know where i would be without them. >> people would fail to see someone get better. there's nothing better than watching someone get better. there's nothing more inspiring. i appreciate you telling your story year. once again, great to see you. >> great to -- >> thank you. you just heard him say it. there's no getting better without acknowledging that you are not really in charge. too embarrassed to say it out loud. friend harris faulkner is not embarrassed. you watch harris faulkner on tv every day, and we hope that you do, wait until you hear her n next. we will be right back.

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♪ ♪ >> our friend harris faulkner has a new book on a topic that transcends politics and everything else. it's a book about prayer. it's called "faith still mountains." stories of the heel of prayer. the countries getting more secular, so you have to ask how it's doing. it is killing it. this book, it just topped "the new york times" best seller list. we want to talk to harris faulkner about it, the host of " --" joins us now. the book title suggests that prayer israel, it actually works, it's not just something you do to seem pious. is that the argument you were making? >> it is and i make it with evidence. the divine assignment on my life is something that i want -- i

don't prophesies. i'm not a pastor, i'm a journalist. my one assignment -- still moves mountains. i tell stories of other people's miracles in their lives, from some of the news stories i've covered. lee county alabama twister outbreak, 87-year-old woman survives the unthinkable inside of her prayer closet. all of the homes on her street race to the ground at their foundations, the tethered wind blown wet paint strips tornado driven prayer closet survives. the emts show up, and there she is praying mightily. your will to go on the life you blessed me with. so grateful i'm here. thank you for letting me sur survive. she prayed before, during, and after the storm. so many stories like this. tucker, you know from interviewing people all over the country, people always share with you the bad news, but wouldn't it be amazing if they could share the good news? that's what this is about, good news that we can use. we all need to connect with

something greater than ourselves to lift us up. we are a country that is falling away with its faith. gallup is studying this, pew research is studying this. by 2070, it a appears there be fewer than 50% majority judeo-christian in this country. look what's happening around us. people don't seem happier for it, don't seem more hopeful. faith still moves mountains. it's based on what the bible tells us about mustard seed faith, when everything is being torn apart, or when things are great all the time. i love what you were doing, the second day of the year. going to eat fewer doughnuts and work out more at the gym. why don't you make a permanent change in your life and -- god does not care what season you were in. when you lean into the lord, he leans into you, and whatever

your struggle is, your addiction, your depression, you can work through it without saying "by february 15th, if it's not fixed i give up." that's what we usually do with resolutions. this is a resolute promise from the lord to go forth with a better destiny than ever before. >> how are you living in the world that we both live in so forthright and unembarrassed to talk about this? how do you do that? >> i'm unapologetic and i was raised by a warrior. my dad was a compound pilot. he and my mother had seen pretty tough times. two wars. it wasn't clear when my dad was home. i really do believe that that warrior spirit and that forever prayer filled mom's belief got so deeply into me that as i grew up and connected with that, it

started to make me feel like i should tell the truth when people ask me "how do you get through tough times, tell stories like disasters?" if you see me, the news anchor, something bad is probably happening if i'm on scene. as a cover reporter, i pray. i always have. we know unthinkable things about our colleagues, years and years being in the business. why can't i share the foundational way get through things. why can't we be bold with our faith? you can't cancel us. this is the best time of the year. ever but he knows that we just got through christmas entering this new year. satan is skipping through the tulips, the satanic temple of illinois, just a few days ago. it's display. the city led it. right next to the menorah, the christmas tree come across.

they came out and did their "it's a free country --" you can do that, you don't get to cancel us though. don't move the christmas tree crossing the menorah. if you wanted to worship something that's not going to edify you and lift you up, go ahead. don't blame the rest of us if we are going to -- i am getting invited to mega-churches, which is so not the thing i thought i would ever be doing as a journalist, but we talk about being bold and our faith. this is the time to have an impenetrable weapon, a power, a spirituality in our hearts and at our fingertips. it's called prayer. be bold with god and it's amazing what can happen in your life. don't keep it a secret. don't hide your light. shine brightly. >> boy am i glad we had this conversation. bless you. thank you for saying what you said. >> thank you tucker great.

>> that put us in a much better mood on this new years. not all is lost. wonderful people making this still the greatest country there is. we will be back tomorrow night and every weeknight, 8:00 p.m. have the best night with the ones you love. >> welcome to the special edition of hannity. happy new year. going to highlight our best -- from the past few months. spoke to dr. phil about the out-of-control cancel culture. >> as we have documented night after night, censorship, silencing, boycotting cancel culture, it's all becoming all too common within our political social media