October 1, 2025 • 33 mins
P.K. Steinmark-Stevinson, host of the Humanity Against Tyranny podcast, joins Ryan to review Charlie Kirk's impassioned words on his Christian faith as a foundation for American freedom.
Jerry Schemmel, play-by-play voice of the Rockies on KOA alongside Jack Corrigan, joins Ryan to discuss the departure of long-time general manager Bill Schmidt.
Congressman Gabe Evans (R, CO-8) updates the very latest in the Congressional budget showdown, as Democrats threaten a shutdown of the government - he has offered to defer his paycheck until the legislative branch gets its collective act together and passes a bill to fund all spending.
Jerry Schemmel, play-by-play voice of the Rockies on KOA alongside Jack Corrigan, joins Ryan to discuss the departure of long-time general manager Bill Schmidt.
Congressman Gabe Evans (R, CO-8) updates the very latest in the Congressional budget showdown, as Democrats threaten a shutdown of the government - he has offered to defer his paycheck until the legislative branch gets its collective act together and passes a bill to fund all spending.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The last is dominated culture for so long to have
you know, the feminist movement, we can blame that for
destroying the nuclear home.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We can blame that for.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Destroying marriages in a lot of ways. But how do
we kind of work backwards from that, kind of get
back to like the core American values, you know, lower
the divorce rate, lower single motherhood.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What it doesn't seem to be like a practical solution
that's been even attempted by the edit.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well, the practical solution, we don't have to think. We
need to point people to God and eventually to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And that is the solution.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Is that people need to humble themselves before the Lord.
They need to go back to church, they need to
get married before they have sex. They need to stop
engaging in debauchery and limitless amounts of drinking and the
sins of the flesh, and understand that there's a God
who loves them that wants them to live a certain way.
And it's not a matter of the feminist movement or
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the Black Lives Matter movement. We need a movement that
is centered around spiritual, eternal principles.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The late Great Charlie Kirk, and I still feel kind
of odd saying that, but it's true, and he was
on campus delivering that answer, and it's part of a
multifaceted answer that really shows Charlie Kirk's wisdom beyond his
years as a young man of just thirty one, and
he was younger than that when he stated that. And
joining me to break this down is the host of
the Humanity Against Tyranny podcast, my good friend PK Stein
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Mark Stevenson PK.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hello, Hi, Ray, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Got another great podcast on tap for tonight? You'll be
talking with Bernie Lake. Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
She's phenomenal, the saint of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
She has fought human trafficking overseas and is looking to
do more of the same. And I've actually connected her
with John Fabricatory, who is tracking down these missing children
across the country that are being trafficked. And hopefully those
two joining forces will produce a lot of positive results.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Oh positive, And you are so good to do that
ry for the kids and for them.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm looking forward to that tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
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That's all we ask and we record each Wednesday night
around six pm. Those episodes are posted shortly after seven pm.
Make what Charlie Kirk said there about the political right
in Christianity.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, I got to tell you I agree with everything
he said.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
You.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
When a country loses its moral base, then everything else
is let it all hang out. And when you let
it all hang out, you get lawlessness, you get broken marriages,
you get people. There's no position for this strength of character.
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It's gone. You don't have to have character. You can
do whatever you want, it doesn't matter. It's about me,
myself and I, and you lose that in a society
when it's not about your neighbor or a friend or
a stranger. They don't have it anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And it's a perspective that's provided inherently by faith, and
it could be any faith. But Charlie Kirk kicks into
more detail here about repentance being at odds with pride.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But a revival will only happen with intence, and repentance
is at odd with pride. And so we have an
entire month dedicated to pride. By the way, which is,
you must acknowledge two things. There is a God and
we are not him. Those two things are fundamental towards
having hopefully the humility of getting in front of your creator,
understanding that you fall short of the glory of God
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with the eyes on the cross, and understanding the significance
of what the cross is and what it means for
your life, and with that will come widespread nationwide change.
We are seeing some promising trends. Church attendance is slightly
going up. Gen Z especially gen Z men, are more
religious than millennial men, and it is in increasing and
growing and young women.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We got some we got some things to work through.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
For Charlie, his faith really determined his path and his
Christianity was that faith, and that strength of his faith
impressed even the likes of Bill Maher. But to that
latter point that he made their PK. Why is it
do you think that these young people coming up gen
Z's are more religious than the generations before them?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Gen X and the millennials a front row seat to
the chaos that lack of faith creates in a society.
And you know, I used to say that to my
friends all the time. You know, there is a God people,
and I'm just glad it's not you or me. And
you know, you know, we all fall short of the
glory of God. He says that it's biblical.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We do.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
But you know, you got to be in constant repentance,
not every day. You're going to do everything right and
in the right in the eyes of God, and what's
right or wrong is determinate right.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But you've got to have a moral base.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You have to have some fundamental basis to form your
laws on, to form your life on. And without it,
everybody's in chaos and you're seeing the result of it
in these last few decades.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Peekke stey Mark Stevenson, host of the Humanity Against Tyranny
podcasts with me, and we're going over Charlie comments because
they trace back to opening of this program in our
number one about having some faith based principles to which
we are moored, meaning fastened in a way, and you
don't have. This isn't a contest about how Christian are you,
how much do you believe, how much do you go
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to church, but just a basic set of guardrails and
values as to how you live a purpose driven life.
However you define that. It might be Christianity, it might
be something else. In America, we were founded, though on
Judeo Christian principles, values, work, ethic and for the laugh.
For many on the left, politics is their religion. But
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Charlie thought of something bigger than that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
We will not save the contrary just through politics. Politics
is a means towards an end, a means towards liberty.
But liberty is not man's idea, It's God's idea. And
we are only able to experience that liberty if we
are a moral and religious people. And I'll close with
the statement with this that the Constitution is incompatible, incompatible
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with a apeless nation. You will not have a free
society if the country goes atheist. You will not have
a free society if the country goes secular. That sounds provocative,
but it's true, is that liberty and freedom cannot coexist
with a nation that does not believe in a higher
power because eventually you're going to want to have some
form of meaning in your life, and usually that meaning
is left in politics.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
And these right there, And it comes back to comments
that Don Lemon made last week about the left is
always insistent upon separation of church and state, which is
a bastardization of the original intent of the First Amendment
minute which is going to be no establishment of a
religion from a national standpoint, that you would have the
free exercise whatever religion you practice without interference from the government.
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In other words, it's a freedom of religion, not necessarily
a freedom from religion. You can practice your faith however
you want, the government will not bestow it upon you.
And in this specific instance as well, PK. I go
back to something Senator Tim Kaine said, which is that
somehow our rights were divined from government. And that is
so dangerous when you think about it. That government can
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give you rights and then government could take them away,
as we saw during COVID when they tried those draconian
measures with the restrictions and the protocols. And when your
rights are divined from your creator, which is the very
basis for our declaration of independence and the constitution itself.
Now you see how that can blossom in the country
that we become PK over two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Years exactly without our founding fathers basing this constitutional republic
on the Christian ethic, and whether you have any other religion,
the ethic is do unto others as you would have
them do unto you. If you let a government rule you,
you'll never be free. And actually, take a look at
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a communist country. You know their government is their God.
And that's what this country was founded not to have.
We were founded to have a country based on the
inalienable rights that God gives us because we are children
are the most High God, and we have his genome.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Here is Charlie Kirk's final statement in this snippet. It
was about five minutes long, but it was such a
thought provoking response that I really wanted to get into
it with pk here today.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So you fill that void with left wing politics, because
left wing politics mirrors religion. It feels like a religious experience.
So there's a thinker by the name of Emil Durkheim,
which some of you guys may or may not know,
who talked about what is religion and he says, the
things that have in common of religion is that people
will all say the same thing. They'll meet on a
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regular basis, they'll agree on an objective that that is,
the Black Lives Matter movement or the trans movement or whatever,
and we should say, hey, instead of making those things
your god, you should believe in the God of the Bible,
the God that loved you enough to send his son
to die for you so that you let me live forever.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well said by Charlie PK. Your reaction.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
My reaction is again he's correct. And here's the whole thing.
Anything group that gets together, whether it's based on God
or on secularism or hatred, those things, they all meet,
they agree on the same thing, and they'll die for
what they agree upon, or they'll hurt others to make
sure their point is made. And what's happened in America
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is because politics have become our faith or their faith,
their religion, because they totally believe in it, and they've
literally destroyed other people because they believe in their left
wing politics as their god. They have no idea what
they're doing to another person when they say A very
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good friend says to you that you had for a
long time, and I know this for a fact, says
to you, I don't want to ever talk to you
again because you voted for Trump. I know somebody who
recently had that done to him and just recently was
found dead.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Hey, case Dine Mark Stevenson her podcast Humanity Against Tyranny.
You can hear it later tonight, as she has a
conversation with Bernie Lake about the battle against human trafficking,
both here at home in America and abroad internationally. Ryan
Schuling live back with you, and we're breaking news today
now on the baseball front.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, my Tigers took it on the chin today in
Game two.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They did win game one, so they'll have a winner
take all Game three to see you advances to the
American League Division Series tomorrow in Cleveland. The Colorado Rockies, however,
they were making news of their own today and here
is a portion of that from nine News and Mike Cliss.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
We start this half out with some big breaking news
from the MLB. We just learned moments ago that the
Rockies are parting ways with current VP and general manager
Bill Schmidt. Our sports insider Mike Cliss broke this news
just minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
He joins US Now Live with the latest mic.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
This is quite a shakeup.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Yeah, there you want the Montforts, both Dick and Walker Montfort,
who is promoted to executive vice president. About a month ago,
they decided a change in leadership was name it. After
forty three and one nineteen, the third worst record in
Major League Baseball modern history, Bill Schmid has been a
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good man, and he's been a good scout and a
good leader for the Rockies for almost twenty six years.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean he was responsible for drafting.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Tuloh, Kyle Freelan, Nolan Aronado, Garrett Atkins, to name a few.
But you know, it's been three straight one hundred lost seasons.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Joining us now to talk more about it, Bill Schmidt,
General Managers, stepping down from the Colorado Rockies front office.
He is one of the radio play by play voices
for the Rockies over on our sister station KOA. Jerry
Shemil joins us on Ryan Schuling Live. Jerry, thanks for
your time, my pleasure. The timeline that Mike Cliss points
out here, it is remarkable too, especially in this day
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and age of professional sports where there are changes at
the top all the time. But Bill Schmid has been
with the Rockies for a vast majority of its entire
team history. Can you put it in a perspective, the
impact that he left on the Rockies, that he made
on the Rockies from his very first day.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Yeah, I think Mike Clist makes a good point. He
did some really, really good things. The last three years
under his leadership had been really rough. One hundred plus
lost seasons each of those years, and that's going to
probably spell change. But if you look before those years
when Bill was a scout, he was the head scout,
he did a lot of great things. He made a
lot of great moves. I think when people look back
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at his record think he was really good and drafting
position players and Charlie Blackman and Nola Arnado and Tory
Tulowitzki and many others. Pitchers might be a little bit
different story. They have not panned out like position players.
But I think Mike makes a good point. We all
need to realize it. I know that everybody's down to
the Rockies and ownership and especially their general managers now resigning.
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But Bill did do a lot of good things. And Ryan,
he's a good man. We had a show with him
last two years, Rockies All Access on Saturdays. He was
always extremely cooperative, no matter what the team was doing,
he was always willing.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So it's a.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Good man to situation. But he's a good man.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Jerry Schmel, the voice of the Rockies, one of them,
along with Jack Corrigan, joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live,
talking about where the Rockies go from here. Now, a
point that you just made Jerry, And it's difficult to
kind of adjust the ballpark because we know they put
the balls in humidors. Very few free agent pitchers want
to sign here and pitch half their games here because
of the altitude, because of how the ball carries. So
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that means it's even more important for the Rockies to
target and draft high quality arms and develop them through
their system. Now, Chase Delander has been one of those
in recent memory and looks like he might be off
to a good start in his career, but they've been
few and far between. Just tell us a little bit
more about the Rockies their history of drafting pitchers and
why you think it hasn't gone as well as the
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hitters that they've drafted.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Yeah, I think there's two things there. Number One, it
really is. It's been documented it's really difficult for pitchers
to pitch a Corse field. That's number one. And what
you have to do is just be a little bit
better than the other guy. You don't have to be great.
No one expects you to have a sparkling era or
when the cy young when you're pitching for the Rockies,
But all you do is be better than the other guy.
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And that's what Kyle Friedland and Erymond Marquez and some
others have done over the years, just mentally tough guys
that don't let Corsefield and the altitude get in their heads.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Brian.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
The guys who have not been able to do that
are the guys that have faltered. They have gotten that
in their head that some people call it Rocky Mountain fever.
I think that's a good description of a course field
for pitcher in his head, and you start thinking, my
ball's not going to break as much. I'm not going
to throw quality strikes like I came on the road.
I'm going to get hit more. The ball is going
to travel further and quicker, and all of a sudden
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you've had a rough season. So I think it takes
not just a great arm like Chose Chase the Orlander has,
and that's a great example. It takes some of it's
mentally tough when the Rockies always haven't found that picture.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Jerry Shevil our guest.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Now, I went through this, Jerry as a Tigers fan
back in two thousand and three, where it seemed like
anything and everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The franchise bottomed out and there's this thought of one
hundred nineteen losses. I mean, how do you go forward
from here? What's that first step? For the Tigers, it
was Mike Yelich getting active in free agency and signing
Pad Rodriguez and signing magle Ordniaz and making some trades.
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But it did come through the farm system as well.
So I know this is an impossible question to answer,
but let's just start with what's right in front of
us twenty twenty six. Where does it begin for the Rockies,
who do you think they're looking for in that general
manager position? And what would be a good first step
out of this one hundred and nineteen loss hole.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Yeah, I'll answer to the last one first. I think
the first step in terms of turning a team around,
it has to be starting pitching. That's always where it
starts in my mind. I've seen it now for fourteen
years doing these games. It always starts with starting pitching.
I'm gonna look at the playoffs these last two days.
The great starting pitchers are the ones that have won
with their teams winning in the playoffs. It always starts
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with that, always seems to end with that. And the
Rocky said the worst starting rotation in baseball. I think
you make a good point too about the Tigers. Everything
that could have gone wrong went wrong, and that's what
happened with the Rockies. Rotation. Al freedom was inconsistent, Arbon
Marquez did not bounce back from Tommy John surgery. Antonio
sends a Della the same way. Austin Gonber was almost disaster,
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and Ryan Feltner, who might have been their most talented arm,
was doomed from the beginning with injury. So and the
young guys Duel Lander and some others came up and
did what they did what they could, but that was
just a starting rotation in shambles. I think that's where
you start. There are some pieces position player wise and offensively.
You've got a gold Glove shortstop, a gold Glove centerfielder,
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You've got an all star catcher. You build with those
three guys some other guys that I think are up
and coming that you haven't seen yet, like Charlie Condon
and some others maybe at Holiday's Kid in the next
couple of years. So I think you've got some pieces
and some framework offensively and position player wise, but it
has to start with starting pitching, and there are also
some piece in the bullpen that are pretty intriguing as well.
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To answer the other question about who you bring in,
you have to have somebody with experience from the outside,
and Walker mont for made it clear this morning in
that press release we're going to look outside. We're not
going to go within that has not worked the last
several years, which I applaud. I think that's a great move.
I also think Ryan, it's important for whoever it is
to come here or lead baseball operations to be familiar
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with the challenge that Corsfield presents. Bad Levine worked in
the front office for five or six years to the Rockies,
went on to Texas and then went on in Minnesota
and won several division titles. A guy that understands the
challenges of playing at altitude, I think is important. Do
you have to have that experience with the team though
I don't think you have to, but you have to
have someone willing to try to understand that. So that's
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one name that I'm hearing a lot. Andy McKay's an other.
He's an assistant general manager in Seattle. Let's had a
lot of obviously success lately. Who is in the Rockies
front office as well for a while. You can take
guys like Date Moore, who won a World Series championship
with the Royals several years ago, who had a candidate.
So there's some really really intriguing guys out there. It's
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just that you're a handful of them. The Rockies a
look at and hopefully make that position fairly quickly.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
And certainly today's move counters the narrative out there from
a lot of fans that are frustrated that say, hey,
they fill at the ballpark with visiting fans all the time,
they're not really interested in winning.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
This move definitely a step in that.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Direction trying to get things back on track with the
Rockies franchise, for which I am a partial season ticket holder.
He is one of the radio voices of the Colorado
Rockies over on KOA. Jerry Shemil, Always grateful for your time.
Enjoyed the off season because I know it's always too short.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Ryan good be on day to day.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Jerry sheml great friend of mine and he and I
are both former Billings Mustangs play by play announcers.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That is your bit of trivia for today. Back with more.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
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I was in the US military, and a lot of
my friends and family are also federal government workers, and so.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
That's why it's critically important that we keep the government open.
It's why I voted to keep the government open for
that Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded at current levels,
nothing being added or subtract from the way things are
currently set up right now.
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Speaker 4 (21:22):
Representative Gabe Evans on Fox thirty one announcing that he
had supported the continuing Resolution, which is Speaker Johnson points out,
thus the song coming in Back in Time by Huey
Lewis and the news you can go back in Time.
It's the same exact one that they passed previously. But
Senator Chuck Schumer needs to kind of pacify the left flank,
and it's a far left fringe flank of his Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And on what basis to what end? What is the
goal here?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Not really sure, But something else the Congressman Evans announced
yesterday and why we're having him on right now, is
that as long as this remains up in the air,
he is going to bypass his own paycheck. He's no
Donald Try either. I mean he does okay for himself,
but it's that like he can donate his whole salary
every month the way that the billionaire president does. He
joins us now on Ryan Schuling Live. Representative Gabe Evans,
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thanks for your time.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Yeah, always great to be on with you.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So take us through where we stand right now. I
know that we were more measures that were brought to
the floor, and it seems like we're more concerned at
this point about the Senate because they're only fifty three Republicans.
You need to peel off seven Democrats. But what's the latest.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head right there.
We passed this bill out of the House on September nineteenth,
only one Democrat and the entire US House of Representatives
voted to keep the government funded. And by the way,
as we just talked about, this is what's called a
clean cr thirteen times under the Biden administration. This is
something the Democrats voted for to keep the government open.
(22:47):
They voted for it in March of this year to
keep the government open, and unfortunately now in the Senate,
Senate Democrats are digging in their heels because, among other things,
one of their demands is they want to go back
to taxpayer funds going to illegal immigrants for healthcare coverage.
And so of course that's a non starter in terms
of negotiating with Republicans. Democrats don't want to bend on that.
(23:11):
So Senate Dems of have blocked government funding and we're
in day one of a shutdown right now.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
They're trying to boomerang this back on you through sheer projection,
Representative Evans, you, Speaker Johnson, Senate Leader Thoon, the President
himself and calling this the Trump shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
But it seems like but for.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
The Democrat opposition to this again you call it a
clean bill, that we would have a functioning government at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
How do they avoid owning this when we know better.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Oh, it's their traditional smoke and mirrors. They're going to
try to grasp onto anything to deflect the blame. The
problem is they literally wrote down what they wanted, they
put into writing and introduced into the Senate the Senate
Democrats counter proposal to keep the government open. On page
fifty seven of their counter proposal is the part where
they want to repeal all of the guardrails that Republicans
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put into law earlier this year that said taxpayer funding
can't go to illegal immigrants for healthcare. We've seen the
CBO scoring, the Congressional Budget Office scoring on that. We
know there's per CBO. We know there's well over a
million folks that do not have legal status in the
country that are receiving those funds to the tunes of
hundreds of billions of dollars. This is what the Democrats
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have put in writing as their counter proposal, and this
is one of the big reasons whether the shutting the
government down.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Representative Gabe Evans in the eighth Congressional District a pivotal one.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We're glad that he's there.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And he's doing a bang up job in that regard
again deciding to bypass his own paycheck. As long as
this standoff remains in place. Let's go back in time again.
The theme continues. How about a democratic presidential debate where
every single candidate on the stage answered this question the
same way.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
From Savannah Guthrie MSNBC.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Wise, your handed government, if your government plan would provide
coverage for undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
John hicken with Clara Michael Bennett. Now that's moderate so
called John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennett from our own state of
Colorado running for president Representative Evans, and they quickly raise
their hands saying, yes, we want government funded medical services
for undocumented immigrants or as you and I call them,
illegal aliens, however you want to phrase it, whatever name
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or label you want to put on it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's what they want to do. How can they deny that.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Yeah, well they're trying right now. But it's part of
the reason why we're having this conversation because the American
people aren't buying it. At the federal level. At the
state level, Democrats have made it absolutely clear where they stand.
They're going to stand with people illegally present in the
country before they stand with veterans, with seniors, with pregnant women,
(25:50):
with people with disabilities. They want to take those funds
that should be going to those again, those Americans, and
they want to hand it to folks who are not
legally present in the United States. So they've written it
down multiple times. You just played a clip where they
on TV vouched for it, and so that's why we're
(26:10):
highlighting that. Look up until in March of this year.
This was the common sense, bipartisan position thirteen times under Biden.
This was how we kept the government funded. But they
have gone so far to the left that they can't
even acknowledge right now that funding illegal immigrants over veterans
and taxpayers and seniors and pregnant women and people with
(26:31):
disabilities is wrong. And Republicans are fighting to make sure
that we put Americans first.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Representative Gabe Evans joining US eighth Congressional District here in Colorado.
If he's your rep You're lucky to have him. We're
lucky to have him on the air right now. Gabe,
I want to again go back in time, but I've
done my research on this topic, and I know you
have a strong stance on it statewide. Here On this ridiculous,
insane competency law that is now in place on the
(26:58):
books here in Colorado. It had some Republican support, including
the entire Senate. You, who were in the state House
at the time, were a hard no on it across
the line. What did so many Republicans not see coming
that you did with all of these pitfalls and loopholes
and ridiculousness, putting dangerous criminals back out onto the streets,
as is the current law.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, so I think it's important to make sure that
we we broadened the perspective here and talk about like
why we even got into this position in the first place.
And the reason we're in this position in the first
place is Colorado under Democrat rule, has done such a
horrible job of managing mental health care that they actually
got sued and they are under a federal consent decree.
(27:43):
So that means the federal government.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Comes down and says you did something wrong, and until
you actually fix it and prove you can do it right,
like you have to pay a fine and check in
with the federal government every year. So Colorado is under
a federal consent decree where they have to pay double
digit millions of dollars in fines because of how how
horribly they have mismanaged mental health care in Colorado to
include mental health care for people who have committed violent crimes.
(28:08):
And so when this piece of legislation came up last
year when I was in the state House, you know,
I had been a cop for ten years, so I
was familiar with a lot of the intricacies of this,
which is why I voted no because I knew it
was it was not the fix that we needed, and
it could potentially lead to situations like we just saw
recently where a repeat violent individual was let out of
(28:29):
jail and then got rearrested two weeks later on a
college campus with a gun.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
But the broader picture here is that.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
This was billed as a solution to try to save
money for Colorado because of how horrifyingly the Democrats have
mismanaged mental health care in the state to the point
where they got to pay, you know, tens of millions
of dollars in fines, and so unfortunately Democrat solutions at
times or even worse than Democrat problems.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's a good summation to put a fine point on it.
You can follow him on x at Rep. Gabe Evans.
He's hanging in the breach here while we await the
resolution of this government shut down. Congressman gave Evans literally
put his money where his mouth is and he won't
be collecting a paycheck until this problem is solved. Gabe,
always appreciate your time, Thanks for all the hard work
(29:17):
that you do, and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Always good to be on with you.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Thanks so much representative of Gabe Evans.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Time out, we'll preview what's coming up on Humanity Against
Tyranny the podcast tonight with my good friend p K
Stein Mark Stevenson wrapping.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Up Ryan Schuling live after this, well, p K.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Stein Mark Stevenson is certainly going to try to make
it right tonight Tonight Tonight Genesis Style on Humanity Against
Tyranny the podcast coming up this evening.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Bernie Lake will be joining us for an encore appearance.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
We'll talk to PK in just a moment about that
first or texts ran. A lot of the greatest minds
in science believe in God or a higher power, like
Albert Einstein and many more.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Science cannot explain all things.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
It's a point Charlie Kirk made often, Isaac Newton being
another one of those. And you're right the Big Bang theory?
What caused the Big Bang? What was behind the Big Bang?
And then what caused that? I know I sound a
lot like David Saint Hubbins from Spinal Tab, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's a good observation. Ryan.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Why aren't they making a budget as they are required
to do by law? Why are they continuing these continuing resolutions.
That's just how they kick the can down the road.
Text her, that's the simple nuts and bolts of it.
If you like sausage, never goes to a sausage factory
to see how it's made. Stephen Littelton says, the Dems
once again showing themselves for being nothing but Marxist obstructionists.
If you are not wrong, PK. Bernie lake tonight, tell
(30:34):
the people what they can expect.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Oh, you can expect what I call a modern day
saint who gave up everything and went to India to
help with human trafficking. She's amazing and everybody loves listening
to her.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
She was on previously with you and the beauty of
your podcast I've told you many times is there are
no confines or constraints of commercial interruptions really at all
with the one in the middle. But that's it, and
for like fifty minutes it's an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So you really get in deep with these people.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
And so many times, like George Brockler and I think
Bernie too, they say, that's the question I've never been asked,
and you're good at that, PK.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Well, thank you, but you're really good at letting me
speak and say what I want to say without interruption
and without censoring at all, not at all, not all right, producer.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Totally unfiltered. That's what you get from p K. Steim
Mark Stevens. So what is the most important question you
have teed up for Bernie tonight?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I want her to continue to tell the stories that
affected her the most in her experience over there and
how it comes back and relates to America.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
We've talked about the film's sound of Freedom and how
that's opened a lot of people's eyes, including my own.
The work that John Fabricatory has done. I mean you
talk about modern day saints. This is a guy that
has now helped find thousands of missing children who being
trafficked across the country. This is really the dark underbelly
of illegal immigration so called because it's not that these
(31:59):
are these are drug cartels that are trafficking kids across
the border.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
For a price.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
And then that horror, that nightmare doesn't end for those
poor children when they get to this country exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
And here's the whole point. We used to hear about
trafficking guns and drugs, and now it's trafficking people which
literally makes more money than the other two combined.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
P K Stein Mark Stevenson. She is the host of
Humanity Against Her and he'd be sure to subscribe, download
listen give her a five star rating. I'll give you
a lot of orders right now, but you can find
it on your favorite podcast platform. And I'm proud to
be part of that show with her. We record tonight
and that episode will be posted on the interwebs by
about seven seven fifteen. Bernadette Bernie Lake her guest this evening.
(32:44):
That'll do it for me from here for now. Dan
is out. He's on the speaking circuit talking about his
big victory in his latest court case. So you get
the good dentist, the good doctor Matt Dunn in for Dan.
Caplis coming up next. You've been listening to Ryan Schuling Live.
The last is dominated culture for so long to have
you know, the feminist movement, we can blame that for
destroying the nuclear home.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We can blame that for.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Destroying marriages in a lot of ways. But how do
we kind of work backwards from that, kind of get
back to like the core American values, you know, lower
the divorce rate, lower single motherhood.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What it doesn't seem to be like a practical solution
that's been even attempted by the edit.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well, the practical solution, we don't have to think. We
need to point people to God and eventually to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And that is the solution.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Is that people need to humble themselves before the Lord.
They need to go back to church, they need to
get married before they have sex. They need to stop
engaging in debauchery and limitless amounts of drinking and the
sins of the flesh, and understand that there's a God
who loves them that wants them to live a certain way.
And it's not a matter of the feminist movement or
(00:52):
the Black Lives Matter movement. We need a movement that
is centered around spiritual, eternal principles.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The late Great Charlie Kirk, and I still feel kind
of odd saying that, but it's true, and he was
on campus delivering that answer, and it's part of a
multifaceted answer that really shows Charlie Kirk's wisdom beyond his
years as a young man of just thirty one, and
he was younger than that when he stated that. And
joining me to break this down is the host of
the Humanity Against Tyranny podcast, my good friend PK Stein
(01:19):
Mark Stevenson PK.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hello, Hi, Ray, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Got another great podcast on tap for tonight? You'll be
talking with Bernie Lake. Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
She's phenomenal, the saint of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
She has fought human trafficking overseas and is looking to
do more of the same. And I've actually connected her
with John Fabricatory, who is tracking down these missing children
across the country that are being trafficked. And hopefully those
two joining forces will produce a lot of positive results.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Oh positive, And you are so good to do that
ry for the kids and for them.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm looking forward to that tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You can subscribe, download listen to her podcast, Humanity Against Tyranny.
That's all we ask and we record each Wednesday night
around six pm. Those episodes are posted shortly after seven pm.
Make what Charlie Kirk said there about the political right
in Christianity.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, I got to tell you I agree with everything
he said.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
You.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
When a country loses its moral base, then everything else
is let it all hang out. And when you let
it all hang out, you get lawlessness, you get broken marriages,
you get people. There's no position for this strength of character.
(02:31):
It's gone. You don't have to have character. You can
do whatever you want, it doesn't matter. It's about me,
myself and I, and you lose that in a society
when it's not about your neighbor or a friend or
a stranger. They don't have it anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And it's a perspective that's provided inherently by faith, and
it could be any faith. But Charlie Kirk kicks into
more detail here about repentance being at odds with pride.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But a revival will only happen with intence, and repentance
is at odd with pride. And so we have an
entire month dedicated to pride. By the way, which is,
you must acknowledge two things. There is a God and
we are not him. Those two things are fundamental towards
having hopefully the humility of getting in front of your creator,
understanding that you fall short of the glory of God
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with the eyes on the cross, and understanding the significance
of what the cross is and what it means for
your life, and with that will come widespread nationwide change.
We are seeing some promising trends. Church attendance is slightly
going up. Gen Z especially gen Z men, are more
religious than millennial men, and it is in increasing and
growing and young women.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We got some we got some things to work through.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
For Charlie, his faith really determined his path and his
Christianity was that faith, and that strength of his faith
impressed even the likes of Bill Maher. But to that
latter point that he made their PK. Why is it
do you think that these young people coming up gen
Z's are more religious than the generations before them?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Gen X and the millennials a front row seat to
the chaos that lack of faith creates in a society.
And you know, I used to say that to my
friends all the time. You know, there is a God people,
and I'm just glad it's not you or me. And
you know, you know, we all fall short of the
glory of God. He says that it's biblical.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We do.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
But you know, you got to be in constant repentance,
not every day. You're going to do everything right and
in the right in the eyes of God, and what's
right or wrong is determinate right.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But you've got to have a moral base.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You have to have some fundamental basis to form your
laws on, to form your life on. And without it,
everybody's in chaos and you're seeing the result of it
in these last few decades.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Peekke stey Mark Stevenson, host of the Humanity Against Tyranny
podcasts with me, and we're going over Charlie comments because
they trace back to opening of this program in our
number one about having some faith based principles to which
we are moored, meaning fastened in a way, and you
don't have. This isn't a contest about how Christian are you,
how much do you believe, how much do you go
(05:14):
to church, but just a basic set of guardrails and
values as to how you live a purpose driven life.
However you define that. It might be Christianity, it might
be something else. In America, we were founded, though on
Judeo Christian principles, values, work, ethic and for the laugh.
For many on the left, politics is their religion. But
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Charlie thought of something bigger than that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
We will not save the contrary just through politics. Politics
is a means towards an end, a means towards liberty.
But liberty is not man's idea, It's God's idea. And
we are only able to experience that liberty if we
are a moral and religious people. And I'll close with
the statement with this that the Constitution is incompatible, incompatible
(05:59):
with a apeless nation. You will not have a free
society if the country goes atheist. You will not have
a free society if the country goes secular. That sounds provocative,
but it's true, is that liberty and freedom cannot coexist
with a nation that does not believe in a higher
power because eventually you're going to want to have some
form of meaning in your life, and usually that meaning
is left in politics.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
And these right there, And it comes back to comments
that Don Lemon made last week about the left is
always insistent upon separation of church and state, which is
a bastardization of the original intent of the First Amendment
minute which is going to be no establishment of a
religion from a national standpoint, that you would have the
free exercise whatever religion you practice without interference from the government.
(06:42):
In other words, it's a freedom of religion, not necessarily
a freedom from religion. You can practice your faith however
you want, the government will not bestow it upon you.
And in this specific instance as well, PK. I go
back to something Senator Tim Kaine said, which is that
somehow our rights were divined from government. And that is
so dangerous when you think about it. That government can
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give you rights and then government could take them away,
as we saw during COVID when they tried those draconian
measures with the restrictions and the protocols. And when your
rights are divined from your creator, which is the very
basis for our declaration of independence and the constitution itself.
Now you see how that can blossom in the country
that we become PK over two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Years exactly without our founding fathers basing this constitutional republic
on the Christian ethic, and whether you have any other religion,
the ethic is do unto others as you would have
them do unto you. If you let a government rule you,
you'll never be free. And actually, take a look at
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a communist country. You know their government is their God.
And that's what this country was founded not to have.
We were founded to have a country based on the
inalienable rights that God gives us because we are children
are the most High God, and we have his genome.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Here is Charlie Kirk's final statement in this snippet. It
was about five minutes long, but it was such a
thought provoking response that I really wanted to get into
it with pk here today.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So you fill that void with left wing politics, because
left wing politics mirrors religion. It feels like a religious experience.
So there's a thinker by the name of Emil Durkheim,
which some of you guys may or may not know,
who talked about what is religion and he says, the
things that have in common of religion is that people
will all say the same thing. They'll meet on a
(08:36):
regular basis, they'll agree on an objective that that is,
the Black Lives Matter movement or the trans movement or whatever,
and we should say, hey, instead of making those things
your god, you should believe in the God of the Bible,
the God that loved you enough to send his son
to die for you so that you let me live forever.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well said by Charlie PK. Your reaction.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
My reaction is again he's correct. And here's the whole thing.
Anything group that gets together, whether it's based on God
or on secularism or hatred, those things, they all meet,
they agree on the same thing, and they'll die for
what they agree upon, or they'll hurt others to make
sure their point is made. And what's happened in America
(09:19):
is because politics have become our faith or their faith,
their religion, because they totally believe in it, and they've
literally destroyed other people because they believe in their left
wing politics as their god. They have no idea what
they're doing to another person when they say A very
(09:41):
good friend says to you that you had for a
long time, and I know this for a fact, says
to you, I don't want to ever talk to you
again because you voted for Trump. I know somebody who
recently had that done to him and just recently was
found dead.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Hey, case Dine Mark Stevenson her podcast Humanity Against Tyranny.
You can hear it later tonight, as she has a
conversation with Bernie Lake about the battle against human trafficking,
both here at home in America and abroad internationally. Ryan
Schuling live back with you, and we're breaking news today
now on the baseball front.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, my Tigers took it on the chin today in
Game two.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They did win game one, so they'll have a winner
take all Game three to see you advances to the
American League Division Series tomorrow in Cleveland. The Colorado Rockies, however,
they were making news of their own today and here
is a portion of that from nine News and Mike Cliss.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
We start this half out with some big breaking news
from the MLB. We just learned moments ago that the
Rockies are parting ways with current VP and general manager
Bill Schmidt. Our sports insider Mike Cliss broke this news
just minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
He joins US Now Live with the latest mic.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
This is quite a shakeup.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Yeah, there you want the Montforts, both Dick and Walker Montfort,
who is promoted to executive vice president. About a month ago,
they decided a change in leadership was name it. After
forty three and one nineteen, the third worst record in
Major League Baseball modern history, Bill Schmid has been a
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good man, and he's been a good scout and a
good leader for the Rockies for almost twenty six years.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean he was responsible for drafting.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Tuloh, Kyle Freelan, Nolan Aronado, Garrett Atkins, to name a few.
But you know, it's been three straight one hundred lost seasons.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Joining us now to talk more about it, Bill Schmidt,
General Managers, stepping down from the Colorado Rockies front office.
He is one of the radio play by play voices
for the Rockies over on our sister station KOA. Jerry
Shemil joins us on Ryan Schuling Live. Jerry, thanks for
your time, my pleasure. The timeline that Mike Cliss points
out here, it is remarkable too, especially in this day
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and age of professional sports where there are changes at
the top all the time. But Bill Schmid has been
with the Rockies for a vast majority of its entire
team history. Can you put it in a perspective, the
impact that he left on the Rockies, that he made
on the Rockies from his very first day.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Yeah, I think Mike Clist makes a good point. He
did some really, really good things. The last three years
under his leadership had been really rough. One hundred plus
lost seasons each of those years, and that's going to
probably spell change. But if you look before those years
when Bill was a scout, he was the head scout,
he did a lot of great things. He made a
lot of great moves. I think when people look back
(12:24):
at his record think he was really good and drafting
position players and Charlie Blackman and Nola Arnado and Tory
Tulowitzki and many others. Pitchers might be a little bit
different story. They have not panned out like position players.
But I think Mike makes a good point. We all
need to realize it. I know that everybody's down to
the Rockies and ownership and especially their general managers now resigning.
(12:45):
But Bill did do a lot of good things. And Ryan,
he's a good man. We had a show with him
last two years, Rockies All Access on Saturdays. He was
always extremely cooperative, no matter what the team was doing,
he was always willing.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So it's a.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Good man to situation. But he's a good man.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Jerry Schmel, the voice of the Rockies, one of them,
along with Jack Corrigan, joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live,
talking about where the Rockies go from here. Now, a
point that you just made Jerry, And it's difficult to
kind of adjust the ballpark because we know they put
the balls in humidors. Very few free agent pitchers want
to sign here and pitch half their games here because
of the altitude, because of how the ball carries. So
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that means it's even more important for the Rockies to
target and draft high quality arms and develop them through
their system. Now, Chase Delander has been one of those
in recent memory and looks like he might be off
to a good start in his career, but they've been
few and far between. Just tell us a little bit
more about the Rockies their history of drafting pitchers and
why you think it hasn't gone as well as the
(13:43):
hitters that they've drafted.
Speaker 9 (13:44):
Yeah, I think there's two things there. Number One, it
really is. It's been documented it's really difficult for pitchers
to pitch a Corse field. That's number one. And what
you have to do is just be a little bit
better than the other guy. You don't have to be great.
No one expects you to have a sparkling era or
when the cy young when you're pitching for the Rockies,
But all you do is be better than the other guy.
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And that's what Kyle Friedland and Erymond Marquez and some
others have done over the years, just mentally tough guys
that don't let Corsefield and the altitude get in their heads.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Brian.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
The guys who have not been able to do that
are the guys that have faltered. They have gotten that
in their head that some people call it Rocky Mountain fever.
I think that's a good description of a course field
for pitcher in his head, and you start thinking, my
ball's not going to break as much. I'm not going
to throw quality strikes like I came on the road.
I'm going to get hit more. The ball is going
to travel further and quicker, and all of a sudden
(14:37):
you've had a rough season. So I think it takes
not just a great arm like Chose Chase the Orlander has,
and that's a great example. It takes some of it's
mentally tough when the Rockies always haven't found that picture.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Jerry Shevil our guest.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Now, I went through this, Jerry as a Tigers fan
back in two thousand and three, where it seemed like
anything and everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The franchise bottomed out and there's this thought of one
hundred nineteen losses. I mean, how do you go forward
from here? What's that first step? For the Tigers, it
was Mike Yelich getting active in free agency and signing
Pad Rodriguez and signing magle Ordniaz and making some trades.
(15:13):
But it did come through the farm system as well.
So I know this is an impossible question to answer,
but let's just start with what's right in front of
us twenty twenty six. Where does it begin for the Rockies,
who do you think they're looking for in that general
manager position? And what would be a good first step
out of this one hundred and nineteen loss hole.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Yeah, I'll answer to the last one first. I think
the first step in terms of turning a team around,
it has to be starting pitching. That's always where it
starts in my mind. I've seen it now for fourteen
years doing these games. It always starts with starting pitching.
I'm gonna look at the playoffs these last two days.
The great starting pitchers are the ones that have won
with their teams winning in the playoffs. It always starts
(15:54):
with that, always seems to end with that. And the
Rocky said the worst starting rotation in baseball. I think
you make a good point too about the Tigers. Everything
that could have gone wrong went wrong, and that's what
happened with the Rockies. Rotation. Al freedom was inconsistent, Arbon
Marquez did not bounce back from Tommy John surgery. Antonio
sends a Della the same way. Austin Gonber was almost disaster,
(16:16):
and Ryan Feltner, who might have been their most talented arm,
was doomed from the beginning with injury. So and the
young guys Duel Lander and some others came up and
did what they did what they could, but that was
just a starting rotation in shambles. I think that's where
you start. There are some pieces position player wise and offensively.
You've got a gold Glove shortstop, a gold Glove centerfielder,
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You've got an all star catcher. You build with those
three guys some other guys that I think are up
and coming that you haven't seen yet, like Charlie Condon
and some others maybe at Holiday's Kid in the next
couple of years. So I think you've got some pieces
and some framework offensively and position player wise, but it
has to start with starting pitching, and there are also
some piece in the bullpen that are pretty intriguing as well.
(16:58):
To answer the other question about who you bring in,
you have to have somebody with experience from the outside,
and Walker mont for made it clear this morning in
that press release we're going to look outside. We're not
going to go within that has not worked the last
several years, which I applaud. I think that's a great move.
I also think Ryan, it's important for whoever it is
to come here or lead baseball operations to be familiar
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with the challenge that Corsfield presents. Bad Levine worked in
the front office for five or six years to the Rockies,
went on to Texas and then went on in Minnesota
and won several division titles. A guy that understands the
challenges of playing at altitude, I think is important. Do
you have to have that experience with the team though
I don't think you have to, but you have to
have someone willing to try to understand that. So that's
(17:43):
one name that I'm hearing a lot. Andy McKay's an other.
He's an assistant general manager in Seattle. Let's had a
lot of obviously success lately. Who is in the Rockies
front office as well for a while. You can take
guys like Date Moore, who won a World Series championship
with the Royals several years ago, who had a candidate.
So there's some really really intriguing guys out there. It's
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just that you're a handful of them. The Rockies a
look at and hopefully make that position fairly quickly.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
And certainly today's move counters the narrative out there from
a lot of fans that are frustrated that say, hey,
they fill at the ballpark with visiting fans all the time,
they're not really interested in winning.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
This move definitely a step in that.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Direction trying to get things back on track with the
Rockies franchise, for which I am a partial season ticket holder.
He is one of the radio voices of the Colorado
Rockies over on KOA. Jerry Shemil, Always grateful for your time.
Enjoyed the off season because I know it's always too short.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Ryan good be on day to day.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Jerry sheml great friend of mine and he and I
are both former Billings Mustangs play by play announcers.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That is your bit of trivia for today. Back with more.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
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I made a federal paycheck for for twelve years when
I was in the US military, and a lot of
my friends and family are also federal government workers, and so.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
That's why it's critically important that we keep the government open.
It's why I voted to keep the government open for
that Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded at current levels,
nothing being added or subtract from the way things are
currently set up right now.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
The worst case scenario, something does happen, reach out to us.
We can do a lot of different things to try
to alleviate any potential bumps on the horizon in terms
of being able to interact with other federal agencies and
federal employers. So just make sure that you're reaching out
to me into my office, because we're here to help
in every way that we possibly can.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Representative Gabe Evans on Fox thirty one announcing that he
had supported the continuing Resolution, which is Speaker Johnson points out,
thus the song coming in Back in Time by Huey
Lewis and the news you can go back in Time.
It's the same exact one that they passed previously. But
Senator Chuck Schumer needs to kind of pacify the left flank,
and it's a far left fringe flank of his Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And on what basis to what end? What is the
goal here?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Not really sure, But something else the Congressman Evans announced
yesterday and why we're having him on right now, is
that as long as this remains up in the air,
he is going to bypass his own paycheck. He's no
Donald Try either. I mean he does okay for himself,
but it's that like he can donate his whole salary
every month the way that the billionaire president does. He
joins us now on Ryan Schuling Live. Representative Gabe Evans,
(22:09):
thanks for your time.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Yeah, always great to be on with you.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So take us through where we stand right now. I
know that we were more measures that were brought to
the floor, and it seems like we're more concerned at
this point about the Senate because they're only fifty three Republicans.
You need to peel off seven Democrats. But what's the latest.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head right there.
We passed this bill out of the House on September nineteenth,
only one Democrat and the entire US House of Representatives
voted to keep the government funded. And by the way,
as we just talked about, this is what's called a
clean cr thirteen times under the Biden administration. This is
something the Democrats voted for to keep the government open.
(22:47):
They voted for it in March of this year to
keep the government open, and unfortunately now in the Senate,
Senate Democrats are digging in their heels because, among other things,
one of their demands is they want to go back
to taxpayer funds going to illegal immigrants for healthcare coverage.
And so of course that's a non starter in terms
of negotiating with Republicans. Democrats don't want to bend on that.
(23:11):
So Senate Dems of have blocked government funding and we're
in day one of a shutdown right now.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
They're trying to boomerang this back on you through sheer projection,
Representative Evans, you, Speaker Johnson, Senate Leader Thoon, the President
himself and calling this the Trump shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
But it seems like but for.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
The Democrat opposition to this again you call it a
clean bill, that we would have a functioning government at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
How do they avoid owning this when we know better.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Oh, it's their traditional smoke and mirrors. They're going to
try to grasp onto anything to deflect the blame. The
problem is they literally wrote down what they wanted, they
put into writing and introduced into the Senate the Senate
Democrats counter proposal to keep the government open. On page
fifty seven of their counter proposal is the part where
they want to repeal all of the guardrails that Republicans
(24:02):
put into law earlier this year that said taxpayer funding
can't go to illegal immigrants for healthcare. We've seen the
CBO scoring, the Congressional Budget Office scoring on that. We
know there's per CBO. We know there's well over a
million folks that do not have legal status in the
country that are receiving those funds to the tunes of
hundreds of billions of dollars. This is what the Democrats
(24:25):
have put in writing as their counter proposal, and this
is one of the big reasons whether the shutting the
government down.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Representative Gabe Evans in the eighth Congressional District a pivotal one.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We're glad that he's there.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And he's doing a bang up job in that regard
again deciding to bypass his own paycheck. As long as
this standoff remains in place. Let's go back in time again.
The theme continues. How about a democratic presidential debate where
every single candidate on the stage answered this question the
same way.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
From Savannah Guthrie MSNBC.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Wise, your handed government, if your government plan would provide
coverage for undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
John hicken with Clara Michael Bennett. Now that's moderate so
called John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennett from our own state of
Colorado running for president Representative Evans, and they quickly raise
their hands saying, yes, we want government funded medical services
for undocumented immigrants or as you and I call them,
illegal aliens, however you want to phrase it, whatever name
(25:25):
or label you want to put on it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's what they want to do. How can they deny that.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Yeah, well they're trying right now. But it's part of
the reason why we're having this conversation because the American
people aren't buying it. At the federal level. At the
state level, Democrats have made it absolutely clear where they stand.
They're going to stand with people illegally present in the
country before they stand with veterans, with seniors, with pregnant women,
(25:50):
with people with disabilities. They want to take those funds
that should be going to those again, those Americans, and
they want to hand it to folks who are not
legally present in the United States. So they've written it
down multiple times. You just played a clip where they
on TV vouched for it, and so that's why we're
(26:10):
highlighting that. Look up until in March of this year.
This was the common sense, bipartisan position thirteen times under Biden.
This was how we kept the government funded. But they
have gone so far to the left that they can't
even acknowledge right now that funding illegal immigrants over veterans
and taxpayers and seniors and pregnant women and people with
(26:31):
disabilities is wrong. And Republicans are fighting to make sure
that we put Americans first.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Representative Gabe Evans joining US eighth Congressional District here in Colorado.
If he's your rep You're lucky to have him. We're
lucky to have him on the air right now. Gabe,
I want to again go back in time, but I've
done my research on this topic, and I know you
have a strong stance on it statewide. Here On this ridiculous,
insane competency law that is now in place on the
(26:58):
books here in Colorado. It had some Republican support, including
the entire Senate. You, who were in the state House
at the time, were a hard no on it across
the line. What did so many Republicans not see coming
that you did with all of these pitfalls and loopholes
and ridiculousness, putting dangerous criminals back out onto the streets,
as is the current law.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, so I think it's important to make sure that
we we broadened the perspective here and talk about like
why we even got into this position in the first place.
And the reason we're in this position in the first
place is Colorado under Democrat rule, has done such a
horrible job of managing mental health care that they actually
got sued and they are under a federal consent decree.
(27:43):
So that means the federal government.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Comes down and says you did something wrong, and until
you actually fix it and prove you can do it right,
like you have to pay a fine and check in
with the federal government every year. So Colorado is under
a federal consent decree where they have to pay double
digit millions of dollars in fines because of how how
horribly they have mismanaged mental health care in Colorado to
include mental health care for people who have committed violent crimes.
(28:08):
And so when this piece of legislation came up last
year when I was in the state House, you know,
I had been a cop for ten years, so I
was familiar with a lot of the intricacies of this,
which is why I voted no because I knew it
was it was not the fix that we needed, and
it could potentially lead to situations like we just saw
recently where a repeat violent individual was let out of
(28:29):
jail and then got rearrested two weeks later on a
college campus with a gun.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
But the broader picture here is that.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
This was billed as a solution to try to save
money for Colorado because of how horrifyingly the Democrats have
mismanaged mental health care in the state to the point
where they got to pay, you know, tens of millions
of dollars in fines, and so unfortunately Democrat solutions at
times or even worse than Democrat problems.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's a good summation to put a fine point on it.
You can follow him on x at Rep. Gabe Evans.
He's hanging in the breach here while we await the
resolution of this government shut down. Congressman gave Evans literally
put his money where his mouth is and he won't
be collecting a paycheck until this problem is solved. Gabe,
always appreciate your time, Thanks for all the hard work
(29:17):
that you do, and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Always good to be on with you.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Thanks so much representative of Gabe Evans.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Time out, we'll preview what's coming up on Humanity Against
Tyranny the podcast tonight with my good friend p K
Stein Mark Stevenson wrapping.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Up Ryan Schuling live after this, well, p K.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Stein Mark Stevenson is certainly going to try to make
it right tonight Tonight Tonight Genesis Style on Humanity Against
Tyranny the podcast coming up this evening.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Bernie Lake will be joining us for an encore appearance.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
We'll talk to PK in just a moment about that
first or texts ran. A lot of the greatest minds
in science believe in God or a higher power, like
Albert Einstein and many more.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Science cannot explain all things.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
It's a point Charlie Kirk made often, Isaac Newton being
another one of those. And you're right the Big Bang theory?
What caused the Big Bang? What was behind the Big Bang?
And then what caused that? I know I sound a
lot like David Saint Hubbins from Spinal Tab, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's a good observation. Ryan.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Why aren't they making a budget as they are required
to do by law? Why are they continuing these continuing resolutions.
That's just how they kick the can down the road.
Text her, that's the simple nuts and bolts of it.
If you like sausage, never goes to a sausage factory
to see how it's made. Stephen Littelton says, the Dems
once again showing themselves for being nothing but Marxist obstructionists.
If you are not wrong, PK. Bernie lake tonight, tell
(30:34):
the people what they can expect.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Oh, you can expect what I call a modern day
saint who gave up everything and went to India to
help with human trafficking. She's amazing and everybody loves listening
to her.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
She was on previously with you and the beauty of
your podcast I've told you many times is there are
no confines or constraints of commercial interruptions really at all
with the one in the middle. But that's it, and
for like fifty minutes it's an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So you really get in deep with these people.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
And so many times, like George Brockler and I think
Bernie too, they say, that's the question I've never been asked,
and you're good at that, PK.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Well, thank you, but you're really good at letting me
speak and say what I want to say without interruption
and without censoring at all, not at all, not all right, producer.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Totally unfiltered. That's what you get from p K. Steim
Mark Stevens. So what is the most important question you
have teed up for Bernie tonight?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I want her to continue to tell the stories that
affected her the most in her experience over there and
how it comes back and relates to America.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
We've talked about the film's sound of Freedom and how
that's opened a lot of people's eyes, including my own.
The work that John Fabricatory has done. I mean you
talk about modern day saints. This is a guy that
has now helped find thousands of missing children who being
trafficked across the country. This is really the dark underbelly
of illegal immigration so called because it's not that these
(31:59):
are these are drug cartels that are trafficking kids across
the border.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
For a price.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
And then that horror, that nightmare doesn't end for those
poor children when they get to this country exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
And here's the whole point. We used to hear about
trafficking guns and drugs, and now it's trafficking people which
literally makes more money than the other two combined.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
P K Stein Mark Stevenson. She is the host of
Humanity Against Her and he'd be sure to subscribe, download
listen give her a five star rating. I'll give you
a lot of orders right now, but you can find
it on your favorite podcast platform. And I'm proud to
be part of that show with her. We record tonight
and that episode will be posted on the interwebs by
about seven seven fifteen. Bernadette Bernie Lake her guest this evening.
(32:44):
That'll do it for me from here for now. Dan
is out. He's on the speaking circuit talking about his
big victory in his latest court case. So you get
the good dentist, the good doctor Matt Dunn in for Dan.
Caplis coming up next. You've been listening to Ryan Schuling Live.
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