December 3, 2025 • 35 mins
In the wake of President Trump's big announcement rescinding an effective EV mandate by the Biden administration, COGA President Lynn Granger joins Ryan to discuss the positive effects on both the automotive and energy industries, as well as the American economy and consumers in general.
Sheriff Steve Reams of Weld County is filling in for Dan Caplis on Wednesday and joins Ryan with an update on a deadly home invasion case in Greeley.
Sheriff Steve Reams of Weld County is filling in for Dan Caplis on Wednesday and joins Ryan with an update on a deadly home invasion case in Greeley.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everything happening in real time here as we're riding the
storm out as Jesse still aptly played the Reo Speedwagon
song toward the close of the last hour. It's still
coming down out there here in the Denver metro. It
looks beautiful and hopefully you are where you need to
be or if you are in transit, take it slow,
long following distances, take your time, you know, and it's
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better to get there late than never, you know what
I mean. It's been in communicating in real time with
the new president of COGA Colorado Oil and Gas Association,
Lynn Granger, and she is kind enough to be joining
us at the bottom of the hour, coming up at
about three thirty three, so you want to stay tuned
for that. President Trump announcing from the Oval Office today
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that he is hereby repealing the Biden era restrictive constrictive
fuel efficiency standards that really put a damper on the
American auto industry.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And we'll get her take on that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
From the oil and gas perspective, as well as the
state of business here in Colorado for oil and natural
gas permitting drilling excavation. We've seen the prices of gasoline
come down, down, down, and nationwide. As I look at
this map, Colorado currently averaging, according to Triple A as
of today, two dollars and sixty one cents a galon.
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Now compare that to California four dollars and fifty three
cents a gallon. They have a lot of prohibitive taxes
there for gasoline usage. However, Colorado one of the lowest
in the nation. There aren't too many that are lower
than two sixty one. Oklahoma's at two forty one, Texas
at two fifty five, Louisiana right about lockstep with Colorado
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at two sixty one, Mississippi two fifty nine, same as Tennessee,
but that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Arkansas at two fifty six.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Those are the states with the lowest gas prices in
the nation, and we are right there among them here
in Colorado. Which says something because all the states I
just named, all these states in the Triple A map
that I am looking at, it's they're ironically in dark blue.
But those are red states that Trump won Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa,
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and even Wisconsin, which is a purple state but went
red last time for Trump. Colorado is the only blue
state labeled in blue with some of the lowest gas prices,
so I find that to be quite interesting. Five seven seven,
three nine. I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
About any of that or anything that we had in
our number one.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This one I got into as we closed out our one,
and I gotta get Jesse Thomas's take. Denver ranked one
of the best cities for singles as we approach twenty
twenty six. This is from katiev R Fox thirty one.
The Mile High City's dating scene is notorious for many reasons.
It is no wait, let's stop right there, Jesse. Why
is it notorious? I don't know the reason.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
My experience has been notoriously bad, but that could have
more to do with me than the state as a whole,
So I don't want to rest to any judgments here.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Continue.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, okay, well, and I got a question for you
coming out of this too. Even becoming infamous in dating
TV show history, Love is Blind Denver making history after
their season finale.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do you watch that show? I do not, but I
know a lot of people that do.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
O good yeah, for its apparent inability to keep couples together, well,
We'll get into the details of that in just a moment.
If you're single in Denver going into twenty twenty six, however,
this new ranking from wallet hub could show some promising
news on the dating front. The report puts Denver as
one of the top five best cities for singles in
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twenty twenty six. To decide the ranking, wallet Hub looked
at metrics. Is this like war? Is this like f
whip or something? I guess metrics like percentage of singles
and gender balance and nearly two hundred American cities, as
well as economic data for meal and drink pricing and
accessibility to recreational opportunities.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That one makes sense, but the meal and drink pricing
hi here very high.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Denver rank number five on the list, coming behind only
top cities Atlanta, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Anybody, Las Vegas?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, that's an obvious one.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Tampa, Okay, and Seattle, Dever also topped out. Among other
Colorado cities on the list, Colorado Springs came in at
number thirty six, a raw Rah at seventy one. For
those who may know about Denver's nickname, Menver, is that
it Emmy Ivy.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You've never heard that before in my life, Menver, Menver.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It may come as a surprise that Denver's best ranking
was for gender balance of singles in the city. That
name suggests that you know there's only men in Denver,
which I don't like those odds. Denver also had above
average rankings and sheriff singles in the city, online dating opportunities, and.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Restaurants per capita.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The couples on Denver's recent Love Is Blind season may
have made a series first by not finding any lasting
earlylationships on the show, but perhaps twenty twenty six maybe
the year to find love in the Mile High City?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Jesse, what's say you? Who put that away with wallet
dot hub? What was it? Wallet hub? Wallet hub?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well, see, I like to have things in my wallet,
so that's why I do not date. Did they take
that well? Now, as far as restaurants per capita, yes,
we do have a lot of amazing date spaces in
the city and I.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
See people out, but I think they.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Do it all via the apps. I refuse to do
dating apps. I just can't now if there it's a
category for creating a profile and spending two hours doing
it and then immediately deleting them I would lead the
conference in that, okay, but I travel so much that
I really can't.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's a tough sell for me to do.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've got a personal question for you, Yes, what is
the worst date you've ever been on?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
There's got to be one that comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh man, you're gonna have to give me a second
to think about that. It probably happened a long time ago.
I had a girl get sick on me one time,
drank too much and peeked all over the floor.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That has to be right up there.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On a first date, On a first date, come on
on a first day, and normally I thought I could fixture, though,
so we did have a second one, you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Know what I'm saying. I thought I could listen. We
all have bad nights, no.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Red flags there, Nope, got sick on me yet I
didn't have a I've told this story before, but I'll
give you the encapsulated bullet point.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Version of it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So a first date, Gehl was a waitress at a
local restaurant establishment not far from here, not gonna stay
were named protect the not so Innocent. But I had
a couple of yentas helping to set me up on
this one one of them was p K who does
the Humanity Against Tyranny podcast will be recording tomorrow with
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special guests Priscilla Ron and Mindy dever Scott. They collaborated again.
They were the entas they were talking to her, they
were talking to me and don't you like Ryan? Is
he good looking guy?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah? And I'd go out with him.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So I do what I do, and I made a
plan and I connected with seats courtesy of Michelle mel
Gibson and Jamie Lisso, who is supposed to be on
the program today, he'll be on tomorrow. He's had I
think travel problems with whether it's going outside anyway to
see Tammy Pescatelli, very hard hitting New York style female comedian.
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She's great, She's fantastic. She's been on the show actually
a couple of times. So I'm thinking, this is a great,
great first day.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's comedy club. You take somebody out, you're gonna laugh.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, you can have dinner beforehand at Lucy that's
the restaurant that's right above the comedy club. Their comedy
works south here at the Landmark in Greenwood Village. I
should have known things were going to be off to
a off kilter start. When she asked me to pick
her up. I'm like, that's a little odd for a
first day. You know, I'm a guy, could be any guy.
You know, we're talking about Ted earlier. She's going to
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the word of the end. I guess I don't know,
but she's seen me before. Anyway, I show up, no joke,
knock on the door, no answer. I knock on the
door again, and I try to text her like, hey,
I'm right outside your door.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
She lets me in.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And something seems a miss, something seems askew, and she's
kind of wobbly, and I'm looking at her and I'm asking, oh,
take me a two of your apartment, show me what's
going on, and she's just kind of blankly staring at me.
And then I look over on the counter and there's
like a whole bottle of wine that's virtually finished, so
she had drank that before I even got there. The
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date hasn't even started yet, and she's in the tank.
So anyway, I figure she'll call him down, she'll settle down,
she'll sober up a little bit. We go have dinner,
and then we are we're in the front row. So
here we go with that and more Trouble one of
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the low comedians.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You might know him.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
He has long here, kind of looks like Gallagher, a mustache,
funny guy, kind.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Of a spas that's part of his act.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He's into these jokes and she kept trying to like
finish his jokes.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
For him, like out loud, yeah, oh yeah, you can't
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's a big no. No, no, no, no no. Did you
give her the polite elbow or something like?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, I said no, they don't need your help, and
he was really good about it. He's like, I don't
really need your help, you know, leave right there. I
got to laugh out of the crowd.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So she's like, am I doing something wrong? Like, yeah,
you know, just maybe keep it to yourself a little bit. Yeah,
you know, I was. That was nicer about him to
have but barely. Well. Then Tammy comes out and it
gets worse because this young lady continued to drink. There
was member of weight staff that came over and like
warned her again gently, But I kind of thought that
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maybe they were going easy on her because she was
with me and I know these people.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So it's like I got skin in the game here.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And then finally she interrupted, Tammy went too many times,
and Tammy, he just takes the chair, comes right up
to the front row, turns it around, sits down, you know,
kind of leans over the top of the chair and
looks right in the eye. And this gal keeps Jesus
keeps talking and digging herself a bigger hole. The audience
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is groaning. So is Hammy gonna do this?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Save this? She turns to me, She goes, you look
like a very nice man. Why are you here with her?
What happened? She goes, where did you find this one?
The crowd starts to laugh.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
She goes, honey, whatever app you found her on, I
want you to take your phone, delete the app, and
then burn your phone.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So good, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Leanless to say, Unlike Jesse Thomas, I did not feel
like I could save her, and there was not a
second date.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I was mortified.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh I was just gonna say, if you still have
her number, maybe send it my way.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
She guys, just kind of right up my alley. I
think it might be a good fit.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh boy, Yeah, Well, you know, I've been single for
a lot longer than I have haven't been in my life,
and that was top of the charts again Casey casem
the worst date ever, that was my experience. This one
asked Ryan, what are you looking for in a date?
A sane person? Just be normal, just don't You can
be a little crazy, me a little crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But you know what I'm talking about, Jesse. There's fun crazy,
and then there's like psycho crazy. Well see that's the thing.
If there's gonna be a crazy one in the relationship, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Going to be me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So there's no room. There's no room for two crazy people.
Yeah right, okay, Well this goes to would you ever
be on a show?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Jesse? I've been asked to have for I have. It
was like a.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Young Professionals under forty type thing, huh. And somebody put
my name down and thought it would be a good idea,
one of my sister's friends, and they reached out for
me to do it. Thank god, I was traveling with
the Rocky so I was unavailable while they were going
to do it. I thought about it, but no, the
answer to your question is no.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Going back to Fox thirty one for this one, Denver
makes history after season. For now, Denver's known from many things.
It's access to nature, breweries, yeah, art, music.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Sports, you name it. I do all those things.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The Capitol of Colorado has plenty to offer. But one
thing people often say is it struggles with a strong
dating scene, so it doesn't have one. Maybe it does,
maybe it doesn't. Jesse's got mixed reviews. A popular show
might have cemented that claim further. Love is Blind, the
uber popular Netflix series, had its ninth season hosted in Denver.
This part I don't understand, so I'll already off to
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a bad start. The show brought in thirty two singles,
sixteen men, sixteen women to see if they could find
the love of their lives in the Pods, two rooms
with a shared wall that prevents the contestants from seeing
each other while still allowing them to make conversation.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's the dating game. That's a total ripoff.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Come on, after some of the contestans make a connection
through their pod dates.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So you can't see them, So you can't You don't
just judge them.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
On their appearance, I guess, so I'm gonna judge them
on their voice, their personality.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, that would be nice.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
The series follows their journey as they go from Blind
aids to seeing each other at an engagement, to vacationing
together before living with one another. What with the end
goal being them sealing the deal at the altar, that's
a little fast. They got to get married if it
all works out. I guess so so, I guess there's
spoilers in this.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't care. You either saw it or you didn't.
I didn't. Maybe I will go on this show. It's
pretty rare for couples.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
To make it all the way to the end of
the show and into marriage territory, but normally at least
one or a few couples do last except not in Denver.
Denver became the first city featured on the show to
have zero couples together by the end of the season.
According to pop culture media outlet Vulture. Great source there,
the cast of Love Is Blind is the latest reality
TV show group to show that Denver doesn't prove to
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be a great place to find love. This is his
sharp contrast to what we were just told by wallet
Hub Top five right in twenty twenty four. Apparently, Jesse
married at first Sight held at seventeenth season in Denver,
and that cast alls so and it was zero couples
together and was deemed to be one of the most
sinister casts in the show's history. Now we're talking, I'm
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all for sinister, and I like sinister. I will footnote, though,
I do recall way back in the beginning days of
The Bachelorette, right Trista ended up with Ryan the Firefighter
and they still live here. Correct, See Colorado. I knew
that and they're still together. That was a success story.
We can hang our hats on that one for Colorado
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and Denver dating. A post from a screen rant on
the International Movie Database at IMDb called the season that's
married at First Sight disastrous and said future seasons would
need to redeem the franchise. In Love is Blind, Denver
Love wasn't looking to be on the horizon early on,
with multiple contestants ghosting their dates by leaving the show
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entirely without warning.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That sounds like something you do.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You bet, That's why I'm thinking about going on this show.
I might have missed a glorious opportunity.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Some couples clicked instantly, while others had their really talk
things through to get.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
To engagement day. What are we doing the engagement for?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I know you want to wrap this up in thirteen
episodes or something.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But that's not how life works. Of course, you get ghosted.
I'm gonna have to be engaged by episode eight.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I'm out an engagement day. That would be the day
when they first would lay eyes on each other. You
don't see each other until then. How you do How
do you get engage? You haven't seen the person. You
gotta have a connection. There's got to be some kind
of magic.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
There's got to be a spark or chemistry, electricity. There's
gotta be that feeling. And you don't know that unless
you see a person. I'm not being shallower judgmental there.
And then they listed couples. The couples here that didn't
work out through a short period that included a messy vacation,
tense times living together, and some spontaneous breakups. By the
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season finale, three couples still made it to the altar
for their wedding day, but none walked away hand in hand.
It's mostly women that watch these shows, right.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I would assume so, yes, But they're wildly popular. I mean,
I just tell by how many of them are there are.
But the whole hookup culture and just like round Robin
dating is just off putting to me personally.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's the ghosting thing that you know, I'm a gen xer.
Are you a gen x er?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Millennial? Jesse, I'm yeah, I zillennial? Oh okay, disease. It's
just this ghosting thing is I'm just never going to
talk to this person again and not tell them why. Like,
come on, you got to be an adult about this
and say, you know what, this isn't for me. It's
not working out. I don't feel connection.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Best of luck to you, Yeah, exactly, be a gentleman
about it.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Of person gonna try you that Well, leave it to
Petty Patty to check in what the text done this topic? Ryan,
You two reminded me of a date I had in college.
We've been drinking at a sorority party. I like where
this is going. Okay, I'm in I get better looking
the more they drink in, the darker gets. My date
got up to get us some more drinks. I was
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wondering what was taking him so long? Okay, this just
sound a little creepy. I turned around to look for him.
He was passed out on the floor right behind me.
I also thought I could fix him. Gave him a
second chance when he invited me to a concert, arrived
late and drunk.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Done no more. You can't get sloppy drunk, not on
date one, not before date one, right right, right right.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
This woman apparently was so like nervous about going out
with me or scared.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't know this is I take it personally. You
should She loaded up on a whole bottle of wine.
I gotta be drunk just to put up with this guy.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
There's taking the edge off and then there's falling off
the cliff.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Good Lord Almighty, and Patty, I'm sorry you had to
go through that. Now, when I was scared, she was
gonna say, my date got up to get us some drinks.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I was wondering what was taking him so long? Is
that he was gonna go a little Bill Cosby. Gotta
be nervous about that too.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Nowadays, keep your drinks covered, ladies, and even your dudes
out there.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
My buddy got ghb by mistake.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Somebody put something in his drink and whoa, it knocked
him the hell out. I had to drag it out
of a car like a dead body. And I don't
think it was intended for him. I think there's some
I'm kind of switcheroo going on there, But yeah, ladies,
cover your drinks. Don't accept the drink from a guy
you don't know unless the bartender hands it to you.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Pro tips on the dating scene from yours truly and
Jesse Thomas. All Right, we're gonna get more into this
Trump announcement today in the Oval Office for rescinding the
Biden era fuel efficiency standards. Joining us next the president
of KOGA looking forward to a conversation with Lynn Grainger
after this, I'm ran schuling lives.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
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Hen My administration is taking a stork action to lower
costs for American consumers, protect American auto jobs, and make
buy your car much more affordable for countless American families
and also safer officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdens some
horrible actually cafe standards. They're imposed expensive restrictions and all
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sorts of problems, gave all sorts of problems to automakers.
And we're not only talking about here, we're talking about
outside of our country. Because nobody could do it, nobody
wanted to do it, and it was ridiculous, very expensive.
It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices, combined with
the insane electric vehicle mandate. Biden's burdens some regulations helped
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cause the price of cars to soar more than twenty
five percent, and in one case they went up eighteen
percent in one year. Today, we're taking one more step
to kill the green news scam as part of the
greatest scam probably well other than Russia, Russia, Russia and
a few others, ain't good name the greatest scam in
American history, the Green new scam, and it's a questional
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end de gasoline powered car. This is what they wanted
to do, even though we have more gas lean than
any other country by far, and people want the gasline card.
They want everything, they want electric, they want any they
want to half lots of alternatives, but they do want
the gasline car. Right now. It's leading away by a lot.
The car business is a very interesting business, but we
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want to keep.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It that way.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Difficult to think of a more pro energy or pro
consumer president that we've had, at least in my lifetime
than President Trump. And this announcement of the rollback of
the Biden era fuel efficiency standards designed to help not
only the American automotive industry, but the economy at large,
consumer is at large, and you'd have to imagine with
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some of his comments there the energy sector, which is
so big here in Colorado. And so we turned to
the current president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association COGA.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Lynn Granger, joins us on Ryan Schuling Live. Lynn, thanks
for your time, Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
What is your reaction from the energy sector to President
Trump's announcement today?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You know, I have to say, I think today was
a really big win. You know, it's really just getting
us back to common sense and I think at the
end of the day, really just preserves affordable choices for
American families, which is really what we need right now.
I mean, the standards that under the Biden administration were
really unrealistic and as President Trump mentioned, really amounted to
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an electric vehicle mandate. So I think, you know, we're
turning those standards to levels that can actually be achieved.
Is great.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
One of the topics I wanted to cover with you
as well, Lynn, is it's very interesting, even peculiar, to
see the Triple A map the national average of gasoline
prices as of this day is just under three dollars
a gallon.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That number has been going down since President.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Trump assumed office, And among the states that have the
lowest price per gowon, we're talking in the range of
two dollars and sixty cents, which is where Colorado is
two sixty one. Colorado is the only state that went
blue that did not vote Fornald Trump that is listed
among these many states that have the lowest gas prices.
What is it that makes Colorado stand out as an
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anomaly on this graph when it comes to current gas prices, Lynn.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
You know, I think it's a combination of things. I
think you know, you know, right now we've switched to
a cheaper winter blend of gasoline, so I think that contributes.
I think right now globally we have stable oil production
and you know, lower seasonal demand. So I think that
definitely all contributes, you know, to those low gas prices
in Colorado, you know, really has historically enjoyed I think
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averages that are significantly lower than the national average, which
is something that we get to enjoy here. And I
think part of that is because you know, Colorado is,
as you mentioned, a big energy state. We are forced
in the nation and the production of oil. You know,
we bounce around six, seven and eight and natural gas,
so we are not insignificant to you know, the nation's
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total energy production.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Lyn Granger, the president of COGA color out of Oil
and Gas Association, joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live.
So with this announcement and how it may benefit the
automakers in Detroit and certainly car drivers across the nation
having those choices you talk about, but I would have
to assume there would be an impact on the economy,
on the demand for oil and turning that into gasoline
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for consumers that prefer that as an option. So, Lynn,
how would you forecast the impact of this decision by
the Trump administration and what it might mean for us
right here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
You know, I think it could be an increase in
demand certainly, so we'll see how that plays out. But overall,
I think just the impact is that it just preserves
choice for American families. You know, again, as President Trump said,
that choice is you know, an electric vehicle or you know,
a gasoline powered vehicle. You know that that should be
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a choice of the consumer. And now he's restored that today.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
In talking with your predecessor, Lynn Dan Hayley. He was
often frustrated by the process of permitting here in Colorado
and the slow playing by Governor Jared Polis and other
Democrats and power that wanted to basically defacto kick the
can down the road, prevent there from being permitting in
the process and the excavation of natural gas and oil
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kind of slow rolling that. Where does it stand right
now in terms of backlogs of permits, the applications for
those permits, the ease of access to lands and getting
those investments made to start that process altogether? How would
you assess where the state of the oil and gas
industry is here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
At the moment.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
So I think, unfortunately that continues to be a big
challenge for us here. You know. I mentioned that, you know,
today was a big win because we got back to
some common sense and setting some standards that you know,
can actually be met, that are realistic. I think we
continue to see policies that in this state that are unrealistic,
you know, and in some cases are you know, passed,
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you know, with the thought that they will do something
in the way of protecting the environment or reducing emissions,
but really don't do that. They just increase the burden,
the regulatory burden and really the cost of doing business
for the natural gas and oil industry in the state.
So where we're at right now, you know, and in
the past six years, our industry has gone through about
forty four different rulemakings at the state and local level,
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making it really challenging to operate here in the state.
And so our permitting timelines have only grown. I think
we're still over about two hundred days to get a
drilling permit here in the state of Colorado. So it
continues to be a challenge. And I think, you know,
what we have really advocated for over the last several
years is really that this industry needs, you know, some
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stability and some regulatory certainty, and unfortunately, you know, I
don't think we're there.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
We definitely are, at least not at the state level.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
COGA President Lynn Granger, our guest final pointland you kind
of touched on it. There are the environmental concerns that
the people have and I think a lot of misconceptions
about just the modern technologies of the ease of access
through fracking and other means that we were able to
get to certain reserves of natural gas and oil here
in the state of Colorado without disturbing the environment, without
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massive pollution. I mean, there was a television commercial at
one point where John Hickenlooper himself was drinking fracking fluid,
and there's this, you know, designed to send a message
that it's a safe process. And I'm not sure where
the left fell off so far with regard to this.
And it's such an important industry in this state land.
But what would you say to the environmentalists that would
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shun you or try to block you from, you know,
engaging in the excavation of oil and natural gas, that
it's a threat to the environment. You're destroying the wetlands,
you're destroying the forests. What is your counter to that?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I would say that if you are a true environmentalist,
that you really care, that your main concern is the
environment and tax the environment, then you would want production
to happen right here in Colorado because we do it
safer and cleaner than anywhere else. And if it doesn't
happen here, that demand is not going to go down.
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You will still need that supply, and it will come
from outside of the outside of Colorado, outside of the
United States, from places that don't have strict standards that
aren't as concerned about the environment. So if you are
an environmentalist, you should, absolutely you should be advocating for
more production here in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's such an important industry and so vital to our
economy in this state, along with our ranchers and farmers
and of course the tourism industry.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I mean, these are the top three in the state.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And that good news coming out of the Oval Office
today going to have a residual effect so that consumers
have more options. Gas powered vehicles are not going to
be subject to these restrictive standards that the Biden administration
tried to put on them through the Green new Scalm,
as President Trump calls it. And we look forward to
more conversations with the president of Colorado Oil and Gas
Association COGA, Lynn Granger, our guest today. Lynn, thank you
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so much for your time, your perspective, and we appreciate
it very much.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Absolutely thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Lyn Grainger right there. Your response a reaction five seven,
seven thirty nine. The sheriff is here. We all have
to behave and we'll get a preview what's coming up
on his program along with a story developing in Weld
County on his watch as well.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
After this on Ryan Shuling line. Slow ride, that's what
it was coming in for.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Sheriff Steve Rains and yours truly both coming down from
the City of Greeley. Ryan Schuling Live wrapping up on
this Wednesday edition. Snow bound out there. Slow ride if
you're driving and this concerns me from nine News. Ongoing
dispute between neighbors resulted in fatal shooting. Sheriff's office says
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a man told the sheriff's office that he shot his
neighbor during a struggle after that man kicked in his
door early Wednesday morning, or was I early Wednesday morning?
There Weld County and Greeley, a man fatally shot his
neighbor early Wednesday morning outside Greeley city limits after that
neighbor kicked in his door, According the Weld County Sheriff's Office.
(30:02):
Love got the Weld County sheriff right here now I'm
going to read through the rest of these details. He
might not be able to say much, but this is
what's being reported. The sheriff's office said the man who
shot his neighbor was also injured and reported the shooting,
which happened around one am and the forty two hundred
block of Grand Teton Road in the Hill and Park area.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Is that a nice area? Not exactly, Okay, it's a
lower income area, okay.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The man told deputies that he had a long standing
dispute with his neighbor and reported that the neighbor had
kicked in his door with an object in his hand
before coming into his home. They reportedly got into a
struggle and the neighbor was shot. The sheriff's office said
the neighbor was taken to a hospital where he later died.
The man who reported the shooting also taken to the hospital.
Sheriff's office did not specify how he was injured, but
(30:44):
described the injuries as quote critical but stable unquote. Weld
County Sheriff Steve Raims, is there anything you can add
to this story?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
So, the person who ended up dying in this incident
was a well known individual in the Hill and Park subdivision.
He was known to have proclivities for violating the law
and maybe victimizing several folks inside the neighborhood. There was
a standing protection order between the two parties involved in
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this press release. Obviously, something went down in the middle
of the night that caused the eventual decedent to try
to enter into the innocent person's home, and things didn't
go so well for him. You mentioned this individual is known.
Was that to the other neighbors in the community there,
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or was this person known to law enforcement if you
know what I mean? Yes, on both accounts. He had
quite the reputation. There was not too many people inside
the sheriff's office that had not had an interaction with
him at some point, and many people in the neighborhood
had had some pretty negative interactions with him as well.
I'm not surprised at the outcome of this incident. I'm
(31:56):
honestly a little more surprised that it took this long
for this individual to meet this fate.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
For the neighbor whose home was invaded, who shot the
intruder dead.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is there still an ongoing investigation as to whether chargers
might be filed.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, And that's the difficulty in reporting on this as
I have to be a little it is an ongoing investigation.
We have to make sure that everything lines up, and
that individual hasn't been given the opportunity to make a
statement in the form that he should be allowed to.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So, okay, sure, Steve Raimes very latest, we'll right to
the source there on that nine News story, and we're
going right to the source as he fills it once
again for Dan Capl's the second of three days he'll
be in Have you now as of today, once we
have these two newgluminatorial candidates on, had every single one
in the field on this show when you've been guest
hosting yet?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
No, not yet, but I'm going to be close to it.
Today we'll cover I think candidates sixteen and seventeen or
seventeen and eighteen. I needn't do my math before the
show starts tomorrow, we'll do one more, so we're going
to get to eighteen or nineteen before the week's out.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And that's a lot. It is.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You're doing a great job, by the way, and you're
getting a high praise and accolades from the man himself,
Dan Kaplis, and George Brockler told me to tell you
hi to Well.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
That's good. I mean, anytime George has something nice to say, uh,
I'll take it. I think he's a little jealous that
you're in the host seat and he's not well.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It's a good job. You're doing well.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So Richard Holdtorf, the vice chair of the Colorado GOP,
also scheduled up here on the program.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
What is he updating us onund well?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I asked Richard if he'd come on and just give
us a general update about the state of the GOP.
I'd also invited Berta Horn to come on. She was
I guess scheduled up, couldn't be on the show. So
Richard was gracious enough to come on. And I don't
know if their two stories will line up or Richard
will have He's a fiery guy, so I think we'll
get the facts.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Never a dull moment with Richard holtor If. He has
been in the Colorado General Assembly as a member of
the House, and he ran for US House in a
very spirited race against Lauren Bobert, Yes, primary for the
fourth Congressional district. Ryan, going to the text line of
five seven seven three ninety, you're correct to not win
in Colorado, but forty one counties out of sixty four
did vote for him.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
That's important.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
It would be except Sheriff Land doesn't vote, and unfortunately
the population density and like Denver, Boulder inner Rappahole County
basically outweighs the rest of the state alone right there.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Yeah, it's unfortunate because you know that affects us in
every state wide race, whether it be governor or senator.
You have to find that person who can appeal to
the non Trump voter, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Right when I was.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Single living in the mountains, I had a date come
up from the Metro area and we went on a
hike on one of our mountain trails.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I don't know where this is going. Nice hike.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Brought her to have a drink at the marina near
the trailhead, bought and paid for her drink and asked
if she wanted to go to a venue with a
better view where we shared a meal and both had
a drink together.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I like the sound of that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I asked if she would mind splitting the costs at
that restaurant. She left some money, then got up to
use the restroom, after which I watched her driving away.
Most of the girls were looking for a free meal.
That's what I'm talking about, Jesse, get on these dating
apps and shriff.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You don't have to do this. No, think you're very
lucky man.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yes, but they're just looking for you know, they're trolling
for free dinners and a gale I used to date
back in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Her mom, very good looking older lady.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
At the time, was doing exactly this and saying she
was doing this like I got dinner there, I got dinner.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
There.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Are you gonna go on a second date with this guy?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Work smarter, not harder, That's what I'm saying. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
My mom kind of counseled and coached me like it's
the first date, you split the check. You don't know
her anything. That's the shanka. But I don't know if
that's the right move or not right move. Is listening
to Sheriff Steve Rain's coming up next
Everything happening in real time here as we're riding the
storm out as Jesse still aptly played the Reo Speedwagon
song toward the close of the last hour. It's still
coming down out there here in the Denver metro. It
looks beautiful and hopefully you are where you need to
be or if you are in transit, take it slow,
long following distances, take your time, you know, and it's
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better to get there late than never, you know what
I mean. It's been in communicating in real time with
the new president of COGA Colorado Oil and Gas Association,
Lynn Granger, and she is kind enough to be joining
us at the bottom of the hour, coming up at
about three thirty three, so you want to stay tuned
for that. President Trump announcing from the Oval Office today
(00:44):
that he is hereby repealing the Biden era restrictive constrictive
fuel efficiency standards that really put a damper on the
American auto industry.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And we'll get her take on that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
From the oil and gas perspective, as well as the
state of business here in Colorado for oil and natural
gas permitting drilling excavation. We've seen the prices of gasoline
come down, down, down, and nationwide. As I look at
this map, Colorado currently averaging, according to Triple A as
of today, two dollars and sixty one cents a galon.
(01:20):
Now compare that to California four dollars and fifty three
cents a gallon. They have a lot of prohibitive taxes
there for gasoline usage. However, Colorado one of the lowest
in the nation. There aren't too many that are lower
than two sixty one. Oklahoma's at two forty one, Texas
at two fifty five, Louisiana right about lockstep with Colorado
(01:42):
at two sixty one, Mississippi two fifty nine, same as Tennessee,
but that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Arkansas at two fifty six.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Those are the states with the lowest gas prices in
the nation, and we are right there among them here
in Colorado. Which says something because all the states I
just named, all these states in the Triple A map
that I am looking at, it's they're ironically in dark blue.
But those are red states that Trump won Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa,
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and even Wisconsin, which is a purple state but went
red last time for Trump. Colorado is the only blue
state labeled in blue with some of the lowest gas prices,
so I find that to be quite interesting. Five seven seven,
three nine. I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
About any of that or anything that we had in
our number one.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This one I got into as we closed out our one,
and I gotta get Jesse Thomas's take. Denver ranked one
of the best cities for singles as we approach twenty
twenty six. This is from katiev R Fox thirty one.
The Mile High City's dating scene is notorious for many reasons.
It is no wait, let's stop right there, Jesse. Why
is it notorious? I don't know the reason.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
My experience has been notoriously bad, but that could have
more to do with me than the state as a whole,
So I don't want to rest to any judgments here.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Continue.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, okay, well, and I got a question for you
coming out of this too. Even becoming infamous in dating
TV show history, Love is Blind Denver making history after
their season finale.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do you watch that show? I do not, but I
know a lot of people that do.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
O good yeah, for its apparent inability to keep couples together, well,
We'll get into the details of that in just a moment.
If you're single in Denver going into twenty twenty six, however,
this new ranking from wallet hub could show some promising
news on the dating front. The report puts Denver as
one of the top five best cities for singles in
(03:38):
twenty twenty six. To decide the ranking, wallet Hub looked
at metrics. Is this like war? Is this like f
whip or something? I guess metrics like percentage of singles
and gender balance and nearly two hundred American cities, as
well as economic data for meal and drink pricing and
accessibility to recreational opportunities.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That one makes sense, but the meal and drink pricing
hi here very high.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Denver rank number five on the list, coming behind only
top cities Atlanta, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Anybody, Las Vegas?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, that's an obvious one.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Tampa, Okay, and Seattle, Dever also topped out. Among other
Colorado cities on the list, Colorado Springs came in at
number thirty six, a raw Rah at seventy one. For
those who may know about Denver's nickname, Menver, is that
it Emmy Ivy.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You've never heard that before in my life, Menver, Menver.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It may come as a surprise that Denver's best ranking
was for gender balance of singles in the city. That
name suggests that you know there's only men in Denver,
which I don't like those odds. Denver also had above
average rankings and sheriff singles in the city, online dating opportunities, and.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Restaurants per capita.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The couples on Denver's recent Love Is Blind season may
have made a series first by not finding any lasting
earlylationships on the show, but perhaps twenty twenty six maybe
the year to find love in the Mile High City?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Jesse, what's say you? Who put that away with wallet
dot hub? What was it? Wallet hub? Wallet hub?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well, see, I like to have things in my wallet,
so that's why I do not date. Did they take
that well? Now, as far as restaurants per capita, yes,
we do have a lot of amazing date spaces in
the city and I.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
See people out, but I think they.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Do it all via the apps. I refuse to do
dating apps. I just can't now if there it's a
category for creating a profile and spending two hours doing
it and then immediately deleting them I would lead the
conference in that, okay, but I travel so much that
I really can't.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's a tough sell for me to do.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've got a personal question for you, Yes, what is
the worst date you've ever been on?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
There's got to be one that comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh man, you're gonna have to give me a second
to think about that. It probably happened a long time ago.
I had a girl get sick on me one time,
drank too much and peeked all over the floor.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That has to be right up there.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On a first date, On a first date, come on
on a first day, and normally I thought I could fixture, though,
so we did have a second one, you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Know what I'm saying. I thought I could listen. We
all have bad nights, no.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Red flags there, Nope, got sick on me yet I
didn't have a I've told this story before, but I'll
give you the encapsulated bullet point.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Version of it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So a first date, Gehl was a waitress at a
local restaurant establishment not far from here, not gonna stay
were named protect the not so Innocent. But I had
a couple of yentas helping to set me up on
this one one of them was p K who does
the Humanity Against Tyranny podcast will be recording tomorrow with
(06:55):
special guests Priscilla Ron and Mindy dever Scott. They collaborated again.
They were the entas they were talking to her, they
were talking to me and don't you like Ryan? Is
he good looking guy?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah? And I'd go out with him.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So I do what I do, and I made a
plan and I connected with seats courtesy of Michelle mel
Gibson and Jamie Lisso, who is supposed to be on
the program today, he'll be on tomorrow. He's had I
think travel problems with whether it's going outside anyway to
see Tammy Pescatelli, very hard hitting New York style female comedian.
(07:30):
She's great, She's fantastic. She's been on the show actually
a couple of times. So I'm thinking, this is a great,
great first day.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's comedy club. You take somebody out, you're gonna laugh.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, you can have dinner beforehand at Lucy that's
the restaurant that's right above the comedy club. Their comedy
works south here at the Landmark in Greenwood Village. I
should have known things were going to be off to
a off kilter start. When she asked me to pick
her up. I'm like, that's a little odd for a
first day. You know, I'm a guy, could be any guy.
You know, we're talking about Ted earlier. She's going to
(08:02):
the word of the end. I guess I don't know,
but she's seen me before. Anyway, I show up, no joke,
knock on the door, no answer. I knock on the
door again, and I try to text her like, hey,
I'm right outside your door.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
She lets me in.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And something seems a miss, something seems askew, and she's
kind of wobbly, and I'm looking at her and I'm asking, oh,
take me a two of your apartment, show me what's
going on, and she's just kind of blankly staring at me.
And then I look over on the counter and there's
like a whole bottle of wine that's virtually finished, so
she had drank that before I even got there. The
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date hasn't even started yet, and she's in the tank.
So anyway, I figure she'll call him down, she'll settle down,
she'll sober up a little bit. We go have dinner,
and then we are we're in the front row. So
here we go with that and more Trouble one of
(08:59):
the low comedians.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You might know him.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
He has long here, kind of looks like Gallagher, a mustache,
funny guy, kind.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Of a spas that's part of his act.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He's into these jokes and she kept trying to like
finish his jokes.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
For him, like out loud, yeah, oh yeah, you can't
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's a big no. No, no, no, no no. Did you
give her the polite elbow or something like?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, I said no, they don't need your help, and
he was really good about it. He's like, I don't
really need your help, you know, leave right there. I
got to laugh out of the crowd.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So she's like, am I doing something wrong? Like, yeah,
you know, just maybe keep it to yourself a little bit. Yeah,
you know, I was. That was nicer about him to
have but barely. Well. Then Tammy comes out and it
gets worse because this young lady continued to drink. There
was member of weight staff that came over and like
warned her again gently, But I kind of thought that
(09:49):
maybe they were going easy on her because she was
with me and I know these people.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So it's like I got skin in the game here.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And then finally she interrupted, Tammy went too many times,
and Tammy, he just takes the chair, comes right up
to the front row, turns it around, sits down, you know,
kind of leans over the top of the chair and
looks right in the eye. And this gal keeps Jesus
keeps talking and digging herself a bigger hole. The audience
(10:16):
is groaning. So is Hammy gonna do this?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Save this? She turns to me, She goes, you look
like a very nice man. Why are you here with her?
What happened? She goes, where did you find this one?
The crowd starts to laugh.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
She goes, honey, whatever app you found her on, I
want you to take your phone, delete the app, and
then burn your phone.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So good, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Leanless to say, Unlike Jesse Thomas, I did not feel
like I could save her, and there was not a
second date.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I was mortified.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh I was just gonna say, if you still have
her number, maybe send it my way.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
She guys, just kind of right up my alley. I
think it might be a good fit.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh boy, Yeah, Well, you know, I've been single for
a lot longer than I have haven't been in my life,
and that was top of the charts again Casey casem
the worst date ever, that was my experience. This one
asked Ryan, what are you looking for in a date?
A sane person? Just be normal, just don't You can
be a little crazy, me a little crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But you know what I'm talking about, Jesse. There's fun crazy,
and then there's like psycho crazy. Well see that's the thing.
If there's gonna be a crazy one in the relationship, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Going to be me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So there's no room. There's no room for two crazy people.
Yeah right, okay, Well this goes to would you ever
be on a show?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Jesse? I've been asked to have for I have. It
was like a.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Young Professionals under forty type thing, huh. And somebody put
my name down and thought it would be a good idea,
one of my sister's friends, and they reached out for
me to do it. Thank god, I was traveling with
the Rocky so I was unavailable while they were going
to do it. I thought about it, but no, the
answer to your question is no.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Going back to Fox thirty one for this one, Denver
makes history after season. For now, Denver's known from many things.
It's access to nature, breweries, yeah, art, music.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Sports, you name it. I do all those things.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The Capitol of Colorado has plenty to offer. But one
thing people often say is it struggles with a strong
dating scene, so it doesn't have one. Maybe it does,
maybe it doesn't. Jesse's got mixed reviews. A popular show
might have cemented that claim further. Love is Blind, the
uber popular Netflix series, had its ninth season hosted in Denver.
This part I don't understand, so I'll already off to
(12:29):
a bad start. The show brought in thirty two singles,
sixteen men, sixteen women to see if they could find
the love of their lives in the Pods, two rooms
with a shared wall that prevents the contestants from seeing
each other while still allowing them to make conversation.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's the dating game. That's a total ripoff.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Come on, after some of the contestans make a connection
through their pod dates.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So you can't see them, So you can't You don't
just judge them.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
On their appearance, I guess, so I'm gonna judge them
on their voice, their personality.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, that would be nice.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
The series follows their journey as they go from Blind
aids to seeing each other at an engagement, to vacationing
together before living with one another. What with the end
goal being them sealing the deal at the altar, that's
a little fast. They got to get married if it
all works out. I guess so so, I guess there's
spoilers in this.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't care. You either saw it or you didn't.
I didn't. Maybe I will go on this show. It's
pretty rare for couples.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
To make it all the way to the end of
the show and into marriage territory, but normally at least
one or a few couples do last except not in Denver.
Denver became the first city featured on the show to
have zero couples together by the end of the season.
According to pop culture media outlet Vulture. Great source there,
the cast of Love Is Blind is the latest reality
TV show group to show that Denver doesn't prove to
(13:46):
be a great place to find love. This is his
sharp contrast to what we were just told by wallet
Hub Top five right in twenty twenty four. Apparently, Jesse
married at first Sight held at seventeenth season in Denver,
and that cast alls so and it was zero couples
together and was deemed to be one of the most
sinister casts in the show's history. Now we're talking, I'm
(14:06):
all for sinister, and I like sinister. I will footnote, though,
I do recall way back in the beginning days of
The Bachelorette, right Trista ended up with Ryan the Firefighter
and they still live here. Correct, See Colorado. I knew
that and they're still together. That was a success story.
We can hang our hats on that one for Colorado
(14:28):
and Denver dating. A post from a screen rant on
the International Movie Database at IMDb called the season that's
married at First Sight disastrous and said future seasons would
need to redeem the franchise. In Love is Blind, Denver
Love wasn't looking to be on the horizon early on,
with multiple contestants ghosting their dates by leaving the show
(14:48):
entirely without warning.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That sounds like something you do.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You bet, That's why I'm thinking about going on this show.
I might have missed a glorious opportunity.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Some couples clicked instantly, while others had their really talk
things through to get.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
To engagement day. What are we doing the engagement for?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I know you want to wrap this up in thirteen
episodes or something.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But that's not how life works. Of course, you get ghosted.
I'm gonna have to be engaged by episode eight.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I'm out an engagement day. That would be the day
when they first would lay eyes on each other. You
don't see each other until then. How you do How
do you get engage? You haven't seen the person. You
gotta have a connection. There's got to be some kind
of magic.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
There's got to be a spark or chemistry, electricity. There's
gotta be that feeling. And you don't know that unless
you see a person. I'm not being shallower judgmental there.
And then they listed couples. The couples here that didn't
work out through a short period that included a messy vacation,
tense times living together, and some spontaneous breakups. By the
(15:46):
season finale, three couples still made it to the altar
for their wedding day, but none walked away hand in hand.
It's mostly women that watch these shows, right.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I would assume so, yes, But they're wildly popular. I mean,
I just tell by how many of them are there are.
But the whole hookup culture and just like round Robin
dating is just off putting to me personally.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's the ghosting thing that you know, I'm a gen xer.
Are you a gen x er?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Millennial? Jesse, I'm yeah, I zillennial? Oh okay, disease. It's
just this ghosting thing is I'm just never going to
talk to this person again and not tell them why. Like,
come on, you got to be an adult about this
and say, you know what, this isn't for me. It's
not working out. I don't feel connection.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Best of luck to you, Yeah, exactly, be a gentleman
about it.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Of person gonna try you that Well, leave it to
Petty Patty to check in what the text done this topic? Ryan,
You two reminded me of a date I had in college.
We've been drinking at a sorority party. I like where
this is going. Okay, I'm in I get better looking
the more they drink in, the darker gets. My date
got up to get us some more drinks. I was
(16:53):
wondering what was taking him so long? Okay, this just
sound a little creepy. I turned around to look for him.
He was passed out on the floor right behind me.
I also thought I could fix him. Gave him a
second chance when he invited me to a concert, arrived
late and drunk.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Done no more. You can't get sloppy drunk, not on
date one, not before date one, right right, right right.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
This woman apparently was so like nervous about going out
with me or scared.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't know this is I take it personally. You
should She loaded up on a whole bottle of wine.
I gotta be drunk just to put up with this guy.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
There's taking the edge off and then there's falling off
the cliff.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Good Lord Almighty, and Patty, I'm sorry you had to
go through that. Now, when I was scared, she was
gonna say, my date got up to get us some drinks.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I was wondering what was taking him so long? Is
that he was gonna go a little Bill Cosby. Gotta
be nervous about that too.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Nowadays, keep your drinks covered, ladies, and even your dudes
out there.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
My buddy got ghb by mistake.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Somebody put something in his drink and whoa, it knocked
him the hell out. I had to drag it out
of a car like a dead body. And I don't
think it was intended for him. I think there's some
I'm kind of switcheroo going on there, But yeah, ladies,
cover your drinks. Don't accept the drink from a guy
you don't know unless the bartender hands it to you.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Pro tips on the dating scene from yours truly and
Jesse Thomas. All Right, we're gonna get more into this
Trump announcement today in the Oval Office for rescinding the
Biden era fuel efficiency standards. Joining us next the president
of KOGA looking forward to a conversation with Lynn Grainger
after this, I'm ran schuling lives.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
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Speaker 5 (19:46):
Hen My administration is taking a stork action to lower
costs for American consumers, protect American auto jobs, and make
buy your car much more affordable for countless American families
and also safer officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdens some
horrible actually cafe standards. They're imposed expensive restrictions and all
(20:09):
sorts of problems, gave all sorts of problems to automakers.
And we're not only talking about here, we're talking about
outside of our country. Because nobody could do it, nobody
wanted to do it, and it was ridiculous, very expensive.
It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices, combined with
the insane electric vehicle mandate. Biden's burdens some regulations helped
(20:33):
cause the price of cars to soar more than twenty
five percent, and in one case they went up eighteen
percent in one year. Today, we're taking one more step
to kill the green news scam as part of the
greatest scam probably well other than Russia, Russia, Russia and
a few others, ain't good name the greatest scam in
American history, the Green new scam, and it's a questional
(20:55):
end de gasoline powered car. This is what they wanted
to do, even though we have more gas lean than
any other country by far, and people want the gasline card.
They want everything, they want electric, they want any they
want to half lots of alternatives, but they do want
the gasline car. Right now. It's leading away by a lot.
The car business is a very interesting business, but we
(21:18):
want to keep.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It that way.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Difficult to think of a more pro energy or pro
consumer president that we've had, at least in my lifetime
than President Trump. And this announcement of the rollback of
the Biden era fuel efficiency standards designed to help not
only the American automotive industry, but the economy at large,
consumer is at large, and you'd have to imagine with
(21:39):
some of his comments there the energy sector, which is
so big here in Colorado. And so we turned to
the current president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association COGA.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Lynn Granger, joins us on Ryan Schuling Live. Lynn, thanks
for your time, Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
What is your reaction from the energy sector to President
Trump's announcement today?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You know, I have to say, I think today was
a really big win. You know, it's really just getting
us back to common sense and I think at the
end of the day, really just preserves affordable choices for
American families, which is really what we need right now.
I mean, the standards that under the Biden administration were
really unrealistic and as President Trump mentioned, really amounted to
(22:22):
an electric vehicle mandate. So I think, you know, we're
turning those standards to levels that can actually be achieved.
Is great.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
One of the topics I wanted to cover with you
as well, Lynn, is it's very interesting, even peculiar, to
see the Triple A map the national average of gasoline
prices as of this day is just under three dollars
a gallon.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That number has been going down since President.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Trump assumed office, And among the states that have the
lowest price per gowon, we're talking in the range of
two dollars and sixty cents, which is where Colorado is
two sixty one. Colorado is the only state that went
blue that did not vote Fornald Trump that is listed
among these many states that have the lowest gas prices.
What is it that makes Colorado stand out as an
(23:06):
anomaly on this graph when it comes to current gas prices, Lynn.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
You know, I think it's a combination of things. I
think you know, you know, right now we've switched to
a cheaper winter blend of gasoline, so I think that contributes.
I think right now globally we have stable oil production
and you know, lower seasonal demand. So I think that
definitely all contributes, you know, to those low gas prices
in Colorado, you know, really has historically enjoyed I think
(23:34):
averages that are significantly lower than the national average, which
is something that we get to enjoy here. And I
think part of that is because you know, Colorado is,
as you mentioned, a big energy state. We are forced
in the nation and the production of oil. You know,
we bounce around six, seven and eight and natural gas,
so we are not insignificant to you know, the nation's
(23:56):
total energy production.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Lyn Granger, the president of COGA color out of Oil
and Gas Association, joining us here on Ryan Schuling Live.
So with this announcement and how it may benefit the
automakers in Detroit and certainly car drivers across the nation
having those choices you talk about, but I would have
to assume there would be an impact on the economy,
on the demand for oil and turning that into gasoline
(24:20):
for consumers that prefer that as an option. So, Lynn,
how would you forecast the impact of this decision by
the Trump administration and what it might mean for us
right here in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
You know, I think it could be an increase in
demand certainly, so we'll see how that plays out. But overall,
I think just the impact is that it just preserves
choice for American families. You know, again, as President Trump said,
that choice is you know, an electric vehicle or you know,
a gasoline powered vehicle. You know that that should be
(24:53):
a choice of the consumer. And now he's restored that today.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
In talking with your predecessor, Lynn Dan Hayley. He was
often frustrated by the process of permitting here in Colorado
and the slow playing by Governor Jared Polis and other
Democrats and power that wanted to basically defacto kick the
can down the road, prevent there from being permitting in
the process and the excavation of natural gas and oil
(25:19):
kind of slow rolling that. Where does it stand right
now in terms of backlogs of permits, the applications for
those permits, the ease of access to lands and getting
those investments made to start that process altogether? How would
you assess where the state of the oil and gas
industry is here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
At the moment.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
So I think, unfortunately that continues to be a big
challenge for us here. You know. I mentioned that, you know,
today was a big win because we got back to
some common sense and setting some standards that you know,
can actually be met, that are realistic. I think we
continue to see policies that in this state that are unrealistic,
you know, and in some cases are you know, passed,
(26:02):
you know, with the thought that they will do something
in the way of protecting the environment or reducing emissions,
but really don't do that. They just increase the burden,
the regulatory burden and really the cost of doing business
for the natural gas and oil industry in the state.
So where we're at right now, you know, and in
the past six years, our industry has gone through about
forty four different rulemakings at the state and local level,
(26:24):
making it really challenging to operate here in the state.
And so our permitting timelines have only grown. I think
we're still over about two hundred days to get a
drilling permit here in the state of Colorado. So it
continues to be a challenge. And I think, you know,
what we have really advocated for over the last several
years is really that this industry needs, you know, some
(26:45):
stability and some regulatory certainty, and unfortunately, you know, I
don't think we're there.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
We definitely are, at least not at the state level.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
COGA President Lynn Granger, our guest final pointland you kind
of touched on it. There are the environmental concerns that
the people have and I think a lot of misconceptions
about just the modern technologies of the ease of access
through fracking and other means that we were able to
get to certain reserves of natural gas and oil here
in the state of Colorado without disturbing the environment, without
(27:13):
massive pollution. I mean, there was a television commercial at
one point where John Hickenlooper himself was drinking fracking fluid,
and there's this, you know, designed to send a message
that it's a safe process. And I'm not sure where
the left fell off so far with regard to this.
And it's such an important industry in this state land.
But what would you say to the environmentalists that would
(27:35):
shun you or try to block you from, you know,
engaging in the excavation of oil and natural gas, that
it's a threat to the environment. You're destroying the wetlands,
you're destroying the forests. What is your counter to that?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I would say that if you are a true environmentalist,
that you really care, that your main concern is the
environment and tax the environment, then you would want production
to happen right here in Colorado because we do it
safer and cleaner than anywhere else. And if it doesn't
happen here, that demand is not going to go down.
(28:08):
You will still need that supply, and it will come
from outside of the outside of Colorado, outside of the
United States, from places that don't have strict standards that
aren't as concerned about the environment. So if you are
an environmentalist, you should, absolutely you should be advocating for
more production here in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's such an important industry and so vital to our
economy in this state, along with our ranchers and farmers
and of course the tourism industry.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I mean, these are the top three in the state.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And that good news coming out of the Oval Office
today going to have a residual effect so that consumers
have more options. Gas powered vehicles are not going to
be subject to these restrictive standards that the Biden administration
tried to put on them through the Green new Scalm,
as President Trump calls it. And we look forward to
more conversations with the president of Colorado Oil and Gas
Association COGA, Lynn Granger, our guest today. Lynn, thank you
(28:56):
so much for your time, your perspective, and we appreciate
it very much.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Absolutely thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Lyn Grainger right there. Your response a reaction five seven,
seven thirty nine. The sheriff is here. We all have
to behave and we'll get a preview what's coming up
on his program along with a story developing in Weld
County on his watch as well.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
After this on Ryan Shuling line. Slow ride, that's what
it was coming in for.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Sheriff Steve Rains and yours truly both coming down from
the City of Greeley. Ryan Schuling Live wrapping up on
this Wednesday edition. Snow bound out there. Slow ride if
you're driving and this concerns me from nine News. Ongoing
dispute between neighbors resulted in fatal shooting. Sheriff's office says
(29:42):
a man told the sheriff's office that he shot his
neighbor during a struggle after that man kicked in his
door early Wednesday morning, or was I early Wednesday morning?
There Weld County and Greeley, a man fatally shot his
neighbor early Wednesday morning outside Greeley city limits after that
neighbor kicked in his door, According the Weld County Sheriff's Office.
(30:02):
Love got the Weld County sheriff right here now I'm
going to read through the rest of these details. He
might not be able to say much, but this is
what's being reported. The sheriff's office said the man who
shot his neighbor was also injured and reported the shooting,
which happened around one am and the forty two hundred
block of Grand Teton Road in the Hill and Park area.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Is that a nice area? Not exactly, Okay, it's a
lower income area, okay.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The man told deputies that he had a long standing
dispute with his neighbor and reported that the neighbor had
kicked in his door with an object in his hand
before coming into his home. They reportedly got into a
struggle and the neighbor was shot. The sheriff's office said
the neighbor was taken to a hospital where he later died.
The man who reported the shooting also taken to the hospital.
Sheriff's office did not specify how he was injured, but
(30:44):
described the injuries as quote critical but stable unquote. Weld
County Sheriff Steve Raims, is there anything you can add
to this story?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
So, the person who ended up dying in this incident
was a well known individual in the Hill and Park subdivision.
He was known to have proclivities for violating the law
and maybe victimizing several folks inside the neighborhood. There was
a standing protection order between the two parties involved in
(31:12):
this press release. Obviously, something went down in the middle
of the night that caused the eventual decedent to try
to enter into the innocent person's home, and things didn't
go so well for him. You mentioned this individual is known.
Was that to the other neighbors in the community there,
(31:34):
or was this person known to law enforcement if you
know what I mean? Yes, on both accounts. He had
quite the reputation. There was not too many people inside
the sheriff's office that had not had an interaction with
him at some point, and many people in the neighborhood
had had some pretty negative interactions with him as well.
I'm not surprised at the outcome of this incident. I'm
(31:56):
honestly a little more surprised that it took this long
for this individual to meet this fate.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
For the neighbor whose home was invaded, who shot the
intruder dead.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is there still an ongoing investigation as to whether chargers
might be filed.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, And that's the difficulty in reporting on this as
I have to be a little it is an ongoing investigation.
We have to make sure that everything lines up, and
that individual hasn't been given the opportunity to make a
statement in the form that he should be allowed to.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So, okay, sure, Steve Raimes very latest, we'll right to
the source there on that nine News story, and we're
going right to the source as he fills it once
again for Dan Capl's the second of three days he'll
be in Have you now as of today, once we
have these two newgluminatorial candidates on, had every single one
in the field on this show when you've been guest
hosting yet?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
No, not yet, but I'm going to be close to it.
Today we'll cover I think candidates sixteen and seventeen or
seventeen and eighteen. I needn't do my math before the
show starts tomorrow, we'll do one more, so we're going
to get to eighteen or nineteen before the week's out.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And that's a lot. It is.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You're doing a great job, by the way, and you're
getting a high praise and accolades from the man himself,
Dan Kaplis, and George Brockler told me to tell you
hi to Well.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
That's good. I mean, anytime George has something nice to say, uh,
I'll take it. I think he's a little jealous that
you're in the host seat and he's not well.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It's a good job. You're doing well.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So Richard Holdtorf, the vice chair of the Colorado GOP,
also scheduled up here on the program.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
What is he updating us onund well?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I asked Richard if he'd come on and just give
us a general update about the state of the GOP.
I'd also invited Berta Horn to come on. She was
I guess scheduled up, couldn't be on the show. So
Richard was gracious enough to come on. And I don't
know if their two stories will line up or Richard
will have He's a fiery guy, so I think we'll
get the facts.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Never a dull moment with Richard holtor If. He has
been in the Colorado General Assembly as a member of
the House, and he ran for US House in a
very spirited race against Lauren Bobert, Yes, primary for the
fourth Congressional district. Ryan, going to the text line of
five seven seven three ninety, you're correct to not win
in Colorado, but forty one counties out of sixty four
did vote for him.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
That's important.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
It would be except Sheriff Land doesn't vote, and unfortunately
the population density and like Denver, Boulder inner Rappahole County
basically outweighs the rest of the state alone right there.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Yeah, it's unfortunate because you know that affects us in
every state wide race, whether it be governor or senator.
You have to find that person who can appeal to
the non Trump voter, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Right when I was.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Single living in the mountains, I had a date come
up from the Metro area and we went on a
hike on one of our mountain trails.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I don't know where this is going. Nice hike.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Brought her to have a drink at the marina near
the trailhead, bought and paid for her drink and asked
if she wanted to go to a venue with a
better view where we shared a meal and both had
a drink together.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I like the sound of that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I asked if she would mind splitting the costs at
that restaurant. She left some money, then got up to
use the restroom, after which I watched her driving away.
Most of the girls were looking for a free meal.
That's what I'm talking about, Jesse, get on these dating
apps and shriff.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You don't have to do this. No, think you're very
lucky man.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yes, but they're just looking for you know, they're trolling
for free dinners and a gale I used to date
back in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Her mom, very good looking older lady.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
At the time, was doing exactly this and saying she
was doing this like I got dinner there, I got dinner.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
There.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Are you gonna go on a second date with this guy?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Work smarter, not harder, That's what I'm saying. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
My mom kind of counseled and coached me like it's
the first date, you split the check. You don't know
her anything. That's the shanka. But I don't know if
that's the right move or not right move. Is listening
to Sheriff Steve Rain's coming up next
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