James Talarico
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4,239 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Jun
James Talarico’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I feel it in my bones that we're going to win this race and we're going to shock the world in the process.
I do.
I believe we're going to win.
Favorite few books.
Well, I actually, there was a whole court case involving my favorite book.
They were trying to ban books in Texas and I used my favorite book to prove a point in a committee hearing.
And that ended up being used by a judge, a federal judge to strike down the law.
And that favorite book is Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
Highly recommend Lonesome Dove.
It captures so much of what's beautiful and great about Texas.
Texas has gotten a bad rap, given the extremism and the corruption people have seen coming out of our state.
But if you want to know...
what Texas is all about, friendship and individualism and freedom and community, adventure, innovation, like all of that is in this one story.
So Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
And if I'm giving a second one,
a theological book by another Texan, Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers, which is all about how Christians should interact with government, with political power, and how we use nonviolence to achieve change.
It's not a lightning round.
I should go faster.
Lonesome Dove, Engaging the Powers.
Okay.
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