Former Fox News firebrand Tucker Carlson has tried to take his career to some strange and unexpected places. During an October 2025 appearance on "The Shawn Ryan Show," Carlson thought back to the time he tried to be a CIA agent and failed. Although he had aspired to join the federal agency as a college senior, he wasn't accepted because he had used cocaine within the last 12 months of submitting his application, which took him out of consideration.

After that rejection, Carlson's father, Richard, urged him to forge a career in journalism because "they [would] take anybody," per Columbia Journalism Review. And so, Carlson's career in the industry began. At one point in his journalistic career, he did a disastrous stint on "Dancing With The Stars." Unfortunately, it only took one

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