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Why Did James Talarico Disappear For 10 Days · The Matt Walsh Show

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Speaker 1: the special. But for now, Speaking of Russia, we need
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Speaker 1: to talk about the bizarre and maybe Soviet-style disappearance of
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Speaker 1: James Tallarico, the very creepy heretic who, if polls are
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Speaker 1: to be believed, is favored to become the first Democrat
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Speaker 1: senator from Texas in nearly four decades. So here's the timeline.
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Speaker 1: It gets a little confusing, so we'll just lay it out.
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Speaker 1: On September 26, which was a Saturday, Tallarico held a
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Speaker 1: news conference on gas prices and and the war in
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Speaker 1: Iran in Carrollton, Texas. He also attended the State Fair
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Speaker 1: of Texas later that day. Tallarico then reportedly attended a
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Speaker 1: fundraiser on September 28th in New York with Robert De Niro.
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Speaker 1: There's no clear evidence that he was there in person.
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Speaker 1: It's all based on claims from the campaign since it
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Speaker 1: was a private event. On September 30th, Tallarico was scheduled
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Speaker 1: to participate in an in-person interview with the CEO of
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Speaker 1: the United States Hispanic Business Council. But He attended via
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Speaker 1: Zoom instead, claiming he had the flu, even though, as
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Speaker 1: the moderator at the event pointed out, he looked fine.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 3: They will tell you that I was looking forward to
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Speaker 3: being down in the Valley. I've been talking about it
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Speaker 3: all week.
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Speaker 4: I was ready to, to eat my favorite quesadilla tacos.
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Speaker 4: But I was starting to feel kind of under the
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Speaker 4: weather a few days ago.
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Speaker 3: And, and last night it got so bad that I
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Speaker 3: went to the urgent care here in Dallas and, and
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Speaker 3: I was diagnosed with the flu. And so I'm running
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Speaker 3: a fever and I'm, I'm my most contagious disease.
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Speaker 5: Right now.
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Speaker 3: And I guess I've been shaking too many hands on
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Speaker 3: the campaign trail. And so I want to keep everybody safe.
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Speaker 3: And if I was passing on this illness to somebody
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Speaker 3: and got someone's grandmother or someone's baby sick, I couldn't
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Speaker 3: live with myself. So I thought the best thing to
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Speaker 3: do was to Put safety first and put everyone's health first.
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Speaker 3: So thank you, Javier. Thank you to your team for
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Speaker 3: being so flexible. And thank you all for making the
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Speaker 3: technology work so we can still have this really important
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Speaker 3: conversation that I've been looking forward to.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're delighted to have you, James. By the way,
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Speaker 2: you look a hell.
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Speaker 5: Of a lot better.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I feel better, but I appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: You cleaned up good.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So we'll leave aside the fact that it is interesting
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Speaker 1: that he went to a fundraiser in New York with Robert.
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Speaker 2: De Niro, and then he's speaking to the Hispanic Business Council.
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Speaker 1: So that kind of shows you his priorities, what he's
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Speaker 1: worried about as a Democrat senator, senatorial candidate.
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Speaker 2: No surprise there. But anyway, make a mental note.
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Speaker 1: Of how he said he went to urgent care in Dallas,
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Speaker 1: because that's going to be important in a second as
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Speaker 1: we are trying to solve this puzzle. But first, Putting
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Speaker 1: aside the question of his health, it needs to be
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Speaker 1: said that this has to be one of the most
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Speaker 1: patronizing and phony candidates to ever run for office in
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Speaker 1: this country, which is obviously really saying something. But just
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Speaker 1: by looking at him, you can tell that if he
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Speaker 1: thought it would help him win this race, Jim Salarico
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Speaker 1: would not hesitate to sacrifice your elderly grandmother to the gods,
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Speaker 1: Aztec style. Like, no one's buying the idea that this
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Speaker 1: guy made the decision out of the goodness of his
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Speaker 1: heart to self-quarantine just a couple of weeks before early
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Speaker 1: voting begins in one of the most important elections of
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Speaker 1: the year. We're supposed to believe that he couldn't live
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Speaker 1: with himself if he infected a random person with, what,
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Speaker 1: a head cold? And that's the other problem in the video.
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Speaker 1: In the video, he comes across as someone who's kind
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Speaker 1: of congested. Whatever fever he has is obviously seems a
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Speaker 1: pretty mild one. This event lasted an hour. And for
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Speaker 1: the entire thing, he was answering questions without any issues.
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Speaker 1: This is why he felt the need to explicitly state
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Speaker 1: that he's very sick and that he's trying to protect
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Speaker 1: innocent men, women, and children from his horrific illness. If
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Speaker 1: he didn't spell it out for everyone in that way,
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Speaker 1: nobody would have any idea that he's sick. Even the
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Speaker 1: moderator of the event seemed confused by the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: And then he claims he's at his most contagious during
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Speaker 1: that event, which means that he shouldn't be much sicker
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Speaker 1: than he currently is. That should be the point where
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Speaker 1: the fever kind of breaks, where things start going in
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Speaker 1: the other direction.
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Speaker 2: He starts improving.
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Speaker 1: And he kind of gets back to normal in a
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Speaker 1: couple of days. But that's not what happened. So after
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Speaker 1: this virtual event, Tallarico fell off the map completely. He
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Speaker 1: didn't appear at a single in-person campaign event from October
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Speaker 1: 1st to October 8th. He was scheduled to appear at
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Speaker 1: a fundraiser and a symposium, but he backed out of
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Speaker 1: both of those. And meanwhile, Tallarico's extended absence, as you'd expect,
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Speaker 1: was making his campaign volunteers nervous. On October 7th, one
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Speaker 1: of the leaders of Tallarico's volunteer operation, Alex Balderas, posted
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Speaker 1: the following message on Slack.
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Speaker 2: This was reported by the New York Post.
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Speaker 1: It says, quote, I suppose spokesman JT Ennis, who works
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Speaker 1: on the campaign, should come out and update on James' health.
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Speaker 1: Conservatives doubting he's sick, but conservatives leaving out the important part.
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Speaker 1: James is diabetic. That's why it's taking a while for recovery.
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Speaker 1: So basically conservatives and Paxton are being very immoral. In
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Speaker 1: a separate post, Balderas wrote, I think it'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: It's just conservatives blasting him. I'm just worried about him
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Speaker 1: losing momentum. Now, it's true that Tallarico has said that
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Speaker 1: he has type 1 diabetes, which was reportedly diagnosed when
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Speaker 1: he was running for the Texas House in 2018. He
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Speaker 1: claims he slept for 36 hours before going to the
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Speaker 1: emergency room. I have no idea if that story is
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Speaker 1: true or not, but even if we assume it's accurate,
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Speaker 1: it still doesn't come close to explaining what's happening right now.
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Speaker 1: First of all, as the volunteers noted, Tallarico's campaign hasn't
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Speaker 1: claimed that his absence is caused by his diabetes. And secondly,
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Speaker 1: even if his diabetes is making his recovery take a while,
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Speaker 1: That still doesn't explain why he can't appear at all,
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Speaker 1: even for a Zoom call. By the morning of October 9th,
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Speaker 1: after Tallarico had been missing for the entire month, the L.A.
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Speaker 1: mayoral candidate, Spencer Pratt, posted the following message on social media. Quote,
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Speaker 1: my sources are telling me Tallarico is in a mental
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Speaker 1: health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events and
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Speaker 1: the vital homestretch of the campaign. If this is true,
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Speaker 1: this is actually a time to pray for Tallarico. As
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Speaker 1: much as I don't want Tallarico anywhere near government, I
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Speaker 1: also don't want to wish him harm and no political
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Speaker 1: office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are
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Speaker 1: at fault for this. They pushed him to be something
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Speaker 1: he isn't and it didn't work. I'm praying that this
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Speaker 1: isn't true and he's okay. You want to win these
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Speaker 1: fights in the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of
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Speaker 1: poor health. Several other reporters, including Sarah Gonzalez at The Blaze,
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Speaker 1: had posted messages suggesting they were working on a similar scoop. Gonzalez,
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Speaker 1: for example, wrote, I've received unverified information on James Tallarico's whereabouts.
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Speaker 1: If true, it will end his campaign. Within hours of
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Speaker 1: Pratt's post, by the afternoon of October 9th, Tallarico's campaign
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Speaker 1: responded to all of this speculation. The campaign posted this
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Speaker 1: footage from the Austin City Limits, the music festival in Texas,
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Speaker 1: showing Tallarico posing for a photo with some supporters. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, he looks normal, basically, as normal as he
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Speaker 1: can look for a weird freak.
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Speaker 2: Such as he is.
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Speaker 1: This is nine days after the Zoom conference and 13
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Speaker 1: days since his last documented in-person appearance in public. And
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Speaker 1: instead of making any kind of statement or formal appearance,
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Speaker 1: you know, we get this footage here. But the mystery
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Speaker 1: was not resolved. On October 10th, Caroline Wren, who's a
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Speaker 1: prominent Republican operative, posted the following information on social media.
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Speaker 1: It says, quote, What are the chances that a private
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Speaker 1: plane took off from Austin and flew to tiny Hamilton
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Speaker 1: Airport in Ohio, which is 20 minutes from the Lindner Center,
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Speaker 1: a private inpatient mental health treatment facility, and then turned
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Speaker 1: around and flew back to Austin, landing yesterday morning at 10.24 a.m.,
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Speaker 1: right before James Tallarico magically reappears at the Austin City
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Speaker 1: Limits Music Festival that afternoon. Lindner Center also happens to
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Speaker 1: be the same facility that Tallarico's good friend and Harris
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Speaker 1: County Judge Lena Hidalgo visited. spent seven weeks in when
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Speaker 1: she had a mental breakdown three years ago. Sarah Gonzalez
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Speaker 1: reposted this reporting saying, quote, evidence is growing stronger by
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Speaker 1: the day that my sources were correct and Tallarico was
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Speaker 1: in a mental health facility. Two days ago on the
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Speaker 1: evening of October 10th, the investigative journalist Nick Sorter and
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Speaker 1: an associate named Ryan Amaker decided to call the facility,
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Speaker 1: the Lindner Center, directly to see what they could find out. Now,
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Speaker 1: under HIPAA laws, which protect patient privacy, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people assume you can't do this. After all, HIPAA is
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Speaker 1: supposedly the reason we're not allowed to know anything about
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Speaker 1: the medications that mass shooters were taking. It's a privacy
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Speaker 1: law so powerful that it blocks the public from learning
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Speaker 1: relevant information about mass murderers even after they're dead. But actually,
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Speaker 1: when it's not being used to protect mass shooters, HIPAA
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Speaker 1: is pretty flimsy. You know, nothing prevents a reporter from
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Speaker 1: calling a mental health facility and asking whether a specific
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Speaker 1: patient has been discharged because HIPAA only applies to medical
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Speaker 1: providers and HIPAA also doesn't prevent the mental health facility
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Speaker 1: from answering the question. Believe it or not, that's the
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Speaker 1: way the law works. According to HHS guidelines, the fact
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Speaker 1: that a patient has been treated and released can be
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Speaker 1: considered directory information. So the hospital isn't required to keep
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Speaker 1: it confidential unless the patient specifies beforehand that he wants
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Speaker 1: it to be confidential. So under federal law, the hospital
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Speaker 1: or mental health facility can disclose this information to anyone
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Speaker 1: who asks, whether or not the person is related to
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Speaker 1: the patient. As long as you ask for a specific
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Speaker 1: patient by name, the hospital can tell you, it might not,
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Speaker 1: but it can tell you whether he was discharged and
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Speaker 1: if applicable, what his condition is, stable, critical, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: This is how, when someone prominent gets injured, the media
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Speaker 1: is able to report on their condition. So with this
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Speaker 1: law in mind, Sorter and Amaker called the Lindner Center
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Speaker 1: near Cincinnati, Ohio, and asked about the status of James Tallarico.
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Speaker 1: They recorded the phone call on the night of October 10th,
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Speaker 1: and this call went all over the internet. Elon Musk
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Speaker 1: and millions of others responded to it, so it was
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Speaker 1: all over the place. Millions and millions of views and listens.
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Speaker 1: And here it is.
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Speaker 6: Okay, so nothing for James Tallarico?
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Speaker 5: Yes, it looks, well, this is what it's today. It
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Speaker 5: looks like he was just discharged this evening. That's why
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Speaker 5: I don't have it.
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Speaker 6: Oh, he was discharged then?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 6: And this is the Hope Blender?
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Speaker 5: They should be.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: And let me make sure I have it right.
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Speaker 6: This is Hope Blender?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 2: Okay. And you're in Hamilton, Ohio?
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Speaker 5: No, we're not in Hamilton.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 5: We're in Mason.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 6: So that's why he's not on the system.
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Speaker 2: He's in recent. Okay.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the Tallarico campaign has denied that this call
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Speaker 1: has anything to do with Tallarico, and they're saying it's
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Speaker 1: a deranged conspiracy theory to suggest that he was shipped
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Speaker 1: away to any kind of mental health facility. And to
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Speaker 1: be fair, it's very possible that this call isn't what
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Speaker 1: it seems like. There are obvious red flags. First of all,
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Speaker 1: the woman at the Lindner Center clearly says that Tallarico
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Speaker 1: was discharged that same day, October 10th. But if that's true,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense with the timeline, because Tallarico was
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Speaker 1: spotted at the music festival on October 9th.
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Speaker 2: So that's a big problem.
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Speaker 1: And just by itself, that means we can't take the
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Speaker 1: call as definitive proof of anything. And secondly, we don't
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Speaker 1: have the full unedited phone call. And that's a huge
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Speaker 1: asterisk because it's possible this whole conversation was a miscommunication.
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Speaker 1: Even from this excerpt, it sounds like the woman is
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Speaker 1: implying that she can't find Tallarico in the system and
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Speaker 1: that by inference, that means he must have been discharged recently.
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Speaker 1: But she could have been basing that inference on the
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Speaker 1: statements that a mocker was making in that call, which
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Speaker 1: we can't hear. Indeed, according to the bulwark, to the
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Speaker 1: extent that you can trust them, quote, which isn't very much,
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Speaker 1: but this is what they say. We obtained the full
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Speaker 1: six-minute audio of the Lindner recording. The employee there repeatedly
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Speaker 1: denied anyone named James Tallarico was in her system at all.
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Speaker 1: Only towards the end did she say someone.
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Speaker 2: Had checked out that day.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so it sounds like this woman at the facility
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Speaker 1: maybe was browbeaten into claiming Tallarico was there. And for
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Speaker 1: his part, a mocker posted an earlier call that he
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Speaker 1: had made to the facility, which makes a couple of
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Speaker 1: things more clear. First, Amaker lied and claimed that he
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Speaker 1: was Tallarico's relative. And secondly, the hospital, maybe to comply
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Speaker 1: with state law, does have more stringent privacy standards than
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Speaker 1: HIPAA alone requires. And in particular, they ask for some
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Speaker 1: kind of code before they're willing to disclose any information
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Speaker 1: about patients.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 5: Lender Center of Hope to Span.
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Speaker 6: I'm trying to reach my cousin, James. I don't know
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Speaker 6: if he's checked out yet, but I was going to
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Speaker 6: send him a letter in the mail. I don't know
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Speaker 6: if he's still there. He told me he was going
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Speaker 6: to go there last week, but I just don't know
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Speaker 6: if I can send it to him yet or still
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Speaker 6: can send it.
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Speaker 5: Do you have a code?
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Speaker 2: A what?
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Speaker 5: A code. I can't give you any information without a code. Oh, no.
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Speaker 5: You should have had... Oh, he didn't give me a code.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Well, I really can't give you any information.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Well, if I send it to him, I guess if
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Speaker 6: he's not there, will it get bounced?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you send it.
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Speaker 5: To him, he would get it at home if he's
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Speaker 5: gone home.
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Speaker 6: Well, if he's there, he'll get it. But I'm saying
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Speaker 6: if he's still not, I don't know if he's still
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Speaker 6: there or not. Will it get sent back to me?
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Speaker 5: It should be, yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: That's all right.
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Speaker 9: Bye.
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Speaker 3: Bye.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So as for how Amaker eventually got this code, he
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Speaker 1: claims he eventually just made up a four-digit code and
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Speaker 1: they accepted it. So is that how it works? They
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Speaker 1: ask for a code. You can just say anything and
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Speaker 1: that's fine. The code is any four numbers at all. OK,
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Speaker 1: so there are a lot of unanswered questions here. And
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Speaker 1: everyone involved has an incentive to lie about where Tallarico
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Speaker 1: really was. Now, it's one of those kinds of situations.
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Speaker 1: Late last night, the Lindner Center put out the following
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Speaker 1: statement after deflecting questions about Tallarico all day. They said, quote,
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Speaker 1: Representative James Tallarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center
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Speaker 1: of Hope. Okay, so that's a pretty definitive statement. For
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Speaker 1: his part, Tallarico then responded to this post from the
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Speaker 1: facility saying he's never even been to Ohio.
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Speaker 2: So a couple of things about this.
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Speaker 1: Number one, it's very possible Tallarico and his campaign are
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Speaker 1: hiding something. We'll talk about that in a second. We
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Speaker 1: do have to concede that as for the mental health
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Speaker 1: institution in Ohio, this looks an awful lot like a
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Speaker 1: fraudulent story that was planted by GOP operatives. Maybe they
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Speaker 1: were right directionally, as people like to say. There are
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Speaker 1: reasons to think that there's something strange going on here,
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Speaker 1: but on the facts that were alleged in this particular case,
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Speaker 1: this seems to be a massive overreach by a lot
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Speaker 1: vote early. Go to gopvotes.org today, paid for by SLF PAC,
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Speaker 1: not authorized by any candidate or candidates' committee. What we
18:15
Speaker 1: can say with certainty is that it's extremely unusual for
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Speaker 1: a candidate who at all appearances was not seriously ill
18:22
Speaker 1: to disappear from the campaign trail at a pivotal moment
18:25
Speaker 1: for nearly two weeks. Yesterday, Tallarico finally appeared for an
18:29
Speaker 1: interview with a local news station to explain what happened,
18:32
Speaker 1: his version of it. And he didn't really help matters,
18:36
Speaker 1: I would say.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 10: You were off the campaign for more than a week,
18:40
Speaker 10: roughly nine days, I believe. Your campaign said you had
18:43
Speaker 10: the flu.
18:43
Speaker 2: What happened?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I got the flu, and I'm feeling much better,
18:47
Speaker 11: and I'm glad I had a chance to recover. You know,
18:49
Speaker 11: if you don't take the opportunity to get well, sometimes
18:52
Speaker 11: you can get even sicker, and so I'm glad we
18:55
Speaker 11: made the decision to just take the week, get better,
18:57
Speaker 11: and now I'm glad to be back on the trail.
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Speaker 10: You've talked about how you're a diabetic, and that when
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Speaker 10: diabetics get the flu, it can get really bad. How
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Speaker 10: bad was it for somebody who wants to know, is
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Speaker 10: this just like in bed rest or did you ever
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Speaker 10: have to go to a doctor or a hospital?
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Speaker 11: I just went to my primary care physician, but it
19:17
Speaker 11: wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu.
19:22
Speaker 11: And so I was in bed and drinking lots of liquids. Unfortunately,
19:25
Speaker 11: the campaign made me work from home, so I didn't
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Speaker 11: even get full days off. But I didn't want to
19:30
Speaker 11: be out on the trail and didn't want to get
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Speaker 11: anyone else sick. It's important, I think, for leaders to
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Speaker 11: be responsible in these moments. And I'm glad to be back,
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Speaker 11: feeling much better.
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Speaker 10: I want to get your response because the internet was...
19:40
Speaker 10: The internet's doing its thing. The internet was invested in
19:44
Speaker 10: your outcome, right?
19:44
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
19:45
Speaker 11: I'm sure it's because they care so much about me.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, it's because you're clearly lying and you people
19:52
Speaker 1: lie about everything. And everything about this interview, his demeanor
19:56
Speaker 1: and his answers makes it seem more likely that he's
19:59
Speaker 1: lying about something.
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Speaker 2: He looks perfectly healthy, first of all.
20:03
Speaker 1: If you just spent two weeks battling the flu, an
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Speaker 1: illness that left you bedridden, unable to campaign for the
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Speaker 1: most important election of your life, or even speak on
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Speaker 1: a Zoom call, then you simply don't look this healthy
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Speaker 1: and normal when you go out in public.
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Speaker 2: His weight hasn't changed at all. It's bizarre. And it
20:20
Speaker 2: gets worse.
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Speaker 1: He's now admitting on the record that he didn't suffer
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Speaker 1: some kind of severe diabetic complication or even a particularly
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Speaker 1: unusual bout of the flu. And most importantly, he contradicts
20:31
Speaker 1: what he said during that Zoom meeting two weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: Because remember, he said in the Zoom meeting that he
20:37
Speaker 1: went to urgent care in Dallas and when his symptoms
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Speaker 1: became severe. But in this interview, he said he went
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Speaker 1: to his primary care doctor. So let's play that side
20:44
Speaker 1: by side here.
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Speaker 3: And last night, it got so bad that I went
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Speaker 3: to the urgent care here in Dallas.
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Speaker 2: And I was diagnosed with the flu.
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Speaker 10: How bad was it for somebody who wants to know,
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Speaker 10: is this just like in bed rest, or did you
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Speaker 10: ever have to go to a doctor or a hospital?
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Speaker 11: I just went to my primary care physician, but it
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Speaker 11: wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So this is the kind of contradiction that by itself
21:11
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean much. People make mistakes, you know, saying
21:16
Speaker 1: primary care and then saying urgent care and then saying
21:18
Speaker 1: primary care is not that it's a contradiction. It's not
21:21
Speaker 1: that glaring that someone couldn't have just been mistaken, but
21:25
Speaker 1: when you combine it with everything else, including how utterly
21:28
Speaker 1: bizarre his disappearance was and how he's acting now, it
21:31
Speaker 1: seems more significant. And, and also the, you know, look,
21:36
Speaker 1: Rumors themselves don't prove anything. There could be false rumors.
21:40
Speaker 1: But someone disappears from the campaign and then there's this
21:44
Speaker 1: rumor spreading that they're having some kind of mental health crisis.
21:49
Speaker 1: Very often, that doesn't come from nowhere. Sometimes rumors could
21:53
Speaker 1: just be invented out of nowhere. But the fact that
21:56
Speaker 1: that rumor is spreading in the first place is kind
21:58
Speaker 1: of an oddly specific thing, which makes you curious. And
22:03
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that James Tallarico is a sociopathic liar,
22:06
Speaker 1: and it's a grave indictment of our country that he's
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Speaker 1: anywhere near getting elected to the U.S.
22:11
Speaker 4: Senate.
22:11
Speaker 1: And also, we know that the Democrat Party has a
22:15
Speaker 1: long history and a recent history of lying about the.
22:22
Speaker 2: Health situation of candidates in really important elections.
22:28
Speaker 1: Most obviously, Joe Biden. Fetterman is another example. So they
22:33
Speaker 1: do this and they've done it very recently. They've done
22:35
Speaker 1: it in very high stakes situations. They told very brazen
22:38
Speaker 1: lies about someone's health status. And so that also gets
22:42
Speaker 1: factored in here. Now, whether or not he spent the
22:45
Speaker 1: last week in an asylum, just based on his public statements,
22:48
Speaker 1: the guy, even aside from that, we already know should
22:51
Speaker 1: be institutionalized. He told Joe Rogan that the Annunciation supported
22:54
Speaker 1: his pro-abortion politics because God supposedly asked for Mary's consent.
23:01
Speaker 1: He thinks God is non-binary. He called racism a virus
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Speaker 1: that white people spread wherever we go. Maybe that's why
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Speaker 1: he went to urgent care and he left the campaign
23:14
Speaker 1: because he didn't want to spread the virus of racism.
23:16
Speaker 2: I don't know. It could be it.
23:17
Speaker 1: He could have had a bout of racism that flared
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Speaker 1: up and maybe that's what went on. He was also
23:22
Speaker 1: oddly specific about the number of genders he claims scientists
23:25
Speaker 1: have identified.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 12: I want us all to be aware of is that
23:31
Speaker 12: modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than
23:35
Speaker 12: two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which honestly,
23:39
Speaker 12: Representative Hefner surprised me too. Surprised me too, because I
23:44
Speaker 12: am not well-versed in this issue area. I'm not a scientist.
23:48
Speaker 7: I'm a politician.
23:49
Speaker 12: A lot worse than a scientist.
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Speaker 2: Not a scientist. Well, yeah, we could have guessed. Six genders.
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Speaker 1: So he's obviously erasing the other 40, the other 46
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Speaker 1: that I think, I thought we were up to 52.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It won't surprise you, given how strange this guy is,
24:10
Speaker 1: that a lot of his online support is fraudulent. This
24:13
Speaker 1: was the New York Times, an outlet that you'd think
24:15
Speaker 1: would be friendly to Tallarico. And nonetheless, they reported this, quote,
24:18
Speaker 1: the Times found dozens of accounts on TikTok that were
24:21
Speaker 1: paid $ 4 per 1,000 views to post positive clips about Mr.
24:26
Speaker 1: Tallarico and according to a job posting in online records
24:29
Speaker 1: of creators who accepted the job.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Tallarico's campaign said it was not involved in paying creators.
24:34
Speaker 1: The company, claiming responsibility for the payment's frontier media, could
24:38
Speaker 1: not be reached for comment. This is now a feature
24:41
Speaker 1: of American politics, and to be fair, it's happening on
24:46
Speaker 1: all sides to some degree. But this election cycle has
24:49
Speaker 1: involved a massive new influx in dark money, which is
24:52
Speaker 1: to say untraceable money from unknown donors. that's benefiting leftist
24:58
Speaker 1: radicals who want to destroy the country. This is from
25:00
Speaker 1: a report in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, quote,
25:03
Speaker 1: In Michigan this year, a new super PAC vowing to
25:06
Speaker 1: fight pro-Israel money chipped in more than half a million
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Speaker 1: dollars to help progressive Abdul Al-Sayed's Senate bid. Its funders,
25:15
Speaker 1: a crew of virtually unknown political donors, many of whom
25:18
Speaker 1: had never given to politics before last year, but have
25:21
Speaker 1: since donated up to a million dollars each.
25:23
Speaker 2: In New York, billionaire.
25:24
Speaker 1: Alex Soros cut checks directly to progressive politicians, including Representative
25:28
Speaker 1: Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Those
25:32
Speaker 1: donations are part of the millions of dollars that Soros
25:35
Speaker 1: and his father, George, plan to give to Democratic causes
25:38
Speaker 1: this year. In Philadelphia, nearly a million dollars in TV
25:41
Speaker 1: advertising paid for by outside groups is boosting Democratic socialist
25:45
Speaker 1: Chris Rabb, highlighting his endorsement from New York Representative Alexandria
25:50
Speaker 1: Ocasio-Cortez and his willingness to fight for Medicare for all.
25:54
Speaker 1: So we have no idea who they are, but some
25:57
Speaker 1: unknown donors are pumping $ 500, 000 into Abdul Al-Sayed's Senate campaign
26:03
Speaker 1: and other campaigns as well. And incidentally, Al-Sayed happens to
26:06
Speaker 1: be related to people with very close connections to the
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Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 8: Abdul Al-Sayed's candidacy for senator in Michigan concerns you?
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, it does. Why is that? Well, to begin with,
26:23
Speaker 7: I look at the connections that his father-in-law, Chukaku Taib,
26:26
Speaker 7: has to Brotherhood-linked groups. This includes being the president at
26:31
Speaker 7: one time of CARE Michigan, also his presence on the
26:34
Speaker 7: Islamic Society of North America Founders Committee, which is only
26:38
Speaker 7: for those most exclusively devoted to ISNA and provides a
26:42
Speaker 7: significant amount of funding. There are other known Brotherhood members
26:45
Speaker 7: on that committee. I would also look at El-Sayed's ties
26:50
Speaker 7: to a group called M-GAGE, which purports to be a
26:54
Speaker 7: Muslim sort of get-out-the-vote or candidate recruitment organization, but it
26:59
Speaker 7: has close ties to CARE. It was created by a
27:01
Speaker 7: former CARE member who at one time was on a
27:04
Speaker 7: terror watch list and was also a consultant to convicted
27:07
Speaker 7: terrorist Samuel Arian.
27:13
Speaker 8: Do you believe the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA,
27:17
Speaker 8: is an ongoing part of the Muslim Brotherhood network in
27:20
Speaker 8: the United States?
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I do. There were some HLF documents that
27:25
Speaker 7: reflected hesitation by the Brotherhood that they thought perhaps they
27:28
Speaker 7: were losing control.
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Speaker 1: Now, the extent the corporate press will touch this story,
27:35
Speaker 1: which isn't very much, they'll ask Syed a softball question
27:38
Speaker 1: so that.
27:39
Speaker 2: He can deny it.
27:40
Speaker 1: And they can pretend that they investigated the allegations and
27:43
Speaker 1: he's refuted them. So kind of just symbolically checking the box.
27:47
Speaker 1: And that's what NBC tried to do the other day.
27:49
Speaker 1: But it didn't go very well.
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Speaker 8: Watch.
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Speaker 9: For Michigan voters who are hearing those attacks against you,
27:58
Speaker 9: who are looking to separate fact from fiction, can you
28:01
Speaker 9: set the record straight about whether you or your family
28:04
Speaker 9: have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
28:06
Speaker 2: No, but let's talk about this.
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Speaker 9: No, you don't have any ties.
28:10
Speaker 3: No.
28:11
Speaker 9: And your family doesn't.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the kind of thing you don't want to butt.
28:20
Speaker 1: You don't want to put a butt after that. Do
28:21
Speaker 1: you have any ties to terrorist organizations? No, but it's
28:25
Speaker 1: always a bad sign when you have to do a no.
28:26
Speaker 2: But on that.
28:29
Speaker 1: And this is just basic. This is communications 101. If
28:32
Speaker 1: you're denying something, don't do the no but.
28:35
Speaker 2: Just no.
28:37
Speaker 1: If you need to put the but on it, then
28:38
Speaker 1: we've got a problem. So that was the fastest pivot
28:41
Speaker 1: that you'll see after the denial, if you can even
28:44
Speaker 1: call it a denial. It's the old mud or something
28:47
Speaker 1: and then move on and hope they don't notice strategy.
28:50
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to do damage control, it's not
28:52
Speaker 1: the best option. He did it so fast, the anchor
28:55
Speaker 1: woman had to go back and ask the question again. Now,
28:58
Speaker 1: is the Muslim Brotherhood funding this guy's campaign? We don't
29:03
Speaker 1: know for sure, but we do know that these donors
29:06
Speaker 1: clearly have the objective of destroying.
29:08
Speaker 2: The United States as we know it.
29:09
Speaker 1: That's the only reason that a Senate candidate is going
29:11
Speaker 1: to talk openly about our duty to open the borders
29:15
Speaker 1: right out in the open. doing this during a televised debate.
29:18
Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 5: Would refugees be a part of this plan?
29:22
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
29:23
Speaker 3: We as a country, I believe, owe it to the
29:26
Speaker 3: world to open our doors.
29:28
Speaker 7: And we're better because of it.
29:29
Speaker 1: So this guy is born to Egyptians. He spends his
29:34
Speaker 1: summers in Egypt. He claims he held Egyptian citizenship. His
29:38
Speaker 1: wife owns property in Dubai. He has ties to the
29:41
Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood. He's spoken positively about the Muslim Brotherhood. He
29:45
Speaker 1: mourned the death of Iran's supreme leaders a few months ago.
29:48
Speaker 1: And he's now lecturing Americans about their sacred duty to
29:52
Speaker 1: open the borders to let even more foreigners into the country.
29:56
Speaker 1: And he doesn't have anywhere near the charisma or the intelligence.
30:00
Speaker 1: that's necessary to sell this fraud to anyone. He's a
30:02
Speaker 1: dumpy foreigner who's telling us to our faces that he
30:06
Speaker 1: doesn't think America should exist as a country. And at
30:09
Speaker 1: the moment, he's favored to win the Senate race in Michigan.
30:13
Speaker 1: What's important to understand is that Syed and Tallarico, as
30:16
Speaker 1: unsettling and un-American and creepy as they are, are not
30:21
Speaker 1: remotely unusual, of course, by the current standards of the
30:23
Speaker 1: Democrat Party. In fact, they are highly representative of of
30:26
Speaker 1: the current crop of candidates on the left.
30:28
Speaker 2: They're very much in the mainstream. Here's Jocelyn Benson, for example.
30:33
Speaker 1: She's the former SPLC board member who, if the polls
30:36
Speaker 1: are accurate, is about to be the governor of the state.
30:39
Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 7: Benson, I just want to ask you one question. I'm
30:42
Speaker 7: going to ask Alyssa to recognize folks. But thanks, Rup.
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Speaker 9: Hi.
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Speaker 2: Secretary Benson.
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
30:48
Speaker 2: I think the record speaks for itself.
30:50
Speaker 4: Just weird.
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Speaker 12: You can't even take a question from a reporter who's
30:53
Speaker 12: not on her pre-approved list.
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Speaker 2: But more than that, just look at her mannerisms. Look
31:19
Speaker 2: at her face.
31:23
Speaker 1: She does about 10 different facial expressions randomly while she's
31:28
Speaker 1: listening to the guy. She looks like an actress in
31:33
Speaker 1: the trailer, looking in the mirror, practicing facial expressions before
31:37
Speaker 1: she goes to shoot a scene or something.
31:39
Speaker 2: But she's doing that.
31:40
Speaker 1: In front of everybody at a press conference. It's really strange.
31:45
Speaker 2: Tallarico has the same unnatural twitching motions. It's like uncanny.
31:50
Speaker 1: It's not simply these candidates are determined to undermine and
31:52
Speaker 1: demolish what's left of civilization. I mean, that's the real problem,
31:56
Speaker 1: but they're also just profoundly strange people. They look like animatronics.
32:02
Speaker 1: And you have to ask, where are they finding these people?
32:04
Speaker 1: What kind of person runs for office in the Democrat
32:06
Speaker 1: party today? It looks like based on what we're seeing
32:09
Speaker 1: that you need to find like an apex narcissist.
32:13
Speaker 2: You have to be severely.
32:14
Speaker 1: Damaged in some meaningful way to stand apart from a
32:18
Speaker 1: sea of very unwell, confused people and to win their vote.
32:24
Speaker 1: Maybe that explains it. And then the foreign money flows
32:27
Speaker 1: in to put these candidates over the top. So here's
32:29
Speaker 1: another example. This is a quote from William Lawrence, a
32:32
Speaker 1: Democrat and until recently DSA member who's running for a
32:36
Speaker 1: House seat in Michigan.
32:37
Speaker 2: Again, he's favored to win.
32:40
Speaker 1: He went on a podcast just two years ago in 2024,
32:44
Speaker 1: and here's what he said. This is reporting from the
32:45
Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon. Quote, Lawrence, in an episode on protecting
32:49
Speaker 1: our migrant neighbors, mused about the political tactics of left-wing
32:54
Speaker 1: reformers versus left-wing revolutionaries, siding decidedly with the latter. We
32:59
Speaker 1: are lacking for a framework that can make sense of
33:02
Speaker 1: how to be revolutionary in the sense of truly, truly
33:04
Speaker 1: wanting a world without borders and wanting to redistribute all
33:07
Speaker 1: the land and all the money. Lawrence also envisioned a
33:09
Speaker 1: humane society in which we would throw open the gates
33:13
Speaker 1: and welcome all of the migrants, the refugees, the asylum
33:15
Speaker 1: seekers from climate disasters and conflicts all around the world.
33:18
Speaker 1: Now you can go down the list. Troy Jackson in
33:22
Speaker 1: Maine has children with his cousin. Dan Osborne in Nebraska
33:27
Speaker 1: calls for a border wall. Our racism, Graham Platner, had
33:30
Speaker 1: to drop out. And it wasn't even the Nazi tattoo
33:33
Speaker 1: that did him in. Scott Weiner in California needs to
33:36
Speaker 1: have his hard drive checked.
33:37
Speaker 2: And on and on. These people are, in some.
33:40
Speaker 1: Ways, totally unserious clowns in that a real country where
33:46
Speaker 1: things are going reasonably well would never consider them, or
33:49
Speaker 1: at least they wouldn't be viable options. But the polls
33:52
Speaker 1: show that they're probably going to win. And if we're
33:56
Speaker 1: being honest, we can identify a number of reasons. Two
34:00
Speaker 1: primary ones jump out. One, the war in Iran, which
34:03
Speaker 1: was supposedly going to spark an internal revolution that never
34:06
Speaker 1: took place and high gas prices. which have made everything
34:10
Speaker 1: from transportation to the cost of groceries increase substantially in cost.
34:14
Speaker 1: Those are two big reasons. And because of that, these
34:17
Speaker 1: very unserious candidates have to be taken seriously because some
34:23
Speaker 1: of them will soon be in the United States Senate.
34:25
Speaker 1: And once they're in, they can very quickly transform this
34:29
Speaker 1: country in ways that for most people are unthinkable right.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: The reason we're making real history of communism, as I
34:36
Speaker 1: mentioned at the top, while we're making it free on
34:38
Speaker 1: YouTube on Friday, is that if you want to understand
34:41
Speaker 1: how leftists can seize power, even when their ideas are
34:44
Speaker 1: extremely unpopular and when they're just creepy, weird, disturbing people,
34:49
Speaker 1: then you need to become familiar with the Russian revolution. Now,
34:53
Speaker 1: at no point did the Bolsheviks win a national election
34:56
Speaker 1: in Russia. They never had the support of the majority
34:58
Speaker 1: of the population or anything close to it. But they
35:01
Speaker 1: rose to power anyway, because unlike the conservatives, they were
35:04
Speaker 1: willing to fight and fight dirty There were other reasons,
35:09
Speaker 1: which we talk about in the documentary, including a very
35:11
Speaker 1: unfortunate miscommunication that could have come straight out of a
35:13
Speaker 1: Coen Brothers movie called The Kornilov Affair, but that's the
35:17
Speaker 1: big one. And then shortly after the Bolshevik takeover, people
35:21
Speaker 1: were getting letters in the mail, giving them a date
35:23
Speaker 1: and time where they had to show up to the
35:25
Speaker 1: banks where they would be forced at gunpoint to empty
35:29
Speaker 1: out all their savings and hand their money over to
35:32
Speaker 1: the commissars. The government took everything. There was a mass exodus.
35:37
Speaker 1: Foreign investment went to zero. Soon there was starvation. Dissidents,
35:41
Speaker 1: including members of the church, were executed in the streets.
35:45
Speaker 1: And as this catastrophe unfolded, everyday Russians simply couldn't believe
35:48
Speaker 1: what was happening. They never thought their country would become
35:52
Speaker 1: a socialist hellscape, and by the time.
35:53
Speaker 2: They realized what had happened, it was too late.
35:57
Speaker 1: The Bolsheviks, who never won an actual election, again, ruled
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Speaker 1: for more than seven decades, killing millions of people in
36:04
Speaker 1: the process. The Real History of Communism is as much
36:08
Speaker 1: a documentary about what happened in Russia in the early
36:10
Speaker 1: 20th century as it is a warning about what could
36:14
Speaker 1: easily take place and in some ways is currently taking
36:17
Speaker 1: place in the United States, no matter how invincible we
36:21
Speaker 1: may think we are.
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Speaker 2: Again, it's out Friday.
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Speaker 1: It's probably the most important real history documentary we've done
36:27
Speaker 1: and probably the most interesting, especially at this particular moment,
36:31
Speaker 1: which is why you should watch it and share it.
36:33
Speaker 1: And remember that whatever happens in November, The Bolsheviks did
36:37
Speaker 1: not win at the ballot box.
36:38
Speaker 2: They never do.
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Speaker 1: They win when their opponents stop fighting, which is something that,
36:45
Speaker 1: especially given the current crop of Democrat candidates, we must
36:49
Speaker 1: never do.
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.