October 1, 2025 • 33 mins
Stephen Federico testifies at a North Carolina hearing on the murder of his 22-year-old daughter Logan at the hands of a career criminal who had broken into the residence where she was staying with friends. His emotion is palpable and powerful, and foreshadows dark outcomes in Colorado with our dangerous 'competency' law in this state which allows the accused to go 'shrink shopping' to find a psychiatrist to rule a defendant incompetent to stand trial.
It's Wednesday, which means 'Remembering Rush' returns with his take on virtue signaling ribbons the Left wears to show how much they care. In fact, it was the central plot point of a Seinfeld episode in which Kramer refuses to wear a red ribbon on an AIDS walk.
It's Wednesday, which means 'Remembering Rush' returns with his take on virtue signaling ribbons the Left wears to show how much they care. In fact, it was the central plot point of a Seinfeld episode in which Kramer refuses to wear a red ribbon on an AIDS walk.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How known of you all have kids. I'm just curious.
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Here's what I need you to do when I tell
you this story. Think about your kids. Think about your
child coming home from the night out with their friends,
laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the
room and wake them and drag her out of bed, naked,
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forced on her knees, with her hands over her head,
begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Me, that couldn't be there.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
She was five, 't three, She weighed one hundred and
fifteen pounds.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Dead gone.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Why because Alexander DeVante Dickey, who was arrested.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Thirty nine damn times.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Twenty five felonies, was on the street. How about that?
How good are we doing for our family? How good
are you doing for your kids? He should have been
in jail for over one hundred and forty years for
all the crimes he committed.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know how much time he's.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Spent in prison, a little over six hundred days in
ten years.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
He's only thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He was committing two point sixty five crimes a year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Since he was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well,
you'd have to put him in prison to see if
he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison?
But no, my daughter wanted to be a teacher. She
finally figured it out two weeks before she was executed.
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And I haven't heard a damn word from Byron Gibson
in South Carolina, not one word, four months, no communication.
His biggest concern was that he was pissed off about
my interview and how I made him look on the
Fox News channel.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
With Trey Gowdi.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
How pathetic is that now we're letting our twenty two
year old kid visiting friends.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's all she ever wanted to do was visit friends.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And she literally was executed while on her knees, begging
for her life. Her name's logan Federico, not irena, and
you will.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Not forget her. I promise you.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You will be sick and tired of my face and
my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until
my last break for my daughter. You need to fight
for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocence,
and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us. Please,
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do you have the power we put you in the
power to do what you have to do. We're asking you,
we're begging you all to stop this. Thirty nine crimes
in ten years, twenty five felonies. Can anybody there here
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explain to me, well, how possibly he could be on
the street, possibly be on the street.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How is it possible?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I could sit down a room and I can explain
the whole process I have it failed? How South Carolina failed? Logan, Okay,
how lack of communication? What y'all did? You woke up
a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy? Because
I'm going to put it out there and I'm not
going to be quiet until somebody helps. Logan deserves to
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be heard. Everyone on this panel deserves to be heard,
and we will trust me. My daughter laid on a
floor for seven hours before somebody in that house recognized
that something was wrong and that pure criminal an hour later,
went on a spending spree with her debit card. When
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they saw his face on a video, they didn't have
to do a check. He was arrested so many times.
I knew who he was, They knew exactly where to
go get him. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic that I'm here today,
thank you for your time.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I wanted you to hear that entire five minute address
from Steven Federico. He is the father a twenty two
year old logan who was murdered by a career criminal,
Alexander Dickey, and he was addressing a North Carolina congress
hearing there. I believe she was visiting friends at the
University of South Carolina and an intruder murdered her in
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cold blood, shot her, as her father describes there, merely
for her debit card to go on a spending sprea.
I mean, there's no good reason for what happened, the
horror of what happened. But our officials, are elected officials,
are letting us down.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And the reason I start with.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That today is because that's coming to Colorado if it
hasn't already, and in some ways it has, and in
many ways, these recidivist criminals are being prioritized over your safety,
the safety of your loved ones, your well being, because
we care about the feelings of somebody who chose to
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commit a crime, a violent crime in many cases, and
they're being let off scott free here in Colorado due
to an incompetent competency law passed in bipartisan fashion, with
many Republicans supporting it, all but one in the Senate,
and the one that didn't was absent several Republican House
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members who didn't see this coming, but should have seen
this coming, or should have known by looking around corners
that there were loopholes, there was language that could be
exploited and taken advantage of. And we'll get to one
of those such cases in just a moment, but continuing
here with the case of Stephen Federico in the tragic
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case of his daughter Logan being murdered by a man
who should never have been on the streets, and showing
care and compassion for this grieving father, here is Democrat
State Rep.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Deborah Ross who gets it wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I also want to express my deepest, deepest condolences to
the family of Arena Zarutska. What happened to her is
simply unimaginable and unconscionable, and I hope that we will
take to heart her family's request not to remember her
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by her last moments or politicize her death, but instead
to remember her as the vibrant and exceptionally kind person
she was. And I'm thrilled that we have a picture
of her in that state. But to be honest and
for our victims, this hearing is.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Too little, too late.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
We should have been doing more to prevent crime and
address the lack of mental health care long before this hearing. Particularly. Oh,
I'm sorry, I am so sorry. I am so sorry.
Thank you so much for bringing that. Thank you, thank you, sir.
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I am so sorry for you. I'm I am so
I'm so sorry for your loss. And my heart goes
out to you. My heart goes out to you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I did not know her. How dare you not know her?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Gets the name wrong, not even talking about the right
person now, let alone the fact that there's more than
one to choose from here, because Arena Zarutska was the
younger Ukrainian woman refuge here in the United States who
was stabbed to death on public transportation in Charlotte, North Carolina.
So you know, forgive State Representative Debora Ross, Democrat, North
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Carolina if we're getting confused, because there's just more than
one that she has to choose from on the platter
and menu of options here. These laws, these policies, these
politicians who are prioritizing criminals over law abiding citizens need
to be called out each and every time this happens,
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need to be held to account in the political sphere.
And as I go down a list, here Arena Zaritzka,
Logan Federico tied to these monsters, Alexander Dickey for Federico
de Carlos Brown Junior is the madman who stabbed Arena
Zeruzka in the neck and she bled out and died
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on that public transit.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And then we bring it home here to Colorado.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Solomon Gallaghan, a registered sex offender in Pueblo County, a
rap sheet a mile long, his own mother, his own sister,
questioning why Solomon Gallaghan, however, he chooses to identify now
trans whatever. I think that's a cop out in many
ways for many people. Many times, I'm gonna believe it.
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I'm not going to give credence or oxygen to He's
Solomon Gallaghan.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He committed these crimes.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Tried to abduct a fifth grader from an elementary school
playground in Aurora in broad daylight during recess, roaming the
streets like a zombie looking to abduct this child and
do who knows what, God knows what with it. Thank
God that didn't happen, but it almost did, and because
it didn't happen, I guess it doesn't rise to the
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level that he needs to be incarcerated because he was
not deemed mentally competent to stay on trial in this
joke of a law that is anything but funny, and
it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It framed to be.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So we've talked many times the Will County Sheriff Steve
reams about this clown charged with attempted second degree murderer,
gotten two very violent fights.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
There's video of each. Sucker punched one of them.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
One of the victims, still recovering from his injuries, may
never fully recover again attempted second degree murder. But because
he's a foreign national and may not speak our language
very well and may not understand our American customs and
laws very well, that alone was enough for him. Again,
as they go shrink shopping to find a doctor, feel
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good psychiatrist of standing.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That may be debatable, may be questionable, but.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You found one to deem him not competent to stand trial.
These are just two egregious examples, but they're far from
the only ones. So a friend to besa predictably behaved
like a wild man and went on the campus of
University of Northern Colorado with a firearm in a dorm
room where they're prohibited, and was apprehended once again and
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then claimed for an incompetent person.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
He sure does know his rights.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
He claimed he was unjustly charged, that he was being
held for political reasons. Again, this supposedly incompetent person. I'm
expecting drooling, expecting eating glue, you know, some really disturbing
type of non sentient behavior from these individuals. That's not
what is happening here. The bar for competency well should
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be way higher. It's not here in Colorado. And if
you can clear it with one shrink, one psychiatrist that
says you're crazy, man, you're crazy. You can't stand trial.
It's not competent, the charges go out the window. You
got your Charlie bucket, golden ticket, Willie wank A style,
you got your get out of jail free card.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You won't be charged with those charges again. They're dismissed.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
They evaporate into thin air, and you're free to kind
of start all over again on a clean slate. Except
they don't have a clean slate. That Republicans let this
one slip past. The goalie is inexcusable. It's inexplicable. I
don't care the constitutionality individual rights that can be handled
in a case by case basis. This gave blanket incompetency
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for those who could claim it that found one psychiatrist
who would speak to it to get off of charges
for which they should have been charged and should have
been incarcerated, and should not be in polite society, in
any part of our society, whether they're held in a hospital,
a mental hospital, a jail cell. Expand the jails, don't
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shrink the jails. We need more jail space, we need
more bedspace. We don't have that dedicate it to psychiatric problems.
Do that, but they haven't done that. Jared Poulis, the
governor of Colorado, called this out himself, but he signed
the very bill into law that created this loophole and
this entire problem. He tells Fox thirty one quote. Dangerous
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criminals should never be released onto the streets. We want
to work with everyone to determine if there are additional
reforms that should be made to ensure that people who
could potentially endanger others or themselves are not threatening public safety.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Governor Polis is committed to.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Making Colorado community safer, and he signed a number of
law to do that, including providing more resources to local
law enforcement, cracking down on auto and gun theft, and
supporting crime prevention, and signing this absolutely backcrap competency bill
into law. Jared Polus did that that he thinks he
can gaslight his way out of this speaks to what
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he thinks of you, and of me, and of Sheriff
Steve Reames and of twenty third District Attorney George Brockler.
He thinks we're mental midgets, that we can't figure this out.
That you signed the law, pal repeal the law, call
a special session, wipe it off the books, start all
over again, whatever aim you had, and this was a
bipartisan bill, I must repeat, which drives me nuts. But
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at least we have people like Brandy Bradley, it Scott
Bottoms there to toe and hold the line against this madness.
Don't join it, don't accede to it, don't compromise with it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
On this matter. This is a national embarrassment. But folks,
it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Because you might remember my conversation with Britney cursed as
she tells the story right here.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
In November of twenty twenty four, my mom was visiting
us from out of town and we were at a
doctor's appointment for my oldest son and he just wanted
McDonald's before we took him to school, so we were expecting,
you know, a normal day. We went through the drive through,
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we ordered our food, and they directed us to park
in the front of the store to wait for our food. Well,
I barked into the spot that I was instructed to
and there was a vehicle next to me, and when
that vehicle pulled out, they side spiked my car. That
vehicle was driven by Joel Lang and when my mom
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and I got out to exchange information, he instead of stopping,
just hit the gas pedal, hit my mom and.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Drug her body under his van.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
For three hundred feet and I was running alongside the
van trying to get him to stop, begging him to stop.
And when I finally let go and I fell, I
went back to where my mom was initially hit, and
I had bystanders coming at me from every direction, and
I thought my mom was okay for a split second
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until I realized everybody was looking behind me and she
was laying lifeless in the street. And I remember when
he turned himself in, it was like a sigh of relief.
But it was so short lived because instead of going
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to court to go to trial, we were going to
court because he's not competent. And he walked away a
completely freeman on August first. He still has his striver's license.
There were absolutely no consequences for.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Him, no consequences because spin the wheel. We're going shrink shopping.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
In Joel's own words, he said, I knew I hit her.
I knew I was dragging her. I knew this would
kill her. I just had to get out of there.
And also we heard when the competency evaluator asked him
if he understood what it means to be incompetent, he said,
it means this problem goes away.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
A supposedly insane person incompetence stand trial knew well enough
that if he was able to get this incompetency plea
through that this would all go away. His words, this,
Joel laying a free man, not charged with this. You
heard the crime as described. How does that happen? How
is that tolerable?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now? An insane person certainly would do that.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
No sane person would do what you just described, sideswipe
of vehicle then hit an older lady, dragging her several
hundred feet to her death. No sane competent person would
do that, of course, but an evil person.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Would do that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And we cannot conflate evil with incompetent just because we
can't comprehend it in our minds as sane, lucid, decent,
law abiding people doesn't mean those who are insane indecent
lawbreaking criminals are automatically incompetent because they make a choice
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to cross a line. That is a choice, an active choice.
So I hate crimes are such a joke. Of course,
you don't murder somebody you like, that's insane, But any
act like this, by very definition is insane.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's not insane. But we have to have a way
of sorting through this process.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Or somebody who commits a crime that does evil, that
makes a choice, might not be of sound mind at all,
but they have to pay a price for it. Do
we live in the wild wet Even in the wild West,
we would have a sheriff in town to enforce the
law and meet out frontier justice. We have lawlessness in
this land, and it's right here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Because I'm wearing these ribbons, I care more than any
of you about anything, and.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
These ribbons say so.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I want you, people sitting at home, and you people
in the audience, look down at you're lapel right now.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I want you to do this. Put the camera back
on me.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Do this.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
When you look down, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
You don't see anything because you're not wearing any ribbons.
It means you're a bigot. It means you're a racist.
It means you're a sexist. It means you're a homophobe.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It probably means.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You're a white guy. It probably means you're a European
and you and you alone are responsible for all the
ills of America.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
But I'm not.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Because I'm wearing these ribbons.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I care more than it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
So that was circa nineteen ninety three, and it was
a much different time in a much different world. And
as you heard from the studio audience, the short lived
Rush Limbaugh television show, which I loved, by the way,
and Rush would have kept doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It got massive ratings.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They would plug it in late at night and syndication
in various markets, but he didn't enjoy doing it because
we think about it, thirty minute television show, right, content wise,
that means about twenty one to twenty two minutes in there,
depending on ad inventory and what they sell. So that
means a couple of spot block, commercial blocks, and two
points in the thirty minute television show. So you got
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an eight block, a B block, a C block, and
Rush didn't want to operate under those constraints. And in
his radio show three hours a day now, his content
was probably a neighborhood of maybe forty minutes an hour,
maybe less, maybe less. I know, for instance, from my
show here per hour, we're probably talking around thirty four
minutes of content. We then build in there's news, there's traffic,
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there's weather, there's the spot blocks, So we have all
of that content interspersed in the commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But that's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And at least that gave Rush a lot more time
to kind of expand.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
On issues and you got more of him. Maha Rushi.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
On this Wednesday, we are remembering Rush as we do
on a weekly basis here and this one it rings
true today but in a much different way because back
then it was a punchline.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Right, you're wearing this ribbon. That means you care. That
means you are a better person than somebody who's not
wearing a ribbon. I mean, you think about that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But this is a belief system today, and we'll give
it more of that coming up an hour number two.
In one of Charlie Kirk's I think most prescient and
wise moments as he was out on the campus tour
trail that he did so well talking about a faith
based nation that we are here in the United States.
The short version of that, and a preview here for you,
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is that if you lack faith, it could be anything.
This is why they ascribe a higher power as a
main main tenant.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Of alcoholics anonymous. If you are a recovering addict, you
have to subvert yourself to a higher power and recognize
that you are not the center of the universe. The
world does not revolve around you, your whims, your interests,
your likes, your tastes, your passions. You are part of
a broader fabric.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Now I don't mean this in a Marxist communist way,
but just that you kind of know your place in
the universe, that there is a God that is more
powerful than you. But with this self centric set of
values that replaces a religion, and again you can put
a lot of religions in there for a faith based
belief system. The politics becomes a leftist atheist's faith.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
That is the religion. They bring it into the public square.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And again going back to this being a punchline, so
that show, that television show Russel and Bomas from about
ninety three, This was from about thirty years ago. I
think in nineteen ninety five episode of Seinfeld. If you
go back and watch Seinfeld, now, Larry David is no
conservative and Jerry Seinfeld, I bet he's a if I
had guess, a classical liberal, kind of the same way
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that Bill Maher is not out there wildly left, not
at all. In fact, he's gotten a lot of heat
from that direction. But I wouldn't say Jerry's a conservative.
But theirs sensibilities in terms of comedy came back to
this political correctness which has now evolved into woke DEI
crab being ridiculous on its face. And here is that
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scene from the AIDS Walk that Kramer participated in but
he didn't want to wear the ribbon.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, is that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Okay, No, it's not okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You're checked in. Thank you? Here's your AIDS rippot.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
No, thank you don't want to wear an AIDS ribbn No, no,
but you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I have to.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yes, see that's why I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
But everyone mrs the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon.
What you are? You're a ribbon bully?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Come back yard?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What this on?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Where's your ribbon?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't wear them? You don't wear the ribbons? Aren't
you a get togs? Yeah? I'm against the hes when
I'm walking on, I just don't wear the ribbon.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Put the ribbon on? Etc?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Boh, this guy won't wear a ribbon? Who who doesn't
want to wear the ribbon?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What wasn't going to be? Are you going to wear
the ribbon?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But I'm wearing the ribbon, he's wearing the ribbon. We
are all wearing the ribbon.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So why aren't you going to wear the ribbon?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is America. I don't have to wear anything I
don't want to wear. Yeah, what are we gonna do
with him? I guess we're just going.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
To have to teach him to wear the ribbon.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
They are the fascists they warned us about. They you
must wear the ribbon, the demands here, the virtue signaling.
These are the same people that would evolve to the
ones with the signs out in the front lawn that
we've all seen in this house. Oh no, human is illegal,
science is real. They Oh, you're a good person, you're
a smart person. Here, you're better than me. I'm glad
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you have that sign in your yard. Meanwhile, Martha's vineyard
forever an iconic image, the woman with the Jackie O
sunglasses and the straw hat and the tear, the single
tear down her left cheek, gotta be the left cheek,
smiling and applodding as the migrants that were busts there
by Ron DeSantis were quickly put right back on a
bus within forty eight hours and sent over to Cape
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cod Because they don't want not my bad card. No no, no, no,
we want the illegals here. You know, if they're the
help and we have like a specified rule for them,
and they live here, they don't dwell amongst us. Oh no, no, no,
they can't be here. But if it's Laredo Texas' problem. Well,
then that's up to then to deal with it. We
want the illegals here, He don't want to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I live in a gated community. I mean, I don't
want him around like in the yard and stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
One more, I think very touching moment here because Michael Richards,
who portrayed Kramer, it was again an indelible character for
which there is no comparison in my mind. He got
into some hot water. He had kind of a fit
on stage. I think he was blasting out N word
and that really took its toll on his career. And
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I don't remember the exact circumstances of it, but.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It was not a good look. Should not have done it,
but it kind of got blacklisted and canceled.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And Jerry Seinfeld himself is the one that reached out
and kind of brought him back into the mainstream sphere
because he's a true friend. And I think Jerry Seinfeld
deep down is a really good guy and somebody that
his colleagues, his cohorts, in his inner circle can certainly
count on. And I'm talking about friends like Jay Leno
And if you watch again, I'm gonna recommend this documentary
comedian if you can find it, it's a little over
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twenty years old, and it documents Jerry Seinfeld going back
out into the wild. So he folds up his tent
on the sitcom Segnfeld. It ends in nineteen ninety eight.
With it, he retires all of his original jokes and work.
He starts from scratch. He recreates his act and he
takes it.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
On the road. Randomly.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He'll walk into like a nightclub New York City, not
scheduled to appear, but Jerry Seinfel walks in and the
owner goes, you're getting on stage, Sure, you have ten
minute it whatever you want. And he goes and develops
that act and he hones it, and he takes that
craft very seriously, as did Jason Alexander, who for my money,
and I think Jerry and Julie Louis dreyfuss Elaine both
agreed Jason was the most talented actor.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
On the show.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But to his credit, Jason deflects on this and he
looks at it from a little bit different angle in
terms of comedy and who can do the role. And
this was the ultimate compliment to Michael Richards and just
listen to his reaction in the end.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It is so authentic and so genuine, so nice.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
People think we want a lot more Emmys than we did.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Yeah, well, yours was the greatest oversight I'll say it was.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It was stupid if you.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Looked at four solid comedy actors back to back, and
then his best scene in any given.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Year of our show. Right, where are you making a comparison?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yeah, I mean every year that you and I got nominated.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I went goodbye.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
It was always just shocked to me the years you
didn't win. There's nobody else who could create that character.
I always think if Wayne Knight had played George, he'd
be in the ballpark. You'd get roughly the same thing.
And there are other actresses and their other actress, but
there was a sensibility that package and the way you're
cylinders fired as Kramer.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
There was nothing else, nothing else like it. That's sweet, Jason,
thank you. No, it's totally sincere.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I had a nice moment for Michael Richards to enjoy there,
which brings you into the questions we go to break
and you could text us five seven seven three nine
if you remember Seinfeld, I know there may be some
of you in the audience that are too young to
remember at least airing in real time. Maybe you've seen
the syndication Who is your favorite Seinfeld character? Could be
one of the main four, one of the core four.
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Well maybe it's a side character. Let me know and
why five, seven, seventh, thry nine will have that conversation.
But the moral of this story in this segment, as
we trace it all the way back to Rush was
at one time Seinfeld the greatest pop culture creation of
the nineteen nineties in terms of television entertainment and sitcoms.
Matt rush Limbaugh the loudest and most important voice, certainly
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from the conservative right, but also just in the talk
show sphere of the nineteen nineties. On the same page
on this issue, because virtue signaling is ridiculous, and it
doesn't make you a good person just because you wear
a ribbon or just because you have a sign in
your yard. In fact, it may very well be covering
up for the fact that maybe you're not such a
great person after all, and you need to overcompensate for it.
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A time out back with more after this on Ryan
Schuleing Live, I.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Don't care who you vote for, like left right, you know.
It's just it's crazy to me that Trump like he
got right to it. He wasn't even playing around. I
thought we were going to get like a month head
started at least.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You know, I didn't think he was gonna get it right.
He was like, Yo, as.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
Soon as I get in office, I'm getting rid of
the immigrants. But I didn't think he was going to
do it like right away, because you know, you know,
like when you get home and you're pulling into your
driveway and you're thinking about everything you gotta do. You're like, yo,
I gotta put in a load of laundry, take out
the trash, you know, the kitchen a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
But you don't do it all like right away.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
You you put on Netflix, you hit up, you heat
up a meal, you do things in between, you know,
you take little breaks. But Trump, he didn't watch no Netflix, bro.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
He just.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
He got right to it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Ralpha Barbosa, comedian on Trump and deporting illegal immigrants. Now
it's a target rich environment right for comedy, and this
is a way to navigate those waters, I think, where
you bring the entire audience. Those of us who support
Trump realize he is a cartoonish figure in a lot
of ways. I think that's part of his charm and
appeal and that we can make fun of him. He's
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not like this dear leader crap that we keep hearing
Trump right or wrong. Orange Man, I bowed the altar.
I'm a brown shirt. I'm an not see that follows
Hitler like this is all so ridiculous, and yet it's
serious because there are demented whack jobs and even those
who may not be considered that who take that characterization seriously.
But a comedian like this and if you see Shane Gellis,
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you gotta watch Beautiful Dogs. Okay, it's a Netflix special,
and he talks about when Trump had the press conference
about the killing.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Of Abubakar al Baghdadi. He's dead. He died like a dog, okay.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And it's hilarious for those who support Trump and certainly
for those that want to see a comedian take some
you know, barbs at Trump that. Yeah, that's entertaining too.
I just think there's a good way to do it,
and I think, well, Barbosa comes up with it right there.
This text at five seven seven three nine David Patti Padi, Yes,
Elaine's boyfriend. They're in they're out, they're on, they're off.
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He's just got this real stoic demeanor and never really cracks,
and that makes him a very interesting character character in
contrast to Elaine Ryan, most humans have an innate impulse
towards fascism. Seems many of the elitaboth parties have significant
fascistic tendencies, almost wear masks. Say something we don't like,
we'll cancel you and get you fired and ostracized. There's
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a long history of fascist societies in the world, and
they all have had a similar modus operandi. Yet they
have existed with rulers who have been both conservative and liberal.
You're not wrong, that's a very well crafted text. But
I think those that are in at least the mindset
that I occupy, are truly anti fascist, meaning we do
not want to imbark upon anybody one set way of
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doing things other than we are all collectively Americans.
How known of you all have kids. I'm just curious.
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Here's what I need you to do when I tell
you this story. Think about your kids. Think about your
child coming home from the night out with their friends,
laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the
room and wake them and drag her out of bed, naked,
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forced on her knees, with her hands over her head,
begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Me, that couldn't be there.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
She was five, 't three, She weighed one hundred and
fifteen pounds.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Dead gone.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Why because Alexander DeVante Dickey, who was arrested.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Thirty nine damn times.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Twenty five felonies, was on the street. How about that?
How good are we doing for our family? How good
are you doing for your kids? He should have been
in jail for over one hundred and forty years for
all the crimes he committed.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know how much time he's.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Spent in prison, a little over six hundred days in
ten years.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
He's only thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He was committing two point sixty five crimes a year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Since he was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well,
you'd have to put him in prison to see if
he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison?
But no, my daughter wanted to be a teacher. She
finally figured it out two weeks before she was executed.
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And I haven't heard a damn word from Byron Gibson
in South Carolina, not one word, four months, no communication.
His biggest concern was that he was pissed off about
my interview and how I made him look on the
Fox News channel.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
With Trey Gowdi.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
How pathetic is that now we're letting our twenty two
year old kid visiting friends.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's all she ever wanted to do was visit friends.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And she literally was executed while on her knees, begging
for her life. Her name's logan Federico, not irena, and
you will.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Not forget her. I promise you.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You will be sick and tired of my face and
my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until
my last break for my daughter. You need to fight
for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocence,
and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us. Please,
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do you have the power we put you in the
power to do what you have to do. We're asking you,
we're begging you all to stop this. Thirty nine crimes
in ten years, twenty five felonies. Can anybody there here
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explain to me, well, how possibly he could be on
the street, possibly be on the street.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How is it possible?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I could sit down a room and I can explain
the whole process I have it failed? How South Carolina failed? Logan, Okay,
how lack of communication? What y'all did? You woke up
a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy? Because
I'm going to put it out there and I'm not
going to be quiet until somebody helps. Logan deserves to
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be heard. Everyone on this panel deserves to be heard,
and we will trust me. My daughter laid on a
floor for seven hours before somebody in that house recognized
that something was wrong and that pure criminal an hour later,
went on a spending spree with her debit card. When
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they saw his face on a video, they didn't have
to do a check. He was arrested so many times.
I knew who he was, They knew exactly where to
go get him. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic that I'm here today,
thank you for your time.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I wanted you to hear that entire five minute address
from Steven Federico. He is the father a twenty two
year old logan who was murdered by a career criminal,
Alexander Dickey, and he was addressing a North Carolina congress
hearing there. I believe she was visiting friends at the
University of South Carolina and an intruder murdered her in
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cold blood, shot her, as her father describes there, merely
for her debit card to go on a spending sprea.
I mean, there's no good reason for what happened, the
horror of what happened. But our officials, are elected officials,
are letting us down.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And the reason I start with.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That today is because that's coming to Colorado if it
hasn't already, and in some ways it has, and in
many ways, these recidivist criminals are being prioritized over your safety,
the safety of your loved ones, your well being, because
we care about the feelings of somebody who chose to
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commit a crime, a violent crime in many cases, and
they're being let off scott free here in Colorado due
to an incompetent competency law passed in bipartisan fashion, with
many Republicans supporting it, all but one in the Senate,
and the one that didn't was absent several Republican House
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members who didn't see this coming, but should have seen
this coming, or should have known by looking around corners
that there were loopholes, there was language that could be
exploited and taken advantage of. And we'll get to one
of those such cases in just a moment, but continuing
here with the case of Stephen Federico in the tragic
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case of his daughter Logan being murdered by a man
who should never have been on the streets, and showing
care and compassion for this grieving father, here is Democrat
State Rep.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Deborah Ross who gets it wrong.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I also want to express my deepest, deepest condolences to
the family of Arena Zarutska. What happened to her is
simply unimaginable and unconscionable, and I hope that we will
take to heart her family's request not to remember her
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by her last moments or politicize her death, but instead
to remember her as the vibrant and exceptionally kind person
she was. And I'm thrilled that we have a picture
of her in that state. But to be honest and
for our victims, this hearing is.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Too little, too late.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
We should have been doing more to prevent crime and
address the lack of mental health care long before this hearing. Particularly. Oh,
I'm sorry, I am so sorry. I am so sorry.
Thank you so much for bringing that. Thank you, thank you, sir.
(08:11):
I am so sorry for you. I'm I am so
I'm so sorry for your loss. And my heart goes
out to you. My heart goes out to you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I did not know her. How dare you not know her?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Gets the name wrong, not even talking about the right
person now, let alone the fact that there's more than
one to choose from here, because Arena Zarutska was the
younger Ukrainian woman refuge here in the United States who
was stabbed to death on public transportation in Charlotte, North Carolina.
So you know, forgive State Representative Debora Ross, Democrat, North
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Carolina if we're getting confused, because there's just more than
one that she has to choose from on the platter
and menu of options here. These laws, these policies, these
politicians who are prioritizing criminals over law abiding citizens need
to be called out each and every time this happens,
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need to be held to account in the political sphere.
And as I go down a list, here Arena Zaritzka,
Logan Federico tied to these monsters, Alexander Dickey for Federico
de Carlos Brown Junior is the madman who stabbed Arena
Zeruzka in the neck and she bled out and died
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on that public transit.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And then we bring it home here to Colorado.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Solomon Gallaghan, a registered sex offender in Pueblo County, a
rap sheet a mile long, his own mother, his own sister,
questioning why Solomon Gallaghan, however, he chooses to identify now
trans whatever. I think that's a cop out in many
ways for many people. Many times, I'm gonna believe it.
(09:58):
I'm not going to give credence or oxygen to He's
Solomon Gallaghan.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He committed these crimes.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Tried to abduct a fifth grader from an elementary school
playground in Aurora in broad daylight during recess, roaming the
streets like a zombie looking to abduct this child and
do who knows what, God knows what with it. Thank
God that didn't happen, but it almost did, and because
it didn't happen, I guess it doesn't rise to the
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level that he needs to be incarcerated because he was
not deemed mentally competent to stay on trial in this
joke of a law that is anything but funny, and
it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It framed to be.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So we've talked many times the Will County Sheriff Steve
reams about this clown charged with attempted second degree murderer,
gotten two very violent fights.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
There's video of each. Sucker punched one of them.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
One of the victims, still recovering from his injuries, may
never fully recover again attempted second degree murder. But because
he's a foreign national and may not speak our language
very well and may not understand our American customs and
laws very well, that alone was enough for him. Again,
as they go shrink shopping to find a doctor, feel
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good psychiatrist of standing.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That may be debatable, may be questionable, but.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You found one to deem him not competent to stand trial.
These are just two egregious examples, but they're far from
the only ones. So a friend to besa predictably behaved
like a wild man and went on the campus of
University of Northern Colorado with a firearm in a dorm
room where they're prohibited, and was apprehended once again and
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then claimed for an incompetent person.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
He sure does know his rights.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
He claimed he was unjustly charged, that he was being
held for political reasons. Again, this supposedly incompetent person. I'm
expecting drooling, expecting eating glue, you know, some really disturbing
type of non sentient behavior from these individuals. That's not
what is happening here. The bar for competency well should
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be way higher. It's not here in Colorado. And if
you can clear it with one shrink, one psychiatrist that
says you're crazy, man, you're crazy. You can't stand trial.
It's not competent, the charges go out the window. You
got your Charlie bucket, golden ticket, Willie wank A style,
you got your get out of jail free card.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You won't be charged with those charges again. They're dismissed.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
They evaporate into thin air, and you're free to kind
of start all over again on a clean slate. Except
they don't have a clean slate. That Republicans let this
one slip past. The goalie is inexcusable. It's inexplicable. I
don't care the constitutionality individual rights that can be handled
in a case by case basis. This gave blanket incompetency
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for those who could claim it that found one psychiatrist
who would speak to it to get off of charges
for which they should have been charged and should have
been incarcerated, and should not be in polite society, in
any part of our society, whether they're held in a hospital,
a mental hospital, a jail cell. Expand the jails, don't
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shrink the jails. We need more jail space, we need
more bedspace. We don't have that dedicate it to psychiatric problems.
Do that, but they haven't done that. Jared Poulis, the
governor of Colorado, called this out himself, but he signed
the very bill into law that created this loophole and
this entire problem. He tells Fox thirty one quote. Dangerous
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criminals should never be released onto the streets. We want
to work with everyone to determine if there are additional
reforms that should be made to ensure that people who
could potentially endanger others or themselves are not threatening public safety.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Governor Polis is committed to.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Making Colorado community safer, and he signed a number of
law to do that, including providing more resources to local
law enforcement, cracking down on auto and gun theft, and
supporting crime prevention, and signing this absolutely backcrap competency bill
into law. Jared Polus did that that he thinks he
can gaslight his way out of this speaks to what
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he thinks of you, and of me, and of Sheriff
Steve Reames and of twenty third District Attorney George Brockler.
He thinks we're mental midgets, that we can't figure this out.
That you signed the law, pal repeal the law, call
a special session, wipe it off the books, start all
over again, whatever aim you had, and this was a
bipartisan bill, I must repeat, which drives me nuts. But
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at least we have people like Brandy Bradley, it Scott
Bottoms there to toe and hold the line against this madness.
Don't join it, don't accede to it, don't compromise with it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
On this matter. This is a national embarrassment. But folks,
it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Because you might remember my conversation with Britney cursed as
she tells the story right here.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
In November of twenty twenty four, my mom was visiting
us from out of town and we were at a
doctor's appointment for my oldest son and he just wanted
McDonald's before we took him to school, so we were expecting,
you know, a normal day. We went through the drive through,
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we ordered our food, and they directed us to park
in the front of the store to wait for our food. Well,
I barked into the spot that I was instructed to
and there was a vehicle next to me, and when
that vehicle pulled out, they side spiked my car. That
vehicle was driven by Joel Lang and when my mom
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and I got out to exchange information, he instead of stopping,
just hit the gas pedal, hit my mom and.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Drug her body under his van.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
For three hundred feet and I was running alongside the
van trying to get him to stop, begging him to stop.
And when I finally let go and I fell, I
went back to where my mom was initially hit, and
I had bystanders coming at me from every direction, and
I thought my mom was okay for a split second
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until I realized everybody was looking behind me and she
was laying lifeless in the street. And I remember when
he turned himself in, it was like a sigh of relief.
But it was so short lived because instead of going
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to court to go to trial, we were going to
court because he's not competent. And he walked away a
completely freeman on August first. He still has his striver's license.
There were absolutely no consequences for.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Him, no consequences because spin the wheel. We're going shrink shopping.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
In Joel's own words, he said, I knew I hit her.
I knew I was dragging her. I knew this would
kill her. I just had to get out of there.
And also we heard when the competency evaluator asked him
if he understood what it means to be incompetent, he said,
it means this problem goes away.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
A supposedly insane person incompetence stand trial knew well enough
that if he was able to get this incompetency plea
through that this would all go away. His words, this,
Joel laying a free man, not charged with this. You
heard the crime as described. How does that happen? How
is that tolerable?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now? An insane person certainly would do that.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
No sane person would do what you just described, sideswipe
of vehicle then hit an older lady, dragging her several
hundred feet to her death. No sane competent person would
do that, of course, but an evil person.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Would do that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And we cannot conflate evil with incompetent just because we
can't comprehend it in our minds as sane, lucid, decent,
law abiding people doesn't mean those who are insane indecent
lawbreaking criminals are automatically incompetent because they make a choice
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to cross a line. That is a choice, an active choice.
So I hate crimes are such a joke. Of course,
you don't murder somebody you like, that's insane, But any
act like this, by very definition is insane.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's not insane. But we have to have a way
of sorting through this process.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Or somebody who commits a crime that does evil, that
makes a choice, might not be of sound mind at all,
but they have to pay a price for it. Do
we live in the wild wet Even in the wild West,
we would have a sheriff in town to enforce the
law and meet out frontier justice. We have lawlessness in
this land, and it's right here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Because I'm wearing these ribbons, I care more than any
of you about anything, and.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
These ribbons say so.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I want you, people sitting at home, and you people
in the audience, look down at you're lapel right now.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I want you to do this. Put the camera back
on me.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Do this.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
When you look down, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
You don't see anything because you're not wearing any ribbons.
It means you're a bigot. It means you're a racist.
It means you're a sexist. It means you're a homophobe.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It probably means.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You're a white guy. It probably means you're a European
and you and you alone are responsible for all the
ills of America.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
But I'm not.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Because I'm wearing these ribbons.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I care more than it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
So that was circa nineteen ninety three, and it was
a much different time in a much different world. And
as you heard from the studio audience, the short lived
Rush Limbaugh television show, which I loved, by the way,
and Rush would have kept doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It got massive ratings.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They would plug it in late at night and syndication
in various markets, but he didn't enjoy doing it because
we think about it, thirty minute television show, right, content wise,
that means about twenty one to twenty two minutes in there,
depending on ad inventory and what they sell. So that
means a couple of spot block, commercial blocks, and two
points in the thirty minute television show. So you got
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an eight block, a B block, a C block, and
Rush didn't want to operate under those constraints. And in
his radio show three hours a day now, his content
was probably a neighborhood of maybe forty minutes an hour,
maybe less, maybe less. I know, for instance, from my
show here per hour, we're probably talking around thirty four
minutes of content. We then build in there's news, there's traffic,
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there's weather, there's the spot blocks, So we have all
of that content interspersed in the commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
But that's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And at least that gave Rush a lot more time
to kind of expand.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
On issues and you got more of him. Maha Rushi.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
On this Wednesday, we are remembering Rush as we do
on a weekly basis here and this one it rings
true today but in a much different way because back
then it was a punchline.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Right, you're wearing this ribbon. That means you care. That
means you are a better person than somebody who's not
wearing a ribbon. I mean, you think about that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But this is a belief system today, and we'll give
it more of that coming up an hour number two.
In one of Charlie Kirk's I think most prescient and
wise moments as he was out on the campus tour
trail that he did so well talking about a faith
based nation that we are here in the United States.
The short version of that, and a preview here for you,
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is that if you lack faith, it could be anything.
This is why they ascribe a higher power as a
main main tenant.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Of alcoholics anonymous. If you are a recovering addict, you
have to subvert yourself to a higher power and recognize
that you are not the center of the universe. The
world does not revolve around you, your whims, your interests,
your likes, your tastes, your passions. You are part of
a broader fabric.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Now I don't mean this in a Marxist communist way,
but just that you kind of know your place in
the universe, that there is a God that is more
powerful than you. But with this self centric set of
values that replaces a religion, and again you can put
a lot of religions in there for a faith based
belief system. The politics becomes a leftist atheist's faith.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
That is the religion. They bring it into the public square.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And again going back to this being a punchline, so
that show, that television show Russel and Bomas from about
ninety three, This was from about thirty years ago. I
think in nineteen ninety five episode of Seinfeld. If you
go back and watch Seinfeld, now, Larry David is no
conservative and Jerry Seinfeld, I bet he's a if I
had guess, a classical liberal, kind of the same way
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that Bill Maher is not out there wildly left, not
at all. In fact, he's gotten a lot of heat
from that direction. But I wouldn't say Jerry's a conservative.
But theirs sensibilities in terms of comedy came back to
this political correctness which has now evolved into woke DEI
crab being ridiculous on its face. And here is that
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scene from the AIDS Walk that Kramer participated in but
he didn't want to wear the ribbon.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, is that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Okay, No, it's not okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You're checked in. Thank you? Here's your AIDS rippot.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
No, thank you don't want to wear an AIDS ribbn No, no,
but you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I have to.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yes, see that's why I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
But everyone mrs the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon.
What you are? You're a ribbon bully?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Come back yard?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What this on?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Where's your ribbon?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't wear them? You don't wear the ribbons? Aren't
you a get togs? Yeah? I'm against the hes when
I'm walking on, I just don't wear the ribbon.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Put the ribbon on? Etc?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Boh, this guy won't wear a ribbon? Who who doesn't
want to wear the ribbon?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What wasn't going to be? Are you going to wear
the ribbon?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But I'm wearing the ribbon, he's wearing the ribbon. We
are all wearing the ribbon.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So why aren't you going to wear the ribbon?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is America. I don't have to wear anything I
don't want to wear. Yeah, what are we gonna do
with him? I guess we're just going.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
To have to teach him to wear the ribbon.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
They are the fascists they warned us about. They you
must wear the ribbon, the demands here, the virtue signaling.
These are the same people that would evolve to the
ones with the signs out in the front lawn that
we've all seen in this house. Oh no, human is illegal,
science is real. They Oh, you're a good person, you're
a smart person. Here, you're better than me. I'm glad
(25:25):
you have that sign in your yard. Meanwhile, Martha's vineyard
forever an iconic image, the woman with the Jackie O
sunglasses and the straw hat and the tear, the single
tear down her left cheek, gotta be the left cheek,
smiling and applodding as the migrants that were busts there
by Ron DeSantis were quickly put right back on a
bus within forty eight hours and sent over to Cape
(25:47):
cod Because they don't want not my bad card. No no, no, no,
we want the illegals here. You know, if they're the
help and we have like a specified rule for them,
and they live here, they don't dwell amongst us. Oh no, no, no,
they can't be here. But if it's Laredo Texas' problem. Well,
then that's up to then to deal with it. We
want the illegals here, He don't want to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I live in a gated community. I mean, I don't
want him around like in the yard and stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
One more, I think very touching moment here because Michael Richards,
who portrayed Kramer, it was again an indelible character for
which there is no comparison in my mind. He got
into some hot water. He had kind of a fit
on stage. I think he was blasting out N word
and that really took its toll on his career. And
(26:33):
I don't remember the exact circumstances of it, but.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It was not a good look. Should not have done it,
but it kind of got blacklisted and canceled.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And Jerry Seinfeld himself is the one that reached out
and kind of brought him back into the mainstream sphere
because he's a true friend. And I think Jerry Seinfeld
deep down is a really good guy and somebody that
his colleagues, his cohorts, in his inner circle can certainly
count on. And I'm talking about friends like Jay Leno
And if you watch again, I'm gonna recommend this documentary
comedian if you can find it, it's a little over
(27:02):
twenty years old, and it documents Jerry Seinfeld going back
out into the wild. So he folds up his tent
on the sitcom Segnfeld. It ends in nineteen ninety eight.
With it, he retires all of his original jokes and work.
He starts from scratch. He recreates his act and he
takes it.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
On the road. Randomly.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He'll walk into like a nightclub New York City, not
scheduled to appear, but Jerry Seinfel walks in and the
owner goes, you're getting on stage, Sure, you have ten
minute it whatever you want. And he goes and develops
that act and he hones it, and he takes that
craft very seriously, as did Jason Alexander, who for my money,
and I think Jerry and Julie Louis dreyfuss Elaine both
agreed Jason was the most talented actor.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
On the show.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But to his credit, Jason deflects on this and he
looks at it from a little bit different angle in
terms of comedy and who can do the role. And
this was the ultimate compliment to Michael Richards and just
listen to his reaction in the end.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It is so authentic and so genuine, so nice.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
People think we want a lot more Emmys than we did.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Yeah, well, yours was the greatest oversight I'll say it was.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It was stupid if you.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Looked at four solid comedy actors back to back, and
then his best scene in any given.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Year of our show. Right, where are you making a comparison?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yeah, I mean every year that you and I got nominated.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I went goodbye.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
It was always just shocked to me the years you
didn't win. There's nobody else who could create that character.
I always think if Wayne Knight had played George, he'd
be in the ballpark. You'd get roughly the same thing.
And there are other actresses and their other actress, but
there was a sensibility that package and the way you're
cylinders fired as Kramer.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
There was nothing else, nothing else like it. That's sweet, Jason,
thank you. No, it's totally sincere.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I had a nice moment for Michael Richards to enjoy there,
which brings you into the questions we go to break
and you could text us five seven seven three nine
if you remember Seinfeld, I know there may be some
of you in the audience that are too young to
remember at least airing in real time. Maybe you've seen
the syndication Who is your favorite Seinfeld character? Could be
one of the main four, one of the core four.
(29:05):
Well maybe it's a side character. Let me know and
why five, seven, seventh, thry nine will have that conversation.
But the moral of this story in this segment, as
we trace it all the way back to Rush was
at one time Seinfeld the greatest pop culture creation of
the nineteen nineties in terms of television entertainment and sitcoms.
Matt rush Limbaugh the loudest and most important voice, certainly
(29:27):
from the conservative right, but also just in the talk
show sphere of the nineteen nineties. On the same page
on this issue, because virtue signaling is ridiculous, and it
doesn't make you a good person just because you wear
a ribbon or just because you have a sign in
your yard. In fact, it may very well be covering
up for the fact that maybe you're not such a
great person after all, and you need to overcompensate for it.
(29:50):
A time out back with more after this on Ryan
Schuleing Live, I.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Don't care who you vote for, like left right, you know.
It's just it's crazy to me that Trump like he
got right to it. He wasn't even playing around. I
thought we were going to get like a month head
started at least.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You know, I didn't think he was gonna get it right.
He was like, Yo, as.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
Soon as I get in office, I'm getting rid of
the immigrants. But I didn't think he was going to
do it like right away, because you know, you know,
like when you get home and you're pulling into your
driveway and you're thinking about everything you gotta do. You're like, yo,
I gotta put in a load of laundry, take out
the trash, you know, the kitchen a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
But you don't do it all like right away.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
You you put on Netflix, you hit up, you heat
up a meal, you do things in between, you know,
you take little breaks. But Trump, he didn't watch no Netflix, bro.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
He just.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
He got right to it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Ralpha Barbosa, comedian on Trump and deporting illegal immigrants. Now
it's a target rich environment right for comedy, and this
is a way to navigate those waters, I think, where
you bring the entire audience. Those of us who support
Trump realize he is a cartoonish figure in a lot
of ways. I think that's part of his charm and
appeal and that we can make fun of him. He's
(31:09):
not like this dear leader crap that we keep hearing
Trump right or wrong. Orange Man, I bowed the altar.
I'm a brown shirt. I'm an not see that follows
Hitler like this is all so ridiculous, and yet it's
serious because there are demented whack jobs and even those
who may not be considered that who take that characterization seriously.
But a comedian like this and if you see Shane Gellis,
(31:32):
you gotta watch Beautiful Dogs. Okay, it's a Netflix special,
and he talks about when Trump had the press conference
about the killing.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Of Abubakar al Baghdadi. He's dead. He died like a dog, okay.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And it's hilarious for those who support Trump and certainly
for those that want to see a comedian take some
you know, barbs at Trump that. Yeah, that's entertaining too.
I just think there's a good way to do it,
and I think, well, Barbosa comes up with it right there.
This text at five seven seven three nine David Patti Padi, Yes,
Elaine's boyfriend. They're in they're out, they're on, they're off.
(32:09):
He's just got this real stoic demeanor and never really cracks,
and that makes him a very interesting character character in
contrast to Elaine Ryan, most humans have an innate impulse
towards fascism. Seems many of the elitaboth parties have significant
fascistic tendencies, almost wear masks. Say something we don't like,
we'll cancel you and get you fired and ostracized. There's
(32:31):
a long history of fascist societies in the world, and
they all have had a similar modus operandi. Yet they
have existed with rulers who have been both conservative and liberal.
You're not wrong, that's a very well crafted text. But
I think those that are in at least the mindset
that I occupy, are truly anti fascist, meaning we do
not want to imbark upon anybody one set way of
(32:56):
doing things other than we are all collectively Americans.
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