The Adam Mockler Show - Watch Joe Rogan Realize TRUMP TRICKED HIM

Episode Date: July 19, 2025

Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network breaks down Texas Rep. James Talarico's viral masterclass on The Joe Rogan Experience. Talarico, a Christian pastor, powerfully pushes back on MAGA theocracy and delivers a moving, personal story about why he's a Democrat that left Rogan suggesting he should run for president. This is the blueprint for how Democrats can and should communicate. JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.bsky.social Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/Adammockler Contact me at: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And by the end of the episode, Joe Rogan was largely agreeing with Tallarico on a lot of his ideas. This tweet reads, Breaking, James Tallarico went on Joe Rogan and made the best case we've seen for why to be a Democrat. Every American needs to see this. It got over 1.1 million views on Twitter overnight from Democratic wins media, and it's raked

in tens of millions of more views across the internet on Joe Rogan show. He has a huge audience. And that's why this is so important. That's why it's important to have strong messengers out there who can make the case for why it's good to be a Democrat. While you can be a Christian who is not a theocrat or a Democrat who believes in just the betterment of humanity. James Taylor Rico was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2018. He represents District 52 and he's risen to fame because he is a pastor who uses his

Christianity to push back against the MAGA version of theocracy. So Joe Rogan has had a lot of right-wing guests on over and over and over because Joe Rogan has been sucked down this MAGA pipeline. For example, he's had MAGA commentator Matt Walsh on a show multiple times. Matt Walsh is a self-described Christian theocrat or theocratic fascist. He wants to impose his religious views on the rest of the country. So it's really terrifying when Joe Rogan platforms someone like that, like Matt Walsh, to tens of millions of people with no pushback. That is why I've been relentlessly making the argument that Democrats need to be going

into these spaces and making the arguments as to why it's good to vote blue, why Trump is incredibly corrupt, because if we're not getting in these spaces, nobody's going to hear it. Nobody's going to hear our message. This is actually a debate I've been having with you guys in the audience for a while. Some people in the audience think that it's not worth going on these shows, that we need to shut down MAGA, don't give them air, Joe Rogan should never be talked to. I think that is very short-sighted and not a good long-term political strategy.

Like genuinely, that is a very naive political strategy. I think having James Tallarico go on Joe Rogan's show, not just to convince Joe Rogan, but to talk to the tens of millions of people who listen to Joe Rogan is how democracy functions. So I'll quit yapping, let's start with this clip of James Tallarico describing how he's a Christian, but that being said, there is no more dangerous form of government than a theocracy. It is very important to have strong Christian leaders pushing back against this form of theocracy we see seeping into the mainstream.

So if you appreciate this video, drop a like, make sure you subscribe to the Adam Machler feed. YouTube sometimes unsubscribes people, there's weird glitches, so double check. Let's just start here. And again, this is very personal, given how important my faith is to me, but I'm a Christian and I think there is no more dangerous form of government than theocracy, because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God. Pete Slauson We haven't had any good examples of that in the past. Jared Larsen No. Pete Slauson There's not one that you go, well, that one worked out.

Jared Larsen Right. And so, again, this is people trying to use my religion to control people. Pete Slauson Yeah. Jared Larsen That's the name of the game and we're seeing that here. I mean, Texas is, I'm an eighth generation Texan, my family's been here since it was Mexico, we're seeing that here. I mean, Texas is, I'm an eighth generation Texan. My family's been here since it was Mexico. I love this state. But I've just seen people like Dunham Wilkes just take us in this far right culture war direction

at the expense of actual problems we need to solve. One of the bills that didn't pass last legislative session was a bill that would have provided funding for flood mitigation and emergency systems to get the word out when there's a flood. And we literally just saw the consequence of not passing that bill. Immediately saw the consequence of not passing that bill because Republicans were lunging on culture war issues and trying to weaponize institutions against blue states rather than

protecting red states. Let me remind you one more time why this is so important. As Democratic war issues and trying to weaponize institutions against blue states rather than protecting red states. Let me remind you one more time why this is so important. As Democratic wins media posted this and said every American needs to see this, it's the best case for why to be a Democrat, it got 1.1 million views. That clip of James Tallarico explaining the facts is getting millions of views across the internet on TikTok, on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's so important that we go out there and have these conversations. Again, you're not going to convince Joe Rogan in one split second, but there are millions of people watching who we call low propensity voters. That's not even a bad term, which just means you don't really pay attention much, you

don't really vote much, you're not really engaged in politics, but you are engaged in podcasts or you listen to cultural stuff So it's important to be reaching out to these low propensity voters and having these conversations When pete buddha judge goes on fox news It's not because he's trying to give air to magga or whatever. I hate when people say that they're like don't give air to magga By debating them guys magga has Both chambers of congress and the presidency. So when Pete Buttigieg is going on Fox News, he's not giving air to MAGA,

he's very clearly doing it to push back. How about this clip of James Tallarico being told by Joe Rogan he needs to run for president? Joe Rogan seems to be kind of being won over here. There is reason and good reasons to be disillusioned. I guess all I'm pushing back on is that second step of it's always going to be this way. Right. It doesn't have to be this way.

That is the key step. Right. That's because you need to run for president. We need someone who's actually a good person. Because the Democrats have very few candidates that are- Can I actually push back on that? Please. Because we were talking about how politics has become a religion Mm-hmm. This is one of the ways it does is people put all their faith in a politician No, because I saw I've seen it with Bernie

Yeah, I mean people and I like Bernie a whole lot, but some people treat him as if he's a messianic figure Well, because he's probably on the right people treat him as a Messiah in some ways like this is a problem One of the only ones that's been Remarkably consistent. I know I know and so but he's still a flawed human being right? I mean that's like we all are That's it's so rare. I know but my point is that should be praised but instead of like the the change is gonna come from your listeners Yes, not from me, right? I can be a part of that But I mean I if there's any hope I can give people, it's that the people in power, including the billionaire mega donors who basically run this whole thing,

and I can get more into that if you want. Please do. But they are very afraid. You know, this was a nice, respectful conversation. In this clip, James Tallarico actually gets the chance to describe how Republicans are suppressing the vote in Texas. I want to remind you Joe Rogan runs his studio out of Texas. He lives in Texas. I think that's part of the reason why he was so attracted to talking to James Talarico out of Texas. He even just said right there, maybe he should be president. Now this doesn't take away the fact that Joe Rogan ran a lot of defense from Aga and platform

them throughout the election cycle. But I just want to go back to what I was saying earlier. We can have a nuanced take and still say that this is somebody who James Tallarico should be talking to. If Pete Buttigieg went on Joe Rogan, we shouldn't be saying Pete Buttigieg is giving Joe Rogan air. No, no, no. He's going on there to spread our point of view.

But in this clip, again, James Tallarico gets the chance to lay out how Republicans are suppressing the vote. This is probably the hardest place to vote in the country, just in terms of the paperwork, the requirements, the hoops you got to jump through. How so though? There's a whole host of things. The fact that we don't have online voter registration in this state, when a lot of other states do.

I mean, think of all the things you do online. Voter registration is not one of them. The IDs that now count for registering to vote or voting are very selective. So for instance, you've got a concealed carry license. That license counts as ID, which I agree that it should. But a student ID from a college or university doesn't count as an ID. You have to get a driver's license. Yeah, you got to go get a driver's license. And again, for someone like... What about passport? Passport will work?

Yeah, passport. But again, I didn't have a passport for most of my life, right? I didn't travel outside the country until I was in my 30s. And so I didn't have a passport. A lot of people don't have a driver's license, especially older folks. So the point is that these rules get added on top of each other and make it even more difficult. By the way, James Tallarico is a superstar.

I just want to give some praise to him. I've been talking a lot about broader strategy and talking to Republicans in this video, but man, James Tallarico is so incredibly good at what he does. Here's a really, really weird moment from the podcast. This one really angered me. Joe Rogan, for some reason, defends Nick Fuentes for his Holocaust denial. I don't even know what's going on here, but James Tallarico brings up Nick Fuentes, and

then Joe Rogan says, well, he's not denying the Holocaust. He's just debating the numbers. What? That's the same thing. You can't debate. If you're debating numbers, you are denying the official accounts. And again, your listeners should do their own research

on this to learn about it, but there's been a lot of stories about these two billionaires and their control over state government. And I say this because- But a big part of the daily wire is Ben Shapiro. And Ben Shapiro's very Jewish. Well, and these two billionaires hosted a meeting with Nick Fuentes, who is a Holocaust denier,

and got a lot of pushback. He's a Holocaust denier? Nick Fuentes. He's a denier? Yes. Or does he debate the numbers? Well, to be fair, I don't listen to a lot of Nick Fuentes, which is on me. No, Tallerico shouldn't have conceded that.

I get that they're having an agreeable conversation, but it's like Joe Rogan just said, is he a denier or does he debate the numbers? Debating the numbers inherently makes you a denier. We have one final clip. This is the clip that perhaps blew up the most. This is the clip of James Tallarico explaining what it means to be a Democrat to him.

This clip has been going viral all across the internet, and I think it's good that we have people out there, you know, just reclaiming the word Democrat or liberal. I feel like half the country at this point thinks liberal is a slur. They don't even know what it means. They're just like, you liberal, you liberal. In reality, liberalism largely means equality

or the ability to love who you want or do what you want without harming anybody else. Let's watch this clip of James Tallerego explaining what it means to be a Democrat. Why are you a Democrat? Well, my mother, as I told you, I was born to a single mom. She was a preacher's daughter from Laredo down on the border. She left home at 19. She moved up to Austin. She met my birth father who was a high school dropout and had a drinking problem and that drinking problem sometimes led to being violent with with my mother and

there was one night it was me and and mom and and my birth father and he had Had too much drink and got violent again. And that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. And my mom decided right then and there that she was leaving. So she packed all our stuff. She put me in her little Ford Escort. She drove me to the hotel where she worked downtown.

The manager let us stay in one of the rooms for a few weeks until we found a little apartment in East Austin. And mom, you know, she took on double duty at the hotel. She like fought for me at every instance, even when her own physical safety was at risk. And back then, this was early 90s, you know, she could look over at the Texas Capitol and she saw Texas Democrats like Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, people who fought for the little guy, for working people, people who were forgotten and left behind.

That was the classic Democratic party. And so I remember when I was, I guess I was maybe kindergarten, and someone in school, they were talking about political parties, and I asked my mom what we were, and she was like, we're Democrats because Democrats fight for the people. That was what she said. My mom is still a Democrat today, but like I don't know how much our party is still true to that. But I do know that that's our historical legacy

is the party that fights for the little guy. And I think we're at our best when we do that today. We're at our worst when we stray from that. But that's why I'm a Democrat and why I hope the party can get back to those roots. Very beautifully said. And how to make you feel after watching that clip, if I told you that clip has reached tens of millions of Americans, tens of millions of people who didn't quite understand why people call themselves Democrats. I mean, a lot of people aren't as locked into politics as you and I, and this is their first exposure to somebody who's sitting there level headed talking about democracy and democratic

politics. So I think it's very important for us to have these conversations. Do not discount that. Let me know your opinions in the comments section below. My question to you all is, do you think it's worth going into these spaces and having these conversations? And if you're going to say yes or no, give me some rationale. I want to create a community where we're able to have good conversations that are deep.

So I appreciate you all. I'll see you in the next video. Peace.