October 28, 2025 • 34 mins
Breaking down the difference in the times, and the similarity in the criticism of the cognitive capacity between President Biden and President Reagan back in the mid-to-late 1980s, Ryan uses a classic Saturday Night Live sketch where Phil Hartman masterfully portrays Reagan to accurately illustrate the deceptive cunning of the 40th President.
Derek Van Dam is covering Category 5 Hurricane Melissa from Kingston, Jamaica for CNN. At one time, he was a student in a classroom taught by Ryan himself. Ryan glowingly describes his former student in an audio production lab section full of future stars.
Derek Van Dam is covering Category 5 Hurricane Melissa from Kingston, Jamaica for CNN. At one time, he was a student in a classroom taught by Ryan himself. Ryan glowingly describes his former student in an audio production lab section full of future stars.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
And finally, mister President, about the Iran Nicaraguan connection.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Some may wonder which was worse. You're knowing or you're
not knowing.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Well, all I can say is I didn't know, and
well we're trying to find out what happened because none
of us.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No. Well, thank you, mister President.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well I hope I've answered your questions as best I
could given the very little that I know.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Goodbye and God bless you. Thank you, mister President, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Okay, get back in here. All right, let's get down
to the business. I'm only going to go through this one,
so it's essentral that you pay attention. What casey, sir,
you'll spearhead our new operation to fund the conference. The
CEA five days with the tow missiles and grenade launchers
will for South Africa at eight hundred hours. I want
you to supervise the loading two reagon.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, sir, I'm afraid you're going to have.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
To resign, but first you'll make a public statement supporting me,
which I wrote myself. It's over there on the word processor.
Just key in and press file. The code name is
oh all right, I'll do it for you now. Any
questions caser, mister President, you're going so fast.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
There's still a lot about the Iran in the Icaragua operation.
I just don't understand, and you don't.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Need to understand.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I'm the piston only I need to understand.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Is that clear?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Try Lipci, you're new. Here's how we do things.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
The red countries are the countries we sell arms too.
The green countries are the countries where we wash our money.
Blue countries there it gives me, mister president, sir, yes, it's.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Your eleven thirty photo opportunity to the little girl who
sold the most Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Damn okay, let's get it over with everybody else. Come on, move.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
This is the part of the job I hate. Well, hello,
little girl, what's your na?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, Li says you're that's good as sales lady.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Maybe I could use you up on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was nice meeting. Come on listen, come on bye
bye dark Come right. Afghanistan needs more money.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
We've got sixty five point two million tucked away in Zurich. Now,
if we hold it there for another thirty days at
seven point two eight percent interest, that's roughly four hundred
thousand dollars three hundred ninety seven thousand, two hundred and
eighty five.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I know, don't waste my time. If we take out
only twenty million, we'll lose rough.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Let's see, that's one.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Hundred and twenty one thousand, eight hundred and sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Thank you so much. Yes, mister President, it's mister Karan
Hassan Hassan. What am I on the speaking that Macleana
(03:34):
basket flim?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, gentlemen, I just concluded a very lucrative deal with
the iraqis mister president?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It just occurred to me, what if something should happen
to you. You're the only one who knows what's going on,
and that's the way it's going to stay. The quote Montesquieu.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Power without knowledge is power loss.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
President. Yes, it's Jimmy Stores. Oh damn.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He's had an appointment with here for two months now.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
All right, all right, let's get on with it. Everybody else, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, Hi Dodge, how are you? I'm sorry, mister President.
You know I have the hardest time getting used to that. Well,
we had great times back in Holley. Well you can
say that again, that's what we certainly did. Yeah, Well,
it was good seeing. Jimmy, what are you talking about?
I just got here for crying out loud?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well I know that I have well let meet.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well that's just great, that's just great.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
I'll just stick around, said, I'll just stick around and
it'll be what educational for me?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, Jimmy, I'm sorry you can't stay.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh, come on, Dode.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Jimmy, don't make me have to kill you kill me?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
What do you kill me?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
What do you?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What do you? What? Sense one? Is it a crime
to visit you're from? I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 10 (05:01):
I have your sacred service boys, come in here and
just blow me away.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You've changed, You've changed? Dot you really changed?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh Jimmy, pease try to understand.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You've turned into a real jerk. You know that, Simmy? Okay, good?
All right now listen, I want to discuss the cover up.
Here's my plan.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The NSC Review Board will fight Tower, bribe them, just
flat out by it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now, We'll dose Musky with mood altering drugs.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
By the time Musky knows what date it is, he
the eight elections will be over. So if we channel
the seventy two million through ivan Boski, we'll have enough
left over for Syria and South Yemen.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The next twin on the Agendees and Donald.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Hello, well, just me again. Great, and I've been doing
it this way for six years. Why should it change now?
Three am? The banks will be opening in Zurich right
about now.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Good and talk as far as out to be against
my barging loggers gift. I even have the vote to.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
The genius of Phil Hartman from nineteen eighty six. I
can't believe that's almost forty years ago, but his portrayal
of President Ronald Reagan there just spot on, and just
think about Compare that what you just heard and you
couldn't even see it, but it works. Radios really is
a radio sketch. You heard Kevin Neelan. He's coming to
comedy work South, coming up in just a couple of weeks,
hoping to I'm him on this program. You heard John Lovettz.
(06:46):
He's been a comedy work South. I think he'll be
back again sometime soon. And I really want to talk
to him as well, because I know John.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Lovettz is one of us, if you know what I mean, And.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I think that you do much like Michael rapaport Is
and I was privileged enough to have Christian Toto and
studio with me, and we interviewed Michael Rappaport and really
saw that the.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Change in him as maybe you could call it red pilled.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Certainly that's happened to John Lovetts with the Israel issue,
and similarly for Michael Rappaport. You're Dennis Miller in that sketch.
Another favorite. He is also one of us now and
Alsow Jimmy Stewart. Dana Carvey nails it. It's one of
his best impressions. Another one of my favorite SNL sketches
is when they did that. It was kind of like
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a sequel or the uncut ending to It's a Wonderful Life,
where they really get back at mister Potter and George
Bailey loses and he starts kicking him out of his wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Jan Hooks is portraying Mary.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I mean, it's just the level of writing and construction
of this sketch, of that sketch that I just described
of the Sinatra group, I'm talking late eighties, early nineties
Saturday Night Live when they had writers like Robert Smigel,
like Conan O'Brien, like El Frank, great writer and the
intellect behind these sketches.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The depth, the texture, the contrast.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
They could write a sketch like this President Reagan mastermind,
and you would have people like myself, biggest Reagan fan ever.
I mean maybe aside from Rushill involved, but I'm right
up there, and I find that funny.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
It's humorous because while it's an exaggeration, like ron Reagan
Junior said, it's not that far off the mark. And
that's what true comedy, what makes it funny is that
there's a lot of truth in it. There has to
be truth in the portrayal. And President Reagan was always
underestimated on that front. Intellectually. They looked at him, this
handsome actor. He's the president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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He was an icon of the golden age of Hollywood
back in the nineteen forties. And then he became governor
of California and he became a Republican and he left
the Democratic Party and he explained why, and the left
didn't like that not one bit. And in fact, there
were members of the right like Ronald Reagan. And this
(09:01):
was portrayed in some documentaries where you see Gerald R.
Ford Michigan native, was born in Nebraska but grew up
in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he was more of
the kind of moderate establishment wing the Rocker Feller Republicans
as they were then known. They would be completely foreign
to the Republican Party today. In fact, many of those
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Rockefeller Republicans, even like the neocons of the Bush era,
have wandered off to the left, have embraced the liberal ideology,
have tolerated socialism, and completely gone off the deep end,
like Bill Crystal, like George Will. These are guys, those
two that I just mentioned that I looked up to
growing up, like these are solid conservative voices. Boy was
(09:43):
I wrong? Little did I know? And they weren't. And
the whole Bush Cheney years I look back with in
I weighed in my mind. You know, I voted for
w both times two thousand and two thousand and four
and certainly prefer him to the alternatives at that time Gore
and Carry. But there's a lot obviously that we look
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back with in retrospect and would criticize the Bush administration
on W in particular. But his father, you know, he
was a CIA boss. He was the vice president of
the United States. He was very much not only pieced
through strength, but you could call it offensive warfare. When
it came to Kuwait, liberating Kuwait, I can't even imagine
that President Trump would enlist our military members in such
(10:27):
an expedition. Now we're going to go into Kuwait, We're
going to liberate Kuwait. These are financial interests of ours.
The signs at that time in protest were no blood
for oil. And I get it now there's an anti war
faction really of Trump Republicanism that did not exist in
the Republican Party back then. But the broader point to
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all of this is that President Reagan was a mastermind.
He truly was. Politically certainly, he had that manner about him.
He had that touch, that human touch that made everyone
feel like they were special, that made a kid like
me feel like.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I was special.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
I mean, Ronald Reagan was like a grandfather figure to me,
and he was like a father figure to my parents.
And you think back about the halsonic days of the
eighties and the Reagan years and how much America blossomed
and succeeded and exploded with creativity and productivity and enterprise
and invention, and you compare the nineteen eighties to the
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dark era of the nineteen seventies, Vietnam, Watergate, Jimmy Carter,
everything that culminated in the Miracle on Ice in nineteen eighty,
which are American college kids defeated the Red Army Soviet
Union team in hockey, and that that was a metaphor
for what the United States could do, would American ingenuity, stick, touitiveness,
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and hard work could accomplish.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And it set the tone for the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
It really did. And I know that sounds a little storybook,
but it's true. The passing of the torch from Carter
to Reagan. I mean, this was it was night and day.
I got to tell you, having lived through it again,
I was a little kid. But by the end of
the eighties, you compare that to the beginning of the eighties,
and that is really the hallmark I think of the
late twentieth century was the economic success that we enjoyed
(12:18):
during that time, and it fed into the success of
Rudy Giuliani in that nineteen ninety three election. I look
back at the numbers on that having just spoken with
Dick Morris in the previous segment, and I didn't realize
how close that election was. I mean, David Dinkins was
a disaster, and the crime was run a muck in
New York City throughout the seventies and the eighties. Look
(12:39):
at the film noir portrayals in the seventies, like Taxi
Driver that are set in New York City, like Saturday
Night Fever set in New York City. It's a dark,
dismal place with porn shops all along the line. There
in Times Square. It was dirty, there was crime, there
was drugs. Rudy Giuliani cleaned that up. And what I
can't understand for the life of me is why New
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Yorkers would ever want to go back to what preceded.
Rudy Giuliani. He spearheaded a renaissance of his own in
nineteen nineties New York that was portrayed in a show
like Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You can go back and watch. New York was a
happening place. It was clean, crime was down, police were
on the streets.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You felt safe in New York City. I felt safe
visiting New York City. Then, of course, the events of
nine to eleven. In the aftermath of that, they go
from Giuliani to Bloomberg. Bloomberg goes from like a borderline
Republican to independent to Democrat, and then we get the
bottoming out with build a Blasio and now with Eric Adams,
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who's not as bad as the Blasio but had to
drop out of the race because he just couldn't get
a handle on what he was doing. And now they're
going to turn things over to Zoran Mamdani. Zora Mamdani
would have been a punchline in the eighties. In the eighties,
you would call somebody a communist. It would be a joke,
would laugh. It would be on Saturday Night Live, like
home Cars.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
We're not communist, I mean.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
But now it's like, well, you know, they do have
some good points, and it's just never been tried the
right way. I know they got it wrong in the
Soviet Union, and I know they've gotten it wrong in Cuba,
and well it's been a disaster in Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But it's kind of working in China.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Yeah, if you like to tellitarian dictatorships, and this is
the part I cannot square the circle with when it
comes to the left, they refuse to condemn, say, the
treatment of the weaker Muslims in China, the NBA opens
up shop literally in China, refuses to condemn them, doesn't
want to piss off Jijenping or the entire communist regime there.
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Lebron James is fictitiously portrayed as mouth say tongue, because
there's not a lot of difference here.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He willingly carries the water.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
For China, defending a regime like that, defending the Muslim
regimes of religious extremism in the Middle East, the subjugation
of women. I thought these people were feminists, thought they
were pro woman. There's a viral video that's just been
going around on x over these last.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Couple of days where it would appear to be a.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Muslim father husband punches his wife in the face outside
of an apartment multiple times, I might add. You would
think there would be an uproar, there would be outrage
from the left and the treatment of women in that way,
But for some reason they look the other way and
they call Trump, they call us maga Republicans, the misogynists,
where the sexists look at.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What you're green lighting over here.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
There was another viral video, this is from the Sports World,
in which a Muslim athlete, I believe he's an MMA fighter,
comes to the stage.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's a soccer match, I.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Believe it's British television, and he shakes hands with all
of the male pundits, and the female host goes to
shake his hand and he refuses.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now there are some.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Defending that, oh, it's a noble thing, it's out of
respect that they don't want to consort with women that
aren't their wives, or.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We know that there's more to it than that.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
We know that women are second class citizens, if that
in a lot of these Muslim extremist countries that are
run by fiat, by an Ayatola in Iran, by the
Mullahs under him, and that women do not have equal rights.
They can't vote, they can't own property, they can't inherit anything.
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And so we come full circle, and now we wonder
why the standoff is favoring the Republicans. You talked about
this with Representative Lauren Bobert yesterday and what I told
her at the end of that rings true today. Hold
the line, stand firm, you have the winning hand. Republicans
are their own worst enemies. They can't get out of
their own way. They like to embrace the l they
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like to embrace the suck until Trump came.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Along and he taught them how to win, and they're winning.
It hasn't.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
If anything, it's been helped a little bit. Take a
look here the shift in that popularity versus pre shutdown
among the g When we're looking at the Republican Party overall,
that brand.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Actually up two points.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
That's within the margin veria, but clearly it hasn't dropped.
Come over this side of the screen. Look at the
net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's actually up.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Five points since pre shutdown.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So what we're seeing here.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved somewhat
compared to where we were a pre shutdown, despite the
fact the Republicans control. And that's the math that John
Thune and Mike Johnson are looking at, is, Hey, why
should we give an electorally speaking when.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Our brand has actually improved a little bit?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Hold the line, stay the course, one thousand points of light.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The Republicans are winning on.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
This now we say their position is getting better with whom, yeah, okay,
with whom? So I think it's two groups that it's
so important to keep an eye on it all right,
change in the Republican Congress's net approval rating versus pre shutdown.
It's rallying the base, for sure. Look at this, the
net approval rating up twelve points versus pre shutdown. But
it's not just with the base, it's also with the
middle of the electorate. Look at this among independents, it's
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up eight points as well. Out a situation here where
Republicans with this shutdown are.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Actually rallying their base.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
But it's also something that's not hurting them with the
folks in the middle of anything. It's helping them with
folks in the middle. And this is the type of
math that if you're Republicans you like to see, right,
because something could rally the base but alienate those in
the middle, or something could rally those in the middle
but alienate the base.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But the truth is we're not seeing that. What we're
seeing is the Republican.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Brand has actually gotten better among independents, and it's also
gotten better among Republicans as well, that Republican brand when
it comes to those in Congress. So again, what's the
electoral reason that Republicans were.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Given it this one?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
There is none. Harry Inton CNN. I have a strong
suspicion Harry might be one of.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Us as well.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
We'll take this break, we'll come back your text five
seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You're listening to Ryan Schuling.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Lives Sadly Jamaica bas is what will likely be one
of the most devastating hurricane strikes that this country has
ever faced. This is going to be a prolonged, multi
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day event that's really going to test and stress the
infrastructure across this region.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
I'm in Kingston. Look at the mountains in the background.
That is where the heaviest rain will fall, and it
will get funneled down through into the valleys and the
neighborhoods below. There are so many remote villages and towns
this way and behind me as well. But this long
duration event means that we could have category four or
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Category five wins for days, not to mention thirty inches
of rain or more, and that is going to be
devastating for this island. Computer models coming into agreement that
Jamaica will take a direct hit. This is the Google
Deep Mind model Ensemble suite. And you can see that
westerly drift for several days before a sharp northeasterly turn.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And this happening in real time, Hurricane Melissa slamming onto
the shores of Jamaica, and point of pride personally there
for me DVD. Derek Van Dam of CNN reporting live
from Kingston, please pray for him. Everybody there. I know
that they want to get coverage of this. I always
get nervous though. One of the Weather Channel, you know,
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Jim Cantoy cantry stories. He's wanted to tell you the
story from inside the eyewall of a hurricane. You got
the story yesterday about birds that were trapped in the
eyewall of Hurricane Melissa. They couldn't get out, they couldn't
fly into these winds that are one hundred and fifty
hundred and eighty miles an hour. It is a strong,
organized Cat five. When you watch it on the map,
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it drifted westward. And this is what I hope to
talk about at some point this week, if he's available.
Derek Van Dam is who you just heard there and
I just saw him on CNN. And the reason you know,
I take that personally, he's a former student of mine.
Let me tell you about this course that I taught.
It was audio produce and I was the graduate assistant
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who instructed the labs. So these students would come in
and I would show them how to edit audio, and
I'm so old, and they're old now too, these students
are like forty.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Now I'm look, I'm so old. I'm ancient.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
But I would show them how to edit visually using
a reel to reel and that used actual tape and
you would take a razor blade and you would cut
the tape diagonally and they'd have this backing tape. You
put that on the back of the edit and it
would seamlessly merge the two sound bites that you're trying
to put together. And you could do that visually physically
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by taking the tape and doing what I just described.
Now what Jesse Thomas is dealing with on the other
side of the glass, there would I deal with on
a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Now is all digital.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You use Adobe Edition. You can see the video waves
and it works the same way. And I'm really glad
one that I learned that way, but two that I
was able to teach it that way because it gives you,
like a real visual que and idea of what am
I doing with this edit physically? Well, in this class
in this particular section of this class. I got into
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trouble because the grades I had given my students were
red flagged and in the broadcast in Cinematic Arts Department
at Central Michigan University where I was instructing, there's a
rigor love. No, this is totally anathetical to probably most
of what you're hearing about grading now, whether it's in college,
high school, or even low they're getting rid of.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They don't want f's, they don't want to hit hurt
kids feelings, they don't want them to feel bad. And
if they don't.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Turn in their homework, well they're not going to get
a zero. They're just gonna get an E or an effort,
just a fifty Like you didn't do it. If you
did it and it stunk, and if you failed, okay,
you tried, you at least put in the time some effort,
you fail, but you get the fifty percent or whatever.
If you didn't do it, then you didn't do it.
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Do you get credit in real life at a job
if you don't show up up or don't do your work, No,
you will get fired. What's the point of school to
teach you how to cope in the real world see
these days at age fifty one, if I was a professor,
if I helped out at CU Boulder, there'd be a
real polarized reaction to me. I think, I think a
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lot of students, this is a breath of fresh air.
This guy's different. It's not some you know soy latte lib.
He's actually got a spine. He tells me what he thinks,
and I learned from him, and they would appreciate that.
But the sensitive types M and I don't have. I
give no quarter to a student shows up in my classroom.
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I'm putting in the time, i'm preparing, I got a
lesson planned, I've got things i want to teach this individual,
and if they're willing to learn, I'll give you the world.
I'll give you the world. But if you show up,
you don't do anything, you're lazy. I'm gonna reward that.
I'm not going to abide that. I'm not going to
tolerate that. In fact, I had a student in one
of my classes, separate class.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
First name Steve. That's all I'll say. Good kid, a
solid kid, showed up.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Every day, didn't do half of his assignments. I had
to give him Zeros. I'm like, Steve, what are you doing?
Either do the work or why even bother? Why even
show up? He was, I just like, I like the
way you explain things I learned.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I go, then do the work. You wouldn't do the work.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I think he ended up failing the class.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
But I guess he liked what we were doing in
there enough to sit through it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I don't. I never understood that.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Anyway, back to this section, I get red flagged, I
get hold in. I'm talking to my supervisor, Heather Polinski,
and she runs the whole department there. Now it's like
media something else. They change the name of it. It's
no longer broadcast cinematic Arts. They had to incorporate all
the digital stuff. But Heather at that time, you know,
young professor, and I'm reporting directly to her, and she
sits me. Now she goes, well, you know, doctor orlt
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came by and said, there's a problem. You're giving grades.
They're too high, too high for these for this class.
I go, hold on, you think I'm giving a good grades.
I thought I had proven myself, like I great, pretty tough,
I'm great fair, I'm gonna give an A when somebody
deserves an A. But I didn't think I was not
applying enough rigor, and that was kind of the allegation here.
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So then I went through the list of the people
that were in the class.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Even at that.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Point everyone there were three students in particular, but the
whole class. Really somehow I got loaded up with all
the high achievers. This was like Dead Poet's Society or something.
I felt like Robin Williams, oh, captain, my captain. Derek
van Dam who I just described, he is one of
the chief mediorologists for CNN, was in that class. High achiever,
great student, good kid, and now he's reporting live from Kingston,
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Jamaica on Hurricane the LISTA for CNN. Jenny Schouler was
in that class, and she now is one of the
main producers at CNN in Atlanta. They both work in Atlanta.
Kirkland Crawford was in that class. He now runs the
entire sports department for the Detroit Free Press newspaper.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
These were kids you could sit.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
There and see that their future you're in front of
them was whatever they wanted it to be. And who
am I to discourage that. I'm not going to give
them a bad grade just so I can apply rigor
in a class. And so I made my case to Heather,
and to her credit, she had my back and she
went to bat for me with doctor Orlick.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And I never heard about it again.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But that was a unique scenario in that class with
those students. And if you're a teacher out there, if
you ever taught, you might know what I'm talking about.
You get a special group like that, and man, you
want to hold onto it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You want to savor the flavor. You don't want those
kids to go.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I talk about this sometimes with my sister, Angie was
a teacher back in Michigan, and she's you know, they
play favorites. You have a favorite student, you have a
favorite class. You might say that you don't, but it's
like your kids. I don't have a favorite. O, No,
you have a favorite. We all have a favorite, Okay,
Like I know, my dad's favorite is my sister Lizzie.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's just a fact.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
And for whatever reason, my mom's favorite, well, it's my
brother Nate. And I was never the favorite. I was
the oldest, I was supposed to learn the fastest.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I had to lead.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I had to sacrifice those of you who are oldest kids,
you know exactly what I'm talking about, But I just
wanted to spend a few moments talking about.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
DVD Derek van dam there from CNN, former.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Student of mind way back in the CMU days in
the mid two thousands and now praying for his safety
in Kingston, Jamaica's reports on Hurricane Melissa. We'll take this
time out to your tax five seven, seven, three nine,
and plenty more on why the Republicans are winning during
the shutdown and why they will continue to win after
this on Ryan Schuling Life.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know, hunger doesn't have a political party, right, Poverty
doesn't distinguish between Republican or Democrat, or blue or red states.
It's real. And I think that the fact that the
Democrats continue to vote over and over and over again
to keep this government closed. Now we are right at
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the cliff, and I've been warning about this for all
alst a month. Now that we have enough money to
get us through the end of October, but after that
the government has to reopen. And John, that's where we
are right now.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
That's Brook Rowlin, Secretary of Agriculture, talking to John Roberts
of Fox News, and that very strong line. Poverty doesn't
distinguish between Republican or Democrat, and I think therein lies
the difference. The Democratic Party, whatever's left of it, has
become this cynical bunch of nihilists, to borrow Dick Morris's
term from the first Hour, that don't believe in anything.
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Politics is their religion, and the pursuit of that power
is their god. And there is an inherent darkness to
that when you don't believe that you are part of
a constellation, that you are part of something much bigger
than yourself, that you have a place in this world,
on this planet, in this universe, but you're just one
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that the world doesn't revolve around you. A lot of
that is lost on the egomania of the Democratic Party
that relies almost entirely on this pursuit of power, and
how do they get there? And the cynical part of
it is their willingness, as we heard from Phil Leiser,
the Attorney general of this state running for governor of Colorado,
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and that in a response to Texas jerrymandering their districts
and redistricting and forcing out Democrats like Jasmine Crockett, we
hope and even though that's a vile practice and he
would never do it. Well, we've got to respond to
that here in Colorado and do it ourselves. Even though
our congressional districts here in Colorado, like my home state
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of Michigan, and I believe, like California, each had an
independent commission draw those And I look at the districts
of Colorado, I think they're fair. I think they're fair,
and I think they're based upon the shared interests of
people within that district. We have three Republican districts that
are very solid, quite solid. I would say Jeff Cranks
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in the fifth and Lauren Bobert's in the fourth are
solidly read. And to that point, Tricia Calvarezy reached out
to me today. She is likely to be the Democrat
nominee once again for a rematch with Lauren Bobert in
the fourth, and unlike many Democrats, she is willing to
come on this program and she will be joining me
Friday in studio looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
She's a very nice person.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
I disagree with her on a lot, but you know,
she's one of these I would call blue dog Democrats.
I think I think Tricia would get along very well say,
with a John Fetterman, I think I'm within bounds to
say that she'll be on this program, and I give
her credit for that.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Anyway, going to be a difficult sled for her in
that district. She knows that.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
The fifth solidly Jeff Crank, And what a job he's doing,
Jeff Crank. And then I'm not really surprised. But Jeff
Crank is well spoken, he used to do a job
just like this one. He's run for office before, and
it's such an improvement. Is strong, firm, conservative values, foundation principles,
what he's willing to fight for. He is clear eyed,
He's got a north star. I'm a big fan of
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Jeff Crank. I'm a big fan of Gabe Evans, and
Gabe's in a much more difficult district. To the earlier
point I made about the redistricting, the drawing of that
based on the previous census, the eighth is almost evenly divided.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
It is very competitive.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
It might be the most evenly divided purple district in
the nation. And he was able to win that by
a razor's edge last time around against EU Derek Caravale. Caravale,
the Democrat, had won the previous time by a razor's
edge over Barb Kirkmeyer, and that will be a focus.
A lot of money's going to come in from both
the DNC and the RNC to that district for twenty
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twenty six.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But Gabe Evans is solidly conservative.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
He has a foundation of service both in the military
and as a police officer. Extremely bright, extremely intelligent, extremely sharp,
and he fights on a principal basis in Washington, including
right now during the shutdown, to prevent medical benefits, taxpayer
funded benefits, Medicaid, and otherwise backfilling for your legal aliens
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who show up to hospitals to receive care that we
pay for that if you can't pay for American citizens
and we are having a shortfall from a funding standpoint.
Obamacare is a disaster, and we knew it would be.
It is collapsing under the weight of itself. Health premiums
are far more expensive now than they were in two
thousand and eight, prior to Obamacare, and when it was
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enacted finally in twenty ten. Is your health insurance better
or worse? Since then it's worse. Don't tell me if
it's better than you are unicorn. We've got Jeff Hurd,
and the third he's facing a primary challenge from within.
That's a competitive district. And then you hat the solidly
Democrat districts Jonah Goose and the college districts of Colorado
(32:43):
State and Colorado Fort Collins and Boulder forget about that,
and no Republican's ever going to win there.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I mean, this is the way it is.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
You got Diana to get only two representatives for the
first congressional district in Colorado since before I was born, folks,
I'm fifty one years old. Pat Schroeder took office I
believe it was nineteen seventy three, and then in the
late nineties she retired, stepped aside. Diana Dea got stepped in.
She's been there ever since. She doesn't do anything. I
(33:10):
call her dinosaur to get okay, and you know that
is true. And then, oh god, this one annoys me.
The Jonah Goose I can kind of take tolerate. I
disagree with them whatever. He's an impressive guy that gets whatever.
She's irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Then you got Britney Peterson in the seventh My goodness
doesn't go anywhere without her. Baby.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
If if Saturday Night Live even knew about her and
cared about being funny.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
This would be a bit.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
There would be a sketch about her with a baby
attached her to her hip wherever she went. Because apparently
her husband can't watch the kid that's not in bounds.
He's around, I don't know what he's doing. Can't watch
the baby though, So she brings this baby like into interviews,
congressional testimony.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Baby's crying.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
I got a baby, annoying to the max. No, anyway,
the Republicans are winning. They need to hold fast, they
need to hold strong, they need to hold the line,
and I believe that they will. And once this calendar
flips to November, you watch the Democrats are going to
come scurring that to the table, tail between their legs.
They cannot win, but we win, and we'll do it
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again tomorrow. And Ryan showing why
And finally, mister President, about the Iran Nicaraguan connection.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Some may wonder which was worse. You're knowing or you're
not knowing.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Well, all I can say is I didn't know, and
well we're trying to find out what happened because none
of us.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No. Well, thank you, mister President.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well I hope I've answered your questions as best I
could given the very little that I know.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Goodbye and God bless you. Thank you, mister President, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Okay, get back in here. All right, let's get down
to the business. I'm only going to go through this one,
so it's essentral that you pay attention. What casey, sir,
you'll spearhead our new operation to fund the conference. The
CEA five days with the tow missiles and grenade launchers
will for South Africa at eight hundred hours. I want
you to supervise the loading two reagon.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, sir, I'm afraid you're going to have.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
To resign, but first you'll make a public statement supporting me,
which I wrote myself. It's over there on the word processor.
Just key in and press file. The code name is
oh all right, I'll do it for you now. Any
questions caser, mister President, you're going so fast.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
There's still a lot about the Iran in the Icaragua operation.
I just don't understand, and you don't.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Need to understand.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I'm the piston only I need to understand.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Is that clear?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Try Lipci, you're new. Here's how we do things.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
The red countries are the countries we sell arms too.
The green countries are the countries where we wash our money.
Blue countries there it gives me, mister president, sir, yes, it's.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Your eleven thirty photo opportunity to the little girl who
sold the most Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Damn okay, let's get it over with everybody else. Come on, move.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
This is the part of the job I hate. Well, hello,
little girl, what's your na?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, Li says you're that's good as sales lady.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Maybe I could use you up on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was nice meeting. Come on listen, come on bye
bye dark Come right. Afghanistan needs more money.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
We've got sixty five point two million tucked away in Zurich. Now,
if we hold it there for another thirty days at
seven point two eight percent interest, that's roughly four hundred
thousand dollars three hundred ninety seven thousand, two hundred and
eighty five.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I know, don't waste my time. If we take out
only twenty million, we'll lose rough.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Let's see, that's one.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Hundred and twenty one thousand, eight hundred and sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Thank you so much. Yes, mister President, it's mister Karan
Hassan Hassan. What am I on the speaking that Macleana
(03:34):
basket flim?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, gentlemen, I just concluded a very lucrative deal with
the iraqis mister president?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It just occurred to me, what if something should happen
to you. You're the only one who knows what's going on,
and that's the way it's going to stay. The quote Montesquieu.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Power without knowledge is power loss.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
President. Yes, it's Jimmy Stores. Oh damn.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He's had an appointment with here for two months now.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
All right, all right, let's get on with it. Everybody else, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, Hi Dodge, how are you? I'm sorry, mister President.
You know I have the hardest time getting used to that. Well,
we had great times back in Holley. Well you can
say that again, that's what we certainly did. Yeah, Well,
it was good seeing. Jimmy, what are you talking about?
I just got here for crying out loud?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well I know that I have well let meet.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well that's just great, that's just great.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
I'll just stick around, said, I'll just stick around and
it'll be what educational for me?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, Jimmy, I'm sorry you can't stay.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh, come on, Dode.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Jimmy, don't make me have to kill you kill me?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
What do you kill me?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
What do you?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What do you? What? Sense one? Is it a crime
to visit you're from? I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 10 (05:01):
I have your sacred service boys, come in here and
just blow me away.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You've changed, You've changed? Dot you really changed?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh Jimmy, pease try to understand.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You've turned into a real jerk. You know that, Simmy? Okay, good?
All right now listen, I want to discuss the cover up.
Here's my plan.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The NSC Review Board will fight Tower, bribe them, just
flat out by it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now, We'll dose Musky with mood altering drugs.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
By the time Musky knows what date it is, he
the eight elections will be over. So if we channel
the seventy two million through ivan Boski, we'll have enough
left over for Syria and South Yemen.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The next twin on the Agendees and Donald.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Hello, well, just me again. Great, and I've been doing
it this way for six years. Why should it change now?
Three am? The banks will be opening in Zurich right
about now.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Good and talk as far as out to be against
my barging loggers gift. I even have the vote to.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
The genius of Phil Hartman from nineteen eighty six. I
can't believe that's almost forty years ago, but his portrayal
of President Ronald Reagan there just spot on, and just
think about Compare that what you just heard and you
couldn't even see it, but it works. Radios really is
a radio sketch. You heard Kevin Neelan. He's coming to
comedy work South, coming up in just a couple of weeks,
hoping to I'm him on this program. You heard John Lovettz.
(06:46):
He's been a comedy work South. I think he'll be
back again sometime soon. And I really want to talk
to him as well, because I know John.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Lovettz is one of us, if you know what I mean, And.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I think that you do much like Michael rapaport Is
and I was privileged enough to have Christian Toto and
studio with me, and we interviewed Michael Rappaport and really
saw that the.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Change in him as maybe you could call it red pilled.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Certainly that's happened to John Lovetts with the Israel issue,
and similarly for Michael Rappaport. You're Dennis Miller in that sketch.
Another favorite. He is also one of us now and
Alsow Jimmy Stewart. Dana Carvey nails it. It's one of
his best impressions. Another one of my favorite SNL sketches
is when they did that. It was kind of like
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a sequel or the uncut ending to It's a Wonderful Life,
where they really get back at mister Potter and George
Bailey loses and he starts kicking him out of his wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Jan Hooks is portraying Mary.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I mean, it's just the level of writing and construction
of this sketch, of that sketch that I just described
of the Sinatra group, I'm talking late eighties, early nineties
Saturday Night Live when they had writers like Robert Smigel,
like Conan O'Brien, like El Frank, great writer and the
intellect behind these sketches.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The depth, the texture, the contrast.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
They could write a sketch like this President Reagan mastermind,
and you would have people like myself, biggest Reagan fan ever.
I mean maybe aside from Rushill involved, but I'm right
up there, and I find that funny.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
It's humorous because while it's an exaggeration, like ron Reagan
Junior said, it's not that far off the mark. And
that's what true comedy, what makes it funny is that
there's a lot of truth in it. There has to
be truth in the portrayal. And President Reagan was always
underestimated on that front. Intellectually. They looked at him, this
handsome actor. He's the president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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He was an icon of the golden age of Hollywood
back in the nineteen forties. And then he became governor
of California and he became a Republican and he left
the Democratic Party and he explained why, and the left
didn't like that not one bit. And in fact, there
were members of the right like Ronald Reagan. And this
(09:01):
was portrayed in some documentaries where you see Gerald R.
Ford Michigan native, was born in Nebraska but grew up
in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he was more of
the kind of moderate establishment wing the Rocker Feller Republicans
as they were then known. They would be completely foreign
to the Republican Party today. In fact, many of those
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Rockefeller Republicans, even like the neocons of the Bush era,
have wandered off to the left, have embraced the liberal ideology,
have tolerated socialism, and completely gone off the deep end,
like Bill Crystal, like George Will. These are guys, those
two that I just mentioned that I looked up to
growing up, like these are solid conservative voices. Boy was
(09:43):
I wrong? Little did I know? And they weren't. And
the whole Bush Cheney years I look back with in
I weighed in my mind. You know, I voted for
w both times two thousand and two thousand and four
and certainly prefer him to the alternatives at that time Gore
and Carry. But there's a lot obviously that we look
(10:04):
back with in retrospect and would criticize the Bush administration
on W in particular. But his father, you know, he
was a CIA boss. He was the vice president of
the United States. He was very much not only pieced
through strength, but you could call it offensive warfare. When
it came to Kuwait, liberating Kuwait, I can't even imagine
that President Trump would enlist our military members in such
(10:27):
an expedition. Now we're going to go into Kuwait, We're
going to liberate Kuwait. These are financial interests of ours.
The signs at that time in protest were no blood
for oil. And I get it now there's an anti war
faction really of Trump Republicanism that did not exist in
the Republican Party back then. But the broader point to
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all of this is that President Reagan was a mastermind.
He truly was. Politically certainly, he had that manner about him.
He had that touch, that human touch that made everyone
feel like they were special, that made a kid like
me feel like.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I was special.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
I mean, Ronald Reagan was like a grandfather figure to me,
and he was like a father figure to my parents.
And you think back about the halsonic days of the
eighties and the Reagan years and how much America blossomed
and succeeded and exploded with creativity and productivity and enterprise
and invention, and you compare the nineteen eighties to the
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dark era of the nineteen seventies, Vietnam, Watergate, Jimmy Carter,
everything that culminated in the Miracle on Ice in nineteen eighty,
which are American college kids defeated the Red Army Soviet
Union team in hockey, and that that was a metaphor
for what the United States could do, would American ingenuity, stick, touitiveness,
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and hard work could accomplish.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And it set the tone for the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
It really did. And I know that sounds a little storybook,
but it's true. The passing of the torch from Carter
to Reagan. I mean, this was it was night and day.
I got to tell you, having lived through it again,
I was a little kid. But by the end of
the eighties, you compare that to the beginning of the eighties,
and that is really the hallmark I think of the
late twentieth century was the economic success that we enjoyed
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during that time, and it fed into the success of
Rudy Giuliani in that nineteen ninety three election. I look
back at the numbers on that having just spoken with
Dick Morris in the previous segment, and I didn't realize
how close that election was. I mean, David Dinkins was
a disaster, and the crime was run a muck in
New York City throughout the seventies and the eighties. Look
(12:39):
at the film noir portrayals in the seventies, like Taxi
Driver that are set in New York City, like Saturday
Night Fever set in New York City. It's a dark,
dismal place with porn shops all along the line. There
in Times Square. It was dirty, there was crime, there
was drugs. Rudy Giuliani cleaned that up. And what I
can't understand for the life of me is why New
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Yorkers would ever want to go back to what preceded.
Rudy Giuliani. He spearheaded a renaissance of his own in
nineteen nineties New York that was portrayed in a show
like Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You can go back and watch. New York was a
happening place. It was clean, crime was down, police were
on the streets.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You felt safe in New York City. I felt safe
visiting New York City. Then, of course, the events of
nine to eleven. In the aftermath of that, they go
from Giuliani to Bloomberg. Bloomberg goes from like a borderline
Republican to independent to Democrat, and then we get the
bottoming out with build a Blasio and now with Eric Adams,
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who's not as bad as the Blasio but had to
drop out of the race because he just couldn't get
a handle on what he was doing. And now they're
going to turn things over to Zoran Mamdani. Zora Mamdani
would have been a punchline in the eighties. In the eighties,
you would call somebody a communist. It would be a joke,
would laugh. It would be on Saturday Night Live, like
home Cars.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
We're not communist, I mean.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
But now it's like, well, you know, they do have
some good points, and it's just never been tried the
right way. I know they got it wrong in the
Soviet Union, and I know they've gotten it wrong in Cuba,
and well it's been a disaster in Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But it's kind of working in China.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Yeah, if you like to tellitarian dictatorships, and this is
the part I cannot square the circle with when it
comes to the left, they refuse to condemn, say, the
treatment of the weaker Muslims in China, the NBA opens
up shop literally in China, refuses to condemn them, doesn't
want to piss off Jijenping or the entire communist regime there.
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Lebron James is fictitiously portrayed as mouth say tongue, because
there's not a lot of difference here.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He willingly carries the water.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
For China, defending a regime like that, defending the Muslim
regimes of religious extremism in the Middle East, the subjugation
of women. I thought these people were feminists, thought they
were pro woman. There's a viral video that's just been
going around on x over these last.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Couple of days where it would appear to be a.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Muslim father husband punches his wife in the face outside
of an apartment multiple times, I might add. You would
think there would be an uproar, there would be outrage
from the left and the treatment of women in that way,
But for some reason they look the other way and
they call Trump, they call us maga Republicans, the misogynists,
where the sexists look at.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What you're green lighting over here.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
There was another viral video, this is from the Sports World,
in which a Muslim athlete, I believe he's an MMA fighter,
comes to the stage.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's a soccer match, I.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Believe it's British television, and he shakes hands with all
of the male pundits, and the female host goes to
shake his hand and he refuses.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now there are some.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Defending that, oh, it's a noble thing, it's out of
respect that they don't want to consort with women that
aren't their wives, or.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We know that there's more to it than that.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
We know that women are second class citizens, if that
in a lot of these Muslim extremist countries that are
run by fiat, by an Ayatola in Iran, by the
Mullahs under him, and that women do not have equal rights.
They can't vote, they can't own property, they can't inherit anything.
(16:26):
And so we come full circle, and now we wonder
why the standoff is favoring the Republicans. You talked about
this with Representative Lauren Bobert yesterday and what I told
her at the end of that rings true today. Hold
the line, stand firm, you have the winning hand. Republicans
are their own worst enemies. They can't get out of
their own way. They like to embrace the l they
(16:48):
like to embrace the suck until Trump came.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Along and he taught them how to win, and they're winning.
It hasn't.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
If anything, it's been helped a little bit. Take a
look here the shift in that popularity versus pre shutdown
among the g When we're looking at the Republican Party overall,
that brand.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Actually up two points.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
That's within the margin veria, but clearly it hasn't dropped.
Come over this side of the screen. Look at the
net approval ratings for Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's actually up.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Five points since pre shutdown.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So what we're seeing here.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Is the Republican brand in Congress has actually improved somewhat
compared to where we were a pre shutdown, despite the
fact the Republicans control. And that's the math that John
Thune and Mike Johnson are looking at, is, Hey, why
should we give an electorally speaking when.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Our brand has actually improved a little bit?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Hold the line, stay the course, one thousand points of light.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The Republicans are winning on.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
This now we say their position is getting better with whom, yeah, okay,
with whom? So I think it's two groups that it's
so important to keep an eye on it all right,
change in the Republican Congress's net approval rating versus pre shutdown.
It's rallying the base, for sure. Look at this, the
net approval rating up twelve points versus pre shutdown. But
it's not just with the base, it's also with the
middle of the electorate. Look at this among independents, it's
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up eight points as well. Out a situation here where
Republicans with this shutdown are.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Actually rallying their base.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
But it's also something that's not hurting them with the
folks in the middle of anything. It's helping them with
folks in the middle. And this is the type of
math that if you're Republicans you like to see, right,
because something could rally the base but alienate those in
the middle, or something could rally those in the middle
but alienate the base.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But the truth is we're not seeing that. What we're
seeing is the Republican.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Brand has actually gotten better among independents, and it's also
gotten better among Republicans as well, that Republican brand when
it comes to those in Congress. So again, what's the
electoral reason that Republicans were.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Given it this one?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
There is none. Harry Inton CNN. I have a strong
suspicion Harry might be one of.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Us as well.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
We'll take this break, we'll come back your text five
seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You're listening to Ryan Schuling.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Lives Sadly Jamaica bas is what will likely be one
of the most devastating hurricane strikes that this country has
ever faced. This is going to be a prolonged, multi
(19:06):
day event that's really going to test and stress the
infrastructure across this region.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
I'm in Kingston. Look at the mountains in the background.
That is where the heaviest rain will fall, and it
will get funneled down through into the valleys and the
neighborhoods below. There are so many remote villages and towns
this way and behind me as well. But this long
duration event means that we could have category four or
(19:31):
Category five wins for days, not to mention thirty inches
of rain or more, and that is going to be
devastating for this island. Computer models coming into agreement that
Jamaica will take a direct hit. This is the Google
Deep Mind model Ensemble suite. And you can see that
westerly drift for several days before a sharp northeasterly turn.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And this happening in real time, Hurricane Melissa slamming onto
the shores of Jamaica, and point of pride personally there
for me DVD. Derek Van Dam of CNN reporting live
from Kingston, please pray for him. Everybody there. I know
that they want to get coverage of this. I always
get nervous though. One of the Weather Channel, you know,
(20:17):
Jim Cantoy cantry stories. He's wanted to tell you the
story from inside the eyewall of a hurricane. You got
the story yesterday about birds that were trapped in the
eyewall of Hurricane Melissa. They couldn't get out, they couldn't
fly into these winds that are one hundred and fifty
hundred and eighty miles an hour. It is a strong,
organized Cat five. When you watch it on the map,
(20:39):
it drifted westward. And this is what I hope to
talk about at some point this week, if he's available.
Derek Van Dam is who you just heard there and
I just saw him on CNN. And the reason you know,
I take that personally, he's a former student of mine.
Let me tell you about this course that I taught.
It was audio produce and I was the graduate assistant
(21:02):
who instructed the labs. So these students would come in
and I would show them how to edit audio, and
I'm so old, and they're old now too, these students
are like forty.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Now I'm look, I'm so old. I'm ancient.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
But I would show them how to edit visually using
a reel to reel and that used actual tape and
you would take a razor blade and you would cut
the tape diagonally and they'd have this backing tape. You
put that on the back of the edit and it
would seamlessly merge the two sound bites that you're trying
to put together. And you could do that visually physically
(21:38):
by taking the tape and doing what I just described.
Now what Jesse Thomas is dealing with on the other
side of the glass, there would I deal with on
a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Now is all digital.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You use Adobe Edition. You can see the video waves
and it works the same way. And I'm really glad
one that I learned that way, but two that I
was able to teach it that way because it gives you,
like a real visual que and idea of what am
I doing with this edit physically? Well, in this class
in this particular section of this class. I got into
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trouble because the grades I had given my students were
red flagged and in the broadcast in Cinematic Arts Department
at Central Michigan University where I was instructing, there's a
rigor love. No, this is totally anathetical to probably most
of what you're hearing about grading now, whether it's in college,
high school, or even low they're getting rid of.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They don't want f's, they don't want to hit hurt
kids feelings, they don't want them to feel bad. And
if they don't.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Turn in their homework, well they're not going to get
a zero. They're just gonna get an E or an effort,
just a fifty Like you didn't do it. If you
did it and it stunk, and if you failed, okay,
you tried, you at least put in the time some effort,
you fail, but you get the fifty percent or whatever.
If you didn't do it, then you didn't do it.
(22:57):
Do you get credit in real life at a job
if you don't show up up or don't do your work, No,
you will get fired. What's the point of school to
teach you how to cope in the real world see
these days at age fifty one, if I was a professor,
if I helped out at CU Boulder, there'd be a
real polarized reaction to me. I think, I think a
(23:18):
lot of students, this is a breath of fresh air.
This guy's different. It's not some you know soy latte lib.
He's actually got a spine. He tells me what he thinks,
and I learned from him, and they would appreciate that.
But the sensitive types M and I don't have. I
give no quarter to a student shows up in my classroom.
(23:38):
I'm putting in the time, i'm preparing, I got a
lesson planned, I've got things i want to teach this individual,
and if they're willing to learn, I'll give you the world.
I'll give you the world. But if you show up,
you don't do anything, you're lazy. I'm gonna reward that.
I'm not going to abide that. I'm not going to
tolerate that. In fact, I had a student in one
of my classes, separate class.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
First name Steve. That's all I'll say. Good kid, a
solid kid, showed up.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Every day, didn't do half of his assignments. I had
to give him Zeros. I'm like, Steve, what are you doing?
Either do the work or why even bother? Why even
show up? He was, I just like, I like the
way you explain things I learned.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I go, then do the work. You wouldn't do the work.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I think he ended up failing the class.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
But I guess he liked what we were doing in
there enough to sit through it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I don't. I never understood that.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Anyway, back to this section, I get red flagged, I
get hold in. I'm talking to my supervisor, Heather Polinski,
and she runs the whole department there. Now it's like
media something else. They change the name of it. It's
no longer broadcast cinematic Arts. They had to incorporate all
the digital stuff. But Heather at that time, you know,
young professor, and I'm reporting directly to her, and she
sits me. Now she goes, well, you know, doctor orlt
(24:50):
came by and said, there's a problem. You're giving grades.
They're too high, too high for these for this class.
I go, hold on, you think I'm giving a good grades.
I thought I had proven myself, like I great, pretty tough,
I'm great fair, I'm gonna give an A when somebody
deserves an A. But I didn't think I was not
applying enough rigor, and that was kind of the allegation here.
(25:14):
So then I went through the list of the people
that were in the class.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Even at that.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Point everyone there were three students in particular, but the
whole class. Really somehow I got loaded up with all
the high achievers. This was like Dead Poet's Society or something.
I felt like Robin Williams, oh, captain, my captain. Derek
van Dam who I just described, he is one of
the chief mediorologists for CNN, was in that class. High achiever,
great student, good kid, and now he's reporting live from Kingston,
(25:40):
Jamaica on Hurricane the LISTA for CNN. Jenny Schouler was
in that class, and she now is one of the
main producers at CNN in Atlanta. They both work in Atlanta.
Kirkland Crawford was in that class. He now runs the
entire sports department for the Detroit Free Press newspaper.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
These were kids you could sit.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
There and see that their future you're in front of
them was whatever they wanted it to be. And who
am I to discourage that. I'm not going to give
them a bad grade just so I can apply rigor
in a class. And so I made my case to Heather,
and to her credit, she had my back and she
went to bat for me with doctor Orlick.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And I never heard about it again.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But that was a unique scenario in that class with
those students. And if you're a teacher out there, if
you ever taught, you might know what I'm talking about.
You get a special group like that, and man, you
want to hold onto it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You want to savor the flavor. You don't want those
kids to go.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I talk about this sometimes with my sister, Angie was
a teacher back in Michigan, and she's you know, they
play favorites. You have a favorite student, you have a
favorite class. You might say that you don't, but it's
like your kids. I don't have a favorite. O, No,
you have a favorite. We all have a favorite, Okay,
Like I know, my dad's favorite is my sister Lizzie.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's just a fact.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
And for whatever reason, my mom's favorite, well, it's my
brother Nate. And I was never the favorite. I was
the oldest, I was supposed to learn the fastest.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I had to lead.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I had to sacrifice those of you who are oldest kids,
you know exactly what I'm talking about, But I just
wanted to spend a few moments talking about.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
DVD Derek van dam there from CNN, former.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Student of mind way back in the CMU days in
the mid two thousands and now praying for his safety
in Kingston, Jamaica's reports on Hurricane Melissa. We'll take this
time out to your tax five seven, seven, three nine,
and plenty more on why the Republicans are winning during
the shutdown and why they will continue to win after
this on Ryan Schuling Life.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know, hunger doesn't have a political party, right, Poverty
doesn't distinguish between Republican or Democrat, or blue or red states.
It's real. And I think that the fact that the
Democrats continue to vote over and over and over again
to keep this government closed. Now we are right at
(27:57):
the cliff, and I've been warning about this for all
alst a month. Now that we have enough money to
get us through the end of October, but after that
the government has to reopen. And John, that's where we
are right now.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
That's Brook Rowlin, Secretary of Agriculture, talking to John Roberts
of Fox News, and that very strong line. Poverty doesn't
distinguish between Republican or Democrat, and I think therein lies
the difference. The Democratic Party, whatever's left of it, has
become this cynical bunch of nihilists, to borrow Dick Morris's
term from the first Hour, that don't believe in anything.
(28:32):
Politics is their religion, and the pursuit of that power
is their god. And there is an inherent darkness to
that when you don't believe that you are part of
a constellation, that you are part of something much bigger
than yourself, that you have a place in this world,
on this planet, in this universe, but you're just one
(28:55):
that the world doesn't revolve around you. A lot of
that is lost on the egomania of the Democratic Party
that relies almost entirely on this pursuit of power, and
how do they get there? And the cynical part of
it is their willingness, as we heard from Phil Leiser,
the Attorney general of this state running for governor of Colorado,
(29:16):
and that in a response to Texas jerrymandering their districts
and redistricting and forcing out Democrats like Jasmine Crockett, we
hope and even though that's a vile practice and he
would never do it. Well, we've got to respond to
that here in Colorado and do it ourselves. Even though
our congressional districts here in Colorado, like my home state
(29:37):
of Michigan, and I believe, like California, each had an
independent commission draw those And I look at the districts
of Colorado, I think they're fair. I think they're fair,
and I think they're based upon the shared interests of
people within that district. We have three Republican districts that
are very solid, quite solid. I would say Jeff Cranks
(29:58):
in the fifth and Lauren Bobert's in the fourth are
solidly read. And to that point, Tricia Calvarezy reached out
to me today. She is likely to be the Democrat
nominee once again for a rematch with Lauren Bobert in
the fourth, and unlike many Democrats, she is willing to
come on this program and she will be joining me
Friday in studio looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
She's a very nice person.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
I disagree with her on a lot, but you know,
she's one of these I would call blue dog Democrats.
I think I think Tricia would get along very well say,
with a John Fetterman, I think I'm within bounds to
say that she'll be on this program, and I give
her credit for that.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Anyway, going to be a difficult sled for her in
that district. She knows that.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
The fifth solidly Jeff Crank, And what a job he's doing,
Jeff Crank. And then I'm not really surprised. But Jeff
Crank is well spoken, he used to do a job
just like this one. He's run for office before, and
it's such an improvement. Is strong, firm, conservative values, foundation principles,
what he's willing to fight for. He is clear eyed,
He's got a north star. I'm a big fan of
(31:00):
Jeff Crank. I'm a big fan of Gabe Evans, and
Gabe's in a much more difficult district. To the earlier
point I made about the redistricting, the drawing of that
based on the previous census, the eighth is almost evenly divided.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
It is very competitive.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
It might be the most evenly divided purple district in
the nation. And he was able to win that by
a razor's edge last time around against EU Derek Caravale. Caravale,
the Democrat, had won the previous time by a razor's
edge over Barb Kirkmeyer, and that will be a focus.
A lot of money's going to come in from both
the DNC and the RNC to that district for twenty
(31:33):
twenty six.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But Gabe Evans is solidly conservative.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
He has a foundation of service both in the military
and as a police officer. Extremely bright, extremely intelligent, extremely sharp,
and he fights on a principal basis in Washington, including
right now during the shutdown, to prevent medical benefits, taxpayer
funded benefits, Medicaid, and otherwise backfilling for your legal aliens
(32:00):
who show up to hospitals to receive care that we
pay for that if you can't pay for American citizens
and we are having a shortfall from a funding standpoint.
Obamacare is a disaster, and we knew it would be.
It is collapsing under the weight of itself. Health premiums
are far more expensive now than they were in two
thousand and eight, prior to Obamacare, and when it was
(32:23):
enacted finally in twenty ten. Is your health insurance better
or worse? Since then it's worse. Don't tell me if
it's better than you are unicorn. We've got Jeff Hurd,
and the third he's facing a primary challenge from within.
That's a competitive district. And then you hat the solidly
Democrat districts Jonah Goose and the college districts of Colorado
(32:43):
State and Colorado Fort Collins and Boulder forget about that,
and no Republican's ever going to win there.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I mean, this is the way it is.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
You got Diana to get only two representatives for the
first congressional district in Colorado since before I was born, folks,
I'm fifty one years old. Pat Schroeder took office I
believe it was nineteen seventy three, and then in the
late nineties she retired, stepped aside. Diana Dea got stepped in.
She's been there ever since. She doesn't do anything. I
(33:10):
call her dinosaur to get okay, and you know that
is true. And then, oh god, this one annoys me.
The Jonah Goose I can kind of take tolerate. I
disagree with them whatever. He's an impressive guy that gets whatever.
She's irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Then you got Britney Peterson in the seventh My goodness
doesn't go anywhere without her. Baby.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
If if Saturday Night Live even knew about her and
cared about being funny.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
This would be a bit.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
There would be a sketch about her with a baby
attached her to her hip wherever she went. Because apparently
her husband can't watch the kid that's not in bounds.
He's around, I don't know what he's doing. Can't watch
the baby though, So she brings this baby like into interviews,
congressional testimony.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Baby's crying.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
I got a baby, annoying to the max. No, anyway,
the Republicans are winning. They need to hold fast, they
need to hold strong, they need to hold the line,
and I believe that they will. And once this calendar
flips to November, you watch the Democrats are going to
come scurring that to the table, tail between their legs.
They cannot win, but we win, and we'll do it
(34:10):
again tomorrow. And Ryan showing why
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