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Episode 5: Charlie's Hope · World of Gore

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  SPEAKER_02: The following podcast contains descriptions of violence, horror, child endangerment, and references to active shooter incidents.
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  SPEAKER_02: Listener discretion is advised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Log number five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Antoine de Rose recording.
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  SPEAKER_00: This will be old news for anyone who finds these tapes sometime down the line.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this week the news has been ablaze with one story: Charlie's Hope, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_00: This has become a national crisis that we haven't seen in years regarding a gore incident.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with the current amount of coverage, it seems silly to talk about the details, but I must remind myself that I have no way of knowing who listens to these recordings and when.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't assume that this isn't historical by the time you listen to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last week, a gore entered the building of Charlie's Hope Elementary.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the next four hours, it killed its way through the population, as the students and staff tried and mostly failed to escape.
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  SPEAKER_00: Staying hidden was the best that they could do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's very difficult to admit that the attacks at schools occur with a nerving regularity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last year, there were over fifty attacks that would be classified as possibly gore related.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's frankly embarrassing how often it happens and how numb we Americans have become to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go further, I'd like to play you part of a speech I recorded.
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  SPEAKER_01: In times like these, we must turn to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: That might seem like a silly notion to some, but I'm an old fashioned man.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know that he is the answer in all things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know he is watching over those beautiful children.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can only offer my thoughts and prayers.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Democrats would have you think that tighter regulations against weapons and more training to police officers is the answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: More taxes, but the only answer there has ever been is God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And to think we can fiddle with his plans, tragic though it might seem now, is still the height of arrogance.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I haven't brought it up yet, because, frankly, I'm disgusted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gores are the biggest problem in America.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are not secret incidents that happened in the shadows.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all know about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They make students do gore drills as often as fire drills, a typical office as a strategy for if a gore attack occurs in the building.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some places you have to take a test of the company's policy every six months.
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  SPEAKER_00: But despite it being the lingering fear in the back of our minds, the number of incidents have not decreased.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've only grown in scale and frequency.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the mid-1980s when the government finally made its statement about gores.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ronald Reagan gave a stirring speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never mind that the former president had to have known about the problem as early as 1981.
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  SPEAKER_00: It still took years before he made any official statement about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do not know where gores come from.
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  SPEAKER_00: We simply don't have the data to even begin to guess.
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  SPEAKER_00: But an extremely popular theory that began around this time was that these attacks were punishments from God for the sins that America had committed, that we were a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Gores were our fire and sulfur.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fact that the attacks began getting more mainstream attention around the same time as the AIDS epidemic coming into the news did not help that mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: The theory became immensely popular, to the point that even today there are those who are convinced of its validity, educated people, theoretically moral people, standing up with no proof, and certainly no shame, and declaring that Summer Camp wouldn't have been attacked if we got rid of all the homos.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe I used the word disgusted earlier, did I not?
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  SPEAKER_00: While Reagan never personally endorsed these statements, at least not publicly, most people believe he was at least sympathetic to the idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Personally?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if God is real or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if they are, I'd have to assume they had other things to care about besides who people are attracted to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I digress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get back to the topic at hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charlie's Hope Elementary was special.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because it was a fancy private school, not because the parents of the students were the wealthy elite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though I should mention that gore incidents involving such citizens are disturbingly rare.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it was special because unlike a lot of these incidents, the police responded to the nine one call very quickly, and within a half hour of the start of the attack, a massive parameter had been set up around the school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then no one went inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: The police simply waited.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not a single officer even attempted to get into the building to help the children.
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  SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't even allow terrified parents to go in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, a single mother, I believe her name was Rehina.
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  SPEAKER_00: She somehow made it past the blockade and broke into the school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rehina was different from the other parent at the school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her son had been admitted to Charlie's Hope on a special scholarship program.
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  SPEAKER_00: One that, ironically, many of the other parents tried to get stripped because of DEI bad nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hoped those same parents sent an apology letter to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: While inside, Rahina managed to kill the gore with a hatchet after a fierce fight and save the lives of her son and dozens of other students.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rahina didn't hesitate to go in, to risk it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then why did the police stay their ground?
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  SPEAKER_00: That has been the conversation dominating the news this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer is simpler than you want to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Police are trained to apprehend perceived criminals and protect property.
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  SPEAKER_00: They aren't equipped to handle something like a gore, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they all went in as a unit with a plan, they may have been able to do something.
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  SPEAKER_00: But law enforcement does not like to get involved in gore incidents.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the past, when we didn't fully know the extent of their power, many officers relished in the chance of tackling what they thought of as a colorful supervillain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it became clear that officers investigating gore incidents had a tendency to attract that very killer to their own homes, that is, to their families.
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  SPEAKER_00: Small wonder they don't want to get involved anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is widespread, and most policing agencies are only doing a token amount when it comes to gores.
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  SPEAKER_00: They wait them out, allow them to run their course, then pick up the pieces.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's safer that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might be asking, if that is so common amongst police, why was Charlie's hope so special?
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  SPEAKER_00: Since the 1980s, those with means have used every trick they could conceive of to protect themselves and their loved ones from potential gore attacks, high price protection teams, state of the art security systems, and clear bias from the police is where they put most of their effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the oddest aspects of the gores is that they don't attack the rich as much as you'd assume.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happens, but far more often the victims are working class.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, since Charlie's Hope was a fancy private school, the upper crust parents and their upper crust community were shocked that the police did not give them preferential treatment that they felt they were entitled to.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the first time in a while, the richest of American citizens have realized that they are just as vulnerable to these attacks as the unwashed masses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they are furious about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen this much attention on a single Gore incident in years, and I expect that the government will start making strides in anti-Gore policy that it hasn't bothered with in a very long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sad fact is that in this country, a young black man who is shot in his low income neighborhood, even if he was a bystander, will receive minimal attention from authorities if their families are lucky.
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  SPEAKER_00: If a wealthy CEO of a billion dollar company with a well documented problematic history were to be shot and killed, you can believe there will be a weeks long manhunt with the best and the brightest agencies working together to bring the perpetrator in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Replace the shootings with a nightmarish psychopath wearing a mask of human skin, and I'm afraid you get the same result.
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  SPEAKER_00: One more point before I wrap this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember Senator Hastings?
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  SPEAKER_00: When I confronted him after his speech regarding Townsend, I said something very specific to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told him that I hoped that he would lose his daughter in the gore attack, so I could send him my thoughts and prayers.
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  SPEAKER_00: So ended my time with the FBI.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't say something like that to a politician with deep ties to the director of the agency and expect to keep your job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't regret my words at the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regarding Charlie's hope, amongst the parents of the victims was a woman by the name of Rhonda Hastings, the ex-wife of Senator Hastings, who moved their only daughter to that affluent region of Texas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her name was Vanessa.
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  SPEAKER_00: The description of her death was brutal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I won't repeat it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I know that my words from back then didn't cause this tragedy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I uh I haven't been able to stop thinking about it ever since.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't been able to stop looking at the Hastings family photographs.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have no children of my own, and I will not pretend to know the full extent of the horrific impact of such a loss.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I don't believe that children being murdered is something we should ever become comfortable with, and we should be doing everything in our power to stop it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And frankly, if what it takes to make America actually act on that is simply because it happened to the richest and most connected of us, well, then we probably lost the fight long ago, long before the gores came.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thoughts and prayers, Senator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thoughts and prayers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Son of a bitch thinks he's funny.
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