2026-10-09 Hr1

Uh, meanwhile, the, the political tornado continues.

Midterm elections coming right up, and it's getting kinda weird out there with some of the Democrat candidates.

I alluded to this yesterday when I was on the show, 'cause some of these stories were just starting to break, but they're, they're disappearing.

It's, it's almost like some weird supernatural mystery that the Democrat candidates are vanishing, one after the other, disappearing from the campaign trail as they come to the penultimate moment of the campaign, the home stretch, where normally you're out there, uh, playing your heart out, like, you know, last quarter at a football game.

This is it, and yet the, these men and women are just disappearing.

And the big one, of course, is James Talarico, the left-wing Democrat extremist candidate running in Texas.

The, the man has simply vanished.

He hasn't been seen in public for almost two weeks now, and his office is now saying he has no public events scheduled for the rest of the campaign.

He's just gone, and it's really odd for somebody to vanish like that, uh, in the final steps to a, a campaign.

Now, a lot of people, uh, commenting on this are starting to murmur of rumors that something has gone badly wrong for Talarico, anywhere from a big health crisis.

Officially, his campaign said he had the flu or something like that.

Uh, but it-- obviously, the flu doesn't make you disappear for weeks on end like this in the middle of a, a red-hot campaign if you even had the flu.

If you did and you, you just were, were in terrible shape, you could still make some statements, you know, find a way to stay out there in the public eye even if you couldn't travel.

So the flu explanation is starting to wear pretty thin.

The other hot rumor, and it's a rumor, you know, sometimes I hate to, to repeat these things 'cause it is just a rumor and don't have any solid info, is that something more serious has gone wrong, and he's receiving some kind of medical treatment, and that's why he's off the campaign trail.

Certainly hope that's not true, you know? We don't want anybody to get sick or get hurt or anything like that, you know, don't want to wish anything ill on anybody participating here.

It would be a terrible thing.

And you always wonder, uh, if you look at campaigns, if you get close to one, you have to start wondering, would, would that happen to me with my lousy luck? [laughs] You may be asking yourself.

If I'm running for some high office, I'm running for the Senate, I'm running for the president, something like that, biggest moment of my life, and why wouldn't I just get the flu with two weeks to go? 'Cause that's how my w- my luck works, you know? I get sick, and I wouldn't be able to, to participate.

I was pretty close to some of the campaigns, like when they were swinging through Florida back in, uh, two thousand twelve.

I got in there and got a chance to go to some of the events and get close to the candidates.

N- it's a brutal workload.

I mean, you're really pushing hard.

Even in primaries.

The primary's not over yet.

Uh, meanwhile, the, the political tornado continues.

Midterm elections coming right up, and it's getting kinda weird out there with some of the Democrat candidates.

I alluded to this yesterday when I was on the show, 'cause some of these stories were just starting to break, but they're, they're disappearing.

It's, it's almost like some weird supernatural mystery that the Democrat candidates are vanishing, one after the other, disappearing from the campaign trail as they come to the penultimate moment of the campaign, the home stretch, where normally you're out there, uh, playing your heart out, like, you know, last quarter at a football game.

This is it, and yet the, these men and women are just disappearing.

And the big one, of course, is James Talarico, the left-wing Democrat extremist candidate running in Texas.

The, the man has simply vanished.

He hasn't been seen in public for almost two weeks now, and his office is now saying he has no public events scheduled for the rest of the campaign.

He's just gone, and it's really odd for somebody to vanish like that, uh, in the final steps to a, a campaign.

Now, a lot of people, uh, commenting on this are starting to murmur of rumors that something has gone badly wrong for Talarico, anywhere from a big health crisis.

Officially, his campaign said he had the flu or something like that.

Uh, but it-- obviously, the flu doesn't make you disappear for weeks on end like this in the middle of a, a red-hot campaign if you even had the flu.

If you did and you, you just were, were in terrible shape, you could still make some statements, you know, find a way to stay out there in the public eye even if you couldn't travel.

So the flu explanation is starting to wear pretty thin.

The other hot rumor, and it's a rumor, you know, sometimes I hate to, to repeat these things 'cause it is just a rumor and don't have any solid info, is that something more serious has gone wrong, and he's receiving some kind of medical treatment, and that's why he's off the campaign trail.

Certainly hope that's not true, you know? We don't want anybody to get sick or get hurt or anything like that, you know, don't want to wish anything ill on anybody participating here.

It would be a terrible thing.

And you always wonder, uh, if you look at campaigns, if you get close to one, you have to start wondering, would, would that happen to me with my lousy luck? [laughs] You may be asking yourself.

If I'm running for some high office, I'm running for the Senate, I'm running for the president, something like that, biggest moment of my life, and why wouldn't I just get the flu with two weeks to go? 'Cause that's how my w- my luck works, you know? I get sick, and I wouldn't be able to, to participate.

I was pretty close to some of the campaigns, like when they were swinging through Florida back in, uh, two thousand twelve.

I got in there and got a chance to go to some of the events and get close to the candidates.

N- it's a brutal workload.

I mean, you're really pushing hard.

Even in primaries.

The primary's not over yet.