EXCLUSIVE: James O'Keefe On Leaving Project Veritas
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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We have an extremely special and personal episode this week. We sat down with our good friend and founder of Project Veritas James O’Keefe. James and Phelim have an incredible conversation about how James got his start, and the rise of Project Veritas. James opens up about his termination from Project Veritas, and what he has in store next.
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| 0:00.0 | None of it made any actual sense. And I said that in my remarks. And I truly do mean this, that I know that we were in the weeds here, and that's fine. I'm happy to address it. But it's just like, you know, I learned a lot of things. I never really paid much attention to board composition. I probably should have, and that's my fault. But I think I'll be a more effective messenger, a more effective leader. |
| 0:23.5 | I learn more about human nature in 45 days than in all of my 18 years of doing this. |
| 0:30.4 | So I view this as a very positive thing. |
| 0:32.8 | I'll be more effective. |
| 0:37.5 | Hello and welcome to the Alan and Phileem Scoop. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Phelan McAleer and we have a special, a very, very special show for you this week. |
| 0:45.9 | We're dedicating the whole show to James O'Keefe, formerly of Project Veritas, but now the chief executive officer of OMG Media, O'Keefe Media Group. |
| 0:56.2 | James, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.5 | Great to be with you. |
| 0:58.7 | I want to start right at the very beginning when I first met you, and the reality is I can't |
| 1:02.5 | remember when I first met you, but I do remember first hearing about you. |
| 1:06.5 | There was this guy. |
| 1:07.3 | We had a screening of our movie, mind your own business, at a screening room in the Pacific Palisades. |
| 1:14.3 | John Voight was at the screening and then there was this guy there, right? And he worked for this website called Drudge. |
| 1:21.6 | And he was, I remember him standing at our friend's fridge after the screening telling me how he was going to set up a website |
| 1:29.3 | and the big big thing he was thinking about he he was clear it had to be named after his name |
| 1:34.7 | because drudge had done that huffington had done that but lots of people were telling him not to call |
| 1:39.9 | it after his name and he did and i'm glad he did, because that website was Breitbart, and the person |
| 1:45.8 | I was talking to was a guy called Andrew Breitbart. And he was telling me about how this site was |
| 1:51.7 | going to be revolutionary, but they were going to start off with a banger, with a banger story. |
| 1:56.7 | They were going to, you know, that they needed some banger stories. And I then remember being in Andrew's basement, I think. |
| 2:04.3 | And I think his one employee, there Alex Marlowe, who's now the editor-in-chief, was there. |
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