November 7, 2025 • 32 mins
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan stood firm against the nation's air traffic controllers striking against the federal government - firing all striking workers after delivering a verbal warning the week before.
With the government shutdown extending into November, flights are now being delayed and cancelled in Denver and throughout the country, as air traffic controllers are being stretched thin. Ryan believes this should be the final straw in turning much of America's air travel industry into privately-owned and run operations hiring their own workers across the board.
Also, our Fool of the Week is anointed.
With the government shutdown extending into November, flights are now being delayed and cancelled in Denver and throughout the country, as air traffic controllers are being stretched thin. Ryan believes this should be the final straw in turning much of America's air travel industry into privately-owned and run operations hiring their own workers across the board.
Also, our Fool of the Week is anointed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking a live look over the DIA runways this morning,
where travelers are bracing for a new headache while they're flying.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Starting today, the FAA has ordered airlines to cut their
routes at forty airports across the country, including DIA. Nine
News consumer investigator Steve Steger is live there this morning,
and you're already seeing the impact.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Flight Aware actually says right now, seventy four flights canceled
in and out of DIA today. If you take a
look at the board we're looking at the departures, there
were fourteen up there this morning when we first got
here this morning. Denver is the third has the third
most outgoing flights canceled today and the second most incoming
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flights canceled today. That number is going to grow as
the days go by. This starts at four percent of
routes that the FAA is ordering airlines to cut today,
slowly increasing to ten percent by next Friday unless this
shutdown ends. In the meantime, the airlines are being rather
generous right now, most offering passengers the ability to change
their flights without penalties or fees. Delta, United and American
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are offering refunds to people traveling to impacted areas. United
is actually offering refunds to people traveling anywhere who just
want to cancel, who are unsure about what's going on
right now. How long that generosity might last remains unknown,
especially if the shutdown drags on. An airline analyst I
spoke to tells me he worries if it drags on
for a couple of weeks and starts to interfere with
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the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
What airlines are going to do, it appears, is.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Focus those cuts on their regional airline operations, for example,
United Express, Delta Connection, American Eagle on routes that have
a high frequency of flights so a shuttle like route,
or the routes that have the fewest passengers booked.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Henry Hartevel told me that you could see more delays
if this does stretch into the Thanksgiving season when we.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Were talking about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We haven't seen this kind of disruption since the late
eighties when President Reagan fired some striking air traffic controllers
back then, and back then it took years for the
system to really kind of pick back up because you
had to rehire staff at a.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Lot of these places. The hope with this is that
if this gets.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sorted out, that the FAA can kind of turn things
around and the schedules will get right back on track.
But for now, it's four percent of flights and we're
already feeling some impact here at Denver International Airport live
at the airport, Steve Steger nine News.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Appreciate that report from Steve Steger locally on nine News
out at DIA, one of the central hubs of the
entire nation, and predominantly of course here in the Rocky
Mountain region.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Back here on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Have you been affected by all of these delays and cancelations?
On CNN right now, their headline says more than four
thousand flights delayed nationwide, more than nine hundred canceled today,
that number two hundred delayed just as of this morning
and canceled at Denver's DIA, and Steve Steger reporting there.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It begs the question, why would we leave such a.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Vital mode of transportation entirely dependent upon our government? So
for all those who want more centralized power in the
hands of the FEDS to run and operate anything having
to do with logistics, why.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Would you want to do that?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
This is perfect evidence as to why the private sector
does things better. Why are air traffic controllers hired by
and staffed by the federal government subject to the whims
of politicians?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You trust them, of course you don't. I don't. I
know you don't.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
So why do we leave such an important part of
our economy, of our travel, in the hands of the
federal government. You thought we would have learned this lesson now,
Steve points out, and now he's relatively young, so I
give him a pass on this one. But it wasn't
the late eighties when this happened with President Reagan. This
was early on in his presidency. This was the first
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year of his presidency, really set the tone for all
eight years of his tenure in office. August third, nineteen
eighty one, President Reagan delivered the following message to striking
air traffic control workers.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Let me make one thing plain.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I respect the right of workers in the private sector
to strike. Indeed, as president of my own union, I
led the first strike ever called by that union. I
guess I'm maybe the first one to ever hold this
office who is a lifetime member of an AFFLCIO union.
But we cannot compare labor management relations in the private
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sector with government. Government cannot close down the assembly line.
It has to provide without interruption, the protective services.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Which are government's reason for being.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It was in recognition of this that the Congress passed
a law forbidding strikes by government employees against the public safety.
Let me read the solemn oath taken by each of
these employe and a sworn affidavit when they accepted their jobs.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I am not.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Participating in any strike against the government of the United
States or any agency thereof, and I will not so
participate while an employee of the Government of the United
States or any agency thereof. It is for this reason
that I must tell those who fail to report for
duty this morning they are in violation of the law.
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And if they do not report for work within forty
eight hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And of statement, and of statement an end of their jobs.
They were terminated.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
And that set back the airline industry tremendously. And you
would have thought, now that was folks, that was forty
four years ago, that there would have been massive changes
with how are airlines operate their services. These are private
companies now they're coalition participation in the Federal Aviation Association.
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In FAA, they have to have certain standard safety guidelines
and that should be federalized. That should be one standard
across the board. But up until that point, there should
be privatized competition for any of the airports to hire
fire employ whoever they want, and that that would be
left up to private enterprise to fill those positions. Because
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President Reagan is exactly right, there is a difference between
private sector unions fighting for their workers against corporations striking
therein and for federal employees to be striking against their
very own government. There is a difference there, and one
might even argue that this could extend to teachers' unions
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because they are paid by their state within which they work,
so they are striking against the very people that pay them,
that employ them, and that are the taxpayers. Two very
different ballgame. They're apples and oranges in many ways. And
yet here we sit with these delayed flights and canceled flights,
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and the first full weekend of November, here we got
Thanksgiving not that far away flights that are dependent on that.
But where do the Democrats stand, folks? They are overplaying
their hand from Tuesday night, listen to what these elected
Democrats are saying and doing. They are doubling down that
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they are going to bet that the American people will
blame President Trump, will blame the Republicans. Even though the
continuing Resolution has passed through the House, the House has
done its job. It's incumbent upon the Senate to break
a sixty vote filibuster proof majority, which needs to include
some Democrats. It's Democrats who are obstructing that from happening.
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It is Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate,
who is leading that charge. It is squarely upon them,
and the American people are suffering at the airport. If
you've experienced a flight delay today or at any point
this week, I want to hear from you five seven, seven,
three nine. But here are the Democrats. They're willing to
go all the way through on this and perhaps through Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
I think there will be some pretty substantial damage done
to a Democratic brand that has been rehabilitated. If on
the heels of an election in which the people told
us to keep fighting, we immediately stop fighting. If we
surrender without having gotten anything, and we cause a lot
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of folks in this country who had started to believe
in the Democratic Party to retreat again.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I worry that it will be hard.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
To sort of get them back up off the mat
in time for next fall's election cycle.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Keep an eye on the independence in these polling data.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
That is Senator Chris Murphy, a midwit Democrat Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
There's another senator for Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
They might have the worst one to two punch of
senators in the entire country for any state. Worse, far worse,
certainly than Bennett hicken Looper, even here in Colorado. And
I'm looking over at Brian Schatz. He's whatever. But he's
paired with Mazie Herono in Hawaii. That's that's just bad
in and of itself. With her, she's, oh my goodness.
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But what Murphy is saying here is they are taking
that the Tuesday election results, and let's break those down
real quickly. Heavily Democratic New Jersey voted for a Democrat
for governor. There's no big surprise there. Jack Chattarelly performed
worse this time around. He did that against Phil Murphy
the last time around. It was the same Republican nominee
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lost by more about a fifty seven to forty two
margin substantial in a blue state.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's a blue state, New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
There's always a mirage that New Jersey might be purple,
kind of like Minnesota or even Virginia, Colorado, but they're not.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
These are blue states. So that's one.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
In Virginia, you we had some eyebrow raising results with
Abigail Spanberger winning by about that same margin over win
some Sears. But a lot of people are saying that
Sears did not lean into the Trump agenda enough that
there was this kind of tap dance of trying to
distance herself from Trump. I get it to some extent,
because Virginia is a lean blue state. It's a purple state,
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and it did go red last time around for Glenn Youngkin.
But you can't view Spanburger's win as some massive upset
or overturning of the Apple card.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It simply is not. And then you have their election
in New York City, which.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
If anything, that is a condemnation of the establishment Democratic Party.
Why because Mario Cuomo's son Andrew was the heir apparent,
the descendant of the very New York Democratic Party establishment
that Chris Murphy is trying to contend has won the
day here. That's not what happened. A democratic socialist, a communist.
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The scholar money is Zoran Mandani won the mayor's race
in New York City and took the party on a
hard turn to the left. That doesn't mean writ large,
the Democratic Party is massively popular. You can't judge the
rest of the country by what happens in New York
City anymore than.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You should get salsa from New York City.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Can you remember that old l Passo ad Senator Dick
Blumenthal who falsely claimed that he served in Vietnam. How
this guy is still in office? I don't know after that,
But here's em.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
I think that there is no reason avoid a surrender now,
every reason to stand firm.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
This is a continuing resolution with no sweeteners added, no pork,
no special projects carved out for Conservatives or Republicans in
red states or anywhere else. It's the same continuing resolution
that Democrats were just fine with the last time around.
Now they're choosing to pick this fight, and why because
Chuck Schumer, Blumenthal, Murphy. They have to show to their
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Democratic base that they're willing to fight Trump, even if
that means inflicting pain on the American people and on
federal workers throughout the country. Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat Wisconsin,
ostensibly a moderate, she's saying some of the same.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They're all preaching from the same hymnal.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Is there a deal emerging or is this deadlocked? And
why aren't Democrats going for it?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Look, there's a lot of conversation going on, and I
want to say that a lot changed this week. Had
an election on Tuesday where voters resoundingly said we can't
afford to make ends meet. And that was something that
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caught President Trump's attention for the very first time. On
Wednesday this week he engaged in this. He told Republicans
in the United States Senate.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
You have to reopen.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
You have to reopen.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
In meeting now, she left out an important detail there
which I disagree with the President on, and that is
nuking the filibuster and just ramming this through.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
But will you do that? You open Pandora's box.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
And this happened in reverse when the Democrats nuke the
filibuster for judicial nominees by Barack Obama, Dingy Harry Reid
decided in his infinite wisdom to do that, and what
happened The Republicans turned that around the turtle cocaine Mitch.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Senator Mitch McConnell warned, Harry Reid, you will rue the day.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You will regret doing this, because when it comes back around,
it'll come back twice as hard.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And it did.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And what was the result of that for Democrats, Well,
they were named Neil Gorsich, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett.
None of the three would have surpassed a sixty vote
filibuster proof majority in the Senate for confirmation. But because
Harry Reid set the standard of nuking that for judicial nominees,
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then the Republicans turned around and did the same thing,
and it backfired in spectacular fashion on the Democrats. The
same will happen to Republicans if they do what President
Trump is urging them to do, because if they do
it for this continuing Resolution, now you're opening the door
full throttle to statehood for DC and Puerto Rico and
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the Senate seats that go with it, to packing the
Supreme Court with judicial nominees to outdo the majority currently
on it that sits six y three or five to four,
depending on how you look at it in favor of
conservative justices who are a contextualists of the constitution interpret
the law rather than make the law from the bench.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Democrats are going to run hog wild with this.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
What they're hoping is that they can endure this pain,
force the Republican's hand to nuke the filibusters.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's the endgame here.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
If they're smart the Democrats, I don't know that they are,
but this would be their advantage. The Republicans cannot blink
on this. They have to hold firm, stay the course
a thousand points of light. And we've had this conversation
with both Representative Gabe Evans and Representative Lauren Bober. Their
calculus was that the Democrats would simply see this through
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the Tuesday elections, seize upon that momentum to maximize the
hatred of Trump and gin up that resentment and opposition.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And that worked.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
But it worked again in Virginia, New Jersey, New York
City with the two governors races and the mayor's race,
and then California with this Prop. Fifty, which essentially enabled
Gavin Newsom, the governor, to jerry mander the congressional districts
in California usurping the authority that was granted to an
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independent commission that originally drew the districts that was voted
in by Californians. Now that might be unconstitutional, That is
going to be challenged in the courts.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It might not end up happening. So keep your eye
on that ball.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
But what happened in Texas that they're so up in
arms about went through the Texas legislature. It was signed
into law by their Governor, Greg Abbott. They went through
the proper channels in the process there to redraw those
districts in Texas. You might not like it, but the
proper process was used to determine that it would be
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like what Phil Wiser wants to do in her here
in Colorado. He wants to do exactly what Gavin Newsom
just said. He wants to have the authority to redraw
the districts and throw out, throw out what our independent
commission drew up, which was eminently fair. Twelve people got together,
all kinds of political stripes, and they.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Got in a room.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
They hammered it out, and they had some plans, and
they had some maps, and they made some adjustments and they.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Drew the districts, and it's fair. It's exactly how it
should be.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
You have three lean Republican, if not strongly districts that
are currently occupied by Representatives Jeff Hurd, Crank and Lauren Bobert.
You have four solidly democratic districts with the college towns
in Joona Goose in one congressional district, Fort Collins and
Boulder with Jeff co predominantly blue, and the surrounding areas
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where Britney Peterson represents the city and county of Denver,
Diana to get the dinosaur who's been there forever and
probably will be forever. And Jason Crow unfortunately in my
sixth congressional district, which is a large portion of a
Rapahoe County and some surrounding areas there. And then one
swing district, the eighth which gave Evans represents, in which
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Dua Caraveo won narrowly the first time around that it
was drawn. It was a new district created because our
population had increased here in Colorado to the point where
we get ten electoral votes now and eight members of
the House of Representatives, and then gave Evans narrowly won
through the vote curing process. In eighth district where Weldon
Adams County come together, and it's a coin flip, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Soliser doesn't care. He doesn't care that went through the
proper channels.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
He doesn't care that the voters, through an amendment, through
a proposal on the ballot, selected the independent commission to
draw those districts. Democrats are looking to seize and maintain
power by any means necessary. They don't care who gets
in their way. And that's the bottom line here, and
I believe it's a tremendous miscalculation if they think they
can play out this hand and go, oh, we wanted
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all these blue areas on Tuesday, gung ho, let's go.
I don't think the American people are going to be
as kind to them as they think it's going to happen.
An Independents certainly are going to see the forest for
the trees here. Republicans need to stand firm, not blink,
not give any ground. We need Democrats to come across
the wire and push that vote total in the Senate
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to sixty back with more after this, I'm Ryan showing
live hold the line. Love isn't always on time. Keep
that in mind. That's toto, not Christian tutum, and they
have never heard that one before. I'm sure Jesse Thomas
is the great poll there. And that's what the Republicans
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have to do here. They've got to steal their spines
and realize that they're on the winning side of this.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
However long it goes. It's the Democrats holding it up.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Now, They've got to be efficient and effective in their
messaging on it.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That much is certain.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
They cannot let the Democrats drive and control the narrative
because it's simply not true that this is a Trump shutdown,
Republican shutdown, and the line that you're hearing from all
the Republicans hold all three of the Senate, the House,
and the White House, so it's on them. No no, Now,
I know, civics and the teaching of civics in our
countries failing our youth, and that is now extended throughout
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gen Z. You know, they learn about the woke crap
and about the functions of our government and how it works.
But there's a filibuster in the Senate. This is designed
to try to enc in that collegial body, as it
was originally known, consensus and that there would be a
larger percentage of agreement among those who were prestigious enough
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to serve as senators, rather than in the People's House,
where it was more of a brawler's environment. You're representing
more polarized districts in many cases, but.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
As a senator you have to keep the.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Interests of all of the citizens of your state in mind,
even those who didn't vote for you, who might actually
not like you very much. So that's why you see
kind of little bit more tempering typically among senators. How
they vote, how they think, what they do. The only
reason there's a good question here from some Texters. We'll
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get to those at five seven, seven thirty nine. The
only reason there still is a filibuster is because two Democrats,
one of whom I think are both former Democrats, now
that I think about it.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Kirsten Cinema, Arizona.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Joe Manchin, West Virginia held the line and said, no,
this is a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So we'll get to that question just a moment.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
But text here voting for our Friday Full of the Week.
You're a nominee sooner Michael.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Bennett ookay, I used the F word in a podcast
that was really fun. Oh good, and then you had
zoron Mumdani.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve, and no problem too small for
a government to care about. Get government out of my life. Come,
I can't solve my problems or yours either. That's the ruse.
Look what's happening with the airports today, how's government doing there?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Huh? Private enterprise, that's where it's at, folks.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And then Tucker Carlson for soft pedaling Nick Fuentes who
said on Tucker's show, I'm a fan of Stalin. I'm
always been an admirer. And he's got this little blank
eating grin on his face, as my grandpa used to say,
But he didn't say blank, you look like a skunk
eating bees.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't know what that means, Grandpa.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
My dad explained it when he got all these sayings
my grandfather. That is my grandpa's shooling. So he served
in World War Two. He's a hero army over there
in Great Britain. He helped train British American Canadian soldiers
before they stormed the beaches of Normandy. And I think
he got a lot of British expressions, maybe cross wired
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with Canadian and American ones.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
But the skunk eating bees one.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
If you know of one of these sayings that your
grandparents what the way my dad explained it was, so, yeah,
a skunk will get into like a bee hive honey.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Hole, eat some start eating honey, and then.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The bees like sting its mouth and it will like
permanently be fixed in a grin.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
So that's what my grandpa. I think.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, you're grinning like a skunk eating bees. Thanks Grandpa.
He also taught me you eat that you'd be threading
a needle from fifty yards And I'll leave that to
you to determine what that means. And over a beer,
I'll tell you. I vote for Tucker Carlson says this Texter,
thank you, Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Do you think the Republicans are doing a good job.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Or a bad job getting the message out there that
they can't pass it without Democrat votes?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
H good question.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I think you know on platforms like this one where
they have help from someone like me, yours truly or
Dan that assists in the process, but the megaphone for
a Republican is far more narrow. But they need to
go And I like this that Speaker Johnson or Senate
Majority Leader Thoon even saw Marjorie Taylor Green, although there's
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some issues with her recently going on CNN, going into
the lions den of mainstream media. You got to cut
through the noise, you got to or otherwise you're letting
the Democrats drive the train off the cliff and control
the narrative. So to that point, yeah, more is better,
less is not more, and more is better. Stephen Littleton
says that in Colorado spelled with a k u oh
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and Dems registered here is unaffiliated, are seemingly bound to
their party dogma regardless.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Of outcomes they are.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You know, it was Dan Bongino who continually asked, you know,
when is it going to be bad enough? I'd love
to hear Dan right now in the wake of his city.
He's from New York City electing a Kami mayor in
Zoron Mamdani.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yikes.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Colorado is a red state, says this Texter that has
cancerous blue spots. Unfortunately, the whole state is affected by
those blue spots. Well, again, this might be the same
Texter people vote, Land doesn't. So when you look at
a map, Yeah, Colorado's going to look a lot of red,
but there's not a lot of people. Unfortunately, there are
fewer and fewer farmers and ranchers, for example. And in
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this state, the oil business is big. I'm a big
supporter of COGA, and they're endeavors to make energy affordable
for Coloraden's and the exploration that they do and the leasing,
the drilling, the transportation logistics therein of fin natural gas
and oil through fracking, which at one point John Hickenlooper's
support and I'm not sure where he stands on that now.
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But again, unfortunately a lot of these interests are being
left by the wayside as the urban population centers, you
know Denver and then the two college towns of Boulder
and Fort Collins. Unfortunately, just the demographic makeup of our state.
That's a large percentage of people right there that I
just said. Then you've got the outlying areas that have
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turned blue, like Adams County, Jeff Cohen, My county a
rapa hole, a rappa hole used to be close to
debt even if not lean and red going back about
twenty years. But it's blue now. It is miserable. Why
do I live there? Why do I do this to
myself and ask that question over the weekend. Hilarious text here, Ryan,
I've been experiencing a delayed flight to the Bahamas all
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my adult life.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Have a great weekend. I hope you get that flight
to the Bahamas. You book yourself that flight. You treat yourself.
So Jesse Thomas does in the offseason.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
He's worked in the grind of a Major league baseball
season for how long is it, Jesse?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Seven months going on eight something like that. Yep, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
What do you do with yourself when the season ends?
Like you gotta be like, what do I do with myself?
I disappear, then turn my phone off and go Witness
Protection program.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
They're not gonna find me unless they can find what
lake or river I'm on.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So I love that. Going fishing, yep, going fishing? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Well, I love that you reappeared and resurface just for
me here this week. I always appreciate your time to
do it. I guess, yeah, yeah, paycheck too, I get that.
I vote sadly for Tucker, says this Texter. This is Donna.
Would you prefer the nine to twelve slot to your
afternoon one or wait until Dan retires his slot might
fit better, just wondering nine to twelve are you saying
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Tom Martino is an absolute legend in this market. I'm
a big fan of his and always have been. The
four hour morning show will remain intact, so this is
a good time to talk about it. At six am
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to ten am, and we will be rotating in candidates.
I guess it's fair to say that I'll be on
for two of the days. I believe I'm scheduled for
two of the days. John caldera independent institute. He'll be
joining Christian and Me for Jeff Dye Tomorrow night Comedy
Works South.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
He'll be in for a couple of the days.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Deborah Flora, who you hear each Friday here on the
right side of Hollywood at two pm. Debah Flora will
be in two of those days. John Calderra beyond the
two Mondays, Jimmy Sangenberger in the mix as well.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
He'll be doing two of the days and the next week.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I think next week is Caldera Monday, Deborah Floor Tuesday, Wednesday,
and then you'll remember this name Leland Conway Thursday and
Friday of next week. Stay tuned, Ryan. Can't they remove
filibuster just for the CRS.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's a good question. I don't rightly know the answer
to that.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
I just know that when Harry Reid made the exception
for judicial nominees, it was specifically targeted for just that.
I suppose it might be within the realm of possibilities.
But John Thune, who I generally like, who I generally like,
I don't think he's going to go for that, and
I don't think he should go for that. Don't take
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the bait. In other words, Ryan Denz can't win when
it's fair. In quotes, you're right, and they know this.
Why do you think they swung open the border and
let upwards of twenty million illegal aliens into the country.
They had to replenish voters who left not just their
party but their states. They fled from New York and
California to greener pastures and redder voting states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas.
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All three of those states have gained electoral votes and
seats in Congress.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
New York has lost them, Illinois has lost them.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Colorado, now that I think about it, might be the
only blue state that has seen its population increase, but
that may be short lived. Keep an eye on that
one as well. Here's the great question from Kevin Ryan.
You don't think the Democrats will end the filibuster if
they regain power in twenty twenty six in the midterms. Well,
they they won't regain the Senate. I'll be bold and
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predict that, And it's only because of the races.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
That are on the map.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So in the Senate, every couple of years, a third
of the seats are up for grabs, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So if the one hundred Senate seats.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
It'll be like thirty three are in play in any
election year, could be a mid term election year, could
be a presidential election year. And then they recycle one third,
one third, one third. The last time around, the map
really favored Republicans. This time around, the map somewhat favors Republicans.
So I don't see the Demo krats getting to a
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fifty one vote majority in the Senate. Now if they did,
would they eliminate it?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Kevin?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I think there's a good chance that'll happen, but it
won't be the next time. It won't be twenty twenty six.
The Republicans are favorite. If you look at like Political
Watch and all these predictive models that are out there,
almost unanimously, they say that the Republicans will hold the Senate.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
The question is the House.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Ryan, I gotta say, you do the best imitation of
Michael Bennett milk toast. I think his voice drives me
more crazy than his radical left politics. Keep up the
good humor. We have to maintain good humor. And Patty
casts her vote for full of the Week.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Do Michael Bennett Okay, and we'll see who winds. We
come back after this and guy got a long break.
Here's you gotta go.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Final, Final, Final Fool of the Week for this Friday
Final segment coming up next to Ryan Schuling.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Life, the Great Salmon, Dave hold On, I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
That's right, President Trump, one of his theme songs there
why Anything's Down? In this Friday edition, Ryan Schuling Live
sending you into your weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's five o'clock somewhere. Crack up when that beer You've
earned it.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
And I say that to Jesse Thomas as well, and
I know that he will to the text we follow
five seven seven three nine. Jody sounds like a dime.
She married social media handles well, buddy, I got good
news and bad news for you. Bad news for you,
good news for her. She's been married since twenty fourteen,
rather happily, I might add to Jonathan. And she's got
a nice little family going there. But her social media handles,
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I can help you there. I'm the ex formerly on
his Twitter at Jody Calm, Jode Calm. She likes narwals,
good luck, buddy, good look fine and you're dead okay.
And then on Facebook, her handle is Jody Champion. There
the two e's Jode Champion. You'll find her there Jody
(31:49):
Calm again. And she studied, according to her Facebook page,
at the Derek Zoolanders Center for Children who can't read
good and want to learn to do other stuff good too.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
All right, Full of the week. It was a close call.
All due respect to Senator Michael Bennett. It was Tucker Carlson.
It's actually funny. It was December eighteenth. I remember because
that's an important date to me, and as Joseph Stalin's birthday,
I'm a fan, you're a fan of Stalin's. I was
an admirer. But we don't need to go into that.
I guess, like, what's uh, okay, let's get back. We'll
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circle back today.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You never circled back, never called him out on it.
Nick fun Taste is like the kid that he needs
to be stuffed in the locker for his own good.
I mean, I'm just saying, this is a guy that
grew up gen X and that's kind of how we
handled things.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Playground justice, that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I don't think Nick fun Tastes got a lot of
playground justice coming through the ranks there, and he seems
to be a really entitled, spoiled brat.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I can't stand in the smirk on his face. Anyway.
That's all for me from here for now.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I'll talk to you again on Monday here on Ryan
Schuling Life
Taking a live look over the DIA runways this morning,
where travelers are bracing for a new headache while they're flying.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Starting today, the FAA has ordered airlines to cut their
routes at forty airports across the country, including DIA. Nine
News consumer investigator Steve Steger is live there this morning,
and you're already seeing the impact.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Flight Aware actually says right now, seventy four flights canceled
in and out of DIA today. If you take a
look at the board we're looking at the departures, there
were fourteen up there this morning when we first got
here this morning. Denver is the third has the third
most outgoing flights canceled today and the second most incoming
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flights canceled today. That number is going to grow as
the days go by. This starts at four percent of
routes that the FAA is ordering airlines to cut today,
slowly increasing to ten percent by next Friday unless this
shutdown ends. In the meantime, the airlines are being rather
generous right now, most offering passengers the ability to change
their flights without penalties or fees. Delta, United and American
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are offering refunds to people traveling to impacted areas. United
is actually offering refunds to people traveling anywhere who just
want to cancel, who are unsure about what's going on
right now. How long that generosity might last remains unknown,
especially if the shutdown drags on. An airline analyst I
spoke to tells me he worries if it drags on
for a couple of weeks and starts to interfere with
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the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
What airlines are going to do, it appears, is.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Focus those cuts on their regional airline operations, for example,
United Express, Delta Connection, American Eagle on routes that have
a high frequency of flights so a shuttle like route,
or the routes that have the fewest passengers booked.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Henry Hartevel told me that you could see more delays
if this does stretch into the Thanksgiving season when we.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Were talking about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We haven't seen this kind of disruption since the late
eighties when President Reagan fired some striking air traffic controllers
back then, and back then it took years for the
system to really kind of pick back up because you
had to rehire staff at a.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Lot of these places. The hope with this is that
if this gets.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sorted out, that the FAA can kind of turn things
around and the schedules will get right back on track.
But for now, it's four percent of flights and we're
already feeling some impact here at Denver International Airport live
at the airport, Steve Steger nine News.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Appreciate that report from Steve Steger locally on nine News
out at DIA, one of the central hubs of the
entire nation, and predominantly of course here in the Rocky
Mountain region.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Back here on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Have you been affected by all of these delays and cancelations?
On CNN right now, their headline says more than four
thousand flights delayed nationwide, more than nine hundred canceled today,
that number two hundred delayed just as of this morning
and canceled at Denver's DIA, and Steve Steger reporting there.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It begs the question, why would we leave such a.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Vital mode of transportation entirely dependent upon our government? So
for all those who want more centralized power in the
hands of the FEDS to run and operate anything having
to do with logistics, why.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Would you want to do that?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
This is perfect evidence as to why the private sector
does things better. Why are air traffic controllers hired by
and staffed by the federal government subject to the whims
of politicians?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You trust them, of course you don't. I don't. I
know you don't.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
So why do we leave such an important part of
our economy, of our travel, in the hands of the
federal government. You thought we would have learned this lesson now,
Steve points out, and now he's relatively young, so I
give him a pass on this one. But it wasn't
the late eighties when this happened with President Reagan. This
was early on in his presidency. This was the first
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year of his presidency, really set the tone for all
eight years of his tenure in office. August third, nineteen
eighty one, President Reagan delivered the following message to striking
air traffic control workers.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Let me make one thing plain.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I respect the right of workers in the private sector
to strike. Indeed, as president of my own union, I
led the first strike ever called by that union. I
guess I'm maybe the first one to ever hold this
office who is a lifetime member of an AFFLCIO union.
But we cannot compare labor management relations in the private
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sector with government. Government cannot close down the assembly line.
It has to provide without interruption, the protective services.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Which are government's reason for being.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It was in recognition of this that the Congress passed
a law forbidding strikes by government employees against the public safety.
Let me read the solemn oath taken by each of
these employe and a sworn affidavit when they accepted their jobs.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I am not.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Participating in any strike against the government of the United
States or any agency thereof, and I will not so
participate while an employee of the Government of the United
States or any agency thereof. It is for this reason
that I must tell those who fail to report for
duty this morning they are in violation of the law.
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And if they do not report for work within forty
eight hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And of statement, and of statement an end of their jobs.
They were terminated.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
And that set back the airline industry tremendously. And you
would have thought, now that was folks, that was forty
four years ago, that there would have been massive changes
with how are airlines operate their services. These are private
companies now they're coalition participation in the Federal Aviation Association.
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In FAA, they have to have certain standard safety guidelines
and that should be federalized. That should be one standard
across the board. But up until that point, there should
be privatized competition for any of the airports to hire
fire employ whoever they want, and that that would be
left up to private enterprise to fill those positions. Because
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President Reagan is exactly right, there is a difference between
private sector unions fighting for their workers against corporations striking
therein and for federal employees to be striking against their
very own government. There is a difference there, and one
might even argue that this could extend to teachers' unions
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because they are paid by their state within which they work,
so they are striking against the very people that pay them,
that employ them, and that are the taxpayers. Two very
different ballgame. They're apples and oranges in many ways. And
yet here we sit with these delayed flights and canceled flights,
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and the first full weekend of November, here we got
Thanksgiving not that far away flights that are dependent on that.
But where do the Democrats stand, folks? They are overplaying
their hand from Tuesday night, listen to what these elected
Democrats are saying and doing. They are doubling down that
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they are going to bet that the American people will
blame President Trump, will blame the Republicans. Even though the
continuing Resolution has passed through the House, the House has
done its job. It's incumbent upon the Senate to break
a sixty vote filibuster proof majority, which needs to include
some Democrats. It's Democrats who are obstructing that from happening.
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It is Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate,
who is leading that charge. It is squarely upon them,
and the American people are suffering at the airport. If
you've experienced a flight delay today or at any point
this week, I want to hear from you five seven, seven,
three nine. But here are the Democrats. They're willing to
go all the way through on this and perhaps through Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
I think there will be some pretty substantial damage done
to a Democratic brand that has been rehabilitated. If on
the heels of an election in which the people told
us to keep fighting, we immediately stop fighting. If we
surrender without having gotten anything, and we cause a lot
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of folks in this country who had started to believe
in the Democratic Party to retreat again.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I worry that it will be hard.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
To sort of get them back up off the mat
in time for next fall's election cycle.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Keep an eye on the independence in these polling data.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
That is Senator Chris Murphy, a midwit Democrat Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
There's another senator for Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
They might have the worst one to two punch of
senators in the entire country for any state. Worse, far worse,
certainly than Bennett hicken Looper, even here in Colorado. And
I'm looking over at Brian Schatz. He's whatever. But he's
paired with Mazie Herono in Hawaii. That's that's just bad
in and of itself. With her, she's, oh my goodness.
(09:21):
But what Murphy is saying here is they are taking
that the Tuesday election results, and let's break those down
real quickly. Heavily Democratic New Jersey voted for a Democrat
for governor. There's no big surprise there. Jack Chattarelly performed
worse this time around. He did that against Phil Murphy
the last time around. It was the same Republican nominee
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lost by more about a fifty seven to forty two
margin substantial in a blue state.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's a blue state, New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
There's always a mirage that New Jersey might be purple,
kind of like Minnesota or even Virginia, Colorado, but they're not.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
These are blue states. So that's one.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
In Virginia, you we had some eyebrow raising results with
Abigail Spanberger winning by about that same margin over win
some Sears. But a lot of people are saying that
Sears did not lean into the Trump agenda enough that
there was this kind of tap dance of trying to
distance herself from Trump. I get it to some extent,
because Virginia is a lean blue state. It's a purple state,
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and it did go red last time around for Glenn Youngkin.
But you can't view Spanburger's win as some massive upset
or overturning of the Apple card.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It simply is not. And then you have their election
in New York City, which.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
If anything, that is a condemnation of the establishment Democratic Party.
Why because Mario Cuomo's son Andrew was the heir apparent,
the descendant of the very New York Democratic Party establishment
that Chris Murphy is trying to contend has won the
day here. That's not what happened. A democratic socialist, a communist.
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The scholar money is Zoran Mandani won the mayor's race
in New York City and took the party on a
hard turn to the left. That doesn't mean writ large,
the Democratic Party is massively popular. You can't judge the
rest of the country by what happens in New York
City anymore than.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You should get salsa from New York City.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Can you remember that old l Passo ad Senator Dick
Blumenthal who falsely claimed that he served in Vietnam. How
this guy is still in office? I don't know after that,
But here's em.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
I think that there is no reason avoid a surrender now,
every reason to stand firm.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
This is a continuing resolution with no sweeteners added, no pork,
no special projects carved out for Conservatives or Republicans in
red states or anywhere else. It's the same continuing resolution
that Democrats were just fine with the last time around.
Now they're choosing to pick this fight, and why because
Chuck Schumer, Blumenthal, Murphy. They have to show to their
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Democratic base that they're willing to fight Trump, even if
that means inflicting pain on the American people and on
federal workers throughout the country. Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat Wisconsin,
ostensibly a moderate, she's saying some of the same.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They're all preaching from the same hymnal.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Is there a deal emerging or is this deadlocked? And
why aren't Democrats going for it?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Look, there's a lot of conversation going on, and I
want to say that a lot changed this week. Had
an election on Tuesday where voters resoundingly said we can't
afford to make ends meet. And that was something that
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caught President Trump's attention for the very first time. On
Wednesday this week he engaged in this. He told Republicans
in the United States Senate.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
You have to reopen.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
You have to reopen.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
In meeting now, she left out an important detail there
which I disagree with the President on, and that is
nuking the filibuster and just ramming this through.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
But will you do that? You open Pandora's box.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
And this happened in reverse when the Democrats nuke the
filibuster for judicial nominees by Barack Obama, Dingy Harry Reid
decided in his infinite wisdom to do that, and what
happened The Republicans turned that around the turtle cocaine Mitch.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Senator Mitch McConnell warned, Harry Reid, you will rue the day.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You will regret doing this, because when it comes back around,
it'll come back twice as hard.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And it did.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
And what was the result of that for Democrats, Well,
they were named Neil Gorsich, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett.
None of the three would have surpassed a sixty vote
filibuster proof majority in the Senate for confirmation. But because
Harry Reid set the standard of nuking that for judicial nominees,
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then the Republicans turned around and did the same thing,
and it backfired in spectacular fashion on the Democrats. The
same will happen to Republicans if they do what President
Trump is urging them to do, because if they do
it for this continuing Resolution, now you're opening the door
full throttle to statehood for DC and Puerto Rico and
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the Senate seats that go with it, to packing the
Supreme Court with judicial nominees to outdo the majority currently
on it that sits six y three or five to four,
depending on how you look at it in favor of
conservative justices who are a contextualists of the constitution interpret
the law rather than make the law from the bench.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Democrats are going to run hog wild with this.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
What they're hoping is that they can endure this pain,
force the Republican's hand to nuke the filibusters.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's the endgame here.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
If they're smart the Democrats, I don't know that they are,
but this would be their advantage. The Republicans cannot blink
on this. They have to hold firm, stay the course
a thousand points of light. And we've had this conversation
with both Representative Gabe Evans and Representative Lauren Bober. Their
calculus was that the Democrats would simply see this through
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the Tuesday elections, seize upon that momentum to maximize the
hatred of Trump and gin up that resentment and opposition.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And that worked.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
But it worked again in Virginia, New Jersey, New York
City with the two governors races and the mayor's race,
and then California with this Prop. Fifty, which essentially enabled
Gavin Newsom, the governor, to jerry mander the congressional districts
in California usurping the authority that was granted to an
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independent commission that originally drew the districts that was voted
in by Californians. Now that might be unconstitutional, That is
going to be challenged in the courts.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It might not end up happening. So keep your eye
on that ball.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
But what happened in Texas that they're so up in
arms about went through the Texas legislature. It was signed
into law by their Governor, Greg Abbott. They went through
the proper channels in the process there to redraw those
districts in Texas. You might not like it, but the
proper process was used to determine that it would be
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like what Phil Wiser wants to do in her here
in Colorado. He wants to do exactly what Gavin Newsom
just said. He wants to have the authority to redraw
the districts and throw out, throw out what our independent
commission drew up, which was eminently fair. Twelve people got together,
all kinds of political stripes, and they.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Got in a room.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
They hammered it out, and they had some plans, and
they had some maps, and they made some adjustments and they.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Drew the districts, and it's fair. It's exactly how it
should be.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
You have three lean Republican, if not strongly districts that
are currently occupied by Representatives Jeff Hurd, Crank and Lauren Bobert.
You have four solidly democratic districts with the college towns
in Joona Goose in one congressional district, Fort Collins and
Boulder with Jeff co predominantly blue, and the surrounding areas
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where Britney Peterson represents the city and county of Denver,
Diana to get the dinosaur who's been there forever and
probably will be forever. And Jason Crow unfortunately in my
sixth congressional district, which is a large portion of a
Rapahoe County and some surrounding areas there. And then one
swing district, the eighth which gave Evans represents, in which
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Dua Caraveo won narrowly the first time around that it
was drawn. It was a new district created because our
population had increased here in Colorado to the point where
we get ten electoral votes now and eight members of
the House of Representatives, and then gave Evans narrowly won
through the vote curing process. In eighth district where Weldon
Adams County come together, and it's a coin flip, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Soliser doesn't care. He doesn't care that went through the
proper channels.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
He doesn't care that the voters, through an amendment, through
a proposal on the ballot, selected the independent commission to
draw those districts. Democrats are looking to seize and maintain
power by any means necessary. They don't care who gets
in their way. And that's the bottom line here, and
I believe it's a tremendous miscalculation if they think they
can play out this hand and go, oh, we wanted
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all these blue areas on Tuesday, gung ho, let's go.
I don't think the American people are going to be
as kind to them as they think it's going to happen.
An Independents certainly are going to see the forest for
the trees here. Republicans need to stand firm, not blink,
not give any ground. We need Democrats to come across
the wire and push that vote total in the Senate
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to sixty back with more after this, I'm Ryan showing
live hold the line. Love isn't always on time. Keep
that in mind. That's toto, not Christian tutum, and they
have never heard that one before. I'm sure Jesse Thomas
is the great poll there. And that's what the Republicans
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have to do here. They've got to steal their spines
and realize that they're on the winning side of this.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
However long it goes. It's the Democrats holding it up.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Now, They've got to be efficient and effective in their
messaging on it.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That much is certain.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
They cannot let the Democrats drive and control the narrative
because it's simply not true that this is a Trump shutdown,
Republican shutdown, and the line that you're hearing from all
the Republicans hold all three of the Senate, the House,
and the White House, so it's on them. No no, Now,
I know, civics and the teaching of civics in our
countries failing our youth, and that is now extended throughout
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gen Z. You know, they learn about the woke crap
and about the functions of our government and how it works.
But there's a filibuster in the Senate. This is designed
to try to enc in that collegial body, as it
was originally known, consensus and that there would be a
larger percentage of agreement among those who were prestigious enough
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to serve as senators, rather than in the People's House,
where it was more of a brawler's environment. You're representing
more polarized districts in many cases, but.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
As a senator you have to keep the.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Interests of all of the citizens of your state in mind,
even those who didn't vote for you, who might actually
not like you very much. So that's why you see
kind of little bit more tempering typically among senators. How
they vote, how they think, what they do. The only
reason there's a good question here from some Texters. We'll
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get to those at five seven, seven thirty nine. The
only reason there still is a filibuster is because two Democrats,
one of whom I think are both former Democrats, now
that I think about it.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Kirsten Cinema, Arizona.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Joe Manchin, West Virginia held the line and said, no,
this is a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So we'll get to that question just a moment.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
But text here voting for our Friday Full of the Week.
You're a nominee sooner Michael.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Bennett ookay, I used the F word in a podcast
that was really fun. Oh good, and then you had
zoron Mumdani.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve, and no problem too small for
a government to care about. Get government out of my life. Come,
I can't solve my problems or yours either. That's the ruse.
Look what's happening with the airports today, how's government doing there?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Huh? Private enterprise, that's where it's at, folks.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
And then Tucker Carlson for soft pedaling Nick Fuentes who
said on Tucker's show, I'm a fan of Stalin. I'm
always been an admirer. And he's got this little blank
eating grin on his face, as my grandpa used to say,
But he didn't say blank, you look like a skunk
eating bees.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't know what that means, Grandpa.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
My dad explained it when he got all these sayings
my grandfather. That is my grandpa's shooling. So he served
in World War Two. He's a hero army over there
in Great Britain. He helped train British American Canadian soldiers
before they stormed the beaches of Normandy. And I think
he got a lot of British expressions, maybe cross wired
(22:23):
with Canadian and American ones.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
But the skunk eating bees one.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
If you know of one of these sayings that your
grandparents what the way my dad explained it was, so, yeah,
a skunk will get into like a bee hive honey.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Hole, eat some start eating honey, and then.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The bees like sting its mouth and it will like
permanently be fixed in a grin.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
So that's what my grandpa. I think.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, you're grinning like a skunk eating bees. Thanks Grandpa.
He also taught me you eat that you'd be threading
a needle from fifty yards And I'll leave that to
you to determine what that means. And over a beer,
I'll tell you. I vote for Tucker Carlson says this Texter,
thank you, Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Do you think the Republicans are doing a good job.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Or a bad job getting the message out there that
they can't pass it without Democrat votes?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
H good question.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I think you know on platforms like this one where
they have help from someone like me, yours truly or
Dan that assists in the process, but the megaphone for
a Republican is far more narrow. But they need to
go And I like this that Speaker Johnson or Senate
Majority Leader Thoon even saw Marjorie Taylor Green, although there's
(23:40):
some issues with her recently going on CNN, going into
the lions den of mainstream media. You got to cut
through the noise, you got to or otherwise you're letting
the Democrats drive the train off the cliff and control
the narrative. So to that point, yeah, more is better,
less is not more, and more is better. Stephen Littleton
says that in Colorado spelled with a k u oh
(24:02):
and Dems registered here is unaffiliated, are seemingly bound to
their party dogma regardless.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Of outcomes they are.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You know, it was Dan Bongino who continually asked, you know,
when is it going to be bad enough? I'd love
to hear Dan right now in the wake of his city.
He's from New York City electing a Kami mayor in
Zoron Mamdani.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yikes.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Colorado is a red state, says this Texter that has
cancerous blue spots. Unfortunately, the whole state is affected by
those blue spots. Well, again, this might be the same
Texter people vote, Land doesn't. So when you look at
a map, Yeah, Colorado's going to look a lot of red,
but there's not a lot of people. Unfortunately, there are
fewer and fewer farmers and ranchers, for example. And in
(24:45):
this state, the oil business is big. I'm a big
supporter of COGA, and they're endeavors to make energy affordable
for Coloraden's and the exploration that they do and the leasing,
the drilling, the transportation logistics therein of fin natural gas
and oil through fracking, which at one point John Hickenlooper's
support and I'm not sure where he stands on that now.
(25:07):
But again, unfortunately a lot of these interests are being
left by the wayside as the urban population centers, you
know Denver and then the two college towns of Boulder
and Fort Collins. Unfortunately, just the demographic makeup of our state.
That's a large percentage of people right there that I
just said. Then you've got the outlying areas that have
(25:27):
turned blue, like Adams County, Jeff Cohen, My county a
rapa hole, a rappa hole used to be close to
debt even if not lean and red going back about
twenty years. But it's blue now. It is miserable. Why
do I live there? Why do I do this to
myself and ask that question over the weekend. Hilarious text here, Ryan,
I've been experiencing a delayed flight to the Bahamas all
(25:50):
my adult life.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Have a great weekend. I hope you get that flight
to the Bahamas. You book yourself that flight. You treat yourself.
So Jesse Thomas does in the offseason.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
He's worked in the grind of a Major league baseball
season for how long is it, Jesse?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Seven months going on eight something like that. Yep, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
What do you do with yourself when the season ends?
Like you gotta be like, what do I do with myself?
I disappear, then turn my phone off and go Witness
Protection program.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
They're not gonna find me unless they can find what
lake or river I'm on.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So I love that. Going fishing, yep, going fishing? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Well, I love that you reappeared and resurface just for
me here this week. I always appreciate your time to
do it. I guess, yeah, yeah, paycheck too, I get that.
I vote sadly for Tucker, says this Texter. This is Donna.
Would you prefer the nine to twelve slot to your
afternoon one or wait until Dan retires his slot might
fit better, just wondering nine to twelve are you saying
(26:48):
on KOA or k how? And then Martino Show is
a juggernaut from ten am to two pm. They solve
people's problems and they help consumers, and he's a legend.
Tom Martino is an absolute legend in this market. I'm
a big fan of his and always have been. The
four hour morning show will remain intact, so this is
a good time to talk about it. At six am
(27:09):
to ten am, and we will be rotating in candidates.
I guess it's fair to say that I'll be on
for two of the days. I believe I'm scheduled for
two of the days. John caldera independent institute. He'll be
joining Christian and Me for Jeff Dye Tomorrow night Comedy
Works South.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
He'll be in for a couple of the days.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Deborah Flora, who you hear each Friday here on the
right side of Hollywood at two pm. Debah Flora will
be in two of those days. John Calderra beyond the
two Mondays, Jimmy Sangenberger in the mix as well.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
He'll be doing two of the days and the next week.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I think next week is Caldera Monday, Deborah Floor Tuesday, Wednesday,
and then you'll remember this name Leland Conway Thursday and
Friday of next week. Stay tuned, Ryan. Can't they remove
filibuster just for the CRS.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's a good question. I don't rightly know the answer
to that.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
I just know that when Harry Reid made the exception
for judicial nominees, it was specifically targeted for just that.
I suppose it might be within the realm of possibilities.
But John Thune, who I generally like, who I generally like,
I don't think he's going to go for that, and
I don't think he should go for that. Don't take
(28:27):
the bait. In other words, Ryan Denz can't win when
it's fair. In quotes, you're right, and they know this.
Why do you think they swung open the border and
let upwards of twenty million illegal aliens into the country.
They had to replenish voters who left not just their
party but their states. They fled from New York and
California to greener pastures and redder voting states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas.
(28:54):
All three of those states have gained electoral votes and
seats in Congress.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
New York has lost them, Illinois has lost them.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Colorado, now that I think about it, might be the
only blue state that has seen its population increase, but
that may be short lived. Keep an eye on that
one as well. Here's the great question from Kevin Ryan.
You don't think the Democrats will end the filibuster if
they regain power in twenty twenty six in the midterms. Well,
they they won't regain the Senate. I'll be bold and
(29:26):
predict that, And it's only because of the races.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
That are on the map.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So in the Senate, every couple of years, a third
of the seats are up for grabs, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So if the one hundred Senate seats.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
It'll be like thirty three are in play in any
election year, could be a mid term election year, could
be a presidential election year. And then they recycle one third,
one third, one third. The last time around, the map
really favored Republicans. This time around, the map somewhat favors Republicans.
So I don't see the Demo krats getting to a
(30:01):
fifty one vote majority in the Senate. Now if they did,
would they eliminate it?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Kevin?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I think there's a good chance that'll happen, but it
won't be the next time. It won't be twenty twenty six.
The Republicans are favorite. If you look at like Political
Watch and all these predictive models that are out there,
almost unanimously, they say that the Republicans will hold the Senate.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
The question is the House.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Ryan, I gotta say, you do the best imitation of
Michael Bennett milk toast. I think his voice drives me
more crazy than his radical left politics. Keep up the
good humor. We have to maintain good humor. And Patty
casts her vote for full of the Week.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Do Michael Bennett Okay, and we'll see who winds. We
come back after this and guy got a long break.
Here's you gotta go.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Final, Final, Final Fool of the Week for this Friday
Final segment coming up next to Ryan Schuling.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Life, the Great Salmon, Dave hold On, I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
That's right, President Trump, one of his theme songs there
why Anything's Down? In this Friday edition, Ryan Schuling Live
sending you into your weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's five o'clock somewhere. Crack up when that beer You've
earned it.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
And I say that to Jesse Thomas as well, and
I know that he will to the text we follow
five seven seven three nine. Jody sounds like a dime.
She married social media handles well, buddy, I got good
news and bad news for you. Bad news for you,
good news for her. She's been married since twenty fourteen,
rather happily, I might add to Jonathan. And she's got
a nice little family going there. But her social media handles,
(31:28):
I can help you there. I'm the ex formerly on
his Twitter at Jody Calm, Jode Calm. She likes narwals,
good luck, buddy, good look fine and you're dead okay.
And then on Facebook, her handle is Jody Champion. There
the two e's Jode Champion. You'll find her there Jody
(31:49):
Calm again. And she studied, according to her Facebook page,
at the Derek Zoolanders Center for Children who can't read
good and want to learn to do other stuff good too.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
All right, Full of the week. It was a close call.
All due respect to Senator Michael Bennett. It was Tucker Carlson.
It's actually funny. It was December eighteenth. I remember because
that's an important date to me, and as Joseph Stalin's birthday,
I'm a fan, you're a fan of Stalin's. I was
an admirer. But we don't need to go into that.
I guess, like, what's uh, okay, let's get back. We'll
(32:24):
circle back today.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You never circled back, never called him out on it.
Nick fun Taste is like the kid that he needs
to be stuffed in the locker for his own good.
I mean, I'm just saying, this is a guy that
grew up gen X and that's kind of how we
handled things.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Playground justice, that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I don't think Nick fun Tastes got a lot of
playground justice coming through the ranks there, and he seems
to be a really entitled, spoiled brat.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I can't stand in the smirk on his face. Anyway.
That's all for me from here for now.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I'll talk to you again on Monday here on Ryan
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