Brita Horn, Colorado GOP chair, joins Ryan for a conversation on next steps for state Republicans after chaos at the central committee meeting in September over whether candidates should be selected by open primary or by party elites at an assembly setting.
Both sides claim win after chaotic Colorado GOP meeting to decide whether to cancel party’s 2026 primary - Colorado Politics
It's a rare occasion where Ryan agrees with self-professed 'Bernie Bro,' comedian David Cross, but we live in interesting times and the former Arrested Development star is right to call out luminaries of the craft like Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr for selling out to an oppressive regime by performing at the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Both sides claim win after chaotic Colorado GOP meeting to decide whether to cancel party’s 2026 primary - Colorado Politics
It's a rare occasion where Ryan agrees with self-professed 'Bernie Bro,' comedian David Cross, but we live in interesting times and the former Arrested Development star is right to call out luminaries of the craft like Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr for selling out to an oppressive regime by performing at the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back here for hour number two. Ryan Schuling Live with
you the Detroit Connection. That's Shannon Scott on the other side.
Good news, bad news. From yesterday Lions went again, the Eagles,
the Bills, they both lost, and Mercury Morris from beyond
the graves, lighting up his cigar and pouring some champagne.
And he was always the most noteworthy nineteen seventy two
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Miami Dolphin who would celebrate every year when the last
undefeated team finally was handed anell. Now, the one season
you might remember, the New England Patriots went unbeaten through
the regular season and all the way to the Super Bowl,
and then Eli Manning and the New York Giants defeated
Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl, and
it allowed the seventy two Dolphins and their legend to
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continue uninterrupted all these years later. So no more undefeated
teams in the NFL. And how about that impressive Denver
Broncos victory in Philadelphia helping my Lions against the Eagles.
This from a Texter five seven seven three nine. Sanchez
needed a pr bump. Nobody was viewing his butt fumble
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video on YouTube anymore. That's from the real Ralph, and
Ralph you might not be far off the mark. I'm
just saying that is a weird and wild story, as
Johnny Carson might say, and the details seem to make
it a little murkier the more that come out. Well,
we're looking for clarification in our Colorado Republican Party and
we are thrilled to be joined right now by its chair,
(01:25):
Bretta Horn here on Ryan Schuling Live. Bretta, thank you
so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
As always, I'm glad to be here, Thanks, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah. Sure. A couple of weekends ago, I was getting
all kinds of different takes and reports people that were there,
people that heard from people who were there at the
Central State Committee meeting, and what was going on from
your standpoint, is the chair, what went down on that
day there seemed to be a major point of contention
as it comes to the primaries and how we vote
in them. And what was your takeaway from all of that?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, well, thanks for asking. So we had the responsibility
as a safe party in an odd year between August
fifteenth and October first, to meet with the state Central Committee,
which is about five hundred people and they're all from
the whole all sixty four counties and it's the chair,
the vice and the secretary from each county, and then
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they get bonus members based on their population of their county.
And so we all got together because the one issue
we had to vote on was whether we want to
opt out or not, and in order to do that,
we had to have seventy five percent of that body
to make that this determination that vote. So we got
together there a meeting like y'all do all other meetings,
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got through the minutes with the agenda. Then we decided
the party the body wanted to switch orders and wanted
to go over three things that were laid over from
a meeting before they were tabled, and we went into
the minutia of all those three pieces and we never
got to the opt out vote. We were had to
get out of the building by two o'clock. The vote
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didn't happen. So there is we are going to have
a regular Republican primary in November twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now, I think the option that I might prefer was
not on the table, and i'd like you to kind
of illuminate our listeners as to that one as well,
where I do want voters to participate in a primary.
But in our primary. When I say our, I mean
I'm a registered Republican, you're the chair of the party.
I think our party should select our nominee, and if
it's a bad nominee, that's our fault. We made that decision.
(03:28):
But we saw it in New Hampshire during the presidential primary,
where Nicki Haley stayed in there were a bunch of
na'er Dwells that were not Republican, would never vote Republican,
and they were meddling, so they did so by entering
that primary and voting on behalf of Nikki Haley trying
to upset the apple cart from the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump.
That's my reservation about that, and I would like a
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closed primary for Republican voters only, but I know that's
not just something you can flip a switch and have
that be done. Right now, we have an open primary
where unaffiliateds can get both ballots choose vote Republican. That's
a point of debate as well. But then there was
another faction, I think, and I just want you to
kind of flesh this out for us in better detail
than I can, that wanted our nominees to be selected
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behind closed doors, maybe in an assembly in that format
and remove that from the voters. I'm spelling that out
in template form, But how can you better explain that
for our listeners and what was available? What were the
options that were supposed to be voted on?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, So you're absolutely right. So that is the
option of that opt out, or you'd have, like you said,
in the next year, in assemblies in your local community.
It would just be a select few people making those
decisions for one person for each seat in that district, deck, county,
the whatever, you know, that whatever area that we're discussing,
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and that there would be no opportunities for petitioning on
and that be no paper ballots going out to anybody,
you know, anybody the nine hundred thousand plus you know,
Republicans in Colorado, any of our own military, no paper
ballots at all. That we would just do that option,
and that just seems like a very disenfranchise for everybody
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else to be able to be a part of it.
And so you're absolutely right. We have a lawsuit that
started a year and a half two years ago against
Proposition one oh eight back in twenty sixteen. The people
Colorado all Colorado voted and they decided they wanted this
option for independence. Like you said, we clearly stated I
don't know how you both a Republican and a Democratic ballot,
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And we are going to court with Claremont Institute, with
a number of lawyers to say to go to the
Supreme Court to say is this constitutional or not. I
believe a majority of Republicans in Colorado thinks it's unconstitutional.
I think we all can agree to twenty fifteen and
before when there were independents and unaffiliated Yet they would
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have to shame day change if they want be a
part of the primary, change to be on a team,
a Democrat Republican team, get that ballot and turn it in,
and if they want to go back to being an
affiliated they could. This is for primary only, nothing with
the general. So those that you know, that seems even
a little more reasonable. And there's a lot of reasons
why that would be more reasonable. Let's balance running around
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all the all the things that we could talk about
another time. So we can't change that, flip that switch
like you want. We all want to. I'd love to
click my ruby slippers and change things, but we can't
like that when we boind the November twenty sixth this year,
and next year it will be this is the game
we have right now in Colorado. It's not going to
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change in time. It's an open primer.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So I'm hearing you right, Bretta Horn, the chair of
the Colorado Republican Party joining us. Bretta, you do agree
with me in principle that we would be better served
perhaps as a party having a closed primary, meaning all
of our Republican voters who are registered as such or
you could register day of that the are ballots to
select our nominees in those primaries would be better served
(07:04):
by having Republicans only vote in that rather than like
these mass ballout mail out ballots were unaffiliated to get
both parties ballots, right yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I would hope the Democrats would have the same game.
We remember, we got to play the same game on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Both sides, right right.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We can't have one doing one and one doing the other.
Then that's what would happen if we got to that,
if we got to the question, which we never did,
and if we got to seventy five percent, we'd be
playing a different game than the Democrats because the Democrats
then would had a ballot for everybody, and we would
never see a Republican name anywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Bretta Horran joining us. Bretta, I know you kind of
knew what you were getting into with all of this,
meaning the leadership role, the herding cats aspect of it,
the different factions and trying to bring them all together.
Has it been more difficult though than you anticipated? And
if so, what would be the reasons why so difficult.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I don't think it's difficult to I get up in
the morning, I hit the ground running and let's go.
Let's go find when go team go. I'm definitely that person.
I'm not doing this to be on the platform and
to further my career. I don't need to at my age.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What if this is.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
About is doing the work, the work in the trenches.
It's electing Moore republic So it's growing the party. It's
fundraising like crazy, organizing, getting systems, putting things together. When
I was a regional director for President Trump and twenty
twenty down in New Mexico, there was an effort, there
was a system, and it worked that way. Colorado doesn't
do that. Colorado puts it all in the omnious on
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the candidates during the general to knock on their own
doors to have their own volunteers, and there was no system,
there was nothing in place. You know, this is you
know back to my you know, first responder, you know, firefighting,
fire chief, Like there's systems in place when you should
roll up to a fire, what kind of fire, where
the fire is, who's going to do what? You know,
there's all these different things going on, and I love that.
(08:59):
I love that system. So we're going to just keep
working towards that because we didn't expect. I didn't want
ever for Charlie Kirk to be on this earth. I'm
so sad what happened to him. On Sometimes Attention he
was murdered. But in response to that, Ryan, I've been
getting daily calls to our text numbers and to our
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social media and to our website of people like how
do I get involved? And they're from all walks of
life in Colorado, from sixteen year olds to college students,
the people getting off the couch who are like, we
want to win, we want to change the policies of Colorado.
Democrats have ruined the policies of Colorado and it's time
for change and having that new breath of fresh air
(09:42):
coming in multiple times every day. Just makes it all
worthy and worthwhile to just keep fighting for Colorado.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
She is the chair of the Colorado Republican Party. Britta
Horn our guest here on Ryan Schuling Live. Britta. At
one of our breakfast gatherings at Magiano's, I remember you
and Heidi speaking, and I met a young man in
Peron for the first time who really impressed me, and
he's been on my show since. And you mentioned Charlie
Kirk and the tremendous impact that Charlie had on our
gen zs our younger voters. You and I are gen X,
(10:10):
but it's the future of the party that we have
our eyes on. And David Proctor, the political director for
Colorado First Action, I had a great conversation with him.
He was highly motivated, highly inspired by Charlie Kirk. So
was James Raymond. He is the Colorado First Action chairman.
How have you approached maybe incorporating more of the youth
of the Republican Party into the movement as you mentioned
(10:32):
it kind of boots on the ground, and Ohidi Ganal
is very energized about this aspect of it and bringing
the Republican Party more in line with where young people
are in calendar year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, absolutely, but thank you very much for thinking I'm
a gen X. I'm actually a boomer.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I try, I try, and.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's what I'm saying. So maybe I'm looking back at
these kids, maybe just write grandkids. But you're absolutely right
that they're the ones that we need to hand this
over to. The young Republicans. Thirty one of them are
in leadership and within our state Central Committee, whether bonus
members or chairs of the party. We need to hand
over the baton to them. They're in the future. I
swear to us. Why between these calls and I have
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one more hit after this, I'm already getting t PUSA
Rocky reaching out to me. Hey, we have a bunch
of kids here. How can we get them involved? There
are a bunch of kids over here. How do we
get them involved? We just got just now and just
like this is what needs to happen. They're the ones
that we need to hand it over to. Let's put
it in a package, let's put a go on it,
Let's teach them how to do it, and let them go.
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It's their party, it's their future.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Finally, Britta, there are people listening right now that feel
like I do, and I think maybe feel like you do,
that we're losing our state. There are so many crazy
things happening, and the Democrats are the author of so
much of it. And yet a lot of individual people think, well,
on my own, I'm powerless to stop this. I don't
know what to do. I don't know where to start.
What would be your advice to somebody that's listening right
now that would like to do something that matters, that
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would like to contribute to the Colorado Republican Party, but
doesn't know where to begin that process.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, So that first place, thank you very much for that.
Seguee is cool o gop dot org, co l ogp
dot org. And that's where you teams start getting involved.
That's where the newsletters are, how to get involved, reach
out to us. Obviously there's a donate button please, And
then if you want to be over on social media,
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we're on TikTok, we're in Instagram, we're over at X.
A lot of people and when I even went to
an event last week up in Estes Park, never met
any of them and then saw just their cartoon faces
on X and I walked into their meeting the library
last week, Happy to come. They invited me. They wanted
me to meet everybody and talk about our future and
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how we're going to be able to change Colorado, because
you're absolutely right with the Democrats don't have they don't
have any leaders, they don't have a message, they don't
have an organization, and best of all, Ryan, like we're
talking about now, they don't have the youth we do.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Breda Horn, chair of the Colorado Republican Party, taking a
few moments with us to bring us up to data
on what's happening. But I know you're really busy, but
really appreciate your time today and we'll see where it
goes from here.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So next time. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right. And she confirmed she is a baby boomer
and not John X. I would have thought otherwise. She
is very youthful in her appearance and very exuberant in
her energy level. Not that boomers can't be. I just
assumed she was a bit younger, and I think that's
a good thing for this host to assume in that
direction rather than the other way around. Well, you know
(13:39):
you're part of the silent generation, you know, Joe Biden,
Clint Eastwood, you know I want to get your thoughts
too while we're on the subject and the topic Pat
Karen Ryan Schuling Live your text five seven, seven thirty nine,
reflect on anything that you heard there from bred to Horne.
I'm a big fan of her personally, and I just
wanted to get her side what happened that Central State
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Committee meeting a couple of weekends ago, and it just
sounded like it went sideways. And we talked to Valtimore
Archiletta about that, who's been very involved with party politics
amongst the Colorado Republicans for several years, and he was
a candidate for Congress in the first Congressional district against
Diana de get I always like to throw out this
fun fact too. Congressional District one in Colorado. Now that's Denver, right,
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that's the urban center of Denver, Colorado. I am fifty
one years old as of September twenty sixth. Prior to
my birth, Pat Schroeder was the congresswoman for District one,
and I think it was nineteen ninety seven, ninety eight
right in there, Schroeder stepped aside and Diana to get
stepped in and she's been there ever since. So think
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about that over fifty years, over half a century, in
the city of Denver, there have been only two members
of Congress representing the city of Denver's interest in the
first Congressional Pat Schroeder and Diana de Gett. And that's it.
I think that's wild, that's crazy. They were both career politicians.
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I watched Valdemar debate Diana to get you know, TV studios,
one of his few guests that were allowed to attend,
and she was out of touch. She didn't care. She
showed up, she was not prepared. She threw out Trump
this and Trump that, and well not very in depth
on the issues. Valdemar's rattling off all these policy positions.
(15:26):
He's brilliant, but you know, this is on a local
cable station. Now there's anything wrong with that, But the
reach of that, the scope of that, I know. Valdemar
did everything, you know, to campaign, to go on foot,
to meet people face to face, get signs out. He
did everything a Republican could in a district that is
virtually unwinnable, and I think he did better than any
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modern Republican candidate has against Diana to get she runs
every two years the same stuff. What has she gotten done?
What are her accomplishments that you would pin on the
wall over there? What is Diana to get done for Denver?
What kind of state is Denver in? Not that it's
all her concern or her problem to fix, but what
has she done to fix it? In Congress? Representing a
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lot of you who might live in her district. I'm
honestly asking here because I'm coming up with nothing. Five seven, seven,
three nine. But I want to get your thoughts on
the gubernatorial field on the Republican side, which continues to grow.
And there's a very exciting name who was kind of
landed in the race. And his name is Victor Marx,
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and it's an unfortunate last name. Let's call it what
it is for a Republican candidate. But I think it's
a lot easier for a Republican to kind of play
that name off and joke about it than it would
be for say, Zoran the Kami Mamdani. If his last
name was Marx, he'd be he be toast in the media.
But I don't know a whole lot about Victor Marx,
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and we're hoping to get him on the program this
week at some point he has caused a big splash.
He has already I believe, earned the endorsement of my
good friends Heidi Ganall and Lauren Bobert. Those are big
names to have in his corner. And as the Rush
Limbaugh policy is, I do not endorse in primaries because
I don't think it's my position to advocate for any
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one candidate within a field that you, my listeners, Republican
voters mostly should be selecting. I'll give you my honest thoughts, opinions,
breakdowns of each candidate as we go, and I will
have criticisms, and I will have compliments, and I'll give
you what I honestly think because nobody's buying my vote.
This is what I fear about a lot of people.
And it's not just on the left, but they're you know,
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the nonsense that we've heard from Candice Owens and Tucker
Carlson of Late. We'll talk a little bit about this
after the break the re Odd Comedy Festival, for which
Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr performed, and I find myself
agreeing with David Cross, who's a Bernie supporter. This is
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the may you live in interesting times and I suppose
that we do. But if it were today, Let's say
you got your ballot and the mail and we're still
a ways away from that, and you were voting for
your primary candidate of choice for governor. Who would you
vote for and why I want to hear from you?
Five seven, seven, three nine. Got a lot of momentum
and energy behind Victor Marx and his candidacy. Barb Kirkmeyer
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is a big respected name. She's been on this program
many times. Greg Lopez would be another one, and there
are myriad others in the field. I'm a big fan
of Scott Bottoms personally. I like the work that he
has done in the House. He has been a stable
and consistent and persistent conservative voting for our interests in
the House. So there are a lot of qualified names.
Who do you land on and why? Ryan Shulding life
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continues after this?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Well, they brought it back a couple of times and
they went with cheaper leather. Okay, you know what I mean,
because some corporate had to give himself a bonus check
at the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What if we made it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Worse but made it look the same, Yeah, then could
our pools be bigger?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Free? Luigi. Oh god, you know this might be. I
know I'm gonna say, Ryan, you're naive, you're a rube,
and you're not wrong in either regard in this topic.
There are certain celebrities I want to believe that are
just solid individuals with integrity and they'll make fun of anybody.
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And I used to think that about Bill Burr. He
used to be one of my favorites. And I mentioned
this last week even during his stand up at Red Rocks,
which was a Netflix special and many of you in
my audience maybe you went to it. He made a joke.
It was really well done, really well crafted about abortion,
but it had a pro life tinge to it in
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which he likens it too. I'm making a cake. I
put it in the oven and it's bacon, and you
come in, you take it out on the floor and
I said, what are you doing? The baby in there?
No it's not. Well, what have been? And that's my
best Bill Burr, But that's that was the joy. He's right, like,
what have been? And then he gets into the kind
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of the weeds on the top and goes like you know,
any inmates, he's pro choice, but yeah, you're killing a
baby and you gotta be you know, you gotta have
integrity enough to say that's what we're doing. I'm okay
with it. Now I'm not okay with it. I really
don't like abortion. I would like them there to be
as few as possible, as early as possible. I'd prefer
that they're not be any at all. If we could
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at all help it, if we could help young women
with an unexpected pregnancy that they don't know how they're
gonna pay for, provide for raise a child, and if
the financial element is the primary or sole burden for
a young woman in bringing a child into this world,
and the father's absentee, and the Libs always make this
joke too, well, then the father should be legally liable
(20:57):
for Yeah, yes, you have an agreement. We are in agreement.
We have on a chord. But Bill Burr is my goodness,
I think he married into something here. I'm just gonna
leave it at that. He made a comment not that
long ago that he submits all of his material, his
(21:19):
jokes to his wife for her to screen it, and
to me the joke within the joke, there would be
whatever she says I shouldn't do. Well, those are the
jokes that I do. Well. Okay, now that's funny, that's integrity.
But no, he's looking for what lines he shouldn't cross,
and he's taking her advice to heart. You're not a
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true comedian then, if you're playing favorites, if you're pulling punches,
if you're not an equal opportunity offender, which a lot
of comedians are, by the way, then you have an agenda.
And now you're Jimmy Kimmel, now you're Stephen Colbert. And
I have no interest in watching those guys, and not
just because I disagree with them politically, because it's not interesting.
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Dave Chappelle was interesting to me, is interesting to me.
I think he's the finest at the craft right now,
that's my opinion. But he disappointed me. This Riodd festival.
It's just a lot of bad news and it's a
bad look. If I was merely advising Bill Burr or
Dave Chappelle from a PR stampot, I think you want
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to steer clear of this one. Dave, you are rolling
in money. You don't need it. You don't need Riodd's money,
you don't need Qatar's money, you don't need Saudi Arabia's money.
There's a bad look. I don't like it for you.
I'm looking out for your best interest, Dave, like I
advise you just do something else. But that's not what happened.
That's not what happened at the Riodd Comedy Festival. I'm
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looking like a lot of familiar names here, Aziz and Zari.
I'm just going by sight here, I'm seeing uh. I
don't know if those numbers are out. Did you see him?
Was that confirmed?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I heard some theory about maybe a mill million and
a half for what thirty minutes. Take the money? Well
he did, Bill Burr did too. But these are thoughts
offered up by David Cross. Now it needs to be
mentioned I think for purposes of perspective that David Cross
is Jewish, and he was born and raised that way,
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and he is a leftist. He is a committed like
Bernie bro So he and I are not politically aligned
in hardly any way, maybe except for this one. And
he went off on a blog post here about those
comedians who participated in the Riad Comedy Festival. My thoughts
on the Riod Comedy Festival, writes David Cross. Now you
might remember him from what was the sitcom with Jason
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Bateman arrested development? Thank you, Shannon. That's why we call
ourselves the Detroit Connection. Yes, he was very good unarrested development,
very funny. He also appears in Waiting for Guffman in
a cameo scene. Very good on just shoot Me as well.
There's another one. Keep in coming, Hi, serve it up anyway,
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Here we go. My thoughts on theri Odd Comedy Festivals,
says David Cross. I've been asked for my opinion on
the Riodd Comedy Festival, and rather than answer the same
question twenty three times, I'll just put this out here.
Oh and I should preface this with the fact that
I was not offered the gig, but it should go
without saying that there's not enough money for me to
help these depraved, awful people put a fun face on
their crimes against humanity. Here here, fair enough? Here goes quote.
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What do you think I think? I am disgusted and
deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing that people I
admire with unarguable talent would condone this to talitarian fiefdom
for what a fourth house, a boat, more sneakers. We
can never again, take seriously anything these comedians complain about
parenthetical unless it's complaining that we don't support enough torture
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and mass executions of journalists and LGBTQ peace activists here
in the States, or that we don't terrorize enough Americans
by flying planes into our buildings. I mean, that's it.
You have a funny bit about how you don't like
Yankee candles or airport lounges, so okay, great, but you're
cool of murder and or the public caning of women
(25:09):
who were raped, and by having the audacity to be raped,
we're guilty of quote engaging in adultery unquote got any
bits on that? David Cross continues, these are some of
my heroes. Now, look, some of you folks don't stand
for anything, so you don't have any credibility to lose.
But my god, Dave and Louis and Bill and Jim
talking about Luisy k clearly you guys don't give a
(25:32):
blank about what the rest of us think. But how
can any of us take any of you seriously?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Again, all of your bitching about cancel culture and freedom
of speech and all that blank done, you don't get
to talk about it ever. Again. By now, we've all
seen the contract you had to sign. Shannon did too.
Apparently you're performing for literally the most oppressive regime on earth.
They have slaves, for Blank's sake. I don't understand how
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being rich can make someone such a prostitute. I guess
I could use that word poor people desperate to improve
their or their families lives. Sure, still not acceptable, but
I can understand the desperation to put food on the table.
But this, I mean, it's not like this is some
commercial for a wireless service or a betting app. This
(26:19):
is truly the definition of quote blood money unquote. You
might as well do commercials for Lockheed Martin or Ziklon B.
Continuing again, David Cross in response to a lot of
the big names in comedy performing at this Riod Comedy
Festival in Saudi Arabia. Holy blank, I remember the backlash
(26:39):
I got for appearing in Elvin and the Chipmunks. You
would have thought that I had taken money from a
bunch of people responsible for funding al Qaeda. Unless you
open your sets with quote, this is dedicated to all
of the widows and widowers and kids orphaned by this bloodthirsty,
oppressive regime, especially from the Zany Shenanigans on nine to eleven. Ever,
(27:00):
forget mf Or's all right, so it's great to be here.
I'm going to be killing it tonight, but in the
good way, straight up. No MBS. That's good, that's funny. Continuing,
then your hypocrisy will never not be noted, David, And
then he adds a ps for anyone who wants to
actually spend their money on something worthwhile. The Human Rights
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Foundation does amazing work, and he puts the website out there.
Now I read that to say that pretty much every
word I agree with David Cross there, and I've always
had as it's a delicate balancing act having an ally
in the region with whom you don't necessarily agree with
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fundamentally on the issue of human rights in a lot
of ways, including those for women. I've never understood this
either presumably liberal women, not any in my audience I know,
but you might know one. How do you support mandatory
jjab Sharia law? How do you go out there in
(28:04):
a cafea with Palestinian flags protesting the existence of Israel,
calling out Zionist like myself. Yes, Israel has a right
to exist that's what a Zionist is, and I support it.
Where does this square with your whole notion that women
deserve equal rights? He mentions the caning of women. He's right,
(28:27):
that happens, and it's not just Saudi Arabia, it's throughout
the Middle East. These are oppressive regimes, a few women
as second class citizens. If that women can be forced
to marry, they can be forced to marry at the
age of nine or younger, and you're okay with that.
The stupidest cover of a magazine ever, I'm sorry, was
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a woman with like mandatory his job. They have to
wear this in the custom of their religion, in an
American flag. Those two things do not square. You'll call
me a second wave feminist, and I'll gladly wear the
label because I think women should have equal rights to men,
equal opportunity. Same thing in the military. If a Briand
of Tarth, as I've said before from Game of Thrones,
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can do the work of a man in the field
in the military, can help save lives, can meet the
physical requirements lifting, carrying, speed, lung, compet all of that,
then by God, she should be able to serve. But
we cannot lower the bar. So I'm trying to wrap
my head around these so called liberal women who are
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absolutely positively okay with Sharia law, mandatory hijab, women as
second class citizens, women can't drive, women do not have
equal rights. How do you square that? That's my big question.
And for these comedians, David Cross is right like, don't
come to me with your proletariat bs against the bourgeois
(29:55):
when you've become the very bougie bourgeoisi that you despise
or claim to. That's what this was. It was a
sellout and David Cross is right one last time out
wrapping up Ryan Shuling live for this Monday after this,
so you can.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Imagine people are getting detained, they're getting arrested US citizens.
And they did this, of course when they raided a
building in the middle of the night in South Shore,
one hundred and thirty people that were emptied out of
this building. They were going after a few gang members
and instead they broke windows, they broke down doors, they
ransacked the place, and there were people that were held,
(30:35):
I mean elderly people and children zip tied, elderly people
held for three hours at a time. They are the
ones that are making it a war zone. They need
to get out of Chicago. If they're not going to
focus on the worst of the worst, which is what
the President said they were going to do, they need
to get the heck.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Outjbback Ribs, as Jesse Waters calls them, it's the best
nickname ever. Pritzker, Democrat Illinois cumnor. If you were focused
on the worst of the worst, on removing them from
your city, on ensuring that Chicago WANs could live in
(31:14):
a safe city protected by the Chicago police, then Ice
wouldn't have to come in and do your job for you.
I'm the guy who's doing his job. You must be
the other guy. Mark Wahlberg said in the department. It's
a great line. It applies here, it applies in a
lot of areas where Democrats are now clutching their pearls.
Say and there he makes another comment, you know, makes
(31:39):
this racial. They're just targeting brown and black people. And
this is all intentionally triggering language to paint Ice with
one brush and cartoon fashion as being racist and oppressive
and totalitarian and jack booted thugs, which we've heard from
Tim Walls again. If the Democratic governor and Democratic mayors
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in these Democratic cities strongholds were doing their jobs. How
many residents have you've seen interviewed, many of whom are
black and brown, saying thank god Trump sent ice in here.
We're afraid for our safety here. But they don't care. Democrats,
they don't care that their own citizens are in danger
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because of the infiltration of so many criminal, illegal aliens,
for whom we have no records, no rap sheets, no history,
because they didn't come in here through the proper channels.
Like I say, most people, not all, most, a vast
majority are here illegally for a reason because they couldn't
or wouldn't or didn't want to come here legally. And
(32:47):
why not? That's the question? Five seven, seven thirty nine
back to back texts from the same Texter and spot
on with both points, Ryan, you forget that Democrats have
all the public school teachers on their side, that in
doctrinate is part of class. I have not forgotten that.
In fact, I remember that quite well, and we're watching
that play out in the numbers that Ben Shapiro shared
with us off the top. If you missed it, be
(33:08):
sure to catch the podcast Ryan Schuling live on your
favorite podcast platform. Same text for Ryan, not to support
the Saudist but how is comedy and riadd different than
live golf. It's not. You're not wrong. I have a
major problem with that too, but it's capitalism. And if
golfers want to sell their souls, then I guess that's
on them, just like the comedians. But we are free,
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like we saw with David Cross to call them out
on it. And finally, Ryan, we need not worry about
human rights in other countries when we make a heroin
out of a woman who tells young women through your
music to be a word I don't want to say.
We are a sick society and Trump should discharge ninety
five percent of women from the military. They should be
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put out. I don't know about that number where you're
getting it from. But I am a meritocracy supporter, and
the women can serve and do the same job as men.
I support them in doing it. That's all for me
from here for now, Join it tomorrow. Ryan Scherling Live,
Back here for hour number two. Ryan Schuling Live with
you the Detroit Connection. That's Shannon Scott on the other side.
Good news, bad news. From yesterday Lions went again, the Eagles,
the Bills, they both lost, and Mercury Morris from beyond
the graves, lighting up his cigar and pouring some champagne.
And he was always the most noteworthy nineteen seventy two
(00:21):
Miami Dolphin who would celebrate every year when the last
undefeated team finally was handed anell. Now, the one season
you might remember, the New England Patriots went unbeaten through
the regular season and all the way to the Super Bowl,
and then Eli Manning and the New York Giants defeated
Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl, and
it allowed the seventy two Dolphins and their legend to
(00:43):
continue uninterrupted all these years later. So no more undefeated
teams in the NFL. And how about that impressive Denver
Broncos victory in Philadelphia helping my Lions against the Eagles.
This from a Texter five seven seven three nine. Sanchez
needed a pr bump. Nobody was viewing his butt fumble
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video on YouTube anymore. That's from the real Ralph, and
Ralph you might not be far off the mark. I'm
just saying that is a weird and wild story, as
Johnny Carson might say, and the details seem to make
it a little murkier the more that come out. Well,
we're looking for clarification in our Colorado Republican Party and
we are thrilled to be joined right now by its chair,
(01:25):
Bretta Horn here on Ryan Schuling Live. Bretta, thank you
so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
As always, I'm glad to be here, Thanks, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah. Sure. A couple of weekends ago, I was getting
all kinds of different takes and reports people that were there,
people that heard from people who were there at the
Central State Committee meeting, and what was going on from
your standpoint, is the chair, what went down on that
day there seemed to be a major point of contention
as it comes to the primaries and how we vote
in them. And what was your takeaway from all of that?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, well, thanks for asking. So we had the responsibility
as a safe party in an odd year between August
fifteenth and October first, to meet with the state Central Committee,
which is about five hundred people and they're all from
the whole all sixty four counties and it's the chair,
the vice and the secretary from each county, and then
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they get bonus members based on their population of their county.
And so we all got together because the one issue
we had to vote on was whether we want to
opt out or not, and in order to do that,
we had to have seventy five percent of that body
to make that this determination that vote. So we got
together there a meeting like y'all do all other meetings,
(02:36):
got through the minutes with the agenda. Then we decided
the party the body wanted to switch orders and wanted
to go over three things that were laid over from
a meeting before they were tabled, and we went into
the minutia of all those three pieces and we never
got to the opt out vote. We were had to
get out of the building by two o'clock. The vote
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didn't happen. So there is we are going to have
a regular Republican primary in November twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now, I think the option that I might prefer was
not on the table, and i'd like you to kind
of illuminate our listeners as to that one as well,
where I do want voters to participate in a primary.
But in our primary. When I say our, I mean
I'm a registered Republican, you're the chair of the party.
I think our party should select our nominee, and if
it's a bad nominee, that's our fault. We made that decision.
(03:28):
But we saw it in New Hampshire during the presidential primary,
where Nicki Haley stayed in there were a bunch of
na'er Dwells that were not Republican, would never vote Republican,
and they were meddling, so they did so by entering
that primary and voting on behalf of Nikki Haley trying
to upset the apple cart from the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump.
That's my reservation about that, and I would like a
(03:49):
closed primary for Republican voters only, but I know that's
not just something you can flip a switch and have
that be done. Right now, we have an open primary
where unaffiliateds can get both ballots choose vote Republican. That's
a point of debate as well. But then there was
another faction, I think, and I just want you to
kind of flesh this out for us in better detail
than I can, that wanted our nominees to be selected
(04:10):
behind closed doors, maybe in an assembly in that format
and remove that from the voters. I'm spelling that out
in template form, But how can you better explain that
for our listeners and what was available? What were the
options that were supposed to be voted on?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, So you're absolutely right. So that is the
option of that opt out, or you'd have, like you said,
in the next year, in assemblies in your local community.
It would just be a select few people making those
decisions for one person for each seat in that district, deck, county,
the whatever, you know, that whatever area that we're discussing,
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and that there would be no opportunities for petitioning on
and that be no paper ballots going out to anybody,
you know, anybody the nine hundred thousand plus you know,
Republicans in Colorado, any of our own military, no paper
ballots at all. That we would just do that option,
and that just seems like a very disenfranchise for everybody
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else to be able to be a part of it.
And so you're absolutely right. We have a lawsuit that
started a year and a half two years ago against
Proposition one oh eight back in twenty sixteen. The people
Colorado all Colorado voted and they decided they wanted this
option for independence. Like you said, we clearly stated I
don't know how you both a Republican and a Democratic ballot,
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And we are going to court with Claremont Institute, with
a number of lawyers to say to go to the
Supreme Court to say is this constitutional or not. I
believe a majority of Republicans in Colorado thinks it's unconstitutional.
I think we all can agree to twenty fifteen and
before when there were independents and unaffiliated Yet they would
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have to shame day change if they want be a
part of the primary, change to be on a team,
a Democrat Republican team, get that ballot and turn it in,
and if they want to go back to being an
affiliated they could. This is for primary only, nothing with
the general. So those that you know, that seems even
a little more reasonable. And there's a lot of reasons
why that would be more reasonable. Let's balance running around
(06:20):
all the all the things that we could talk about
another time. So we can't change that, flip that switch
like you want. We all want to. I'd love to
click my ruby slippers and change things, but we can't
like that when we boind the November twenty sixth this year,
and next year it will be this is the game
we have right now in Colorado. It's not going to
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change in time. It's an open primer.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So I'm hearing you right, Bretta Horn, the chair of
the Colorado Republican Party joining us. Bretta, you do agree
with me in principle that we would be better served
perhaps as a party having a closed primary, meaning all
of our Republican voters who are registered as such or
you could register day of that the are ballots to
select our nominees in those primaries would be better served
(07:04):
by having Republicans only vote in that rather than like
these mass ballout mail out ballots were unaffiliated to get
both parties ballots, right yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I would hope the Democrats would have the same game.
We remember, we got to play the same game on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Both sides, right right.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We can't have one doing one and one doing the other.
Then that's what would happen if we got to that,
if we got to the question, which we never did,
and if we got to seventy five percent, we'd be
playing a different game than the Democrats because the Democrats
then would had a ballot for everybody, and we would
never see a Republican name anywhere.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Bretta Horran joining us. Bretta, I know you kind of
knew what you were getting into with all of this,
meaning the leadership role, the herding cats aspect of it,
the different factions and trying to bring them all together.
Has it been more difficult though than you anticipated? And
if so, what would be the reasons why so difficult.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I don't think it's difficult to I get up in
the morning, I hit the ground running and let's go.
Let's go find when go team go. I'm definitely that person.
I'm not doing this to be on the platform and
to further my career. I don't need to at my age.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What if this is.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
About is doing the work, the work in the trenches.
It's electing Moore republic So it's growing the party. It's
fundraising like crazy, organizing, getting systems, putting things together. When
I was a regional director for President Trump and twenty
twenty down in New Mexico, there was an effort, there
was a system, and it worked that way. Colorado doesn't
do that. Colorado puts it all in the omnious on
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the candidates during the general to knock on their own
doors to have their own volunteers, and there was no system,
there was nothing in place. You know, this is you
know back to my you know, first responder, you know, firefighting,
fire chief, Like there's systems in place when you should
roll up to a fire, what kind of fire, where
the fire is, who's going to do what? You know,
there's all these different things going on, and I love that.
(08:59):
I love that system. So we're going to just keep
working towards that because we didn't expect. I didn't want
ever for Charlie Kirk to be on this earth. I'm
so sad what happened to him. On Sometimes Attention he
was murdered. But in response to that, Ryan, I've been
getting daily calls to our text numbers and to our
(09:20):
social media and to our website of people like how
do I get involved? And they're from all walks of
life in Colorado, from sixteen year olds to college students,
the people getting off the couch who are like, we
want to win, we want to change the policies of Colorado.
Democrats have ruined the policies of Colorado and it's time
for change and having that new breath of fresh air
(09:42):
coming in multiple times every day. Just makes it all
worthy and worthwhile to just keep fighting for Colorado.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
She is the chair of the Colorado Republican Party. Britta
Horn our guest here on Ryan Schuling Live. Britta. At
one of our breakfast gatherings at Magiano's, I remember you
and Heidi speaking, and I met a young man in
Peron for the first time who really impressed me, and
he's been on my show since. And you mentioned Charlie
Kirk and the tremendous impact that Charlie had on our
gen zs our younger voters. You and I are gen X,
(10:10):
but it's the future of the party that we have
our eyes on. And David Proctor, the political director for
Colorado First Action, I had a great conversation with him.
He was highly motivated, highly inspired by Charlie Kirk. So
was James Raymond. He is the Colorado First Action chairman.
How have you approached maybe incorporating more of the youth
of the Republican Party into the movement as you mentioned
(10:32):
it kind of boots on the ground, and Ohidi Ganal
is very energized about this aspect of it and bringing
the Republican Party more in line with where young people
are in calendar year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, absolutely, but thank you very much for thinking I'm
a gen X. I'm actually a boomer.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I try, I try, and.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's what I'm saying. So maybe I'm looking back at
these kids, maybe just write grandkids. But you're absolutely right
that they're the ones that we need to hand this
over to. The young Republicans. Thirty one of them are
in leadership and within our state Central Committee, whether bonus
members or chairs of the party. We need to hand
over the baton to them. They're in the future. I
swear to us. Why between these calls and I have
(11:16):
one more hit after this, I'm already getting t PUSA
Rocky reaching out to me. Hey, we have a bunch
of kids here. How can we get them involved? There
are a bunch of kids over here. How do we
get them involved? We just got just now and just
like this is what needs to happen. They're the ones
that we need to hand it over to. Let's put
it in a package, let's put a go on it,
Let's teach them how to do it, and let them go.
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It's their party, it's their future.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Finally, Britta, there are people listening right now that feel
like I do, and I think maybe feel like you do,
that we're losing our state. There are so many crazy
things happening, and the Democrats are the author of so
much of it. And yet a lot of individual people think, well,
on my own, I'm powerless to stop this. I don't
know what to do. I don't know where to start.
What would be your advice to somebody that's listening right
now that would like to do something that matters, that
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would like to contribute to the Colorado Republican Party, but
doesn't know where to begin that process.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, So that first place, thank you very much for that.
Seguee is cool o gop dot org, co l ogp
dot org. And that's where you teams start getting involved.
That's where the newsletters are, how to get involved, reach
out to us. Obviously there's a donate button please, And
then if you want to be over on social media,
(12:29):
we're on TikTok, we're in Instagram, we're over at X.
A lot of people and when I even went to
an event last week up in Estes Park, never met
any of them and then saw just their cartoon faces
on X and I walked into their meeting the library
last week, Happy to come. They invited me. They wanted
me to meet everybody and talk about our future and
(12:49):
how we're going to be able to change Colorado, because
you're absolutely right with the Democrats don't have they don't
have any leaders, they don't have a message, they don't
have an organization, and best of all, Ryan, like we're
talking about now, they don't have the youth we do.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Breda Horn, chair of the Colorado Republican Party, taking a
few moments with us to bring us up to data
on what's happening. But I know you're really busy, but
really appreciate your time today and we'll see where it
goes from here.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So next time. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right. And she confirmed she is a baby boomer
and not John X. I would have thought otherwise. She
is very youthful in her appearance and very exuberant in
her energy level. Not that boomers can't be. I just
assumed she was a bit younger, and I think that's
a good thing for this host to assume in that
direction rather than the other way around. Well, you know
(13:39):
you're part of the silent generation, you know, Joe Biden,
Clint Eastwood, you know I want to get your thoughts
too while we're on the subject and the topic Pat
Karen Ryan Schuling Live your text five seven, seven thirty nine,
reflect on anything that you heard there from bred to Horne.
I'm a big fan of her personally, and I just
wanted to get her side what happened that Central State
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Committee meeting a couple of weekends ago, and it just
sounded like it went sideways. And we talked to Valtimore
Archiletta about that, who's been very involved with party politics
amongst the Colorado Republicans for several years, and he was
a candidate for Congress in the first Congressional district against
Diana de get I always like to throw out this
fun fact too. Congressional District one in Colorado. Now that's Denver, right,
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that's the urban center of Denver, Colorado. I am fifty
one years old as of September twenty sixth. Prior to
my birth, Pat Schroeder was the congresswoman for District one,
and I think it was nineteen ninety seven, ninety eight
right in there, Schroeder stepped aside and Diana to get
stepped in and she's been there ever since. So think
(14:44):
about that over fifty years, over half a century, in
the city of Denver, there have been only two members
of Congress representing the city of Denver's interest in the
first Congressional Pat Schroeder and Diana de Gett. And that's it.
I think that's wild, that's crazy. They were both career politicians.
(15:05):
I watched Valdemar debate Diana to get you know, TV studios,
one of his few guests that were allowed to attend,
and she was out of touch. She didn't care. She
showed up, she was not prepared. She threw out Trump
this and Trump that, and well not very in depth
on the issues. Valdemar's rattling off all these policy positions.
(15:26):
He's brilliant, but you know, this is on a local
cable station. Now there's anything wrong with that, But the
reach of that, the scope of that, I know. Valdemar
did everything, you know, to campaign, to go on foot,
to meet people face to face, get signs out. He
did everything a Republican could in a district that is
virtually unwinnable, and I think he did better than any
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modern Republican candidate has against Diana to get she runs
every two years the same stuff. What has she gotten done?
What are her accomplishments that you would pin on the
wall over there? What is Diana to get done for Denver?
What kind of state is Denver in? Not that it's
all her concern or her problem to fix, but what
has she done to fix it? In Congress? Representing a
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lot of you who might live in her district. I'm
honestly asking here because I'm coming up with nothing. Five seven, seven,
three nine. But I want to get your thoughts on
the gubernatorial field on the Republican side, which continues to grow.
And there's a very exciting name who was kind of
landed in the race. And his name is Victor Marx,
(16:33):
and it's an unfortunate last name. Let's call it what
it is for a Republican candidate. But I think it's
a lot easier for a Republican to kind of play
that name off and joke about it than it would
be for say, Zoran the Kami Mamdani. If his last
name was Marx, he'd be he be toast in the media.
But I don't know a whole lot about Victor Marx,
(16:55):
and we're hoping to get him on the program this
week at some point he has caused a big splash.
He has already I believe, earned the endorsement of my
good friends Heidi Ganall and Lauren Bobert. Those are big
names to have in his corner. And as the Rush
Limbaugh policy is, I do not endorse in primaries because
I don't think it's my position to advocate for any
(17:19):
one candidate within a field that you, my listeners, Republican
voters mostly should be selecting. I'll give you my honest thoughts, opinions,
breakdowns of each candidate as we go, and I will
have criticisms, and I will have compliments, and I'll give
you what I honestly think because nobody's buying my vote.
This is what I fear about a lot of people.
And it's not just on the left, but they're you know,
(17:42):
the nonsense that we've heard from Candice Owens and Tucker
Carlson of Late. We'll talk a little bit about this
after the break the re Odd Comedy Festival, for which
Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr performed, and I find myself
agreeing with David Cross, who's a Bernie supporter. This is
(18:02):
the may you live in interesting times and I suppose
that we do. But if it were today, Let's say
you got your ballot and the mail and we're still
a ways away from that, and you were voting for
your primary candidate of choice for governor. Who would you
vote for and why I want to hear from you?
Five seven, seven, three nine. Got a lot of momentum
and energy behind Victor Marx and his candidacy. Barb Kirkmeyer
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is a big respected name. She's been on this program
many times. Greg Lopez would be another one, and there
are myriad others in the field. I'm a big fan
of Scott Bottoms personally. I like the work that he
has done in the House. He has been a stable
and consistent and persistent conservative voting for our interests in
the House. So there are a lot of qualified names.
Who do you land on and why? Ryan Shulding life
(18:45):
continues after this?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Well, they brought it back a couple of times and
they went with cheaper leather. Okay, you know what I mean,
because some corporate had to give himself a bonus check
at the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What if we made it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Worse but made it look the same, Yeah, then could
our pools be bigger?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Free? Luigi. Oh god, you know this might be. I
know I'm gonna say, Ryan, you're naive, you're a rube,
and you're not wrong in either regard in this topic.
There are certain celebrities I want to believe that are
just solid individuals with integrity and they'll make fun of anybody.
(19:30):
And I used to think that about Bill Burr. He
used to be one of my favorites. And I mentioned
this last week even during his stand up at Red Rocks,
which was a Netflix special and many of you in
my audience maybe you went to it. He made a joke.
It was really well done, really well crafted about abortion,
but it had a pro life tinge to it in
(19:51):
which he likens it too. I'm making a cake. I
put it in the oven and it's bacon, and you
come in, you take it out on the floor and
I said, what are you doing? The baby in there?
No it's not. Well, what have been? And that's my
best Bill Burr, But that's that was the joy. He's right, like,
what have been? And then he gets into the kind
(20:13):
of the weeds on the top and goes like you know,
any inmates, he's pro choice, but yeah, you're killing a
baby and you gotta be you know, you gotta have
integrity enough to say that's what we're doing. I'm okay
with it. Now I'm not okay with it. I really
don't like abortion. I would like them there to be
as few as possible, as early as possible. I'd prefer
that they're not be any at all. If we could
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at all help it, if we could help young women
with an unexpected pregnancy that they don't know how they're
gonna pay for, provide for raise a child, and if
the financial element is the primary or sole burden for
a young woman in bringing a child into this world,
and the father's absentee, and the Libs always make this
joke too, well, then the father should be legally liable
(20:57):
for Yeah, yes, you have an agreement. We are in agreement.
We have on a chord. But Bill Burr is my goodness,
I think he married into something here. I'm just gonna
leave it at that. He made a comment not that
long ago that he submits all of his material, his
(21:19):
jokes to his wife for her to screen it, and
to me the joke within the joke, there would be
whatever she says I shouldn't do. Well, those are the
jokes that I do. Well. Okay, now that's funny, that's integrity.
But no, he's looking for what lines he shouldn't cross,
and he's taking her advice to heart. You're not a
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true comedian then, if you're playing favorites, if you're pulling punches,
if you're not an equal opportunity offender, which a lot
of comedians are, by the way, then you have an agenda.
And now you're Jimmy Kimmel, now you're Stephen Colbert. And
I have no interest in watching those guys, and not
just because I disagree with them politically, because it's not interesting.
(22:00):
Dave Chappelle was interesting to me, is interesting to me.
I think he's the finest at the craft right now,
that's my opinion. But he disappointed me. This Riodd festival.
It's just a lot of bad news and it's a
bad look. If I was merely advising Bill Burr or
Dave Chappelle from a PR stampot, I think you want
(22:23):
to steer clear of this one. Dave, you are rolling
in money. You don't need it. You don't need Riodd's money,
you don't need Qatar's money, you don't need Saudi Arabia's money.
There's a bad look. I don't like it for you.
I'm looking out for your best interest, Dave, like I
advise you just do something else. But that's not what happened.
That's not what happened at the Riodd Comedy Festival. I'm
(22:44):
looking like a lot of familiar names here, Aziz and Zari.
I'm just going by sight here, I'm seeing uh. I
don't know if those numbers are out. Did you see him?
Was that confirmed?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I heard some theory about maybe a mill million and
a half for what thirty minutes. Take the money? Well
he did, Bill Burr did too. But these are thoughts
offered up by David Cross. Now it needs to be
mentioned I think for purposes of perspective that David Cross
is Jewish, and he was born and raised that way,
(23:18):
and he is a leftist. He is a committed like
Bernie bro So he and I are not politically aligned
in hardly any way, maybe except for this one. And
he went off on a blog post here about those
comedians who participated in the Riad Comedy Festival. My thoughts
on the Riod Comedy Festival, writes David Cross. Now you
might remember him from what was the sitcom with Jason
(23:42):
Bateman arrested development? Thank you, Shannon. That's why we call
ourselves the Detroit Connection. Yes, he was very good unarrested development,
very funny. He also appears in Waiting for Guffman in
a cameo scene. Very good on just shoot Me as well.
There's another one. Keep in coming, Hi, serve it up anyway,
(24:02):
Here we go. My thoughts on theri Odd Comedy Festivals,
says David Cross. I've been asked for my opinion on
the Riodd Comedy Festival, and rather than answer the same
question twenty three times, I'll just put this out here.
Oh and I should preface this with the fact that
I was not offered the gig, but it should go
without saying that there's not enough money for me to
help these depraved, awful people put a fun face on
their crimes against humanity. Here here, fair enough? Here goes quote.
(24:29):
What do you think I think? I am disgusted and
deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing that people I
admire with unarguable talent would condone this to talitarian fiefdom
for what a fourth house, a boat, more sneakers. We
can never again, take seriously anything these comedians complain about
parenthetical unless it's complaining that we don't support enough torture
(24:49):
and mass executions of journalists and LGBTQ peace activists here
in the States, or that we don't terrorize enough Americans
by flying planes into our buildings. I mean, that's it.
You have a funny bit about how you don't like
Yankee candles or airport lounges, so okay, great, but you're
cool of murder and or the public caning of women
(25:09):
who were raped, and by having the audacity to be raped,
we're guilty of quote engaging in adultery unquote got any
bits on that? David Cross continues, these are some of
my heroes. Now, look, some of you folks don't stand
for anything, so you don't have any credibility to lose.
But my god, Dave and Louis and Bill and Jim
talking about Luisy k clearly you guys don't give a
(25:32):
blank about what the rest of us think. But how
can any of us take any of you seriously?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Again, all of your bitching about cancel culture and freedom
of speech and all that blank done, you don't get
to talk about it ever. Again. By now, we've all
seen the contract you had to sign. Shannon did too.
Apparently you're performing for literally the most oppressive regime on earth.
They have slaves, for Blank's sake. I don't understand how
(25:59):
being rich can make someone such a prostitute. I guess
I could use that word poor people desperate to improve
their or their families lives. Sure, still not acceptable, but
I can understand the desperation to put food on the table.
But this, I mean, it's not like this is some
commercial for a wireless service or a betting app. This
(26:19):
is truly the definition of quote blood money unquote. You
might as well do commercials for Lockheed Martin or Ziklon B.
Continuing again, David Cross in response to a lot of
the big names in comedy performing at this Riod Comedy
Festival in Saudi Arabia. Holy blank, I remember the backlash
(26:39):
I got for appearing in Elvin and the Chipmunks. You
would have thought that I had taken money from a
bunch of people responsible for funding al Qaeda. Unless you
open your sets with quote, this is dedicated to all
of the widows and widowers and kids orphaned by this bloodthirsty,
oppressive regime, especially from the Zany Shenanigans on nine to eleven. Ever,
(27:00):
forget mf Or's all right, so it's great to be here.
I'm going to be killing it tonight, but in the
good way, straight up. No MBS. That's good, that's funny. Continuing,
then your hypocrisy will never not be noted, David, And
then he adds a ps for anyone who wants to
actually spend their money on something worthwhile. The Human Rights
(27:22):
Foundation does amazing work, and he puts the website out there.
Now I read that to say that pretty much every
word I agree with David Cross there, and I've always
had as it's a delicate balancing act having an ally
in the region with whom you don't necessarily agree with
(27:43):
fundamentally on the issue of human rights in a lot
of ways, including those for women. I've never understood this
either presumably liberal women, not any in my audience I know,
but you might know one. How do you support mandatory
jjab Sharia law? How do you go out there in
(28:04):
a cafea with Palestinian flags protesting the existence of Israel,
calling out Zionist like myself. Yes, Israel has a right
to exist that's what a Zionist is, and I support it.
Where does this square with your whole notion that women
deserve equal rights? He mentions the caning of women. He's right,
(28:27):
that happens, and it's not just Saudi Arabia, it's throughout
the Middle East. These are oppressive regimes, a few women
as second class citizens. If that women can be forced
to marry, they can be forced to marry at the
age of nine or younger, and you're okay with that.
The stupidest cover of a magazine ever, I'm sorry, was
(28:48):
a woman with like mandatory his job. They have to
wear this in the custom of their religion, in an
American flag. Those two things do not square. You'll call
me a second wave feminist, and I'll gladly wear the
label because I think women should have equal rights to men,
equal opportunity. Same thing in the military. If a Briand
of Tarth, as I've said before from Game of Thrones,
(29:09):
can do the work of a man in the field
in the military, can help save lives, can meet the
physical requirements lifting, carrying, speed, lung, compet all of that,
then by God, she should be able to serve. But
we cannot lower the bar. So I'm trying to wrap
my head around these so called liberal women who are
(29:32):
absolutely positively okay with Sharia law, mandatory hijab, women as
second class citizens, women can't drive, women do not have
equal rights. How do you square that? That's my big question.
And for these comedians, David Cross is right like, don't
come to me with your proletariat bs against the bourgeois
(29:55):
when you've become the very bougie bourgeoisi that you despise
or claim to. That's what this was. It was a
sellout and David Cross is right one last time out
wrapping up Ryan Shuling live for this Monday after this,
so you can.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Imagine people are getting detained, they're getting arrested US citizens.
And they did this, of course when they raided a
building in the middle of the night in South Shore,
one hundred and thirty people that were emptied out of
this building. They were going after a few gang members
and instead they broke windows, they broke down doors, they
ransacked the place, and there were people that were held,
(30:35):
I mean elderly people and children zip tied, elderly people
held for three hours at a time. They are the
ones that are making it a war zone. They need
to get out of Chicago. If they're not going to
focus on the worst of the worst, which is what
the President said they were going to do, they need
to get the heck.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Outjbback Ribs, as Jesse Waters calls them, it's the best
nickname ever. Pritzker, Democrat Illinois cumnor. If you were focused
on the worst of the worst, on removing them from
your city, on ensuring that Chicago WANs could live in
(31:14):
a safe city protected by the Chicago police, then Ice
wouldn't have to come in and do your job for you.
I'm the guy who's doing his job. You must be
the other guy. Mark Wahlberg said in the department. It's
a great line. It applies here, it applies in a
lot of areas where Democrats are now clutching their pearls.
Say and there he makes another comment, you know, makes
(31:39):
this racial. They're just targeting brown and black people. And
this is all intentionally triggering language to paint Ice with
one brush and cartoon fashion as being racist and oppressive
and totalitarian and jack booted thugs, which we've heard from
Tim Walls again. If the Democratic governor and Democratic mayors
(32:01):
in these Democratic cities strongholds were doing their jobs. How
many residents have you've seen interviewed, many of whom are
black and brown, saying thank god Trump sent ice in here.
We're afraid for our safety here. But they don't care. Democrats,
they don't care that their own citizens are in danger
(32:25):
because of the infiltration of so many criminal, illegal aliens,
for whom we have no records, no rap sheets, no history,
because they didn't come in here through the proper channels.
Like I say, most people, not all, most, a vast
majority are here illegally for a reason because they couldn't
or wouldn't or didn't want to come here legally. And
(32:47):
why not? That's the question? Five seven, seven thirty nine
back to back texts from the same Texter and spot
on with both points, Ryan, you forget that Democrats have
all the public school teachers on their side, that in
doctrinate is part of class. I have not forgotten that.
In fact, I remember that quite well, and we're watching
that play out in the numbers that Ben Shapiro shared
with us off the top. If you missed it, be
(33:08):
sure to catch the podcast Ryan Schuling live on your
favorite podcast platform. Same text for Ryan, not to support
the Saudist but how is comedy and riadd different than
live golf. It's not. You're not wrong. I have a
major problem with that too, but it's capitalism. And if
golfers want to sell their souls, then I guess that's
on them, just like the comedians. But we are free,
(33:30):
like we saw with David Cross to call them out
on it. And finally, Ryan, we need not worry about
human rights in other countries when we make a heroin
out of a woman who tells young women through your
music to be a word I don't want to say.
We are a sick society and Trump should discharge ninety
five percent of women from the military. They should be
(33:50):
put out. I don't know about that number where you're
getting it from. But I am a meritocracy supporter, and
the women can serve and do the same job as men.
I support them in doing it. That's all for me
from here for now, Join it tomorrow. Ryan Scherling Live,
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