January 9, 2025 • 36 mins
In the first hour of today's edition of Ryan Schuiling Live, Ryan provides more updates on the fires ravaging Los Angeles and talks about the fallout from this disaster could wreck Gavin Newsome's politicial career. After that, Ryan is joined by the Washington Times' Cheryl Chumley -- author of "LOCKDOWN: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had a really emotional experience coming back here to
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the Pacific Palisades, especially walking into a community that I
grew up in, born and raised in, and to find
that there's nothing left. We're talking a lot about the
fires that are still raging, and again the Palisades Fire
is still zero percent constained there to contain. There are
still hotspots in this community. There are still fires raging
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throughout the hillside, fires that firefighters are extraordinarily worried about
if the winds do start to pick up again, as
they are expected to do. But again, looking around here,
even if the fires were able to make it to
much of the Palisades, there would be nothing left to burn.
A little bit earlier, I was able to do a
bit of a walk around with my colleague Jacob Sobroff,
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who also grew up here, going back to some of
the places that we knew well, including my first childhood home.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Watch door, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And this was the this was the living room. Put
a Christmas tree in this corner right here, and behind
that was a bathroom that my dad set up a.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Dark room for me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And because I love photography and he loved it, and
he wanted to teach me how to how to take
pictures and how to develop them. We used to have
barbecues back here, and there was a little.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
They had a little coy pond. Weirdly in the backyard.
I think they changed a little bit of the structure.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
When I was a kid, I would get really mad
when my parents do let me have my way shock.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And at one point I hid.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I hid.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It seems so much smaller. I hid in this. I
hid right here.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It must have been behind something for hours.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
My parents called.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
My parents called the fire department looking for me, and
I just sat there because I was so mad at
that they come. There was there was an apb out
for literally the fire station is around the corner.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, and the cops. Isn't it weird how.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It just kind of all comes back, right, it looks
like it's the same stove, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It does all come back.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And it's weird to see all of your memories, the
structures that scaffold your memories, all of them them gone.
And you can only imagine what it's like for somebody
who still lives here waking up today and getting in here.
And we've seen some scattered people who were able to
get past the police lines, going back to their home
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and finding that there's absolutely nothing left.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's just been devastating.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Katie tour touring her old home in southern California as
the wildfires continue to rage out of control, wall to
wall coverage, No doubt you have noticed, whether it's CNN,
Fox News, anywhere else. And I wanted to provide that
from MSNBC because typically that's a liberal outlet, and typically
Katie Turrer herself is a liberal. But they have nobody
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else to blame at this point but themselves. And I'm
talking about the left. Representative Byron Donald spoke about this
earlier today.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But what's happened in California is the faults of Gavin
Newsom and the legislature there. They don't take care of
their forest, their forestry management, they don't take care of underbrush.
They've not done the necessary work to make sure there's
fresh water flowing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's a key areas.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, a former colleague
of ours, up here on Capitol Hill, she's saying there's
water into hydrants, but the fire Department has said on
multiple occasions there is not enough.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Water in these hydrants.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It is an epic disaster of mismanagement, and so what
really happens is people suffer. Look the people of California,
at the end of the day, they have a responsibility
to elect competent leadership, starting with the governor, through the
state Assembly and into local government.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now I'm not just in the Monday morning quarterbacking here,
but that's not the case. That's not what's happening here
in California. Not only is it completely democratic leadership from
top to bottom, from Gavin Newsom on down to Karen
Bass the mayor, to the woke DEI Fire Department of
Los Angeles being more concerned that there are too many
white males in the firefighting force. Do you think anybody
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Billy Crystal, James Woods, Jamie Lee Curtis gives one rats
ass about the color, sexual orientation, the gender of the firefighters,
or whether or not they are fully equipped, fully prepared,
fully qualified to fight these fires at the highest level possible.
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It's like somebody flying a plane, do you want I'm
just putting it out there, do you want a DEI
hire who was hired for DEI reasons? Piloting your plane?
Your life is on the line. You're airborne, that pilot,
that cockpit with the two pilots in it is the
only thing keeping you alive and in the air until
you touched down and land.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Do you want woke hires in that cockpit?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't now if they happen to be black, trans, homosexual, female.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do not care. Can they do the job? That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I don't want to hire a certain percentage of firefighters
in Los Angeles or anywhere else based on anything else
than their merits, then their strengths, then their competency, then
their physical capabilities. Do you know how difficult it is
to be a firefighter, volunteer or otherwise? Adam Carolla, did
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you see this? Did you hear this? He told the story.
He grew up pretty poor, he was looking for a job.
We're talking about Adam's older than I am. I'm fifty.
He's got to be in his mid fifties, right, talk
about when he was like twenty years old, so thirty
five years ago. He wants to be a volunteer firefighter.
They say, you know what, not right now, We'll call
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you in seven years. You're too white, you're too male.
You don't check any woke boxes. That's back then.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
They called them. Sure enough, true to their word.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Seven years later and he's standing in line waiting to
go through the training and take the test, and standing
next to him as a young black woman, and he asked,
you know, just out of curiosity, how long have you
been waiting since submitting your application to apply here? She said, uh,
within the last week she got to show up. That
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is not how you construct a firefighting force. That is
not how you construct a police force. That is not
how you construct a fleet of airline pilots. That is
not how you construct a military But we've been victim
of that now too. It's not that I'm against any
of these groups. I could not care less.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But when you.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Prioritize that over sheer left brain meritocracy qualifications, you're going
to have a problem. And that's what's happening here. And
further to that point, this disaster in California. I'm politicizing it. Yeah,
I'm politicizing it because political decisions and policy positions led
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us to this point.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The Delta smelt her of this.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
President Trump was talking about all of this with Joe
Rogan last year prior to the election, prior to these fires,
they did not want to assemble too much water in
the reservoirs or for the fire hydrants to take away
from the natural habitat of this smelt. It sounds ridiculous now,
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it is ridiculous now, It was ridiculous then. But this
is the priority of these nut job Californians land of
fruits and nuts. That is not a saying that came
quickly or easily, or without merit or evidence. I want
to bring in our California correspondent, she was born and
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raised there, Kelly Cacera. The more that we hear and
find out about all this as it transpires, Kelly, the
more upset and frustrated I get. I am heartbroken on
behalf of all these people have lost their homes, not
just the celebrities, especially not the celebrities, but that so
much of this seems like it could have been preventable.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, one hundred percent would have been preventable.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
It has to do with, like you said, the legislation,
the leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Down all the way down the way.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
And unfortunately, I don't have a lot of faith that
things are going to change, and they should after something
like this happens, you know, it should wake up everyone
to the point of what are we doing in this state,
in this beautiful state that I grew up in, which
was not the same fifty years ago, you know, or
so when I was born there, and now it is
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just a core, a crap hole of bureaucracy and nonsense.
And as heartbroken as I am for everyone who has
lost property, and I don't mean to sound uncaring or.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Crass, but you reap what you sew.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
And everyone in California voted these people in office, including
Karen Bass, including Gavin Newsom, including Adam Schiff, if you
want to go that far.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So when this when, when.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Something like this happens, it opens everyone's eyes and it's
a rude awakening.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I have a lot of questions, like I said, more
questions than answers at this point. That's part of the
frustration that I have here in Ryan Schuling Live, you
can textas five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, I think your first is going to be how
did the fire start? And I have a very good idea,
but go ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Probably started and this is unfortunate, but it's not going
to be a lightning strike because California doesn't get that
on weather, So you can't blame that it's not going
to be. I mean, it could be a downpower line
from the winds, but there's no reports of that. What
is more likely are the homeless encampments with an open fire,
with an open fire.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Could have been.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I'm thinking about the geography, the topography, the climate of California, Kelly, that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You know better than anybody else.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
And when I look to the eastern border of California
and Nevada and Lake Tahoe and all these skiing resorts
in water, that could manifest itself in much of the
same way that we get water here in Colorado. Why
we are a source for so many neighboring states because
of the nature of our landscape and how that water
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matriculates down from the mountaintops from frozen winters into thawing springs.
But then I look at the other side of California,
from the border of Oregon to the border of Mexico.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And all points in between.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
California has the Pacific Ocean to its west, and we
have the technology, I believe in your twenty twenty five
for desalinization plants to take water from the ocean massive
amounts without affecting ocean levels or anything like that. In fact,
I thought the environmentalists were concerned about rising ocean levels.
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Why is there not more desalinization plants taking water from
the ocean, turning it into fresh water for not only
usage and drinking, but for fire hydrants, for showers, for dishwashers,
for washing machines.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Why is that, Kelly?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Your guess is as good as mine because I grew
up hearing all about desalination.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Sure, so a couple things.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
So the environmentalists and also the California Coastal Commission, which
is made up of a bunch of hippies and very
very left wing people, they do not want to see
houses on the beach. They wanted to see houses on
the beach. And unfortunately the plant would have had to
be built relatively close to the ocean in order to.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Get water and flow it in.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
And so many many votes went up through the legislature
and they all failed within committee.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And that's just to get the desalinization plans built correct,
and they don't want to sacrifice. I get it from
a certain standpoint, the real estate property value of that
ocean front property that's going to be through the roof.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Well, also, you know the Coastal Commission doesn't want any
houses on the beach.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They don't want anything like that.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
So these people when they try to pull you know,
and Adam Carolla said it best and I kind of
touched upon it yesterday. When these people go to rebuild
their houses, it's going to be really tough to rebuild
on the same plot of land that they had, you know.
And again he kind of alluded to people don't want
to move inward into the valleys and things.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Like that, but they might not have a choice.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I mean, you might have to see, you know, go
from Malibu to like Calabasas, and people don't really want
to do that, but it may.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Have to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
California wildfires continue mostly out of control. Not enough water,
not enough personnel, They can't do their jobs. I saw video, Kelly,
did you see this? Listeners you too, Zach will bring
you in as well. I don't think this was done
for effect of these firefighters that were literally taking purses,
women's purses, filling them with water and throwing them onto
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a garage that was on fire.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Did you see that? Yes?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I did.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
The hell was that because the hydrants are empty, they
have any way to tap into it. I told you yesterday,
they're only about twenty five to thirty percent full in
the entire city of Los Angeles. And if they are full,
they're like half full. So you know, in order to
try to control four wildfires and now a fifth in
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the Hollywood Hills, it's almost near impossible.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And you're going to find things like this.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
But like I said yesterday, you know, they do not
manage their force. They do not mitigate anything in California.
They just don't do it. And this is what happens.
You know, you get these firestorms, and when you have
these Santa Ana winds that pick up to you know,
eighty to one hundred miles an hour, you get flare
ups all over the place that can't be controlled. So
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when the entire La Basin at this point is under
danger zone.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Donald Trup again, we're not just Monday morning quarterbacking here.
This is the Orange Man while he was president, flashing
back to twenty eighteen, over six years ago, standing directly
next to one Governor Gavin Newsom in California. He's talking
about what Kelly just touched on right there.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Cleaned out and protected. I'm goin to take care of
the floors. You know, the floors of the forest is
very important. You look at other countries where they do
it differently, and it's a whole different story. I was
with the President of Finland and he said, we have
much different We're a forest nation. He called it a
forest nation. And they spent a lot of time on
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breaking and cleaning and doing things and what they don't
have any problem and what it is, it's a very
small problem. So I know everybody's looking at that to
that end, and.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's going to work out.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
How many of these clips do we have when we
go back in time about something President Trump said and
he turned out to be one percent right.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
His batting average is incredible.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
He's like Ted Williams of a better So that's what
Donald Trump thought about the wildfires.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
President Joe Biden paid a visit.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
To California just yesterday, and here's what he had to
say and what he was concerned with.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
He got Rumficas home.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
Today.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He stay, the good news is I'm a.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Great grandfather the day.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Way, So in case you had difficulties sorting that out. Basically,
Joe Biden was standing there, rambled some kind of response
about the fires and then oh, the good news there's
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I'm gonna be a great grandfather.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
I mean this pathological, narcissistic, just an absolute sociopath, makes
everything about him.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
And this didn't even relate to the fires. This wasn't
even his attempt. Well you know all about my house
down ad caught fire and it burned down, even though
it was just a kitchen and was contained. But at
least that would have been relevant to the topic at hand,
or when other soldiers die.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, you know, my son bo he died in a rock.
Like he didn't die in a rock. He came home.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
A lot of these soldiers, airmen, naval officers, marines that
are killed overseas in combat.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
That is not what happened to Boe.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Biden, all due respect to your son, has nothing to
do with the current situation. And then this one Kelly
just talks about he's given me a great grandfather. Talk
about tone deaf, out of context.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Look, he is a great grandfather. I believe that he
said that he is.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So gosh, he is just the king of poor timing.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And even so.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Governor Gavin Newsom was confronted by Anderson Cooper's CNN about
Donald Trump's criticism of him, and this is what he
had to say. Hits even ask this question, but the
president elections to attack you, blame you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Four days one can't even respond to it. And I mean,
it's if people are literally clean.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
People have lost their lives, kids lost their schools, family
is completely torn asunder, churches burned down. This guy wanted
to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and
I know what I want to say, I won't. I
stood next to the President of the United States of
America today and I was proud to be with Joe Biden,
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and he had the backs of every single person in
this community. Didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Us, didn't play politics one because he couldn't, two because
he agrees with these stupid policies that led to the
fires in the first place. And thirty was focused on
his great grandkids. But that's who Gavin Newsom was proud
to stand next to. Gavin Newsom, total lack of self
awareness that any of his policies, refusing to clear the
floors of the forest of timber that might be an
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habitat for a bird, for a whistler or whatever, or
this delta smelt and the desalinization plan. Zach was telling
me in my ear that they're not doing it because
of environmental reasons or because of the salt left over
from turning the salt water into freshwater. The Democrats have
nobody to blame but themselves and their own policies, their
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own lack of preparation and staffing and properly equipping their
firefighters for these wildfires that are out of control. Ryl.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Chumley Washington Times joins us next on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
You think that this was one of it's not the
biggest issue for this election, Well.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
I think if we can't. You know, there's forty seven
of us in the Senate, and if we can't pull
up with with seven votes, if we can't get at
least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,
then that's the reason why we lost. That's one of them.
That's one of why we lost.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Time in part, why does Frankenstein's monster the guy that
awoken from a slum or who suffered a stroke. I
don't mean to make light of that, but just think
about the changes that we've seen. As Senator John Fetterman,
how awesome he is. I believe, as much as I
want Republican control of the House, the Senate, the Presidency,
that John Fetterman's going to sail to reelection. He's the
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type of Democrat, kind of self respecting guy who's very
self aware that I might have voted for long ago
in the past, never again. But I can deal with
John Fetterman. I can accept John Feederman, I can respect
John Fetterman. But why is he one of the only
ones that gets it on the left? We were talking
about this with PK yesterday. John Fetterman gets it. He
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relates to the common man. The Democrats have lost that
common human touch. They would be wise to lean into
John Fetterman and his approach. They're not doing it. They
won't do it. Why won't they do it? Well? It
takes us to our next guest and our good friend,
who you can follow on x at C K.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Chumley.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
She is an opinion writer for The Washington Times, and
she has a new book coming out on January fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yes, that's just.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Five days away. Cheryl Tremley our guest here on Ryan
Schuling Live. Cheryl, Welcome back, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
It's great to be with you.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Propose that question to you, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Why is it somebody like John Fetterman, of all people
on the left, he's one that gets it, but so
few on the left do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, what an odd duct this guy is.
Speaker 12 (21:26):
Right, We all started out hating him because he couldn't
even bother to dress properly for his dating congress. Now
he's emerging as the common sense and voice of the
Democrat Party. And why the Democrat Party won't embrace him
is the same reason the Democrat Party wouldn't embrace Tulsea Gabbert,
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because he seems to put forth ideas that are me
benefit of American society and American citizens. And the Democrat
Party today is not like the Democrat Party of yesteryear,
of JFK Times, of even Bill Clinton times. This modern
day Democrat Party is all about Marxism and socialism and
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collectivism and tearing down America's constitutional republic.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The timing of our conversation is so appropriate, not just
for the release of your book, Cheryl, but I watched
Douglas Murray speak last night of the Paramount Theater in
downtown Denver, and a lot of his broad strokes and
themes fit right in line with the title of your book,
God Given or Bust, defeating Marxism and saving America with
biblical truths. We have seen the left, in large part,
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turn full force against our founding fathers, against our founding principles,
against the Judeo Christian work ethic that serves as the
foundation of this country that they want to run away from,
separation of church and state. That really focused on that
part of it, all the while not knowing or not
caring to know about why our republic was founded, why
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it has survived now almost two hundred fifty years. Can
you enlighten our audience as to what motivated you to
write this book and why you feel this particular topic
is so important.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well, it is the.
Speaker 12 (23:09):
War in America, and if you look back, it always
has been the war. What separates America from all other nations,
what founding fathers gave us, and what makes America so
exceptional is the idea that our rights as individuals come
from God and government is only put in place to
preserve and protect those rights that we already have endowed
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by our Creator. So, if you look at all the
political battles to fight, the financial battles, the foreign.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Policy battles, the battles.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
Between party against party. It all can lead back to
the basic.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
War we have going on.
Speaker 12 (23:45):
Do we have the right of individuals to stand on
God given rights in liberties or do we have to
ask God for those liberty?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Do we have to ask government for those liberties?
Speaker 12 (23:55):
And that's basically been the fight. It's just ratcheted up.
We saw under COVID, especially where government stepped in and
seized individual rights, and we saw with alarm how willing
Americans were to give up those rights in the name
of safety and security. And that tells me that we
have lost the essence of American exceptionalism. We've lost the
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concept of God giving individual rights liberties.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Such an important point.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Cheryl Chumley, our guest writer for The Washington Times and
author of the book that I mentioned, available on January fourteenth,
both hardcover and kindle edition, God Given or Bus Defeating
Marxism and saving America with Biblical truth now one of
the reasons, and this is something I also took from
Douglas Murray's commentary last night and from you, Cheryl, is
that the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all those founding documents,
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the writings of the contemporaries of our Founding fathers in
those times, almost exclusively, we're designated to feature what government
could not do to its citizens, what citizens had, as
like you said, god given rights that no government, no
one who was elected or otherwise could take away. And yet,
as you point out with Marxism, with the modern left,
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the power that we saw, the addiction to that power,
whether it's COVID or right now with the California wildfires,
is the Left really wants to limit the individual rights
of most Americans along.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Most lines, and we're seeing the results of that.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
Yeah, just look at all those things that we've been
additioned to ask the government for permission to do right,
And COVID is the perfect example because it did shed
light so blatantly on how far we strayed from Founding
father principles. You know, we had to ask government if
it was okay to go to work, to send our
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kids to school, to walk around without a face mask,
to walk around without taking a shot that we didn't
want to take, to go to church for crying out loud.
We had to ask government permission for all that, and
government all too willing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
To say no.
Speaker 12 (26:01):
You can't do any of that, and too many Americans
were like, oh, okay, it's for the safety of America.
We have to do what the government tells us. Well,
you know, it's supposed to be the other way around.
It's supposed to be we walk around as individual citizens
in complete freedom, and government has to come to us
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and make the case that you can't do this because
of X, Y or the reason, and we have to
approve that. So the relationship is God first, citizen right second,
and government third. Well, government has put itself above citizens
and it's really trying to act as its role is
more like.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
God of society.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
And that's why we're having so many difficulties right now
with our freedoms, with holding back government from keeping government from.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
Growing even more elected officials in the United States, and
why we survived these two centuries and a half is
because those elected officials have power only by consent of
the governed, us, the voters.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The American populace. And those are the points that Cheryl
makes in her book. Highly recommend that you can find
out on Amazon. God Given her Bust Defeeding Marxism and
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Speaker 3 (27:15):
Chumley. One final question, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
This is from your latest for The Washington Times entitled
Harris certifies Biden bands and the anti Maga moves are
often running. What's really taking my breath away is kind
of a twofold, and that is President Trump has already
assumed the office, both in terms of perception, in performance,
his press conferences, on the world stage, how other leaders
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are viewing him, and President Biden is kind of fading
toward the finish and yet trying to kind of torch
things on his way out the door. What do you
make of this transition? How do you compare it to
past presidential transitions.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
Well, Democrats, I always like to say that they're the
party of tolerance and that they're the ones to look
to for peaceful transfers of offices and so forth. But
you know what they put out their result, calm and everything,
and it sounds they seem so friendly, But if you
look at what they do behind the scenes, Joe Biden
just tied the hands of Donald Trump by putting off
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limits to development, off limits to drilling for oil and
gas on six hundred and seventy million acres right the
entire East Coast, parts of the West Coast, the Gulf
of Mexico, which is so be named Gulf of America.
I hear, and Donald Trump. Of course, he's going to
come into office and try and overturn that with executive order.
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But you know, the environmental jobs out there are already
lining up to go to court, so his hands are
going to be tied anyhow. And we also have Democrats
in sanctuary cities and communities already swearing to go to
jail if they have to in order to preserve their
sanctuary city and community status. These are Democrats that are
purposely trying to strategize to make Trump's job harder, despite
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the fact that he has the mandate of the American
people to govern maga fashion, and they're trying to take
punt shots and tie his hands before he even enters office.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Cheryl, will you be attending the inauguration? Oh gosh, now
I think.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Traffic and security.
Speaker 12 (29:18):
No, no, no, I'll be watching from afar.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
She's one of the smartest ones and she's one of
the best. You can follow her on x once again
at C. K. Chumley of The Washington Times, and of
course her new book. Check it out in five days,
God giving her bust, defeating Marxism, and saving America with
Biblical truths. Cheryl Tremley, thank you so much for your time.
As always, we'll check in again soon.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
All right, Cheryl Tremley joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live,
and we'll take your texts five seven, seven, three nine.
Got a lot of those to get to when we
come back, wrapping up our number one after this on
six point thirty KL.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Follow me to Freedom. That's where we're going. That's the destination.
I see it on the horizon January twenty, if it
begins the odyssey, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
There Washington, d C. For the inauguration. Cheryl Chumley thinks
I'm insane. She's right, I'm crazy. But I'm gonna be there,
and I'm gonna be reporting back here on this very program,
which I believe Jimmy Sanginberger will be filling in on
that Monday, and I'll be calling back into KOA. I
just I figured I'm fifty years old and never been
to inauguration. I might not ever go again. And this
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one's historic in my view. This one means something. This
is a pivot point in my view in American history.
Invite you to follow me on x at Ryan Shuling
s h U I L I MG, subscribe, download, listen
to the podcast. Zach does a phenomenal job of uploading
those episode hours. There are fewer commercials. There's an advantage
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to listening that way, and they're about thirty six minutes about.
You know, we're a typical commute, maybe a longer one.
And you can listen to an hour of the program.
And if you missed Sean Ferris yesterday, well do yourselves
a favor and go back and listen to that half
hour that we had with him at the end of
yesterday's program. I'm still marveling at everything he threw at us.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Kelly.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
It was a blur and I got a credit Kelly
for helping get Sean on the program. And I just
noticed this during the break. I told Kelly Kay smythe
our good friend. Now Kay Hill she's married, congratulations to her.
She liked the post about Sean joining the show, so
we appreciate both of them.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
They are both awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I'm thinking about the next governor of California, Kelly, and
it's been far too long since the Republican even had
a chance, and you got to go back to what
Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he's you know, he was a rhino
even back then.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
But you take it.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
You're not going to get Pete Wilson or Ronald Reagan again, unfortunately,
not in California. Maybe not for a long time, although
we'll see what happens in the wake of these fires.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
But the fou on X one of the best accounts
to follow.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
She goes by Polita Bunny, Polita Bunny, po l t
I Bunny. She's a big fan of Michael Brown and
she and I follow each other on the X. She says,
the follow it Kelly's take on this California in our
midst the food posts.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's it. I'm saying it real.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
James Wood should run for governor of California, not even kidding.
Three American flags, Kelly, your thoughts, could you?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That's one idea.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I think he would definitely give any Democrat a good
run for his money. But unfortunately I am disheartened in that.
Steve Garvey, I know, ran against Adam Schiff, It's.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
The very name was going to bring.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Up, and he actually just won by so much it
just made my heartbreak.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What about Nicole Shanahan running as an independent former running
mate for RFK Junior.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Yeah, it's that might have a little bit of leg
She's a woman, she kind of checks one of those boxes.
But you know, she's tex so she's going to have
a lot of money behind her. She has a lot
of money, so I mean, but is it going to
be enough?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You know?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
And the majors were getting on me today, at least
Mark was because he kept saying this, this whole California
wildfire storm is going to turn people red. And I said,
I don't think you understand.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
California too far gone yet.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
And I said, I would love to have faith.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
I would really love to have faith, But unfortunately I
know too much about that state and it really is
dominated by the uh San Francisco elite where there's a
lot you know, just think of Nancy Pelusi and Adam Schiff,
you know, if you want to go and then and
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then down south. Oh he is a pencil neck, but
then down south you got.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
A watermelon head.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm saying, there was a time.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
How does the pencil neck pulled up his watermelon head?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Well, And there was a time in the eighties when
places like San Diego were very very conservative, and places
like in the valleys where I grew up in the
San Gabriel Valley that was very conservative.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Now it is overwrought.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
With you know, just you know, people who are I
don't know, have just bought into this leftist, progressive culture
at that just has really really torn down the entire
state of California, and nobody sees it until something like
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this happened. Even if something like this happens, they still
have the mindset that the people that are going to
help them the most are the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Well, and let's not pretend it's not happening here, because
it is.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
The Colorado Democrats and the state legislature are trying to California.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Are Colorado to the ridiculous extreme.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
I mean, the fact that we're paying for grocery bags
now insane. They're trying to limit our Second Amendment rights,
trying to limit detachable magazines from handguns. We're going to
talk to Alicia Garcia Boomstick Ba coming up in our
number two. Yeah, they are trying to run this state
into the ground.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well, and where do you think the bag fee came from?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
California.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
You know, while we were back there visiting my family,
we did go to the store and it's amazing because
they are now charging Let's see, it used to be
what is it here?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Cents?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Ten cents ten here?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Okay, it's fifty cents in California right now, so dumb.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
This one clarifying the earlier visual that I saw from
a text five and seven thirty nine. The California firefighters
that were filmed using bags of water were using special
canvas bags that they carry on their trucks to fill
with water from their trucks. It's quicker for them to
fill these bags with water than to pull out their
houses to put out very small spot fires.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Well, the YouTube video I saw clearly look like a person.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
They looked like women's purses. Now, maybe I mistook those
for these canvas bags.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I really too.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I appreciate the texture. Sending that in. You can send
your tax in as well. Five seven seven three nine.
We hope to be joined by Christy Burton Brown at
the bottom of our number two.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
She's in a long.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Meeting today, was just sworn in for the Colorado State
Board of Education, and we look forward to that conversation
if not today, then tomorrow at that same time, and
as I mentioned, Alicia Garcia with the latest assault pun
intended on our Second Amendment rights in the Colorado legislature.
Happy happy joy time from Jared Paulus in his State
of the State address.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
We're not buying it. We know better. Aaron Ryan Schuling
Live
I had a really emotional experience coming back here to
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the Pacific Palisades, especially walking into a community that I
grew up in, born and raised in, and to find
that there's nothing left. We're talking a lot about the
fires that are still raging, and again the Palisades Fire
is still zero percent constained there to contain. There are
still hotspots in this community. There are still fires raging
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throughout the hillside, fires that firefighters are extraordinarily worried about
if the winds do start to pick up again, as
they are expected to do. But again, looking around here,
even if the fires were able to make it to
much of the Palisades, there would be nothing left to burn.
A little bit earlier, I was able to do a
bit of a walk around with my colleague Jacob Sobroff,
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who also grew up here, going back to some of
the places that we knew well, including my first childhood home.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Watch door, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And this was the this was the living room. Put
a Christmas tree in this corner right here, and behind
that was a bathroom that my dad set up a.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Dark room for me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And because I love photography and he loved it, and
he wanted to teach me how to how to take
pictures and how to develop them. We used to have
barbecues back here, and there was a little.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
They had a little coy pond. Weirdly in the backyard.
I think they changed a little bit of the structure.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
When I was a kid, I would get really mad
when my parents do let me have my way shock.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And at one point I hid.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I hid.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It seems so much smaller. I hid in this. I
hid right here.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It must have been behind something for hours.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
My parents called.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
My parents called the fire department looking for me, and
I just sat there because I was so mad at
that they come. There was there was an apb out
for literally the fire station is around the corner.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, and the cops. Isn't it weird how.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It just kind of all comes back, right, it looks
like it's the same stove, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It does all come back.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And it's weird to see all of your memories, the
structures that scaffold your memories, all of them them gone.
And you can only imagine what it's like for somebody
who still lives here waking up today and getting in here.
And we've seen some scattered people who were able to
get past the police lines, going back to their home
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and finding that there's absolutely nothing left.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's just been devastating.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Katie tour touring her old home in southern California as
the wildfires continue to rage out of control, wall to
wall coverage, No doubt you have noticed, whether it's CNN,
Fox News, anywhere else. And I wanted to provide that
from MSNBC because typically that's a liberal outlet, and typically
Katie Turrer herself is a liberal. But they have nobody
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else to blame at this point but themselves. And I'm
talking about the left. Representative Byron Donald spoke about this
earlier today.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But what's happened in California is the faults of Gavin
Newsom and the legislature there. They don't take care of
their forest, their forestry management, they don't take care of underbrush.
They've not done the necessary work to make sure there's
fresh water flowing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's a key areas.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, a former colleague
of ours, up here on Capitol Hill, she's saying there's
water into hydrants, but the fire Department has said on
multiple occasions there is not enough.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Water in these hydrants.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It is an epic disaster of mismanagement, and so what
really happens is people suffer. Look the people of California,
at the end of the day, they have a responsibility
to elect competent leadership, starting with the governor, through the
state Assembly and into local government.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now I'm not just in the Monday morning quarterbacking here,
but that's not the case. That's not what's happening here
in California. Not only is it completely democratic leadership from
top to bottom, from Gavin Newsom on down to Karen
Bass the mayor, to the woke DEI Fire Department of
Los Angeles being more concerned that there are too many
white males in the firefighting force. Do you think anybody
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Billy Crystal, James Woods, Jamie Lee Curtis gives one rats
ass about the color, sexual orientation, the gender of the firefighters,
or whether or not they are fully equipped, fully prepared,
fully qualified to fight these fires at the highest level possible.
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It's like somebody flying a plane, do you want I'm
just putting it out there, do you want a DEI
hire who was hired for DEI reasons? Piloting your plane?
Your life is on the line. You're airborne, that pilot,
that cockpit with the two pilots in it is the
only thing keeping you alive and in the air until
you touched down and land.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Do you want woke hires in that cockpit?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't now if they happen to be black, trans, homosexual, female.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do not care. Can they do the job? That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I don't want to hire a certain percentage of firefighters
in Los Angeles or anywhere else based on anything else
than their merits, then their strengths, then their competency, then
their physical capabilities. Do you know how difficult it is
to be a firefighter, volunteer or otherwise? Adam Carolla, did
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you see this? Did you hear this? He told the story.
He grew up pretty poor, he was looking for a job.
We're talking about Adam's older than I am. I'm fifty.
He's got to be in his mid fifties, right, talk
about when he was like twenty years old, so thirty
five years ago. He wants to be a volunteer firefighter.
They say, you know what, not right now, We'll call
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you in seven years. You're too white, you're too male.
You don't check any woke boxes. That's back then.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
They called them. Sure enough, true to their word.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Seven years later and he's standing in line waiting to
go through the training and take the test, and standing
next to him as a young black woman, and he asked,
you know, just out of curiosity, how long have you
been waiting since submitting your application to apply here? She said, uh,
within the last week she got to show up. That
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is not how you construct a firefighting force. That is
not how you construct a police force. That is not
how you construct a fleet of airline pilots. That is
not how you construct a military But we've been victim
of that now too. It's not that I'm against any
of these groups. I could not care less.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But when you.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Prioritize that over sheer left brain meritocracy qualifications, you're going
to have a problem. And that's what's happening here. And
further to that point, this disaster in California. I'm politicizing it. Yeah,
I'm politicizing it because political decisions and policy positions led
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us to this point.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The Delta smelt her of this.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
President Trump was talking about all of this with Joe
Rogan last year prior to the election, prior to these fires,
they did not want to assemble too much water in
the reservoirs or for the fire hydrants to take away
from the natural habitat of this smelt. It sounds ridiculous now,
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it is ridiculous now, It was ridiculous then. But this
is the priority of these nut job Californians land of
fruits and nuts. That is not a saying that came
quickly or easily, or without merit or evidence. I want
to bring in our California correspondent, she was born and
(08:04):
raised there, Kelly Cacera. The more that we hear and
find out about all this as it transpires, Kelly, the
more upset and frustrated I get. I am heartbroken on
behalf of all these people have lost their homes, not
just the celebrities, especially not the celebrities, but that so
much of this seems like it could have been preventable.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, one hundred percent would have been preventable.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
It has to do with, like you said, the legislation,
the leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Down all the way down the way.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
And unfortunately, I don't have a lot of faith that
things are going to change, and they should after something
like this happens, you know, it should wake up everyone
to the point of what are we doing in this state,
in this beautiful state that I grew up in, which
was not the same fifty years ago, you know, or
so when I was born there, and now it is
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just a core, a crap hole of bureaucracy and nonsense.
And as heartbroken as I am for everyone who has
lost property, and I don't mean to sound uncaring or.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Crass, but you reap what you sew.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
And everyone in California voted these people in office, including
Karen Bass, including Gavin Newsom, including Adam Schiff, if you
want to go that far.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So when this when, when.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Something like this happens, it opens everyone's eyes and it's
a rude awakening.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I have a lot of questions, like I said, more
questions than answers at this point. That's part of the
frustration that I have here in Ryan Schuling Live, you
can textas five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, I think your first is going to be how
did the fire start? And I have a very good idea,
but go ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Probably started and this is unfortunate, but it's not going
to be a lightning strike because California doesn't get that
on weather, So you can't blame that it's not going
to be. I mean, it could be a downpower line
from the winds, but there's no reports of that. What
is more likely are the homeless encampments with an open fire,
with an open fire.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Could have been.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I'm thinking about the geography, the topography, the climate of California, Kelly, that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You know better than anybody else.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
And when I look to the eastern border of California
and Nevada and Lake Tahoe and all these skiing resorts
in water, that could manifest itself in much of the
same way that we get water here in Colorado. Why
we are a source for so many neighboring states because
of the nature of our landscape and how that water
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matriculates down from the mountaintops from frozen winters into thawing springs.
But then I look at the other side of California,
from the border of Oregon to the border of Mexico.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And all points in between.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
California has the Pacific Ocean to its west, and we
have the technology, I believe in your twenty twenty five
for desalinization plants to take water from the ocean massive
amounts without affecting ocean levels or anything like that. In fact,
I thought the environmentalists were concerned about rising ocean levels.
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Why is there not more desalinization plants taking water from
the ocean, turning it into fresh water for not only
usage and drinking, but for fire hydrants, for showers, for dishwashers,
for washing machines.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Why is that, Kelly?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Your guess is as good as mine because I grew
up hearing all about desalination.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Sure, so a couple things.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
So the environmentalists and also the California Coastal Commission, which
is made up of a bunch of hippies and very
very left wing people, they do not want to see
houses on the beach. They wanted to see houses on
the beach. And unfortunately the plant would have had to
be built relatively close to the ocean in order to.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Get water and flow it in.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
And so many many votes went up through the legislature
and they all failed within committee.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And that's just to get the desalinization plans built correct,
and they don't want to sacrifice. I get it from
a certain standpoint, the real estate property value of that
ocean front property that's going to be through the roof.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Well, also, you know the Coastal Commission doesn't want any
houses on the beach.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They don't want anything like that.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
So these people when they try to pull you know,
and Adam Carolla said it best and I kind of
touched upon it yesterday. When these people go to rebuild
their houses, it's going to be really tough to rebuild
on the same plot of land that they had, you know.
And again he kind of alluded to people don't want
to move inward into the valleys and things.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Like that, but they might not have a choice.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I mean, you might have to see, you know, go
from Malibu to like Calabasas, and people don't really want
to do that, but it may.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Have to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
California wildfires continue mostly out of control. Not enough water,
not enough personnel, They can't do their jobs. I saw video, Kelly,
did you see this? Listeners you too, Zach will bring
you in as well. I don't think this was done
for effect of these firefighters that were literally taking purses,
women's purses, filling them with water and throwing them onto
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a garage that was on fire.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Did you see that? Yes?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I did.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
The hell was that because the hydrants are empty, they
have any way to tap into it. I told you yesterday,
they're only about twenty five to thirty percent full in
the entire city of Los Angeles. And if they are full,
they're like half full. So you know, in order to
try to control four wildfires and now a fifth in
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the Hollywood Hills, it's almost near impossible.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And you're going to find things like this.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
But like I said yesterday, you know, they do not
manage their force. They do not mitigate anything in California.
They just don't do it. And this is what happens.
You know, you get these firestorms, and when you have
these Santa Ana winds that pick up to you know,
eighty to one hundred miles an hour, you get flare
ups all over the place that can't be controlled. So
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when the entire La Basin at this point is under
danger zone.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Donald Trup again, we're not just Monday morning quarterbacking here.
This is the Orange Man while he was president, flashing
back to twenty eighteen, over six years ago, standing directly
next to one Governor Gavin Newsom in California. He's talking
about what Kelly just touched on right there.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Cleaned out and protected. I'm goin to take care of
the floors. You know, the floors of the forest is
very important. You look at other countries where they do
it differently, and it's a whole different story. I was
with the President of Finland and he said, we have
much different We're a forest nation. He called it a
forest nation. And they spent a lot of time on
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breaking and cleaning and doing things and what they don't
have any problem and what it is, it's a very
small problem. So I know everybody's looking at that to
that end, and.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's going to work out.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
How many of these clips do we have when we
go back in time about something President Trump said and
he turned out to be one percent right.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
His batting average is incredible.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
He's like Ted Williams of a better So that's what
Donald Trump thought about the wildfires.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
President Joe Biden paid a visit.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
To California just yesterday, and here's what he had to
say and what he was concerned with.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
He got Rumficas home.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
Today.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He stay, the good news is I'm a.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Great grandfather the day.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Way, So in case you had difficulties sorting that out. Basically,
Joe Biden was standing there, rambled some kind of response
about the fires and then oh, the good news there's
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I'm gonna be a great grandfather.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
I mean this pathological, narcissistic, just an absolute sociopath, makes
everything about him.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
And this didn't even relate to the fires. This wasn't
even his attempt. Well you know all about my house
down ad caught fire and it burned down, even though
it was just a kitchen and was contained. But at
least that would have been relevant to the topic at hand,
or when other soldiers die.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, you know, my son bo he died in a rock.
Like he didn't die in a rock. He came home.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
A lot of these soldiers, airmen, naval officers, marines that
are killed overseas in combat.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
That is not what happened to Boe.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Biden, all due respect to your son, has nothing to
do with the current situation. And then this one Kelly
just talks about he's given me a great grandfather. Talk
about tone deaf, out of context.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Look, he is a great grandfather. I believe that he
said that he is.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So gosh, he is just the king of poor timing.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And even so.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Governor Gavin Newsom was confronted by Anderson Cooper's CNN about
Donald Trump's criticism of him, and this is what he
had to say. Hits even ask this question, but the
president elections to attack you, blame you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Four days one can't even respond to it. And I mean,
it's if people are literally clean.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
People have lost their lives, kids lost their schools, family
is completely torn asunder, churches burned down. This guy wanted
to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and
I know what I want to say, I won't. I
stood next to the President of the United States of
America today and I was proud to be with Joe Biden,
(18:28):
and he had the backs of every single person in
this community. Didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Us, didn't play politics one because he couldn't, two because
he agrees with these stupid policies that led to the
fires in the first place. And thirty was focused on
his great grandkids. But that's who Gavin Newsom was proud
to stand next to. Gavin Newsom, total lack of self
awareness that any of his policies, refusing to clear the
floors of the forest of timber that might be an
(18:54):
habitat for a bird, for a whistler or whatever, or
this delta smelt and the desalinization plan. Zach was telling
me in my ear that they're not doing it because
of environmental reasons or because of the salt left over
from turning the salt water into freshwater. The Democrats have
nobody to blame but themselves and their own policies, their
(19:17):
own lack of preparation and staffing and properly equipping their
firefighters for these wildfires that are out of control. Ryl.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Chumley Washington Times joins us next on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
You think that this was one of it's not the
biggest issue for this election, Well.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
I think if we can't. You know, there's forty seven
of us in the Senate, and if we can't pull
up with with seven votes, if we can't get at
least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,
then that's the reason why we lost. That's one of them.
That's one of why we lost.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Time in part, why does Frankenstein's monster the guy that
awoken from a slum or who suffered a stroke. I
don't mean to make light of that, but just think
about the changes that we've seen. As Senator John Fetterman,
how awesome he is. I believe, as much as I
want Republican control of the House, the Senate, the Presidency,
that John Fetterman's going to sail to reelection. He's the
(20:17):
type of Democrat, kind of self respecting guy who's very
self aware that I might have voted for long ago
in the past, never again. But I can deal with
John Fetterman. I can accept John Feederman, I can respect
John Fetterman. But why is he one of the only
ones that gets it on the left? We were talking
about this with PK yesterday. John Fetterman gets it. He
(20:41):
relates to the common man. The Democrats have lost that
common human touch. They would be wise to lean into
John Fetterman and his approach. They're not doing it. They
won't do it. Why won't they do it? Well? It
takes us to our next guest and our good friend,
who you can follow on x at C K.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Chumley.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
She is an opinion writer for The Washington Times, and
she has a new book coming out on January fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yes, that's just.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Five days away. Cheryl Tremley our guest here on Ryan
Schuling Live. Cheryl, Welcome back, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
It's great to be with you.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Propose that question to you, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Why is it somebody like John Fetterman, of all people
on the left, he's one that gets it, but so
few on the left do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, what an odd duct this guy is.
Speaker 12 (21:26):
Right, We all started out hating him because he couldn't
even bother to dress properly for his dating congress. Now
he's emerging as the common sense and voice of the
Democrat Party. And why the Democrat Party won't embrace him
is the same reason the Democrat Party wouldn't embrace Tulsea Gabbert,
(21:47):
because he seems to put forth ideas that are me
benefit of American society and American citizens. And the Democrat
Party today is not like the Democrat Party of yesteryear,
of JFK Times, of even Bill Clinton times. This modern
day Democrat Party is all about Marxism and socialism and
(22:09):
collectivism and tearing down America's constitutional republic.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The timing of our conversation is so appropriate, not just
for the release of your book, Cheryl, but I watched
Douglas Murray speak last night of the Paramount Theater in
downtown Denver, and a lot of his broad strokes and
themes fit right in line with the title of your book,
God Given or Bust, defeating Marxism and saving America with
biblical truths. We have seen the left, in large part,
(22:37):
turn full force against our founding fathers, against our founding principles,
against the Judeo Christian work ethic that serves as the
foundation of this country that they want to run away from,
separation of church and state. That really focused on that
part of it, all the while not knowing or not
caring to know about why our republic was founded, why
(22:58):
it has survived now almost two hundred fifty years. Can
you enlighten our audience as to what motivated you to
write this book and why you feel this particular topic
is so important.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well, it is the.
Speaker 12 (23:09):
War in America, and if you look back, it always
has been the war. What separates America from all other nations,
what founding fathers gave us, and what makes America so
exceptional is the idea that our rights as individuals come
from God and government is only put in place to
preserve and protect those rights that we already have endowed
(23:31):
by our Creator. So, if you look at all the
political battles to fight, the financial battles, the foreign.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Policy battles, the battles.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
Between party against party. It all can lead back to
the basic.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
War we have going on.
Speaker 12 (23:45):
Do we have the right of individuals to stand on
God given rights in liberties or do we have to
ask God for those liberty?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Do we have to ask government for those liberties?
Speaker 12 (23:55):
And that's basically been the fight. It's just ratcheted up.
We saw under COVID, especially where government stepped in and
seized individual rights, and we saw with alarm how willing
Americans were to give up those rights in the name
of safety and security. And that tells me that we
have lost the essence of American exceptionalism. We've lost the
(24:17):
concept of God giving individual rights liberties.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Such an important point.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Cheryl Chumley, our guest writer for The Washington Times and
author of the book that I mentioned, available on January fourteenth,
both hardcover and kindle edition, God Given or Bus Defeating
Marxism and saving America with Biblical truth now one of
the reasons, and this is something I also took from
Douglas Murray's commentary last night and from you, Cheryl, is
that the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all those founding documents,
(24:46):
the writings of the contemporaries of our Founding fathers in
those times, almost exclusively, we're designated to feature what government
could not do to its citizens, what citizens had, as
like you said, god given rights that no government, no
one who was elected or otherwise could take away. And yet,
as you point out with Marxism, with the modern left,
(25:10):
the power that we saw, the addiction to that power,
whether it's COVID or right now with the California wildfires,
is the Left really wants to limit the individual rights
of most Americans along.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Most lines, and we're seeing the results of that.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
Yeah, just look at all those things that we've been
additioned to ask the government for permission to do right,
And COVID is the perfect example because it did shed
light so blatantly on how far we strayed from Founding
father principles. You know, we had to ask government if
it was okay to go to work, to send our
(25:47):
kids to school, to walk around without a face mask,
to walk around without taking a shot that we didn't
want to take, to go to church for crying out loud.
We had to ask government permission for all that, and
government all too willing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
To say no.
Speaker 12 (26:01):
You can't do any of that, and too many Americans
were like, oh, okay, it's for the safety of America.
We have to do what the government tells us. Well,
you know, it's supposed to be the other way around.
It's supposed to be we walk around as individual citizens
in complete freedom, and government has to come to us
(26:21):
and make the case that you can't do this because
of X, Y or the reason, and we have to
approve that. So the relationship is God first, citizen right second,
and government third. Well, government has put itself above citizens
and it's really trying to act as its role is
more like.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
God of society.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
And that's why we're having so many difficulties right now
with our freedoms, with holding back government from keeping government from.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
Growing even more elected officials in the United States, and
why we survived these two centuries and a half is
because those elected officials have power only by consent of
the governed, us, the voters.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The American populace. And those are the points that Cheryl
makes in her book. Highly recommend that you can find
out on Amazon. God Given her Bust Defeeding Marxism and
Saving America with Biblical truths. You can follow her on
ex at C. K.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Chumley. One final question, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
This is from your latest for The Washington Times entitled
Harris certifies Biden bands and the anti Maga moves are
often running. What's really taking my breath away is kind
of a twofold, and that is President Trump has already
assumed the office, both in terms of perception, in performance,
his press conferences, on the world stage, how other leaders
(27:38):
are viewing him, and President Biden is kind of fading
toward the finish and yet trying to kind of torch
things on his way out the door. What do you
make of this transition? How do you compare it to
past presidential transitions.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
Well, Democrats, I always like to say that they're the
party of tolerance and that they're the ones to look
to for peaceful transfers of offices and so forth. But
you know what they put out their result, calm and everything,
and it sounds they seem so friendly, But if you
look at what they do behind the scenes, Joe Biden
just tied the hands of Donald Trump by putting off
(28:12):
limits to development, off limits to drilling for oil and
gas on six hundred and seventy million acres right the
entire East Coast, parts of the West Coast, the Gulf
of Mexico, which is so be named Gulf of America.
I hear, and Donald Trump. Of course, he's going to
come into office and try and overturn that with executive order.
(28:32):
But you know, the environmental jobs out there are already
lining up to go to court, so his hands are
going to be tied anyhow. And we also have Democrats
in sanctuary cities and communities already swearing to go to
jail if they have to in order to preserve their
sanctuary city and community status. These are Democrats that are
purposely trying to strategize to make Trump's job harder, despite
(28:58):
the fact that he has the mandate of the American
people to govern maga fashion, and they're trying to take
punt shots and tie his hands before he even enters office.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Cheryl, will you be attending the inauguration? Oh gosh, now
I think.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Traffic and security.
Speaker 12 (29:18):
No, no, no, I'll be watching from afar.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
She's one of the smartest ones and she's one of
the best. You can follow her on x once again
at C. K. Chumley of The Washington Times, and of
course her new book. Check it out in five days,
God giving her bust, defeating Marxism, and saving America with
Biblical truths. Cheryl Tremley, thank you so much for your time.
As always, we'll check in again soon.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
All right, Cheryl Tremley joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live,
and we'll take your texts five seven, seven, three nine.
Got a lot of those to get to when we
come back, wrapping up our number one after this on
six point thirty KL.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Follow me to Freedom. That's where we're going. That's the destination.
I see it on the horizon January twenty, if it
begins the odyssey, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
There Washington, d C. For the inauguration. Cheryl Chumley thinks
I'm insane. She's right, I'm crazy. But I'm gonna be there,
and I'm gonna be reporting back here on this very program,
which I believe Jimmy Sanginberger will be filling in on
that Monday, and I'll be calling back into KOA. I
just I figured I'm fifty years old and never been
to inauguration. I might not ever go again. And this
(30:23):
one's historic in my view. This one means something. This
is a pivot point in my view in American history.
Invite you to follow me on x at Ryan Shuling
s h U I L I MG, subscribe, download, listen
to the podcast. Zach does a phenomenal job of uploading
those episode hours. There are fewer commercials. There's an advantage
(30:44):
to listening that way, and they're about thirty six minutes about.
You know, we're a typical commute, maybe a longer one.
And you can listen to an hour of the program.
And if you missed Sean Ferris yesterday, well do yourselves
a favor and go back and listen to that half
hour that we had with him at the end of
yesterday's program. I'm still marveling at everything he threw at us.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Kelly.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
It was a blur and I got a credit Kelly
for helping get Sean on the program. And I just
noticed this during the break. I told Kelly Kay smythe
our good friend. Now Kay Hill she's married, congratulations to her.
She liked the post about Sean joining the show, so
we appreciate both of them.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
They are both awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I'm thinking about the next governor of California, Kelly, and
it's been far too long since the Republican even had
a chance, and you got to go back to what
Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he's you know, he was a rhino
even back then.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
But you take it.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
You're not going to get Pete Wilson or Ronald Reagan again, unfortunately,
not in California. Maybe not for a long time, although
we'll see what happens in the wake of these fires.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
But the fou on X one of the best accounts
to follow.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
She goes by Polita Bunny, Polita Bunny, po l t
I Bunny. She's a big fan of Michael Brown and
she and I follow each other on the X. She says,
the follow it Kelly's take on this California in our
midst the food posts.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's it. I'm saying it real.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
James Wood should run for governor of California, not even kidding.
Three American flags, Kelly, your thoughts, could you?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That's one idea.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I think he would definitely give any Democrat a good
run for his money. But unfortunately I am disheartened in that.
Steve Garvey, I know, ran against Adam Schiff, It's.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
The very name was going to bring.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Up, and he actually just won by so much it
just made my heartbreak.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What about Nicole Shanahan running as an independent former running
mate for RFK Junior.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Yeah, it's that might have a little bit of leg
She's a woman, she kind of checks one of those boxes.
But you know, she's tex so she's going to have
a lot of money behind her. She has a lot
of money, so I mean, but is it going to
be enough?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You know?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
And the majors were getting on me today, at least
Mark was because he kept saying this, this whole California
wildfire storm is going to turn people red. And I said,
I don't think you understand.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
California too far gone yet.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
And I said, I would love to have faith.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
I would really love to have faith, But unfortunately I
know too much about that state and it really is
dominated by the uh San Francisco elite where there's a
lot you know, just think of Nancy Pelusi and Adam Schiff,
you know, if you want to go and then and
(33:39):
then down south. Oh he is a pencil neck, but
then down south you got.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
A watermelon head.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm saying, there was a time.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
How does the pencil neck pulled up his watermelon head?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Well, And there was a time in the eighties when
places like San Diego were very very conservative, and places
like in the valleys where I grew up in the
San Gabriel Valley that was very conservative.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Now it is overwrought.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
With you know, just you know, people who are I
don't know, have just bought into this leftist, progressive culture
at that just has really really torn down the entire
state of California, and nobody sees it until something like
(34:29):
this happened. Even if something like this happens, they still
have the mindset that the people that are going to
help them the most are the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Well, and let's not pretend it's not happening here, because
it is.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
The Colorado Democrats and the state legislature are trying to California.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Are Colorado to the ridiculous extreme.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
I mean, the fact that we're paying for grocery bags
now insane. They're trying to limit our Second Amendment rights,
trying to limit detachable magazines from handguns. We're going to
talk to Alicia Garcia Boomstick Ba coming up in our
number two. Yeah, they are trying to run this state
into the ground.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well, and where do you think the bag fee came from?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
California.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
You know, while we were back there visiting my family,
we did go to the store and it's amazing because
they are now charging Let's see, it used to be
what is it here?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Cents?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Ten cents ten here?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Okay, it's fifty cents in California right now, so dumb.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
This one clarifying the earlier visual that I saw from
a text five and seven thirty nine. The California firefighters
that were filmed using bags of water were using special
canvas bags that they carry on their trucks to fill
with water from their trucks. It's quicker for them to
fill these bags with water than to pull out their
houses to put out very small spot fires.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Well, the YouTube video I saw clearly look like a person.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
They looked like women's purses. Now, maybe I mistook those
for these canvas bags.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I really too.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I appreciate the texture. Sending that in. You can send
your tax in as well. Five seven seven three nine.
We hope to be joined by Christy Burton Brown at
the bottom of our number two.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
She's in a long.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Meeting today, was just sworn in for the Colorado State
Board of Education, and we look forward to that conversation
if not today, then tomorrow at that same time, and
as I mentioned, Alicia Garcia with the latest assault pun
intended on our Second Amendment rights in the Colorado legislature.
Happy happy joy time from Jared Paulus in his State
of the State address.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
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