January 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Jimmy Sengenberger, columnist for The Gazette and go-to RSL fill-in host, joins Ryan to discuss his latest article on the ongoing insanity happening at Jefferson County Schools. Most recently, disgraced former school chief David Weiss committed suicide in the wake of allegations that he possessed child pornography.
A breakdown of trust at JeffCo schools | Jimmy Sengenberger | Opinion | gazette.com
Fired Jeffco Public Schools chief died of apparent suicide, police say
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO 8) joins Ryan for the first time since being sworn in as a Congressman on Friday, taking the audience inside the House chamber for the dramatic vote to retain Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker. Also, his first-hand takeaways from the certification of Donald Trump's 2024 election victory on Monday, two weeks before his inauguration as 47th President of the United States.
Dave Logan, play-by-play voice of the Denver Broncos since 1996, joins Ryan to discuss the team's 38-0 triumph over the vaunted Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday which propelled them to the playoffs for the first time in nine years - ending the franchise's longest post-season drought since 1976. The Broncos are slated to play the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at 11am MT in Orchard Park, New York.
A breakdown of trust at JeffCo schools | Jimmy Sengenberger | Opinion | gazette.com
Fired Jeffco Public Schools chief died of apparent suicide, police say
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO 8) joins Ryan for the first time since being sworn in as a Congressman on Friday, taking the audience inside the House chamber for the dramatic vote to retain Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker. Also, his first-hand takeaways from the certification of Donald Trump's 2024 election victory on Monday, two weeks before his inauguration as 47th President of the United States.
Dave Logan, play-by-play voice of the Denver Broncos since 1996, joins Ryan to discuss the team's 38-0 triumph over the vaunted Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday which propelled them to the playoffs for the first time in nine years - ending the franchise's longest post-season drought since 1976. The Broncos are slated to play the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at 11am MT in Orchard Park, New York.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The state of The vote for the President of the
United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate
is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
to vote for President of the United States is five
hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
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the United States are as follows. Donald J. Trump of
the state of Florida has received three hundred and twelve votes.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Kamala D. Harris Kamala D.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Harris of the state of California has received two hundred
and twenty six votes.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Oh, she tried to speed along and get right to
her name and get through that as fast as she could.
Happy New Year, everybody, twenty twenty five now upon us,
hope it has gotten off to a great start for you.
Jesse Thomas alongside Ryan schuling back with you to start
this new year and to start it in style. On
January sixth I might see a little bit of irony
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in that date, I guess with some of the chatter
on the left about what it means going back now
four years ago today. But in the meantime, in the
president Vice President Kamala Harris had to certify Donald Trump's victory,
and that had to be a very sour pill to swallow.
And it's not the first time in history that this
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has happened. Of course, the last time would have been
going back to two thousand and it was even more
contentious circumstances then when Vice President L. Gore had to
preside over the certification of George W. Bush's very controversial
victory in two thousand.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It all came down to the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Those that lived through it, that can remember it, that
voted in that election, were aware of what was going on.
We did not have a president elect of the United
States well into the month of January until al Gore
gave his I need to go home and mend some
fences speech about if he had won his home state
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of Tennessee. People don't mention this enough. I don't think
if Al Gore had simply won his home state of Tennessee.
Even Walter Monde won his home state of Minnesota in
nineteen eighty four, it would be the only state he
would win, along with the District of Columbia.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
That was it. But Gore lost Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Gore also signaled the decline and demise of the Democratic
Party and what used to be the stronghold of the South.
That Jimmy Carter rode to victory in nineteen seventy six,
that Bill Clinton rode to victory twice in nineteen ninety two,
in nineteen ninety six, but the Southern Democrats, many of
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them like Miller, you might recall from that election two
thousand and four, I believe, is where he was more prominent,
but they would cross over parties, they would abandon the
Democratic Party because they felt the Democratic Party had abandoned them.
And now the Southern strategy is for the Republicans to
sweep through and the Democrats aren't even really competitive and
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hardly any of those states, with the exceptions of Georgia,
North Carolina, and that's about it on the entire South.
And al Gore lost the Democratic Party's grip on competitiveness
in those states, including his own home state. That all
to say that, if you'll recall the hanging chads of Florida,
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and was within a margin of like five hundred votes,
and al Gore and the Democrats wanted recounts in Broward
County and a lot of blue leaning counties, but not
all the counties, and then a subsequent decision in the
courts went up the chain all the way to the
United States Supreme Court, and they shut down, they recount,
they shut down.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That vote count, and George W.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Bush was viewed by many as the selected president of
the United States, not the elected president of the United States,
because it was a narrow five to four Scota's decision
that ruled in W's favor.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So when people try to proclaim.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That this is the end of times and there's no
going back, or our democracy is in danger, or it's
going to end, those people, in my view, are very
foolish and very ignorant of history and everything that we've
been through. Is a nation for nearly two hundred and
fifty years, it'll be two fifty and twenty twenty six,
a Civil War, two World Wars, lots of contention and
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divisiveness in many elections.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
To pretend that this is all new. I mean, did
you watch Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I mean, Jefferson and Adams were bitter rivals until their
later years and they became great friends. It's a tremendous story.
But burn Hamilton had their we're going to duel. That
means Zell Miller wanted to do that. I remember, I
think you challenge it was Chris Matthews or who was
it to ian and.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Challenge you to a duel.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then of course the United States Civil War, we
had an election in the midst of that, and again
in the midst of.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
A couple of world wars.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I've just never been that down on our future as
a republic, that we have a history of correcting ourselves
in our course, even though we may go astray, and
I think that we did for these last four years.
But the American people, in my view, got it right
on November fifth of twenty twenty four. It all culminated
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today with Vice President Harris again the bitter Pill had
to announce this.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
This announcement of the state of the vote by the
President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration
of the persons elected President and Vice President of the
United States age four term beginning on the twentieth day
of January twenty and twenty five, and shall be entered
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together with the list of the votes on the journals
of the House and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Thank you very much, And with that she was done,
and with that President Elect Trump was certified the winner
of the twenty twenty four election, and of course he
will be inaugurated two weeks from today, and I will
be there.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
In Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
John Faberatory will be there as well, and we'll be
brothers in arms, I think on that day, hopping around
giving you all the coverage that I can, giving callbacks
to this program, and then also over on KOA. You know,
I've been on hiatus here for a bit because of
the holidays, and I drove home to Michigan and I
spent some quality time with my family and in particular
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with my dad, and that was very rewarding and I
enjoyed that time off. But I know that we missed
a lot. So I've lined a few things up, but
I want to go to your suggestion as well as
to the story that happened over the holidays that you'd
like to opine on that you would like to discuss
or have me discuss with you. Five seven seven thirty
nine is where you can do that. One of those,
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of course, I think that needed to be discussed, was
the death of Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth President of
the United States, dying at the age of one hundred.
I saw, you know, some coverage Anderson Cooper CNN, and
they're trying to do some a lot of a revisionist history,
polishing the image of Jimmy Carter, and I just don't
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think that you can really do a whole lot with
what he left as a legacy, which is going to
be very similar and comparable. And I think historians, when
they get the right minds out of their Trump Arrangement center,
will realize that there are a lot of similarities between
Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden. They were both definitely below
average American presidents if you were to do honest rankings.
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Scott Jennings in less than a minute evisceraates foreign President
Carter and it wasn't time for platitudes and bromides. It
was time for straight talk. And that's what Scott Jennings
at CNN is good at.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
He was a terrible president. That's why I lost in
a landslide after his one term. And if it's possible,
I think he was even a worse ex president because
of his meddling in US foreign policy, because of his
saddling up to dictators around the world, because of his
vehement views, anti Israel views, and more than dabbling in
anti Semitism. Over the years, he often vexed Democrats. Obama
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didn't even have him speak at Hiseight convention. He put
Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box on a
North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was a guy
who had a huge ego and believed that he was
uniquely positioned to do all these things, even after the
American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership. So
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I respect people who run for president and get elected president,
but in his particular case, I think he time it
again proved why he was never suited for the office in.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The first place. Scott Jennings is so good. I mean,
this is a guy does the notes.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He's got tremendous recall and memory, and the facts that
he cites there and his ability to relate them to
the audience.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I just think the man is brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I know he's very good friends with my colleague Leland
Conway and always enjoy his segments with LELN and then
also on CNN here. But what we are witnessing, I
believe also today with Justin Trudeau abruptly announcing his resignation
as Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party in Canada.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
I intend to resign as party leader as Prime Minister
after the party selects its next leader through a robust
nationwide competitive process.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Goodbye and good riddance.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Justin Trudeau has run Canada into the ground, most notably
from an economic standpoint. And keep your ears and eyes
on the name Pierre Poliev, Conservative leader in Canada. I
compare him very indirectly, but somewhat similar to a Canadian
version of Ron DeSantis, a younger conservative mind who knows
how to sell the brand and the message. And we'll
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hear from him in just a little bit later on
as well. But you look at the trend lines in
Canada following this Trump victory and the wave that I
think it will create, and what it has followed with
Georgia Maloney in Italy, with Javier Mile and Argentina new
leadership conservative right of center in the Netherlands, I think
there's a lot of Europe that has finally come to
its senses and you can only hope that with everything
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that's been happening, and it's just atrocious in Great Britain,
that they find their voice, they find their leadership in
both of those parties. The major parties conservative and Liberal
over their Labor Party have failed the British people, and
I believe that they'll be the next domino to fall.
Ryan Shuling live with you and again you can text
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as five seven, seven thirty nine, A lot, a bevy
of guests. A big day yesterday for the Denver Broncos,
and we'll have the legendary voice Dave Logan joining us
to close out this hour and talking about the Denver
Broncos making the playoffs for the first time in nine years.
Can you believe that it's the longest drought from the
postseason for the Broncos franchise, dating back to nineteen seventy six,
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and it's the first time they're making the playoffs since
Peyton Manning quarterback the team of course to the Super
Bowl Championship. We'll get Dave Logan's take on their decisive
victory over a Kansas City Chiefs team that was basically
resting everybody in an already clinched the number one see
but even so very convincing win and they go out
on the road to Buffalo. Coming up this weekend eleven
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am on Sunday coverage over on our sister station.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
KOA representative Gabe Evans.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He was there for the counting of the electoral votes
and the announcement by Vice President Kamala Harris for the
selection and election of Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday. Gabe
was just sworn in as a Congressman for the first
time on that Friday. We will get his perspective from
Washington coming up in just a little bit and joining
me now. I want to thank you first and foremost
for filling in for me while I was gone over
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the holiday break, and it was significant and I wouldn't
trade it for the world. But just so glad that
Jimmy Sangenberger was able to bring this show to all
of you, and he brings you constant columns in the Gazette,
the latest of which I wanted to talk to him
about here today. It just keeps getting stranger and stranger
in Jeff Coast schools. And get the very latest now
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from him in his article entitled a Breakdown of Trust
at Jeff Coast Schools. Jimmy Sangenberger our guest to start
twenty twenty five. You're the first Jimmy.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Oh Hey, Ryan, Happy new year, and it is an
honor and a privilege to end the year for your show,
and to be your first guest for the year.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yes, kind of bridging that gap there, and I couldn't
appreciate it more. Thank you so much for what you do, Jimmy,
and for what you do in these articles and the
research that you do and the contacts that you work
and the stories that you expose.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And it needs to be done.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Jeff Co Schools is out of its gord and we
just find out and I'll start here, but then you
could take it whatever direction you'd like. With the fire
Jeffco Public Schools chief in a bizarre twist committing suicide,
I believe in Maryland after allegations that he possessed child pornography.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Take us from there if you would.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
In essence, that's right. On December nineteenth, the district broke
from what is its standard practice. Normally, they have an
issue that comes up like this of allegations of sexual
impropriety or what have you, and they'll put a staff
member on leave. But Ryan, in this case, they fired
him outright without placing him on leave on December nineteenth.
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But here's the thing. The word got out the next
day through the media, but there was no notice or
heads up whatsoever about anything that was put out to
parents and community members. Instead, it was if you saw
it in the news or somebody over the holidays, let
you know, then you got a heads up that something
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was up with the third, the number three official in
Jefferson County Schools, David Wise, chief of schools for the district,
that he was being that he was under investigation. Well,
lo and behold. On January second, news breaks because of
a statement that was put out by it was at
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the first or second because of a statement that was
put out by the sheriff's office in one of the
yes Maryland counties that David Wise had died since then
the conclusion, it seems in his parent suicide, but he
had died, and they noted that he was under investigation
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for allegations of possessing quote, child sexual assault materials. And
then the next day, so that was on the first,
Then the next day, on the second, last week, the
district finally puts out an email to parents saying, hey,
this is what's going on and letting them know. To staff,
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they gave a more heartfelt message. It's just absolutely wild
what's going on here? Right?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, and this is not an isolated incident or occurrence
in the jeff Co schools. I mean, I know, you
know Lindsay Datko as I do, and she has organized
Jeffco Kids first, and I'm seeing news here that the
state of the District event for jeff Co Schools is
no longer happening.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
They just make that announcement willy nilly.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And there's a lot of bizarre things happening and have
been happening over these last several years that I think
Lindsay has been very right for the fight. And I'm
just I'm wondering, you know, where does it end for
jeff COO schools? When does sanity begin? Because it certainly
hasn't started.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
There are plenty of school districts in this state, Denver
Public Schools not excluded either, where we have to be
wondering that question. I mean, look, Lindsay, I interviewed her
for my column and she made a very apt point,
which is that David Weiss, one of his jobs was
essentially in overseeing the implementation of this concept of the
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trusted adult. And so I think she put it well
in saying that he was the trusted adult of trusted adults.
I mean, so this is the whole program of basically
institutionalizing trust as opposed to when you and I were
in school, we would develop trusting relationships with our teachers
that were appropriate that we could we had a bad
day or things were going on, we could lean on
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them for support. But that was naturally built up and
earned trust, versus this idea of institutionalizing it where the
district or the school says, find your trusted adult, tell
us who it is. All these kinds of things which
can be a recipe for all sorts of problems. But
you mentioned about the cancelation of the state of the
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District meeting on Thursday, where the superintendent, Tracy Dorlin was
supposed to address the state of the district, And I
have to be honest with you, Ryan Best cowardly that
is hiding just as the district was fighting for two
weeks before this news broke of David Wise having died
in Maryland forced their hands, so they finally had to
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send something out to parents after trying to hide the
ball for so long. And that shows us that there's
a lot of work cut out for Jeffte Schools.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jimmy Seckenberger joining us.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You can read all about it in his latest article,
a Breakdown of Trust at the Jeff Coo Schools. And
I guess final point here in the minute that we
have left, Jimmy, this just highlights a broader issue about
keeping parents in the dark, isolating kids. It's only a
form of grooming when you talk to them about sexual
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gender identity. You don't involve the parents in that conversation.
They're covering this kind of ground.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And now we have.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This kind of absolute bombshell with the possession of child
pornography by one of the school district's leaders.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Here, where does it go from here? Again? A minute left?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Yeah, I think that it has to go in a
direction of parents speaking out more against this trusted adult
concept in the schools and getting rid of it, getting
it completely stripped from the district in terms of policies
or any sort of procedures. And they're probably I mean,
the district needs to have real hard, long conversations or
short conversations about new changes in leadership and a new
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direction at least talking about whether or not because this
is the third or fourth incident along these lines of
alleged sexual impropriety that we know at least publicly by
a staff member in Jeffco's schools for twenty twenty four alone.
And that's happening under Tracy Dorlyn's watch. So I think
we should watch if she survives the job.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Well, and you've got to have the State of the
District meeting of only to clear the air about what's
going on here and communicate, and they're just trying to
lock it down, and like you said, you just aptly
put it, Jimmy cowardly, Jimmy saying, and Berger read all
about the gazette a breakdown of trust at jeff Co Schools.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Jimmy, great stuff. As always, we'll talk again soon, thanks brother.
All right, joining me next.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Representative Gabe Evans just sworn in as a Congressman on Friday.
We'll get the latest from his first hand perspective on
the certification of the electoral vote for Donald Trump and
the election of Speaker Mike Johnson re election as Speaker
for the House coming up in the one hundred nineteenth Congress.
Ryan Juley Live continues after this.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The state of the vote for the President of the
United States as delivered to the President of the Senate
is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
to vote for President of the United States is five
hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
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the United States are as follows.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala DE Harris Kamala D. Harris of
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the state of California has received two hundred and twenty
six votes.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
All the best part about it for Vice President Harris
is it's over.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
She got through it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The raucous ovation there interrupting on behalf of Donald Trump
being announced as the winner for the certification of the electoral.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Vote and joining us now.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He was there firsthand to witness this history going down
now two weeks out from the inauguration coming up on
January twentieth, and he was just sworn in as the
congressman for the eighth Congressional district here in Colorado. Representative
Gabe Evans joins us now on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Congressman, welcome, great to be on with you.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
How does it feel to be sworn into Congress and everything?
Thing's gone out over these last seventy two hours.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Really just the honor of my life up to this point.
You know, the confidence that the voters of the eighth
Congressional District have vested in me to come to Washington,
to be their voice and to be able to speak
up for them is you know, it's just truly an
honor to be in this position, and then to be
able to be a participant in events like the one
you just talked about, seeing the certification of the electoral
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votes for Donald Trump, and knowing all of the work
that we've got to do ahead of us to try
to fix a lot of the issues that are so
critically important to the district, like cost of living, in
public safety. It's an honor, and I'm just happy to
be here and I'm going to do the best I
can to be the voice for folks in Colorado's eighth
Congressional Now.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm thinking back, and you were quite young when this
was happening. But two thousand, two thousand and four, there
were voice objections to the count of the electoral votes
in various states for various reasons. Were there any incidents
on the floor today, game, No, not really.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
They read through them all pretty pretty cut and dry
and obviously clapping from the different delegations. So you know,
when Texas is read, when California has read, obviously their
members are pretty pretty loud in support of the candidate,
the presidential candidate that those states went to. But other
than that, nope, no, no real hiccups.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Did that surprise you?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
You know, this is my first one, so I didn't
really know what the what the norm was, so really,
you know, as I'm walking off the floor, it all
took less than forty five minutes. In some of the conversations,
even with members who have been here for you know,
the certification of multiple different presidential elections, you know, one
of them commented to me, He's like, it's always it's
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always amazing to me to see when these things go
off flawlessly like they did today. It's always amazing to
just see that process in action and realize the gravity
of it and the fact that it still took less
than an hour.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And Congressman Gabe Evans joining us here Ryan Shooling Live,
we appreciate his time in Washington, d C. Going back
to Friday, Gabe and all that went down there. For
of all you were sworn in for the first time ever.
That's historic for you, and especially you were mentioning just
how honored you were by that for the voters of
the eighth Congressional district that voted you in. But you
are an important vote there, especially with recent developments in
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the numbers game in the House as to how many
votes Speaker Johnson needed to retain his role and title.
Can you take us through as you saw it play out,
the inner workings of that vote. You obviously voted for
Speaker Johnson. He was very instrumental and helpful I know
in your campaign personally, but just how that all went down.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
Yeah, absolutely so. Right now, the margins in the House
are two hundred and nineteen Republicans to two hundred and
fifteen Democrats. Matt Gates has indicated that he he's effectively resigned,
so he did not have a vote in the one
hundred and nineteenth Congress. Two of Trump's appointments to other
positions in his administration have not left the House officially yet.
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So we had two hundred and nineteen Republicans able to
cast a vote to two hundred and fifteen Democrats, and
so very narrow margins there Obviously, we knew there was
the potential for a couple of folks to have some
concerns about Speaker Johnson's leadership, and so just as part
of some of those conversations, you know, we knew that
we had to drive home the message that, look, Joe
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Biden is going to do everything that he can in
the last couple of weeks in office to muddy the
waters for the clear mandate that Americans have given Republicans
have given President Trump. And we saw some of that
earlier today with Biden issuing this executive order to ban
offshore oil drilling in the waters you know, continental waters
of the United States. And because of how Biden structured
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that ban, it will require congressional intervention to overturn that.
Trump cannot do that on his own authority the way
I understand the law. And so being able to get
a speaker as quickly as possible so that we can
get down to work to accomplish this mandate about border security,
about energy dominance, about cost of living, about cutting red
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tape at the American people gave to us was critically important.
What eventually happened, as we as I think most of
us know, is first vote was called. There were a
couple of folks that initially did not vote for Speaker Johnson. However,
the vote was kept open, so it wasn't officially gabbled
out that vote was not closed, And then some additional
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conversations happened, at which point two folks that had initially
voted in favor of somebody other than Speaker Johnson changed
their vote to Speaker Johnson. With those votes changed, we
had the numbers for Speaker Johnson to become the Speaker
of the House for the one hundred and nineteenth Congress.
Took about ninety minutes for that to happen, but we
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were able to get a speaker on the first round.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Of voting, and Mike Johnson needed every one of those votes,
including from Representative Gabe Evans, who's joining us now. Those
two holdouts that he mentioned, well, Ralph Norman of South Carolina,
Keith South of Texas. Thomas Massey, who I like and
had a lot of respect for Gabe. He was a
hard no the whole way. He was not going to budge.
I'm not sure of the genesis of that vitriol for
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him toward the Speaker or what he thought maybe would
be better with another nominee, maybe himself, I don't know,
but whether it's Massy or I've spoken with Representative Lauren
Bobert about kind of finding your footing there in the house,
in the lay of the land. You're looking around, you know,
who can you trust, who can you count? It's kind
of like going to high school for the first time.
Who are your friends? Who are the bullies? Who are
the nerds?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know? How did you sort through that?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I know that you're probably still doing that, but how
would you describe that dynamic of having go there and
kind of figure your way through it?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Yeah, I mean, it's like you said, it really does
revolve around understanding a lot of the personalities in the room.
And you know, fortunately I'm able to rely on a
lot of my experience, not only in the state legislature
in Colorado, but particularly my time in law enforcement, because
if you think about it, you know, as police officers,
you're called to, you know, potentially dozens of calls and
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interactions with people that you've never met before in your life,
oftentimes very elevated situations, and so in a matter of minutes,
you have to learn to read the room, develop rapport
figure out how you can find that common ground to
work together. And that was a skill set that I developed,
you know, I'd like to think I developed pretty well
during my ten years as a police officer. And so
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just being able to use those those personal skills to
figure out what, at the end of the day, what
do we have to do. Well, what we have to
do is very clear. We have to fix the disastrous
policies of Biden, the things that are crushing our public safety,
that are jacking up the cost of living. We have
to fix those policies. And so being able to identify
the individuals that are going to be willing to roll
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up their sleeves and go to work to address those things.
To me, that's how I try to read the room,
because at the end of the day, I think that's
what the voters again want, the constituents in the eighth
Congressional District wants somebody who's going to go and work
together with anybody who's willing to fix the problems that
are resulting in this crime wave, in open borders, and
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in the high cost of.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Living that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And for those of you who reside in the eighth
Congressional District who listened to this program who helped gave
Evans win.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Think about this.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Had he not won, then the Thomas Massey vote alone
would have derailed the speakership for Mike Johnson, and we
might still be going through that chaos.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
So I'm that alone.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
It's just a miracle that gave Evans got into office there,
was able to cast that vote, was able to represent
the eighth congressional district. We're just so happy to have
him on the show. Gave congratulations on being sworn in.
I might cross paths with you at the inauguration. I
know I'll be there in person, but my very best
to you and have a prosperous and successful twenty twenty
five in your first year in office.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Awesome. I really appreciate it. And for anybody that's listening,
if you're ever in DC. We have our new office building.
It's Longworth House Office Building twelve twenty nine. Stop buy
here in.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Town, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
A man of the people right there. Representative gave Evans
and a veteran as well. We thank him for his
service there and with the police force. As he mentioned,
he learned a lot from those experiences and he's applying
them in the United States House, now having been sworn
in as a Congressman for the eighth Congressional District. A
timeout will go to sports next as the Denver Broncos
clinch their first playoff berth in nine years, and Dave Logan,
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legendary play by play voice of the Broncos, he'll join
us to close that hour number one after this on
Ryan Schuling.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Live, Nix with a playfake now rolls to he's right bow,
looks in the end zone, throws a ball behind the
intend receiver.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Bounced up into the air, bounced again.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
And then caught by Devon val touchdown Denver.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
That ball was bounced not once but twice, once by
a Bronco, the second time, I believe by a Kansas
City chief defender, and then Devon Vley makes the catch,
his third receiving touchdown.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
That the voice of Dave Logan and a great call
on a play that happened right in front of me.
Now I had won a drawing lucky me for tickets
through our very home company here in iHeart in this
building to see this game against Kansas City. The Broncos
victorious and in emphatic fashion, I might add even though
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it was a lot of the backups for the Chiefs,
doesn't matter. Thirty eight nothing, the drubbing at the hands
of the Denver Broncos, and bow Knicks just going off
and making his final case for NFL Rookie of the Year.
I mean Jaden Daniels, the quarterback for the Washington Commanders,
He's going to have a strong case as well. But
I don't know that anybody, even the most ardent of
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Broncos fans, would have predicted the type of season that
a rookie quarterback like bow Knicks would have coming in now. Yes,
Sean Payton is a quarterback guru, and he was instrumental
in bringing the best out of Drew Brees during his
time with the New Orleans Saints. But you see some
of the all time greats, even Tom Brady early he
did win a Super Bowl. He had to step in
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for the injured Drew Bledsoe at the Patriots. But Peyton
Manney had a im miserable experience during his rookie season
for the Indianapolis Colts. You go back to the late nineties,
and it took him a while to kind of figure
things out. But Nicks hit the ground running again in
a way that I don't think many people anticipated, let
alone predicted. Daniels has done great work for Washington, much
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the same way as a rookie quarterback leading his team
to the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
But both teams.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Now finished ten and seven, and the Broncos will be
playing on Sunday afternoon. There'll be the morning here eleven
am kickoff will be the first game on Sunday at
Buffalo Orchard Park. Oh wow, against the Buffalo Bills in
the wild Card round. If the Broncos win, then they
would be in and on the road against the Kansas
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City Chiefs. Waiting on Dave Logan. I know that Jesse
has tried to call him a couple of times here.
We'll continue to reach out to him if we don't
get him. Oh he's coming in studio.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Wow. Okay, we'll only have a couple of minutes with
him and then.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
But just reflecting on this great Broncos season, you know,
the first playoff berth in nine years. As Stave Logan
comes right in impromptu cameo before he goes on his
own program KOA Sports you can listen to on a
daily basis from three to six pm.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Dave you're everywhere, you do everything, Tory ran oh Man
doing great.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I was just reflecting on this call that was posted
on the Broncos website by you of Devon Veley's catch.
I was in that end zone up in the stands
watching that and the tips and how that unfolded.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Your surprise was equal to mine.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Yeah, I mean it looked like, you know, he tried
to squeeze the ball into Troutman and Adam was pretty
well covered and it bounced off.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I think he got a hand on it.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
There was a Kansas City player that had a shot,
got a hand on it and bounced it up again,
and then Devon Vley was able to corral it, got
very good hands. That rookie is a I think gonna
be a really good player, but coral it for a touchdown.
So to me, it was a microcosm of how the
day went in which was almost perfect.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Everything went right, everything went well. Bonnix, he had a
couple of play I think he was watching too much.
Detroit lyons highlights on the pitch that he tried to do.
But he's inventive, he's creative, he's efficient.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I watched Jared goff on a regular basis that guy's
a veteran. How surprised are you that bo Nick has
had the type of season that he's had.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
I've got to be honest with you, I think I'm
surprised a little.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I thought he would be good. I thought he would be.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
I thought he would be really good at processing this
style of offense. I thought he would be accurate. He's
a little bit better athlete than I that I knew of.
Can run a little faster than I thought maybe he could.
I thought he was a good athlete when I saw
him play at Oregon, but I didn't realize him he's
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He can really run, which is which has added a
nice component I think to the offense. But I mean,
I got to be honest about I didn't see him
throwing twenty nine touchdowns his rookie season and.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Make a strong bid for Rookie the Year's Tim and
Jane Daniels.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, those two, Yeah, I think those guys incredible to
the atmosphere at Denver, and they're just not used to
not making the playoffs here. The Broncos fans, it's been
nine years. David to the longest drought since nineteen seventy six,
you were still playing back then with the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
I had just started. That was the start of MYFL career.
So there was a drought back in the sixties growing
up here in Denver as a kid, where they weren't
any good. But I think, you know, for the most part,
since about the mid seventies, this has been a really
competitive franchise, championship caliber franchise. And then after twenty fifteen,
I mean, the next year they go nine to seven,
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but they don't make the playoffs, correct, But it's been
you know, it's been uphill since then. And I think,
I think what's happened this year, given the fact that
bo Nix is here and seemingly is going to be
in place and the guy moving forward, should should make
Bronco fans very excited about what not only Sunday and
Buffalo looks like, but whatever happens, but really excited for
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next year moving.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Forward a big step and as again a long suffering
Lions fan myself that is very familiar with playoff droughts
of many different shades and colors, just great to see
the Broncos back in the.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Playoffs, right, Yeah, yeah, I think so, I mean, I
think that again, I think as a fan base, when
you get used to being in the playoffs, you know
you're not gonna win it every year, but you get
used to competing for the playoffs and maybe get beaten
the last couple of weeks and you know, make it,
or maybe you make it and you lose in the
first round or what have you. But this fan base
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has been used to championship caliber play on a regular basis,
and again, the last nine seasons, they've had no playoffs,
and they've had really no hope in terms of what
are the Broncos doing. Specifically, the most important position that
we have in our gown, and that's important
The state of The vote for the President of the
United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate
is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
to vote for President of the United States is five
hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
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the United States are as follows. Donald J. Trump of
the state of Florida has received three hundred and twelve votes.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Kamala D. Harris Kamala D.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Harris of the state of California has received two hundred
and twenty six votes.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Oh, she tried to speed along and get right to
her name and get through that as fast as she could.
Happy New Year, everybody, twenty twenty five now upon us,
hope it has gotten off to a great start for you.
Jesse Thomas alongside Ryan schuling back with you to start
this new year and to start it in style. On
January sixth I might see a little bit of irony
(01:13):
in that date, I guess with some of the chatter
on the left about what it means going back now
four years ago today. But in the meantime, in the
president Vice President Kamala Harris had to certify Donald Trump's victory,
and that had to be a very sour pill to swallow.
And it's not the first time in history that this
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has happened. Of course, the last time would have been
going back to two thousand and it was even more
contentious circumstances then when Vice President L. Gore had to
preside over the certification of George W. Bush's very controversial
victory in two thousand.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It all came down to the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Those that lived through it, that can remember it, that
voted in that election, were aware of what was going on.
We did not have a president elect of the United
States well into the month of January until al Gore
gave his I need to go home and mend some
fences speech about if he had won his home state
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of Tennessee. People don't mention this enough. I don't think
if Al Gore had simply won his home state of Tennessee.
Even Walter Monde won his home state of Minnesota in
nineteen eighty four, it would be the only state he
would win, along with the District of Columbia.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
That was it. But Gore lost Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Gore also signaled the decline and demise of the Democratic
Party and what used to be the stronghold of the South.
That Jimmy Carter rode to victory in nineteen seventy six,
that Bill Clinton rode to victory twice in nineteen ninety two,
in nineteen ninety six, but the Southern Democrats, many of
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them like Miller, you might recall from that election two
thousand and four, I believe, is where he was more prominent,
but they would cross over parties, they would abandon the
Democratic Party because they felt the Democratic Party had abandoned them.
And now the Southern strategy is for the Republicans to
sweep through and the Democrats aren't even really competitive and
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hardly any of those states, with the exceptions of Georgia,
North Carolina, and that's about it on the entire South.
And al Gore lost the Democratic Party's grip on competitiveness
in those states, including his own home state. That all
to say that, if you'll recall the hanging chads of Florida,
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and was within a margin of like five hundred votes,
and al Gore and the Democrats wanted recounts in Broward
County and a lot of blue leaning counties, but not
all the counties, and then a subsequent decision in the
courts went up the chain all the way to the
United States Supreme Court, and they shut down, they recount,
they shut down.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That vote count, and George W.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Bush was viewed by many as the selected president of
the United States, not the elected president of the United States,
because it was a narrow five to four Scota's decision
that ruled in W's favor.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So when people try to proclaim.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That this is the end of times and there's no
going back, or our democracy is in danger, or it's
going to end, those people, in my view, are very
foolish and very ignorant of history and everything that we've
been through. Is a nation for nearly two hundred and
fifty years, it'll be two fifty and twenty twenty six,
a Civil War, two World Wars, lots of contention and
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divisiveness in many elections.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
To pretend that this is all new. I mean, did
you watch Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I mean, Jefferson and Adams were bitter rivals until their
later years and they became great friends. It's a tremendous story.
But burn Hamilton had their we're going to duel. That
means Zell Miller wanted to do that. I remember, I
think you challenge it was Chris Matthews or who was
it to ian and.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Challenge you to a duel.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then of course the United States Civil War, we
had an election in the midst of that, and again
in the midst of.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
A couple of world wars.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I've just never been that down on our future as
a republic, that we have a history of correcting ourselves
in our course, even though we may go astray, and
I think that we did for these last four years.
But the American people, in my view, got it right
on November fifth of twenty twenty four. It all culminated
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today with Vice President Harris again the bitter Pill had
to announce this.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
This announcement of the state of the vote by the
President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration
of the persons elected President and Vice President of the
United States age four term beginning on the twentieth day
of January twenty and twenty five, and shall be entered
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together with the list of the votes on the journals
of the House and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Thank you very much, And with that she was done,
and with that President Elect Trump was certified the winner
of the twenty twenty four election, and of course he
will be inaugurated two weeks from today, and I will
be there.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
In Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
John Faberatory will be there as well, and we'll be
brothers in arms, I think on that day, hopping around
giving you all the coverage that I can, giving callbacks
to this program, and then also over on KOA. You know,
I've been on hiatus here for a bit because of
the holidays, and I drove home to Michigan and I
spent some quality time with my family and in particular
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with my dad, and that was very rewarding and I
enjoyed that time off. But I know that we missed
a lot. So I've lined a few things up, but
I want to go to your suggestion as well as
to the story that happened over the holidays that you'd
like to opine on that you would like to discuss
or have me discuss with you. Five seven seven thirty
nine is where you can do that. One of those,
(07:15):
of course, I think that needed to be discussed, was
the death of Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth President of
the United States, dying at the age of one hundred.
I saw, you know, some coverage Anderson Cooper CNN, and
they're trying to do some a lot of a revisionist history,
polishing the image of Jimmy Carter, and I just don't
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think that you can really do a whole lot with
what he left as a legacy, which is going to
be very similar and comparable. And I think historians, when
they get the right minds out of their Trump Arrangement center,
will realize that there are a lot of similarities between
Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden. They were both definitely below
average American presidents if you were to do honest rankings.
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Scott Jennings in less than a minute evisceraates foreign President
Carter and it wasn't time for platitudes and bromides. It
was time for straight talk. And that's what Scott Jennings
at CNN is good at.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
He was a terrible president. That's why I lost in
a landslide after his one term. And if it's possible,
I think he was even a worse ex president because
of his meddling in US foreign policy, because of his
saddling up to dictators around the world, because of his
vehement views, anti Israel views, and more than dabbling in
anti Semitism. Over the years, he often vexed Democrats. Obama
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didn't even have him speak at Hiseight convention. He put
Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box on a
North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was a guy
who had a huge ego and believed that he was
uniquely positioned to do all these things, even after the
American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership. So
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I respect people who run for president and get elected president,
but in his particular case, I think he time it
again proved why he was never suited for the office in.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The first place. Scott Jennings is so good. I mean,
this is a guy does the notes.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He's got tremendous recall and memory, and the facts that
he cites there and his ability to relate them to
the audience.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I just think the man is brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I know he's very good friends with my colleague Leland
Conway and always enjoy his segments with LELN and then
also on CNN here. But what we are witnessing, I
believe also today with Justin Trudeau abruptly announcing his resignation
as Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party in Canada.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
I intend to resign as party leader as Prime Minister
after the party selects its next leader through a robust
nationwide competitive process.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Goodbye and good riddance.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Justin Trudeau has run Canada into the ground, most notably
from an economic standpoint. And keep your ears and eyes
on the name Pierre Poliev, Conservative leader in Canada. I
compare him very indirectly, but somewhat similar to a Canadian
version of Ron DeSantis, a younger conservative mind who knows
how to sell the brand and the message. And we'll
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hear from him in just a little bit later on
as well. But you look at the trend lines in
Canada following this Trump victory and the wave that I
think it will create, and what it has followed with
Georgia Maloney in Italy, with Javier Mile and Argentina new
leadership conservative right of center in the Netherlands, I think
there's a lot of Europe that has finally come to
its senses and you can only hope that with everything
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that's been happening, and it's just atrocious in Great Britain,
that they find their voice, they find their leadership in
both of those parties. The major parties conservative and Liberal
over their Labor Party have failed the British people, and
I believe that they'll be the next domino to fall.
Ryan Shuling live with you and again you can text
(10:57):
as five seven, seven thirty nine, A lot, a bevy
of guests. A big day yesterday for the Denver Broncos,
and we'll have the legendary voice Dave Logan joining us
to close out this hour and talking about the Denver
Broncos making the playoffs for the first time in nine years.
Can you believe that it's the longest drought from the
postseason for the Broncos franchise, dating back to nineteen seventy six,
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and it's the first time they're making the playoffs since
Peyton Manning quarterback the team of course to the Super
Bowl Championship. We'll get Dave Logan's take on their decisive
victory over a Kansas City Chiefs team that was basically
resting everybody in an already clinched the number one see
but even so very convincing win and they go out
on the road to Buffalo. Coming up this weekend eleven
(11:42):
am on Sunday coverage over on our sister station.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
KOA representative Gabe Evans.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He was there for the counting of the electoral votes
and the announcement by Vice President Kamala Harris for the
selection and election of Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday. Gabe
was just sworn in as a Congressman for the first
time on that Friday. We will get his perspective from
Washington coming up in just a little bit and joining
me now. I want to thank you first and foremost
for filling in for me while I was gone over
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the holiday break, and it was significant and I wouldn't
trade it for the world. But just so glad that
Jimmy Sangenberger was able to bring this show to all
of you, and he brings you constant columns in the Gazette,
the latest of which I wanted to talk to him
about here today. It just keeps getting stranger and stranger
in Jeff Coast schools. And get the very latest now
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from him in his article entitled a Breakdown of Trust
at Jeff Coast Schools. Jimmy Sangenberger our guest to start
twenty twenty five. You're the first Jimmy.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Oh Hey, Ryan, Happy new year, and it is an
honor and a privilege to end the year for your show,
and to be your first guest for the year.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yes, kind of bridging that gap there, and I couldn't
appreciate it more. Thank you so much for what you do, Jimmy,
and for what you do in these articles and the
research that you do and the contacts that you work
and the stories that you expose.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And it needs to be done.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Jeff Co Schools is out of its gord and we
just find out and I'll start here, but then you
could take it whatever direction you'd like. With the fire
Jeffco Public Schools chief in a bizarre twist committing suicide,
I believe in Maryland after allegations that he possessed child pornography.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Take us from there if you would.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
In essence, that's right. On December nineteenth, the district broke
from what is its standard practice. Normally, they have an
issue that comes up like this of allegations of sexual
impropriety or what have you, and they'll put a staff
member on leave. But Ryan, in this case, they fired
him outright without placing him on leave on December nineteenth.
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But here's the thing. The word got out the next
day through the media, but there was no notice or
heads up whatsoever about anything that was put out to
parents and community members. Instead, it was if you saw
it in the news or somebody over the holidays, let
you know, then you got a heads up that something
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was up with the third, the number three official in
Jefferson County Schools, David Wise, chief of schools for the district,
that he was being that he was under investigation. Well,
lo and behold. On January second, news breaks because of
a statement that was put out by it was at
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the first or second because of a statement that was
put out by the sheriff's office in one of the
yes Maryland counties that David Wise had died since then
the conclusion, it seems in his parent suicide, but he
had died, and they noted that he was under investigation
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for allegations of possessing quote, child sexual assault materials. And
then the next day, so that was on the first,
Then the next day, on the second, last week, the
district finally puts out an email to parents saying, hey,
this is what's going on and letting them know. To staff,
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they gave a more heartfelt message. It's just absolutely wild
what's going on here? Right?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, and this is not an isolated incident or occurrence
in the jeff Co schools. I mean, I know, you
know Lindsay Datko as I do, and she has organized
Jeffco Kids first, and I'm seeing news here that the
state of the District event for jeff Co Schools is
no longer happening.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
They just make that announcement willy nilly.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And there's a lot of bizarre things happening and have
been happening over these last several years that I think
Lindsay has been very right for the fight. And I'm
just I'm wondering, you know, where does it end for
jeff COO schools? When does sanity begin? Because it certainly
hasn't started.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
There are plenty of school districts in this state, Denver
Public Schools not excluded either, where we have to be
wondering that question. I mean, look, Lindsay, I interviewed her
for my column and she made a very apt point,
which is that David Weiss, one of his jobs was
essentially in overseeing the implementation of this concept of the
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trusted adult. And so I think she put it well
in saying that he was the trusted adult of trusted adults.
I mean, so this is the whole program of basically
institutionalizing trust as opposed to when you and I were
in school, we would develop trusting relationships with our teachers
that were appropriate that we could we had a bad
day or things were going on, we could lean on
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them for support. But that was naturally built up and
earned trust, versus this idea of institutionalizing it where the
district or the school says, find your trusted adult, tell
us who it is. All these kinds of things which
can be a recipe for all sorts of problems. But
you mentioned about the cancelation of the state of the
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District meeting on Thursday, where the superintendent, Tracy Dorlin was
supposed to address the state of the district, And I
have to be honest with you, Ryan Best cowardly that
is hiding just as the district was fighting for two
weeks before this news broke of David Wise having died
in Maryland forced their hands, so they finally had to
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send something out to parents after trying to hide the
ball for so long. And that shows us that there's
a lot of work cut out for Jeffte Schools.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jimmy Seckenberger joining us.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You can read all about it in his latest article,
a Breakdown of Trust at the Jeff Coo Schools. And
I guess final point here in the minute that we
have left, Jimmy, this just highlights a broader issue about
keeping parents in the dark, isolating kids. It's only a
form of grooming when you talk to them about sexual
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gender identity. You don't involve the parents in that conversation.
They're covering this kind of ground.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And now we have.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This kind of absolute bombshell with the possession of child
pornography by one of the school district's leaders.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Here, where does it go from here? Again? A minute left?
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Yeah, I think that it has to go in a
direction of parents speaking out more against this trusted adult
concept in the schools and getting rid of it, getting
it completely stripped from the district in terms of policies
or any sort of procedures. And they're probably I mean,
the district needs to have real hard, long conversations or
short conversations about new changes in leadership and a new
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direction at least talking about whether or not because this
is the third or fourth incident along these lines of
alleged sexual impropriety that we know at least publicly by
a staff member in Jeffco's schools for twenty twenty four alone.
And that's happening under Tracy Dorlyn's watch. So I think
we should watch if she survives the job.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Well, and you've got to have the State of the
District meeting of only to clear the air about what's
going on here and communicate, and they're just trying to
lock it down, and like you said, you just aptly
put it, Jimmy cowardly, Jimmy saying, and Berger read all
about the gazette a breakdown of trust at jeff Co Schools.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Jimmy, great stuff. As always, we'll talk again soon, thanks brother.
All right, joining me next.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Representative Gabe Evans just sworn in as a Congressman on Friday.
We'll get the latest from his first hand perspective on
the certification of the electoral vote for Donald Trump and
the election of Speaker Mike Johnson re election as Speaker
for the House coming up in the one hundred nineteenth Congress.
Ryan Juley Live continues after this.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The state of the vote for the President of the
United States as delivered to the President of the Senate
is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
to vote for President of the United States is five
hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
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the United States are as follows.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala DE Harris Kamala D. Harris of
(20:18):
the state of California has received two hundred and twenty
six votes.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
All the best part about it for Vice President Harris
is it's over.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
She got through it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The raucous ovation there interrupting on behalf of Donald Trump
being announced as the winner for the certification of the electoral.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Vote and joining us now.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He was there firsthand to witness this history going down
now two weeks out from the inauguration coming up on
January twentieth, and he was just sworn in as the
congressman for the eighth Congressional district here in Colorado. Representative
Gabe Evans joins us now on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Congressman, welcome, great to be on with you.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
How does it feel to be sworn into Congress and everything?
Thing's gone out over these last seventy two hours.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Really just the honor of my life up to this point.
You know, the confidence that the voters of the eighth
Congressional District have vested in me to come to Washington,
to be their voice and to be able to speak
up for them is you know, it's just truly an
honor to be in this position, and then to be
able to be a participant in events like the one
you just talked about, seeing the certification of the electoral
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votes for Donald Trump, and knowing all of the work
that we've got to do ahead of us to try
to fix a lot of the issues that are so
critically important to the district, like cost of living, in
public safety. It's an honor, and I'm just happy to
be here and I'm going to do the best I
can to be the voice for folks in Colorado's eighth
Congressional Now.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm thinking back, and you were quite young when this
was happening. But two thousand, two thousand and four, there
were voice objections to the count of the electoral votes
in various states for various reasons. Were there any incidents
on the floor today, game, No, not really.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
They read through them all pretty pretty cut and dry
and obviously clapping from the different delegations. So you know,
when Texas is read, when California has read, obviously their
members are pretty pretty loud in support of the candidate,
the presidential candidate that those states went to. But other
than that, nope, no, no real hiccups.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Did that surprise you?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
You know, this is my first one, so I didn't
really know what the what the norm was, so really,
you know, as I'm walking off the floor, it all
took less than forty five minutes. In some of the conversations,
even with members who have been here for you know,
the certification of multiple different presidential elections, you know, one
of them commented to me, He's like, it's always it's
(22:40):
always amazing to me to see when these things go
off flawlessly like they did today. It's always amazing to
just see that process in action and realize the gravity
of it and the fact that it still took less
than an hour.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And Congressman Gabe Evans joining us here Ryan Shooling Live,
we appreciate his time in Washington, d C. Going back
to Friday, Gabe and all that went down there. For
of all you were sworn in for the first time ever.
That's historic for you, and especially you were mentioning just
how honored you were by that for the voters of
the eighth Congressional district that voted you in. But you
are an important vote there, especially with recent developments in
(23:13):
the numbers game in the House as to how many
votes Speaker Johnson needed to retain his role and title.
Can you take us through as you saw it play out,
the inner workings of that vote. You obviously voted for
Speaker Johnson. He was very instrumental and helpful I know
in your campaign personally, but just how that all went down.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
Yeah, absolutely so. Right now, the margins in the House
are two hundred and nineteen Republicans to two hundred and
fifteen Democrats. Matt Gates has indicated that he he's effectively resigned,
so he did not have a vote in the one
hundred and nineteenth Congress. Two of Trump's appointments to other
positions in his administration have not left the House officially yet.
(23:53):
So we had two hundred and nineteen Republicans able to
cast a vote to two hundred and fifteen Democrats, and
so very narrow margins there Obviously, we knew there was
the potential for a couple of folks to have some
concerns about Speaker Johnson's leadership, and so just as part
of some of those conversations, you know, we knew that
we had to drive home the message that, look, Joe
(24:16):
Biden is going to do everything that he can in
the last couple of weeks in office to muddy the
waters for the clear mandate that Americans have given Republicans
have given President Trump. And we saw some of that
earlier today with Biden issuing this executive order to ban
offshore oil drilling in the waters you know, continental waters
of the United States. And because of how Biden structured
(24:38):
that ban, it will require congressional intervention to overturn that.
Trump cannot do that on his own authority the way
I understand the law. And so being able to get
a speaker as quickly as possible so that we can
get down to work to accomplish this mandate about border security,
about energy dominance, about cost of living, about cutting red
(24:59):
tape at the American people gave to us was critically important.
What eventually happened, as we as I think most of
us know, is first vote was called. There were a
couple of folks that initially did not vote for Speaker Johnson. However,
the vote was kept open, so it wasn't officially gabbled
out that vote was not closed, And then some additional
(25:21):
conversations happened, at which point two folks that had initially
voted in favor of somebody other than Speaker Johnson changed
their vote to Speaker Johnson. With those votes changed, we
had the numbers for Speaker Johnson to become the Speaker
of the House for the one hundred and nineteenth Congress.
Took about ninety minutes for that to happen, but we
(25:44):
were able to get a speaker on the first round.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Of voting, and Mike Johnson needed every one of those votes,
including from Representative Gabe Evans, who's joining us now. Those
two holdouts that he mentioned, well, Ralph Norman of South Carolina,
Keith South of Texas. Thomas Massey, who I like and
had a lot of respect for Gabe. He was a
hard no the whole way. He was not going to budge.
I'm not sure of the genesis of that vitriol for
(26:09):
him toward the Speaker or what he thought maybe would
be better with another nominee, maybe himself, I don't know,
but whether it's Massy or I've spoken with Representative Lauren
Bobert about kind of finding your footing there in the house,
in the lay of the land. You're looking around, you know,
who can you trust, who can you count? It's kind
of like going to high school for the first time.
Who are your friends? Who are the bullies? Who are
the nerds?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know? How did you sort through that?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I know that you're probably still doing that, but how
would you describe that dynamic of having go there and
kind of figure your way through it?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Yeah, I mean, it's like you said, it really does
revolve around understanding a lot of the personalities in the room.
And you know, fortunately I'm able to rely on a
lot of my experience, not only in the state legislature
in Colorado, but particularly my time in law enforcement, because
if you think about it, you know, as police officers,
you're called to, you know, potentially dozens of calls and
(27:02):
interactions with people that you've never met before in your life,
oftentimes very elevated situations, and so in a matter of minutes,
you have to learn to read the room, develop rapport
figure out how you can find that common ground to
work together. And that was a skill set that I developed,
you know, I'd like to think I developed pretty well
during my ten years as a police officer. And so
(27:24):
just being able to use those those personal skills to
figure out what, at the end of the day, what
do we have to do. Well, what we have to
do is very clear. We have to fix the disastrous
policies of Biden, the things that are crushing our public safety,
that are jacking up the cost of living. We have
to fix those policies. And so being able to identify
the individuals that are going to be willing to roll
(27:45):
up their sleeves and go to work to address those things.
To me, that's how I try to read the room,
because at the end of the day, I think that's
what the voters again want, the constituents in the eighth
Congressional District wants somebody who's going to go and work
together with anybody who's willing to fix the problems that
are resulting in this crime wave, in open borders, and
(28:06):
in the high cost of.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Living that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And for those of you who reside in the eighth
Congressional District who listened to this program who helped gave
Evans win.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Think about this.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Had he not won, then the Thomas Massey vote alone
would have derailed the speakership for Mike Johnson, and we
might still be going through that chaos.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
So I'm that alone.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
It's just a miracle that gave Evans got into office there,
was able to cast that vote, was able to represent
the eighth congressional district. We're just so happy to have
him on the show. Gave congratulations on being sworn in.
I might cross paths with you at the inauguration. I
know I'll be there in person, but my very best
to you and have a prosperous and successful twenty twenty
five in your first year in office.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Awesome. I really appreciate it. And for anybody that's listening,
if you're ever in DC. We have our new office building.
It's Longworth House Office Building twelve twenty nine. Stop buy
here in.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Town, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
A man of the people right there. Representative gave Evans
and a veteran as well. We thank him for his
service there and with the police force. As he mentioned,
he learned a lot from those experiences and he's applying
them in the United States House, now having been sworn
in as a Congressman for the eighth Congressional District. A
timeout will go to sports next as the Denver Broncos
clinch their first playoff berth in nine years, and Dave Logan,
(29:19):
legendary play by play voice of the Broncos, he'll join
us to close that hour number one after this on
Ryan Schuling.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Live, Nix with a playfake now rolls to he's right bow,
looks in the end zone, throws a ball behind the
intend receiver.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Bounced up into the air, bounced again.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
And then caught by Devon val touchdown Denver.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
That ball was bounced not once but twice, once by
a Bronco, the second time, I believe by a Kansas
City chief defender, and then Devon Vley makes the catch,
his third receiving touchdown.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
That the voice of Dave Logan and a great call
on a play that happened right in front of me.
Now I had won a drawing lucky me for tickets
through our very home company here in iHeart in this
building to see this game against Kansas City. The Broncos
victorious and in emphatic fashion, I might add even though
(30:18):
it was a lot of the backups for the Chiefs,
doesn't matter. Thirty eight nothing, the drubbing at the hands
of the Denver Broncos, and bow Knicks just going off
and making his final case for NFL Rookie of the Year.
I mean Jaden Daniels, the quarterback for the Washington Commanders,
He's going to have a strong case as well. But
I don't know that anybody, even the most ardent of
(30:40):
Broncos fans, would have predicted the type of season that
a rookie quarterback like bow Knicks would have coming in now. Yes,
Sean Payton is a quarterback guru, and he was instrumental
in bringing the best out of Drew Brees during his
time with the New Orleans Saints. But you see some
of the all time greats, even Tom Brady early he
did win a Super Bowl. He had to step in
(31:01):
for the injured Drew Bledsoe at the Patriots. But Peyton
Manney had a im miserable experience during his rookie season
for the Indianapolis Colts. You go back to the late nineties,
and it took him a while to kind of figure
things out. But Nicks hit the ground running again in
a way that I don't think many people anticipated, let
alone predicted. Daniels has done great work for Washington, much
(31:22):
the same way as a rookie quarterback leading his team
to the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
But both teams.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Now finished ten and seven, and the Broncos will be
playing on Sunday afternoon. There'll be the morning here eleven
am kickoff will be the first game on Sunday at
Buffalo Orchard Park. Oh wow, against the Buffalo Bills in
the wild Card round. If the Broncos win, then they
would be in and on the road against the Kansas
(31:47):
City Chiefs. Waiting on Dave Logan. I know that Jesse
has tried to call him a couple of times here.
We'll continue to reach out to him if we don't
get him. Oh he's coming in studio.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Wow. Okay, we'll only have a couple of minutes with
him and then.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
But just reflecting on this great Broncos season, you know,
the first playoff berth in nine years. As Stave Logan
comes right in impromptu cameo before he goes on his
own program KOA Sports you can listen to on a
daily basis from three to six pm.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Dave you're everywhere, you do everything, Tory ran oh Man
doing great.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I was just reflecting on this call that was posted
on the Broncos website by you of Devon Veley's catch.
I was in that end zone up in the stands
watching that and the tips and how that unfolded.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Your surprise was equal to mine.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Yeah, I mean it looked like, you know, he tried
to squeeze the ball into Troutman and Adam was pretty
well covered and it bounced off.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I think he got a hand on it.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
There was a Kansas City player that had a shot,
got a hand on it and bounced it up again,
and then Devon Vley was able to corral it, got
very good hands. That rookie is a I think gonna
be a really good player, but coral it for a touchdown.
So to me, it was a microcosm of how the
day went in which was almost perfect.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Everything went right, everything went well. Bonnix, he had a
couple of play I think he was watching too much.
Detroit lyons highlights on the pitch that he tried to do.
But he's inventive, he's creative, he's efficient.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I watched Jared goff on a regular basis that guy's
a veteran. How surprised are you that bo Nick has
had the type of season that he's had.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
I've got to be honest with you, I think I'm
surprised a little.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I thought he would be good. I thought he would be.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
I thought he would be really good at processing this
style of offense. I thought he would be accurate. He's
a little bit better athlete than I that I knew of.
Can run a little faster than I thought maybe he could.
I thought he was a good athlete when I saw
him play at Oregon, but I didn't realize him he's
(33:47):
He can really run, which is which has added a
nice component I think to the offense. But I mean,
I got to be honest about I didn't see him
throwing twenty nine touchdowns his rookie season and.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Make a strong bid for Rookie the Year's Tim and
Jane Daniels.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, those two, Yeah, I think those guys incredible to
the atmosphere at Denver, and they're just not used to
not making the playoffs here. The Broncos fans, it's been
nine years. David to the longest drought since nineteen seventy six,
you were still playing back then with the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
I had just started. That was the start of MYFL career.
So there was a drought back in the sixties growing
up here in Denver as a kid, where they weren't
any good. But I think, you know, for the most part,
since about the mid seventies, this has been a really
competitive franchise, championship caliber franchise. And then after twenty fifteen,
I mean, the next year they go nine to seven,
(34:37):
but they don't make the playoffs, correct, But it's been
you know, it's been uphill since then. And I think,
I think what's happened this year, given the fact that
bo Nix is here and seemingly is going to be
in place and the guy moving forward, should should make
Bronco fans very excited about what not only Sunday and
Buffalo looks like, but whatever happens, but really excited for
(34:59):
next year moving.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Forward a big step and as again a long suffering
Lions fan myself that is very familiar with playoff droughts
of many different shades and colors, just great to see
the Broncos back in the.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Playoffs, right, Yeah, yeah, I think so, I mean, I
think that again, I think as a fan base, when
you get used to being in the playoffs, you know
you're not gonna win it every year, but you get
used to competing for the playoffs and maybe get beaten
the last couple of weeks and you know, make it,
or maybe you make it and you lose in the
first round or what have you. But this fan base
(35:32):
has been used to championship caliber play on a regular basis,
and again, the last nine seasons, they've had no playoffs,
and they've had really no hope in terms of what
are the Broncos doing. Specifically, the most important position that
we have in our gown, and that's important
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