11-10-25 - *FULL SHOW* Shutdown Ends; 50 Year Mortgages; Rowing the Pacific; ROTN

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ross Cominski on the news with Gina Gundeck. And there's Gina. Well,
I can see her.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Probably at least half of you can't see her because
a little bit dark right.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Now, half of you? What is the other half?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Do it?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I can see well, you know, there's a lot of
people out there. Oh if they're looking in and if
it were a little bit lighter, good point, then you know,
I mean they only see the back of your head.
Good morning, Gina, Good morning Dragon. We got the band
back together. Oh you didn't put your trash out there?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Maybe I'll sit down.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I didn't know, but I but I did put the
recycling out just in case. So I figures fifty to fifty.
So what we're doing here, and let me just say,
I'm gonna tell you very very briefly what we're doing here,
and then we're just gonna show you what we're doing
rather than talk about what we're doing. So this is
our new morning drive show six am to nine am,
after Gina does Colorado's Morning News five to six and Gina,

(00:46):
we'll keep bringing you news four times an hour. We're
also gonna have traffic four times an hour. But what
we're adding in is some opportunity to talk about the
news and react to the news and get your opinion
on the news from.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
The text line, and maybe.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Some talkbacks and whatever else we're going to do as
far as that goes, and we're going to have some fun.
We're going to keep it informative, interesting, entertaining, and hopefully
at least a little bit unpredictable. And uh, let's see,
I got a listener text already. Happy Monday, Ross and Gina.
I wanted to be one of the first ross Stafarians
to wish you a happy news show. We need dirty No,

(01:21):
not dirty leggers. That's a mandy thing. That's a mandy thing.
And Gina washes her legs right. So, now that we've
got a team thing going on here, the team can't
be the dirty leggers because that's really not fair to
Gena's excellent hygiene habit habits.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
So I did cause a lot of issues when I
said I shower every other day, But then I had
to clarify and say, I take a full hair shower
every other day, at a body shower every day. Wait,
there's a difference, yeah, women or those with hair, I
guess there is a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, my wife probably only washes her hair every three showers.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Ye got long hair, doesn't want to deal with it.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, all right, let's do other things and we'll come
back to all this other nonsense in a bit. But
we do have a ton to talk about today, and
of course the biggest story is the vote last night,
sixty forty vote in the Senate to invote cloture to
begin the process of voting on the package of bills
that will get the government open again. As Gina mentioned

(02:25):
in the newscast, it's not going to open immediately, but
at least a lot of the psychological pressure is going
to be off, which is only you know, it's something,
but it's not everything, because the people who need their
snap money, you know, their food stamp money, and also
the stuff going on at the airports is not going
to alleviate immediately, but it should be this week. Gina
had the social media question will the government shut down

(02:46):
in this week? I think it's exceptionally likely that it
will and if won't. If it doesn't, there's going to
be some big problems for you know, some people in
government right now.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It is interesting to note.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That there were eight Democrats who voted along with the
with fifty two Republicans to Again, it's not exactly that
they voted.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'm going to be very precise here.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's not exactly that they've voted to open the government.
It's that they've voted to end the filibuster, thereby to
begin the process of opening the government. And as you
see from time to time with votes like this, zero
of the eight Democrats who voted to open the government

(03:34):
are facing reelection next year.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That is not a coincidence.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It is zero out of eight, and that's because the
left wing base of the party is really really upset
and they want, and have for some time wanted Democrats to,
in their mind fight back harder against Donald Trump. And
it's not so much that they agree with what Trump

(04:01):
is doing. There is some of that, but at this point,
the mindset is more, we hate Trump. You've got to
fight against him at every single turn.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
And the left wing.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Base of the Democratic Party simply feels that the party
hasn't done that enough, and they are very upset with
Chuck Schumer for going along with opening the government back
in March in a situation that was almost identical to this.
So Schumer was not one of the people who voted
to open the government this time. I won't go through
all their names right now, but just again to note

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that none of the eight are facing reelection, six of
them will be up for reelection at some other time,
and two of them would have been facing reelection next
year except they already announced their retirement and they're not
gonna run again.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Also, in this I think not a coincidence.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Four of the eight are former governors, which is a
rather interesting thing.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
The left at the moment is pretty upset, and I
think the timing of this is quite interesting because so again,
as I mentioned, the left and far left of the
Democratic base really feels like there has not been enough resistance,
democratic resistance within Congress to Trump. In fact, you had Rocanna,

(05:24):
who is a rather left wing member of the House,
not the furthest left.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
In fact, he's rational on a few things.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
You know, he's far from the worst member of Congress.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
He represents Silicon Valley.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
He's calling for Chuck Schumer to be removed as minority
leader in the Senate. And of course, of course Rocana
is in the House, not in the Senate, and that's
an interest you don't usually have that kind of dynamic,
or you've got a House member talking about what should
happen in the Senate. One does wonder if at some

(05:57):
point Chuck Schumer is going to see the writing on
the way and say he's not going to run for
re election, although I think he probably would win his
primary unless the opponent is AOC, And if the opponent
is AOC, then I think there's a good chance Chuck
Schumer loses, and he might not want to go down
like that. So we will see how it all plays
out in the meantime. What happens now. What happens now

(06:21):
is there's a package of a few different appropriations bills
that will come through to get some votes. And at
this moment, I'm not going to go through and share
with you the details of those appropriations bills, but just
different things to get the government going.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
There are a couple of things that were agreed to
in this deal. One is that the however, many thousands
of federal workers who were fired by the Trump administration,
partly as just sort of the trench warfare of this
shutdown battle, are going to be rehired. So that's part

(07:01):
of the deal, and so the Democrats can kind of
claim that as a win. But it's very important to
understand that the main thing that Democrats have said they
wanted through this whole shutdown is an extension of certain
Obamacare subsidies. And it's very important to keep in mind

(07:21):
here what's really going on.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
So all the ordinary kinds.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Of Obamacare subsidies that have been in place since Obamacare
became the law remain in place.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
None of those are at issue.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Instead, there were some temporary Obamacare subsidies that were put
in place in the Biden era American Rescue Plan. And
remember Democrats were fully in charge at that time, and
so they designed Democrats designed the subsidies to be temporary.
The reason they did that was if they weren't temporary,

(07:58):
then it would blow up the budget, and they didn't
want that to happen. On paper, they don't actually mind,
but on paper they didn't want that. So the Democrats
made them temporary. Now, they were hoping to use the
shutdown to get them extended, but they didn't.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
First they said they wanted a permanent extension.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Then when it seemed like they weren't getting their way,
they said, all right, we'll have a one year extension
and then we'll sort it out. And what they got
in this final agreement is nothing other than a promise
from the Senate majority leader that a vote on the
extensions will come up next month. That is a vote
that Democrats are almost certain to lose.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
So basically, the one.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Big thing that Democrats really wanted they didn't get, and
that's part of the reason the left wing base is
so so upset. All right, time for Gina bring you
some more news headlines. Keep it here on KOA. This
is Rosskominski on the news with Gina.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Gondek KOA News Time fourteen.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
While an end to the government shutdown may come this week,
flight delays continue at the nation's busiest airports. The FAA
has been cutting flights since Friday at forty at the airports,
and more will be ramping up this week, locally, DIA
dealing with seventy cancelations and forty nine delays so far
this morning that according to flight Aware, the investigation continues
today into last week's fiery crash at the UPS Cargo

(09:23):
Jet in Louisville, Kentucky. The confirmed death toll is at
fourteen after the plane's left wing caught fire and engine
came off before it crashed, leading to a fireball of destruction.
The FAA has ordered the inspection of all similar cargo planes.
Residents in the nation's midwest and northeast feeling the first
winter like conditions of the season. This is due to
an area of low pressure moving down from Canada and

(09:45):
into the eastern part of the country that started yesterday,
bringing some areas their first snowfall, and locally, we're still
feeling unseasonably warm temperatures for the first for this time
of the year. High temperatures today should be hovering around
seventy degrees that's about fifteen degrees above normal. Investigators blaming
a weekend grass fire in a Rapahoe County and Sparks
caused by welders. Firefighters were called to South County Road

(10:08):
one fifty seven Saturday afternoon after maintenance on a metal
gate led to the ten acre fire. Multiple departments assisted
in the firefighting efforts and brought it under control after
it burned about eighty five acres. Parks and Wildlife officials
say another female gray wolf has been found dead in
southwest Colorado. The wolf brought from British Columbia to Colorado

(10:28):
last January was discovered over a week ago. Authorities are
still investigating the cause of its death, and many think
it's just basic human interaction, but Target is now mandating
that employees smile and make eye contact with any customer
that comes within ten feet. They also ask if they
need help or make a small talk if they.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Get any closer. You're up to date here on Kowa.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
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(11:14):
News with Gina Gondeck, it's.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Rotten with Gina Gondeck.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
And I don't know how Gina, how do you feel
about being associated with a show that has that acronym.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I'll get back to you on that. We'll see if
it's rotten today or not. Again, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
You're not part of the rock exactly. It's rotten plus Gina.
It's like semi professional plus professional, right sure, And we
have to see here, I have to see how that
how that all works out?

Speaker 1 (11:43):
All right? Let's do a couple other stories with you.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
This was one that actually had on Friday, didn't get
to but worth talking about. We'll do more on the
government shutdown later. There's a lot to talk about there,
but I don't want to just do all of that
all at once. But interesting deal that the Trump administration
announced last week with the two biggest pharma companies that

(12:06):
provide GLP one drugs, and I'm gonna look at CNBC here,
but President Trump announced deals with Eli Lilly a Novo
Nordisk to slash the prices of some of their obesity
drug drugs, including upcoming pills. And by the way, you know,
as as much of a game changer as GLP ones
have been, a lot of people don't want to take
a shot every week or however often they are. And

(12:28):
if they can get this stuff into a pill format,
can you imagine literally how many billions of these pills
they're gonna sell every single year. It's gonna be just nuts. Anyway,
this agreement that they've got going is going to lower
prices of these GLP ones for people who are on

(12:49):
Medicare and Medicaid and then also offer them directly to
consumers at a discount. And one of the ways at
least that they that's going to happen is through a
government website that, because Donald Trump is president and everything
has to be named for him, is going to be
trumprx dot gov. You can imagine it will not be

(13:11):
trump rx when the next Democrat takes office, but in
any case, CNBC says the deals are among the most
politically significant announcements to date in the Trump Administration's efforts
to rein in high US drug costs. And this is
a it's a super interesting deal, right, And this means
that Medicare is going to start covering these drugs, which

(13:33):
they don't right now for some patients for the first time,
starting in maybe six or eight months, and that's a
big deal.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Some Medicare patients will have.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
A cope of fifty bucks a month for all of
the approved uses of these GLP one drugs, whether they
are injectable drugs or the oral version of the drug
which really which haven't been released yet as far as
I know. But a fifty dollars a month cope that
doesn't seem too bad. And then starting doses of the

(14:04):
of the pills actually, which which aren't out yet. For
everyone else, whether you're getting them through Medicare, Medicaid or
trump RX looks like one hundred and forty nine dollars
a month. Now, where they say starting doses, that sounds
a little tricky to me, And I think what they're
meaning by that is maybe whatever the smallest dose is.

(14:24):
And again I haven't taken this stuff, and I don't
know much about it, but I think this may be
one of the kinds of medications where you start on
a lower dose and move up a bit over time.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Dragon.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, I've got a few family members who are on
the GPO one shots. Yes, they do dose up so
the smallest dose doesn't work as well as they think
it should, right, and they will increase the dose to
another point five or another point or whatever it is. So, yes,
I would That's how I would assume the pills would
be very similar to that. They'll start you out on
the low dose and then work you up if it's
not working as well.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Right, So what that might mean is, let's and I'm
just gonna use numbers that don't mean anything, but let's
say year starting dose is one, right, and then even
if the doctor thinks you need to be at two
right away, but you start at one and you're working
your way up to two. It sounds like what they're
saying here is your starting dose of one will be

(15:14):
one hundred and forty nine dollars a month, but then
when you need two, it'll I don't know if it'll
be double that. Maybe they'll make a pill that's two
instead of two pills of one, and the one pill
of two might be less than the cost of two
pills of one if you get my if you get
my drift right, like, like the pill of one might
be one hundred and forty nine dollars a month and

(15:35):
the pills of two might be two hundred and forty
nine dollars a month or something.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
We'll have to we'll have to see how that goes.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Still, it's it's a big cost savings versus what's going
on now. And it's an interesting thing for President Trump
to have gotten done. And I do think a lot
of these companies just don't want to be on the
on the wrong side of this stuff, and I would
of Trump, of Trump and of policy. Also, it's a

(16:03):
way for them to sell more of this stuff if
Medicare wasn't going to cover it. And let's say it
cost them twenty bucks to make this drug and they're
selling it for one hundred and fifty. And I'm just
guessing on the profit margin. Okay, but you might as
well do that. I mean, it's especially if the president
is going to come after you if you don't, even

(16:24):
if it means you got to lower your price of
some of the other stuff somewhat. Anyway, that's just kind
of how you know, how it's gonna go. So and
all right, one other thing, I want to do this
story real quickly. I'm gonna do this story in about
one minute. So I mentioned the other day that I
watched this series on I think it was on Netflix
called Zero Hour starring Robert de Niro, and it was

(16:46):
the first de Niro thing that I'd watched in a while.
Because he annoyed me so much with his politics. And
it's not so much that he annoyed me because I
disagree with his politics, even though that I even though
I do, but rather that he just wouldn't shut up
about him as if we care what his politics. And
he got very very aggressive and he would, you know,
be swearing in public at Donald Trump, and I just
I just didn't.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Dig it, and it kind of turned me off of him.
So I saw this story.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
So, you know, Jennifer Lawrence very very well known actress
or maybe you're supposed to say actor these days, and
she's been pretty outspoken against Donald Trump, although actually I
think she's somewhat conservative and she grew up in a
Republican family, but she's she's been kind of outspoken against
Donald Trump. And she spoke with The New York Times

(17:33):
for an interview of a podcast she's gonna do, and
she said, essentially, actually, I'll give you a quote. As
we've learned election after election, celebrities do not make a
difference whatsoever on whom people vote for.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
So then what am I doing.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'm just sharing my opinion on something that's going to
add fuel to a fire that's ripping the country apart.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
We are so divided in short.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
In short, Jennifer Lawrence is saying she's gonna stop talking
about Donald Trump, and I think that's very welcome, and again,
not specifically because of anything I think about Donald Trump,
but because I really don't want to know the politics
of celebrities, and I think it's bad for them because,
as Michael Jordan said, Republicans buy sneakers.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Too, Koa News Time six thirty one.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm Gina Gondek.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
On this vote, the yas are sixty and the nayser forty.
Three fifths of the Senate duly chosen and sworn having
voted in the affirmative, the motion upon reconsideration is agreed to.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Here's a glimmer of pope to end the government shutdown.
In a late night session on Capitol Hill last night,
just enough Democrats voted to advance a Republican bill that
would extend the funding for the government through the end
of January. They'll reconvene this morning to continue working to
process the bill, and the House would still have to
return and sign off on the Senate's version before it
goes to President Trump's desk for his signature. Colorado senators

(19:02):
explaining their no votes to the bill, both.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
John hick and Looper and Michael Bennett cited the lack
of the extension of healthcare premium tax credits as a
reason for a no vote. Bennett says, if Congress fails
to extend the credits, now millions of Americans and more
than two hundred eighty thousand Colorados will see their healthcare
premiums double triple or even quadruple. Bennett says we should
reopen the government, but he refuses to do it at
the expensive families who are simply trying.

Speaker 8 (19:25):
To pay for healthcare. Chad Bauer KOA News.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
As the legal battle over SNAP funds drags on, hundreds
of thousands of Colorados who use the programmer in limbo,
but neighbors are stepping up to help. Englewood resident Madison
tmtore a website Denverfoodnetwork dot org.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
The matches those who want help with those who need it.
It's been about I think a little over a week now.

Speaker 9 (19:48):
We've had one hundred people sign up to help, and
almost eighty people are request.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Help, she tells Fox thirty one.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Even after SNAP benefits are restored, the effort will continue.
Volunteers can give grocery gift cards or drop off food directly.
Denver maror Mike Johnston not vetowing ten budget amendments approved
by the city council last week. The amendments add about
nine million dollars to the budget, including the restoration of
nearly three million in election funding to the Denver Clerk
and Recorder's office. On Wall Street stock futures mostly up

(20:15):
this morning on news of that tentative deal to end
the shutdown. Dow futures up around one hundred and seventy
six points, SMP have climbed sixty two points. Nasdeck futures
down slightly forty nine points, and in sports, the Abs
picked up an overtime win, defeeding the Vancouver Canucks five
to four last night at Rogers Arena. The Nuggets looking
for their fifth straight victory taking on the Sacramento Kings tomorrow.

(20:36):
Night on the Road, Fox thirty one pinpoint weather Guarroupe
for another warm week today, more sunshine, Temperatures hover around
seventy degrees.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
It's about fifteen.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Degrees above normal for this time of the year, dipping
down into the upper forties overnight tonight back into the
upper sixties to near seventy for Veterans Day. Our next
update in fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Admiral James de Rita's former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and
best selling author of both fiction and nonfiction and co
founder of the somewhat secretive but highly influential Two Dudes
Consulting joins us on KOA.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Good morning, Admiral, good morning, how are we doing.

Speaker 10 (21:12):
Congratulations on the new show, Ross, thank you, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
You're my very first guests on the new show.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
And that was that was quite intentional before we jump
into our our various topics today.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
There's a major birthday today.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Do you want to wish happy birthday to anybody or anybody's.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Help me out the Marine Corps.

Speaker 10 (21:33):
Oh gosh, you know, I'm in the Navy.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I know, but your dad was a marine of.

Speaker 10 (21:37):
The Marines, and my dad was a marine. And what
we say to a marine on the birthday is not
happy birthday. We say semper fidelus, which means always faithful.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Indeed, what marines are sempified All the Marines listening to
the show right now. Got a few things I would
like to ask you about you. Before being NATO commander,
you ran Southcom. And I was curious what your thoughts
were regarding the recent announced early retirement of the current

(22:10):
so Healthcom commanders. Some folks suspect that he may be
objecting to the Trump administration policy of blowing up some
of those drug boats.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
And I wonder two things.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Do you have any insights and what do you would
you be objecting to that policy if you still had
that job.

Speaker 10 (22:29):
As to the first Admiral Josey, his name is ed
Alvin Josey has been non communicative about why he is laming.
So it could be a personal issue, it could be
a medical issue, could be as you ascribed to it.
The possibility of disagreements with the administration about the policy

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to go after counter narcotics boats. We just don't know.
In terms of my own view, I'm hampered ross because
I don't see the intelligence. I think that what the
administration needs to do if they want to make the
case that they can simply blow up these drug boats,
and they do so under the rubric of declaring them

(23:15):
combatants who are coming to the United States to kill Americans.
You know, if a terrorists we're coming here with a bomb,
and we knew all that, then yeah, it would be
legal to take out such a terrorist. The question here
is the intelligence. How do they know these are drug boats?

(23:35):
How do they know they're coming to the United States.
All we see are the videos, and so without access
to the intelligence, I can't make an informed judgment. But
I think it's a very difficult case to make for
the administration. They need to do a better job explaining
publicly what the theory of the case is here.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Okay, one follow up on this without asking you whether
you think these are legal or not. In a hypothetical
situation where you believed you were getting an illegal order, and.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
You communicated back through the chain of.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Command that you believed it was an illegal order, and
the chain of command says that might be your opinion,
but those are still your orders.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
And then if.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
You decided I can't live with that and I'm going
to retire early, resign, whatever do you think you personally,
Admiral James Tavritez would make any public statements in that
kind of situation about why you resigned.

Speaker 10 (24:35):
It's such an intensely personal judgment that any officer who
would have to make. You've correctly outlined the course of action,
which is to communicate your disagreement. If overruled and you
find yourself your conscience shocked by the order, then you
would have the resignation option. Whether I would then go

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public would depend on the nature of the particular order,
and if it were something that was, say, a policy
disagreement to stay in Latin America. I didn't believe that
attacking Venezuela was within the bounds of the laws of
armed conflict. Attacking the mainland of Venezuela. I think in

(25:23):
that case I probably would not get into a public
conversation about it. If, on the other hand, I were
being ordered to assassinate the families of Venezuelan leaders, then yeah,
I think that's so egregious. I think also unlikely. But
if I were ordered something like that to commit effectively

(25:44):
murder on civilians, for example, then I think yes you would,
because it shocks the conscience so thoroughly. You'd have, I think,
a moral and ethical obligation to make that public.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
We're talking with Admiral James to Bread, his former NATO
Supreme Commander, former southcom commander, author of many books. This morning,
I will commend to you twenty thirty four, a novel
of the Next World War, and the Admiral's bookshelf is
latest non fiction, but just one great book after another
his website Admiral staff stav dot com. All right, I

(26:18):
think I've got time for one more quick topic with you.
Admiral The Secretary of War's last Secretary of Defense gave
an interesting speech a few days ago in which he
talked about a system that is full of bureaucracy and
sclerosis and inefficient, bloated five year plans, and you know,

(26:39):
it sounded intentionally that like he was talking about the
Soviet Union, but he was talking about the Department of
Defense's acquisition procedures, and he sounds like he's, you know,
wants to make some huge changes to modernize all that.
And you are far more expert than I, in my
unexpert opinion, says he has identified a real problem that

(26:59):
a lot of people have known is a real problem
for a long time.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
What are your thoughts in this instance?

Speaker 10 (27:06):
I agree with Secretary Headsets. I yield to no individual
with my frustrations over the years with the defense acquisition system.
And this has been a well known problem for decades.
I hope Secretary Heggset goes at it hard. I hope
he brings in a lot of outside eyes to work

(27:29):
on it. I hope that he puts pressure on the
big defense companies. I hope that he flows resources.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
To smaller, faster, cooler.

Speaker 10 (27:40):
Hipper companies that are producing, for example, stealthy drones or
swarm technologies or lasers. These are all things that the
system screams for so, I'm in favor of taking a
very aggressive approach here. In this instance, I'm in agreement

(28:03):
with Secretary Hank.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Seth, Admiral James Stavrita's former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, admiralstav
dot com to learn more and check out all his
books as well. I know you've got to get to
the airport. Thanks for making time for us.

Speaker 10 (28:15):
Thanks for letting me be the first guest on your
new show. Congratulations. I'm proud to be part of Team Ross.
Go get them.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Thanks, Admiral, appreciate it. We'll take you a quick break.
We'll be right back on KOA.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
KOA News Time six forty nine.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Even with an end to the government shutdown possibly in sits,
Colorado travelers can expect more flight headaches this week. DIA
is still feeling the effects of the FAA's nationwide flight reductions,
and the cancelations are stacking up right now. There are
ninety cancelations at DIA so far this morning, as well
as seventy delays. According to flight Aware, It's best to
check with your airline before heading to the airports. The

(28:54):
Littleton Police Department, mourning the loss of one of their officers.
The social media post said the officer experience the medical
emergency on Friday and died on the same day. The
officer has not been publicly identified. President Trump says payments
of at least two thousand dollars will be distributed to
Americans except for high income people, through the tariffs he's
placed on imports into the US.

Speaker 11 (29:15):
In a truth social post, the president said people that
are against the tariffs are fools. But the Supreme Court
is considering a legal challenge to the tariffs brought on
by a group of businesses, and the majority on the
High Court appears to be leaning towards declaring the tariffs illegal,
with Chief Justice John Roberts saying the tariffs are taxes,

(29:37):
and the power to impose taxes has always been with Congress,
not the executive branch.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
That's Fox's Jill Nato and more than four hundred thousand
Honda Civics are under recall because the wheels may come
off while moving. The recall effects model years twenty sixteen
through twenty twenty one. The company says the supplier error
could cause the wheel nuts to loosen and eventually detach.
The newscast sponsored by done Right Home Improvement. Our next
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Speaker 2 (30:03):
This is Rosskiminski on the News with Gina Goondak Kawai's
new show from six am to nine am, and we
hope you're gonna have a lot of fun with us.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I want to just.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Do a quick kind of market update in the aftermath
of the news last night that it looks like the
government shutdown is going to be ending. Stock index futures
are up pretty good. Dow futures and S and P
futures are up a little bit less than a percent.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, Dow future is a little less than a half percent.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
NASDAK future is up quite a bit more, a little
more than a percent and a half.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
The interesting thing for me this morning is that everything
is up right.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Oil is up, gold, silver, bitcoin, natural gas, copper, lots
and lots of things are up. And I think the
message there is that the market is feeling a little
bit of relief that the government shutdown won't be slowing
down the economy anymore. That's just one possible interpretation, but

(30:58):
that's what I'll share with you this morning at Business
and Market Update, brought to you by Blue Heron Capital
All right, Gina sent me a story that I was
just I was just looking at at News Nation's website
and then coincidentally it popped up on the television on
one of the cable news channels like one minute ago.
And I'm not that much of a Starbucks person, Gena,

(31:20):
so you're gonna have to explain this.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Hey, I'm not either, all right, But I always get
very invested in these stories of people going crazy over
some of the Starbucks merch because they have these tumblers
that everyone goes crazy for, the holiday cups that everyone
gets excited for when they launched their Christmas collection and
stuff like that. But this bear resta cup is really
just the tip of the iceberg for Starbucks fanatics.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Does it look like a bear? It looks like a bear.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
And you remember the old honey jars or whatever that
this squeezy honey things.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Well, that's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
It could look like Walmart did a great job with
a with a tongue in cheek post where they took
one of those honey jars, washed it out and put
you could buy just your barrista cup at Walmart for
like two three bucks. It looks exactly like a honey jar.
But I guess people are going nuts over this new jar.
It's like a new cup. I should say, it's like
thirty bucks at Starbucks. And it's a glass barrista is

(32:17):
what they call it.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
And it looks just like a bear.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
And there was lines. People camped out like Black Friday
to get these things. I guess there was fights happening
in Starbucks over them. It sounded like some of the
Starbucks baristas were hoarding them for their selves, and so
other people were showing up and they were already quote
unquote sold out.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh my god, they were hanging on to them.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
And now people are saying that they're selling on eBay
between three hundred and one thousand dollars for this Starbucks cup.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
I'm looking at eBay right now. Oh there's a bargain.
I see one for one hundred and twenty dollars. Oh,
we should get it ready, Yeah, but I see a
whole bunch where people are trying to get five hundred
and a thousand, And I guess it's glass. You probably
wouldn't squeeze it real hard, no, because that could Yeah,
how much would you pay for one Gina zero zero?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Also?

Speaker 4 (33:02):
I can't tell how many ounces it is, but to
me it looks small, and I'm like, you see my
giant jar here.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
That massive half a gallon something. So I'm like, I
don't really know how helpful this is. Let's look this up.
You keep talking while I look this up.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Well, it's also the fact that it's shaped like a bear.
You would think that it's more like kids sized and
for kids, but it's made of glass, so I don't
think it's something that you're usually giving to your kids.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
I think it's just Starbucks fans.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
They want to drink like their iced coffee out of it,
But it seems like a very impractical cup. It's cute,
don't get me wrong, it is cute, but I just
don't understand why people are Really.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
It's twenty ounces, which probably bigger than we thought. Wow,
it looks small.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Photos that's still a little a little too small for
your beverage, like sixty four. All right, Well, you know what,
if you've here's here's my advice for you. If you've
got one of these berries to things, sell it while
the selling is good.

Speaker 12 (33:54):
Yeah, just like Beanie Baby, like Beanie Baby, just like
the just like the tulip craze, and just like every
other fad in the history of mankind, we'll be right
back on koa good Monday morning.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
On Gina Gondek.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
The longest government shut down in US history may be
on the verge of coming to an end, the Senate
adjourning late last night after clearing a key hurdle on
government funding.

Speaker 13 (34:16):
We heard speeches from lawmakers making their case for what
they planned to do, and then this vote happened, And
though it was held open for a very long time,
we did see eight Democratic Caucus members, the minimum amount
that could have been involved in trying to reopen the government,
vote to advance a bill that's going to eventually lead
likely to the government opening.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
That's ABC's Eli picorin the Senate is expected to return
this morning to continue processing the bill to fund the
government until the end of January. Both Colorado senators voting
no on the Republican funding plan to end the shutdown.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
Michael Bennett and John Hickenlooper, say it's because the measure
does not extend healthcare premium tax credits. Hickenlooper says the
bills failed to address skyrocketing healthcare premiums caused by the
Republican big bad bill, so he voted no. Hick and
Looper says every Senate Democrat believes every American should have healthcare,
but Republicans refused to come to the table and work.

Speaker 8 (35:09):
To tackle the healthcare crisis. Chad Bauer KOA.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
News A good Samaritan has been killed in Weld County.

Speaker 14 (35:15):
It happened on I twenty five over the weekend near
the town of Mead. A twenty six year old woman
was helping another vehicle on the side of the road
when she was hit by a passing car. She was
pronounced dead at the scene. State Patrol says the driver
of the car that hit the woman remained unseene. The
identity of the woman killed has not been released. David
Koa News.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
A nationwide baby formula recall being issued after babies in
ten states contracted botulism.

Speaker 15 (35:41):
The FDA is warning parents that thirteen babies got sick
and needed to be hospitalized after drinking by Heart whole
nutrition infant formula. Infant botulism is a rare illness that
can be fatal, but the FDA says no deaths have
been reported. The impacted states include New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Zona, California, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon,

(36:03):
Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
On Wall Street Stop Futures Up this morning on news
that the Senate has reached that tentative deal, setting up
an end to the longest government shutdown in US history.
In sports, Basketball Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkins has died
at the age of eighty eight. Wilkins was a nine
time All Star during his playing days. As a head coach,
he won the nineteen seventy nine NBA title with the
Seattle SuperSonics won a gold medal, leading to the nineteen

(36:29):
ninety six US Olympic team. The Avs beat the Canucks
last night, five to four and overtime in Vancouver. Fox
thirty one pinpoint weather, sunny, warm Monday ahead. High temperature
today hovering around seventy degrees, dipping down into the low
forties overnight tonight. Seventies continue for much of this week.
Currently it's twenty six in Denver.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
This is Rosskominski on the News with Gina Gandak, and
thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
On our inaugural show.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
I want to make sure you know coming up approximately
ninety minutes from now, maybe eighty eight eight minutes or
eighty seven and a half if you want to be precise.
Governor Jared Polus is going to join the show. One
of the things we'll talk about is his efforts to
reduce car insurance rates here in the state of Colorado. Okay,
I want to just I had an epiphany this morning

(37:17):
or some other strange word.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Did it hurt?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
They have medicine for that. They have an ointment for that. Now, jackon,
clear that, right on, you'll clear it right up. Oh
my gosh. Okay, So I was thinking about going in
in the context of the government shutdown being about to
be done. Right, So last night they voted to proceed
to further votes to reopen the government, and as I

(37:45):
mentioned earlier, eight Democrats voted along with every Republican. Actually,
they had to wait for John Cornyn of Texas, right
they had fifty nine, they needed sixty and Cornyn was
flying back from Texas, so they had to leave the
vote open for a while as he landed at airport
and gotten a taxi or an uberg or probably had
a driver because they wanted to get him back so fast.

(38:06):
And he came back and cast that sixtieth vote after
keeping everyone waiting for a long time. Anyway, there were
two major issues that have been kind of playing out
regarding the impact of the shutdown on normal people. One
is flights, air traffic and all this stuff. You've heard
about how many cancelations and delays there were yesterday. There

(38:27):
were over twenty nine hundred cancelations across the country yesterday,
and Fox is showing ten thousand delays, but I think
the number was more than that in any case. The
other issue is SNAP benefits food stamps, and this I
think is it was very very interesting politics. I'm putting
aside whether I'm putting aside any argument about the legality.

(38:50):
Right the Trump administration argued that they didn't have the
authority to use contingency funds to fund SNAP, and other
people are arguing, yes, they do some states, and then
a judge ruled you've got to do the funding. Some
states passed along some money, and then the Trump administration
jumped in with a temporary Well, actually the Supreme Court

(39:14):
jumped in and said, well, hold off on that for now.
And then the Trump administration went to those states and said,
you have to pull back all the money you've already
given and a bunch of states said no, and it
was all a mess. But here was the part that
was interesting for me. The Trump administration worked very hard,
very publicly, very aggressively, in a way that made me

(39:35):
scratch my head a little bit, I have to say,
at making sure that snap benefits didn't go through, making
sure that well, some people might be a little bit
or more than a little bit hungry, And it seemed
like a tricky political maneuver to make, right, do you
want to be the one getting blamed for people going hungry?

(39:57):
And I thought it was kind of a bad look.
But here is how I think it might have been smart.
I think that it demonstrated to Democrats that Trump in particular,
regardless of the rest of the Republicans, because they're just
going to follow him, that Trump in particular was so
dug in on not giving in on this shutdown that

(40:23):
they were absolutely wasting their time. Right, So they're in
their minds if Trump is so locked in to not
reopening the government except with this clean cr basically that
he is willing to not just let people be hungry,
but publicly argue for even pulling back foodstamp money they

(40:46):
just got. This is a guy we better not mess with.
And it reminded me because and I still think it's
a very It was a bad look for him with
many people. Right, many people will say, why would you
be willing to cause people to be hungry? It's a
very dangerous political move. And it reminded me of this.
Let's see if you recognize what it is, I'll just

(41:07):
tell you.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
It's a scene in a Western. Here we go, Hold it.

Speaker 16 (41:13):
The next man makes a move that gets it. Hold it, man,
he's not bluffing.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Listen to him.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Man, he's just crazy enough to do it.

Speaker 16 (41:27):
Robert, I swear I'll blow this man all over this town.

Speaker 10 (41:33):
He's desperate.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Do what he's saying, to what he says.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
All right.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
That is a brilliant scene from Blazing Saddles where the
sheriff who's black in a town of white racists has
guns pulled on him by some of these guys who
want to force him out of town. And so he
pulls a gun on his own, gun on himself, points
it in his own head and says he'll kill himself.

(42:02):
He'll shoot himself, right, And then all these other guys
around him say he's just crazy.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Enough to do it. He's not bluffing.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
And that's what I think Donald Trump just did when
it came to snap benefits. I don't know just the theory.
I am president of the Bad Analogy Club.

Speaker 17 (42:21):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Anyway, there you go. I hope you found that as
much fun as I did. We'll take a quick break.
We'll be right back on KOA.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
KOA News Time seven eighteen. I'm Gina Gondek. It's day
forty one of the government shutdown, and while an end
may come this week, flight delays continue at the nation's airports.
The FAA has been cutting flights since Friday at forty
of the busiest airports.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
More will be ramping up this week.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Locally, the Denver International Airports is dealing with seventy cancelations
so far this morning, as well as ninety one delays.
The investigation is underway into last week's fiery crash of
a UPS cargo jet in Louisville, Kentucky. The confirmed death
toll still stands at least least fourteen after the plane's
left wing caught fire and an engine came off before
it crashed, leading to a fireball of destruction. The FAA

(43:08):
is now ordered an inspection of similar cargo planes. Residents
in the nation's midwest and northeast feeling the first winter
like conditions of the season. This is due to an
area of low pressure moving down from Canada and into
the eastern part of the country. It started yesterday, bringing
some areas their first snowfall. Locally, we're still feeling unseasonably
warm temperatures for this time of the year. High temperatures

(43:30):
today should be hovering around seventy degrees that's about fifteen
degrees above normal. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliaboo has died
at the age of eighty four. Tagliaboo served as commissioner
from nineteen eighty nine until two thousand and six, before
being succeeded by current Commissioner Roger Goodell. Parks and Wildlife
officials say another female gray wolf has been found dead

(43:52):
in the southwest part of the state. The wolf brought
from British Columbia to Colorado last January.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
It was discovered over a week ago. Are still investigating
the cause of death.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
And then you think of it as pretty much a
basic human interaction. But Target is now mandating that employees
smile and make eye contact with any customer that comes
within ten feet. They all also have to ask if
they need help or make small talk if they get closer.
The newsgas sponsored by Common Spirit Health. Your next update
coming up in fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Gina stepped out of the studio for a minute, which
is perfect time for me to talk about this thing
that I want to talk about with you.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
We need to know when her trash day is so
we can immediately forget when her trash day is and
remind her to take her trash out.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, well this is the thing.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Doesn't Gina live in a high rise in some kind
of apartment building.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
No, No, we haven't gotten a not gena that they
even show.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
She's running back. She's literally running back.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I mean I was taking taking the opportunity to talk
about Gina without even being here.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
She heard it and ran back.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
I do you realize I'm like ten feet out there,
So it's if you're talking about me, I'm gonna come
in and come Yes, I do live in an apartment complex.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
No, I do not know when our trash or recycling, so.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
You personally don't have a trash day. Yeah, is it
one of those situations with the hole in the wall
and the clock in the room, and you go drop
the bag in there, the shoot and then that's it. Yeah,
every day, so either every day. So do you think
every day is trash day or no? Day is trash day?

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Every day is trash every day is recycling day for
me because I take out my.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Recycling and put it in the bin.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Often, trash day is probably like once a week.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
No, no, no, every other week maybe for.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Me because we don't do that much trash, but recycling
is a lot. Every day's recycling day, which I know
is highly debatable for you guys.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
That's you, and you're even further than Dragon then in
terms of how little trash you create.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, do you have work to do?

Speaker 10 (45:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Probably? Okay, go do your work.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Now she's gone, man, Now she's literally running back to
her desk, all right, now that we know that she's
out and can't possibly hear us, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
But we're on out there. But no, no, they can't. They
can't hear. They can't hear. What do you want to do?
A cone of silence?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Now?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Okay, so only you and I and.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
The thousands of people listening out there right now every
other way can hear us, but there's no way Gina can.
So one of the things Dragon, that I want to
do over the course of this show, as we do
this for however many years, is drag Gina into our
wacky food eating stuff. Now, Gina, I think, will stick
to her vegetarianism.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Hey, wait, can I do something really quick? Yeah? Sure,
I create what you want?

Speaker 16 (46:32):
What do you got?

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Yeah, sorry, I gotta put the right button here. Hit
the right button.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
Just because Gina is here. Yeah, it doesn't mean we're
going to be any better at our jobs.

Speaker 16 (46:46):
We can talk onto the cone of science. Then of science,
you go.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
We need to keep that handy for the future. You
should use that all. That's a great thing. So, by
the way, my favorite TV show of all time, My
single favorite TV show of all time, now Dragon. Just
so you understand, I think Gina is fairly committed to
her vegetarianism. True, I don't think she's a vegan, so
I don't think we have to worry about that degree

(47:18):
of nonsense.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
But in any case, I saw this story. I'm just
gonna mention it briefly because I want to just kind
of stay on time.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Here, Dragon, did you know that Walmart exclusively. Walmart has
a new flavor of Craft Macaroni and cheese.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Have you heard about this? Have you heard about it? No?
What flavor?

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Dude, You're gonna think this is the onion, but it's
not apple pie.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Let's do it. We gotta do it, have to do it.
I'm gonna make it at home.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I'll bring it in in topperwar heat it up in
the microwave at some point, and then the three.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Of us will eat it.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Now, since we have to reheat it here, make sure
when you make it you make it with a little
bit more milk so that we're reheat it here, it
will be the proper consistency.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
I absolutely will do that.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
So and for anybody who's tried this already, text us
at five six six nine zero and let us know
how it is. Ross first, Oh right, right, yeah, yeah,
why don't you explain that real quick.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
We're not the only ones that uses this text line
five six six nine zero. We were the only ones
to use the text line and our old time slot, right,
but at this time slot, we're not the only station
that uses us. So it will be very helpful if
you text Ross First to five six six nine zero,
then your message so that we can sort it out
a little bit, or.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
If you're texting a Dragon or Gina, put that first, right, Dragon, Comma, whatever,
especially since it's Dragon's show. All Right, We're gonna take
a quick break. We'll be right back on Kowa.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Good Monday morning. I'm Gina Gondek.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
The longest government shutdown in US history may be on
the verge of coming to an end. Eight senators and
the Democratic Caucus crossed the aisle to vote with Republicans,
breaking the filibuster on.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
A government funding bill.

Speaker 9 (48:54):
The vote, the said it took overnight is the first
step in a series of procede role maneuvers, and of
course the House will have to vote on the package too,
so it will take a few more days before the
government reopens. But Sunday's vote was the first clear sign
that a bipartisan deal had been reached after a roughly
forty day stalemate.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
The Senate voted.

Speaker 9 (49:13):
Sixty to forty to back a revamp the GOP funding
bill that would keep the government open until the end
of January. Eight Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill,
including Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, Senators Tim Kaine, Catherine
Cortes Mastow, and Jackie Rosen, among others.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
That's Fox's Madeline Rivera.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Democrats were demanding an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies
in exchange for their support in order to prevent millions
of Americans from seeing a spike in healthcare costs. Senate
Majority Leader John Thune pledging there will be a vote
on extending those subsidies next month. President Trump issuing pardons
for dozens of people.

Speaker 18 (49:48):
The announcement of President Trump issuing full pardons for seventy
seven key allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman,
and Sydney Powell, coming from US Pardon Attorney Ed Martin
I next Sunday night. President Trump, writing in his proclamation
that it did not include himself, critics that accuse those
now pardoned, planning to overturn the twenty twenty election by

(50:11):
submitting names of alternate electors from Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan. January,
President Trump part more than one thousand supporters convicted in
connection with the January sixth riot at the US Capitol.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Sue Gusman, Fox News.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
States relying on the Colorado River, racing toward a deadline
to reach new agreement on how the river's two largest reservoirs,
Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are managed. Forty million people
rely on the Colorado River, which spans seven states, thirty
tribal nations, and parts of Mexico. Interim guidelines for river
management agreed upon back in two thousand and seven, expire
next year, and, as it does every November tenth, the

(50:48):
bronze bell recovered from the SS Edmund fitzbrog Gerald will
toll again today to honor the crew of the cargo
ship that sank on Lake Superior.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
On this date fifty years ago.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
On Wall Street, stocks open high this morning on news
of that tentative deal.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
To end the shutdown.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
At last check, Dow was up two hundred and fifty points,
SMP climbing seventy, Nasdaq up three hundred and seventy five.
In sports, the Abs picking up an overtime win defeating
the Vancouver Canucks five to four last night at Rogers Arena.
The Nuggets looking for their fifth Street victory, taking on
the Sacramento Kings tomorrow. Night on the Road, Fox thirty
one Pinpoint weather gearing up for a warm week ahead.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Today plenty of sunshine.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Temperatures should hover around seventy degrees, that's about fifteen degrees
about normal for this time of the year, dipping down
into the upper forties overnight tonight back into the upper
sixties to near seventies or Veterans Day. Our next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondek on Koway.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Ross Kominski on the News with Gina Gondeck and Mandy
has anagram that it's a rotten What I was just
gonna say, yeah, rotten, Yeah, Ross Kiminski on the News.
If you take out the K, you can make the
anagram of rotten.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Ain't nobody got time to say Ross Keminski on the
News to say, wordy it is.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It's worthy rotten with Gina Gondek. I don't know if
that's good for Gina or bad for Gina. But one
quick thing I want to mention, just a very very
small follow up on one of the stories Gina just
mentioned regarding those pardons that President Trump issued for Rudy Giuliani,
John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and a couple others who were

(52:19):
involved in this scheme to try to create these fake
sets of electors where they could claim that Trump won
the election in YadA, YadA, YadA. Is sort of a
legalistic point I want to make, not a political point,
and that is a president can only pardon against federal charges, right.
A president has no authority to pardon state charges or.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
To interfere in any way with things like.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
A board where a lawyer and attorney my like the bar,
I should say, might get disbarred for some kinds of actions.
So some of these folks like Rudy Giuliani are facing
eat charges or have faced state charges, have faced or
will still face disbarment, and Trump can't do anything about that.

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And none of the people that he pardoned are actually
facing any federal charges. So at the moment, for these people,
at least, it doesn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
It's a little bit more symbolic.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Oh, his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows is also
one of those dragon Could you put my audio up please?
So Gina has been talking about this story this morning.
Uh and and here's the here's the headline from who
has this New.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
York Post, But it's all over the place.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Target mandates employees smile and make small talk in bid
to lift holiday sales. So David kl from our KOA
newsroom said this reminded him of something.

Speaker 8 (53:50):
Hey, hey, what we live said?

Speaker 3 (53:53):
You didn't say hello? Yes?

Speaker 16 (53:55):
I did?

Speaker 1 (53:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (53:55):
No, you didn't.

Speaker 8 (53:58):
No I said hello?

Speaker 3 (53:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (53:59):
No?

Speaker 8 (54:00):
I said hey, hey is hello? Same thing.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
The ad said that the bank's going to pay one
hundred dollars if you're not greeted with a Helloa.

Speaker 8 (54:06):
You're taking that much too literally, now.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Sir, this has been going on for a while, right,
and Gina, here's my here's my question for you. When
when you go shopping and an employee comes up to
you and says, you know, Hi, how you doing? Can
I help you find anything? Do you find that helpful
and courteous or do you find that like, hey, leave

(54:30):
me alone. I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
Usually helpful and courteous because I'm probably trying to find something.
But I don't feel like asking somebody if they're like
stocking the shelf, because I don't know if they're busy
or things like that. So usually yes, if you ask me,
I'm probably looking for something that I need help for.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, and I my question was a little cynical sounding,
but I'm actually with you on that. It's fine as
long I wouldn't want everybody to, like, you know, come
swarming at you, like like you're walking around with with
honey all over your body and someone hit a bees,
you know, a beehive, and now there's a thousand of them.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
But I don't mind it. I guess it also depends
on the store.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
There's definitely some stores where it feels like they get
commissioned where they're just like wanting. You know, you walk
into like a perfume shop or something like that, you
could tell they just like flock to you. But yes,
at a basic grocery store, I usually need help.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Figuring out well, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
That's why I just have cut way back on going
to perfume stores, right.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Not nearly, not nearly as much as I used to.
What dragon, leave me alone until I ask for help.
Let me alone. There's that side, let me hunt. I
will give me a minute, I'll find it. If it's
gonna take me forever, it's gonna take me forever. If
I get frustrated, I'm gonna come ask you.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
That definitely goes for a lot of like home improvement stores,
where a lot of people will be like I know
more than you don't.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Don't please don't boss.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
See it's funny you mentioned that because I was just
thinking about home Depot, right. I'm in home depot a
lot and have been in home depot a lot, and
most of the time I know where to go for something.
If you don't, you could be lost for twenty minutes
trying to find it. So I actually like when I
actually like when they ask me, especially in a large store.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Okay, I like it. I like it when they when
they when they ask me.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
And I also so now separately, this is about Target,
and I don't know, I feel like and the numbers
show as far as Target sales, like, their sales numbers
are down, they're not.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Doing that great.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
And they had some of this political stuff that kind
of you know, when stores get a little political, then
one guy gets mad, and then when they back off,
then another guy gets mad, and it's probably a little
bit of it. But just in general with Target, I
don't know why. I've just I don't know, I've been
drifting more in the Walmart direction when I'm looking at
that kind of store. Do you think friendly people coming

(56:46):
up and saying hi is a kind of thing that
will really cause shoppers to say I like that experience
level back there.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
No, No, I don't think so, not for like a
place like Target. Usually when I feel like a lot
of people are wandering Target, Target's definitely a wandering store
for for females, they love to just go and then
before you know it, hundreds of dollars later, they're like,
probably just blacked out in there.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
What just happened.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
So I have a feeling that even if they are
coming up to you like this new Target policy is
saying greeting them, asking if you need help with anything,
it's not going to be like, Wow, that was a
great experience. I can't wait to go to Target again.
I don't think that really changes the shopping habit.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Folks.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
I want you to text us at five six six
nine zero and put Ross or Gina in front of
that text so we know that it's or Dragon right,
just for this convers yeah, but for your dragon whoever
you're texting at, so we know you're texting at.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Us and not the other radio station. They used this.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
And I would like to know if if having a
friendly employee come up and say hi to you would
give you enough of a positive vibe about that store
that it would make you more likely to go back.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
Also, I love how you two are now just realizing
the text line and the challenges of the text line
where we share with another person with another station in
the morning. Yeah, because some of the things they're talking
about on our fellow station is a interesting exactly you
know what they like to talk about.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Good times. Here's a couple of listener texts. Ross. My
husband was just complaining.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
About customer service at home depot.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
We had to inform our employees that they're not allowed
to wear earbuds while working.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
It's dangerous and tunes people out.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
And my favorite listener text of the morning so far,
I'm extremely disappointed that you've brought Kaminsky on in the morning.
That is that's a good one, all right, all right,
but yeah, I know I want to know if you
know having these friendly, helpful, smiling, shiny people come over
and talk to you will make you come back to

(58:39):
a store. I actually think they should do it. I
think it's despite the curmudgeon behind the glass right there,
I think it's a positive.

Speaker 5 (58:47):
I still better be able to find you when I
need you. But don't don't come up to me, no,
let me, look, I will find you if I need something.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Can you usually find someone when you need them?

Speaker 3 (58:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (59:00):
So I was going to say never, never, absolutely never.
And I agree that's like the bigger problem.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
In fact, it would be a bigger It would be
a bigger plus for me, and it sounds like for
you if we could find someone when we needed them,
rather than having come up unbidden when we don't need them. Dragon,
in the interest of semi professional radio, did you say
I should hit the button right now?

Speaker 9 (59:22):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Why not? All right, let's hit this button and see
what happens.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Wow, look at that sky away news time seven forty four.
It's a major step toward reopening the government, the Senate
voting to pass a funding measure in a late night
Sunday session that would fund the government through January thirtieth.
The agreement includes a future vote on extending healthcare subsidies
and assurances that federal workers fur load during the shutdown
would be reinstated.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
However, still hurdles remain.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Any Senator could slow the process for several days, and
the House must reconvene to approve the Senate's deal.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
There is hope for those who rely on Snap benefits.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
If the new deal is approved, Snap would be funded
through next September at higher levels, and while an into
the shutdown may come this week, flight delays and cancelations
continue at the nation's busiest airports. Yes, AA has been
cutting flights since Friday at forty at the airports and more.
We'll be ramping up this week locally, DIA dealing with
seventy cancelations and ninety four delays so far this morning,

(01:00:16):
according to flight Aware. Our next update coming up in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondek. I'm Koway.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
You're listening to Rosskaminski on the News with Gina Gondek.
It's our inaugural episode. I hope you're enjoying it so far,
except for that one guy who just texted in. He
said it's funny though. Let me just this is the
life of a talk show host. So I'll just mention
in a second.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Right. So, I was talking.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Earlier in the show about the politics of the use
of Snap benefits and stopping Snap benefits and people potentially
being hungry and so on, just the use of that
as a political tool in the shutdown negotiation, And I said,
on the one hand, I thought it was a very
bad look for Trump to be will willing to allow

(01:01:01):
people to go hungry, and Democrats thought they could use
that as leverage against him. But then he showed them
that he was not going to be leveraged by that,
and that he was just crazy enough to not only
let people go hungry, but to actually call for states
to have to pull back SNAP payments that they made.
And I said, that was potentially kind of smart politically.

(01:01:24):
I didn't even really think of it, but that was
kind of smart politically to show the Democrats that you're
crazy enough to do that, right. And then this listener
texted in, and I'm looking for it here, texted into saying,
Ross's spinning how using snap as extortion to break the
impasse might be smart. I don't think that's spin. Look,

(01:01:47):
I'm not saying it's good bad, it's just straight up analysis.
I don't think it's spin. I think that's what they did.
I think that I didn't recognize it as such until
it worked, and I think me be with twenty twenty
hindsight because it worked. I think it's not unreasonable to
call it smart to have done that in a purely
machiavellian political sense, while I still also recognize that to

(01:02:12):
much of the American public is probably a very bad
look to say I'm willing to let people go hungry
the whole shut The politics of the shutdown are very fascinating,
and I'm going to step away from them now because
I want to do something else. But I think, and
I hope, and I request, I request that if you're
going to criticize me by text, and I love getting

(01:02:33):
honest critiques where I could do my show better, or
where I got something wrong and I want to correct it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
I really do. But if you're.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Gonna do that, if you're gonna send me that, then
at least for yourself, try to be honest about it,
because it's really not fair to say I just spun
that it's not true. If it were true, I admit it,
and I take pride in saying on the air when
I got something wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
I try not to get something.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Wrong, but I absolutely insist on getting it right once
I know I got it wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
So if you're gonna say.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Hey, Ross, you got this wrong, you shouldn't have done this,
you should have done that, just.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Try to you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Even if you don't like what I said, ask yourself
if you know first, before you yell at me, ask it, well,
was that fair? If it wasn't fair, That's what I
want to know, because I'm not looking to never offend anybody.
I don't mind offending people. I'm not seeking to offend people.
But I don't mind offending people if the thing that
offends you is the truth, because I'm not going to

(01:03:33):
dodge the truth in order to avoid offending somebody. So
just ask yourself, could that be true? Even if I
didn't like it? All right, I have just about three
minutes to do this next thing, and I think it's
a wonderful piece by Elliot Ackerman, who's been a guest
on the show a few times. He was in the Marines,
he was in the CIA. He's a best selling author.
In fact, earlier in the show, when we had Admiral

(01:03:55):
Stavritas on and I talked about his great novel twenty
thirty four, a novel of the World War that was
actually co authored with Elliot Ackerman, he wrote a wonderful
piece for the Free Press entitled A man Should Know
That's a series A man should Know This one is
called how to Be a Friend, and I'm not gonna
have time to do this justice even though it's not

(01:04:16):
a long piece. But if you go to VFP dot
com you should find it. And I think I've got
it on my blog today at Rosskiminski dot com. I
have a blog every single day that you can find
at Rosskiminsky dot com every day that I have a
show that includes all or more than all of the
topics we're going to talk about. Here's what Elliot says,
and as a dude, I really relate to this. He says,
I don't talk on the phone with one of my

(01:04:39):
closest friends. We hardly ever meet for coffee or a beer.
I'm friendly with his wife and he's friendly with mine,
but the four of us have never sat down to
a meal yet. He's one of my best friends, maybe
my very best For more than twenty years, our friendship
has existed mostly within the parameters of a single activity.
We run together for an hour or more early in

(01:04:59):
the morning, and we do this about once a month,
and in those pre dawn hours we talk about everything.
When the run ends, we hug, I tell him I
love him. In a couple weeks later, one of us
text the other.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Get a run in, and we do it again.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
The night before a recent run, I had returned late
from a dinner with my wife. As I set my alarm,
I started complaining I'd only get a few hours sleep.
Why couldn't my friend and I just have lunch like
normal people instead of meeting at five am.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
To a logue god knows how many miles?

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
And my wife said, because that's not how the two
of you connect.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
She pointed out what should have been obvious.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Our runs placed us side by side as we took
on a challenge. That activity, taken with that posture is
what created the intimate space where our friendship could exist
in deepen. Men are less likely to have close friends
than women. The number of men who say they have
no close friends has increased fivefold since nineteen ninety. So

(01:05:52):
if you're a man, how do you make friends with
other men? Now in the interesting time, I'm not going
to share all of the rest of this with you,
even though it's not very long. You can go read
it yourself. But there's one point that he makes that
I wanted to run by you and Dragon, I want
you to listen to this and tell me what you
think dragon, So Elliot Ackerman says, when women hang out

(01:06:16):
with other women, they like to sit facing each other.
When guys hang out with other guys, and I'll quote now,
men often feel more comfortable side by side. Between men,
eye contact can be misconstrued as a challenge.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Side by side, men feel less competitive.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Also, this posture allows us to orient together toward the
outside world. So then he talks about a fishing trip,
you might be sitting next to each other. A baseball game,
you're sitting next to each other. He talks about if
and I think this is true, if I'm going to
a bar with my wife or right, I'm likely to
sit at a table facing her. If I'm going to
a bar with a friend, yeah, but we're likely to

(01:06:55):
sit at the bar next to each other.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
You don't want to stare at him. He's not pretty.
That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Two, that's true too. But I thought this was a
really interesting thing. Dudes tend to hang out with dudes
sitting side by side a lot more, and women tend
to hang out with women facing each other more. And
I really like that insight. And the rest of the
article is brilliant too. Tell me your thoughts on that.
You can react to it any way you want. Five six, six,
nine zero. We'll be right back on KOA.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
KOA News time eight o'clock. I'm Gina Gondek. We're following
breaking news at this hour.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
A bid to overturn the right to same sex marriages
has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The justices declined
to take up an appeal from former Kentucky County Clerk
Kim Davis to overturn the twenty fifteen landmark decision. The
bid had been seen as a long shot by analysts.
Davis received national attention when she refused to issue marriage
licenses to a same sex couple due to her religious beliefs.

(01:07:47):
One of those couples awarded damages by a jury after
they sued. The longest government shutdown in US history may
be on the verge of coming to an end. The
Senate adjourned late last night after clearing a key hurdle
on government funding.

Speaker 13 (01:07:59):
Weird from lawmakers making their case for what they planned
to do. And then this vote happened, And though it
was held open for a very long time, we did
see eight Democratic Caucus members, the minimum amount that could
have been involved. In trying to reopen the government vote
to advance a bill that's going to eventually lead likely
to the government opening.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
At SABC's Eli Pacorn, the Senate is expected to return
this morning to continue processing the bill to fund the
government until the end of January. Both Colorado senators voted
no on the Republican funding plan to end the shutdown.

Speaker 7 (01:08:33):
Michael Bennett and John hick and Looper say it's because
the measure does not extend healthcare premium tax credits. Hickenlooper
says the bills failed to address skyrocketing healthcare premiums caused
by the Republican's.

Speaker 8 (01:08:44):
Big Bad Bill, so he voted no.

Speaker 7 (01:08:46):
Hick and Loper says every Senate Democrat believes every American
should have healthcare, but Republicans refused to come to the
table and work.

Speaker 8 (01:08:53):
To tackle the healthcare crisis. Chad Bauer Kowa.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
News And despite a potential end to the government shutdown,
flights or still being canceled at airports across the country,
including at DIA. On Wall Street, stocks are up this
morning on news that the Senate has reached that tenet
of deal, setting up an end to the longest shutdown
in history. Now at last check, up one hundred and
fifty three points, SMP climbing seventy four, Nasdaq up four
hundred and twenty seven. In sports, the Abs beat the

(01:09:19):
Canucks last night, five to four and overtime in Vancouver,
Fox thirty one pinpoint. Weather sunny, Monday ahead, warmer than
what we saw over the weekend. High temperature today should
be around seventy degrees forties overnight tonight and back into
the seventies for much of tomorrow. Currently we're at thirty
four in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina Goddeck on'm Koway the inaugural.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Edition of Rosskaminski On the News with Gina god Deck.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
I'm the first person.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Named there, and over there on my right as the
second person named there.

Speaker 16 (01:09:50):
High.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Yeah, Hi, I just thought of you when I was
talking about this, this last thing. We're going to probably
find this happening a lot like I'll have some random
thing and then I'll think you, I need Gina's opinion
on this, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
So it was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
It was an article from Elliot Ackerman about guys and friendship,
and there are a couple things that I wanted to
ask you about that, he asserts partly after talking to
his wife one. He asserts that while men typically bond
or at least often bond and do things together side
by side, so they're not necessarily looking at each other,

(01:10:27):
he thinks, or his wife thinks, that women are more
comfortable looking at each other.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
Do you think that's true or not interesting? No, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
If you were to go to a bar with a
female friend of yours, just the two of you, so
not like double date with your husband or something, are
you more likely to sit at a table looking at
her or sit at a bar.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
When you say it like that, that's a good point
because I would be more inclined to sit at a table.
But I feel like guys would go to the bar
shoulder Yeah, But is that also because there's usually a
TV in front of them and they want to watch
sports or something like that at the bar.

Speaker 5 (01:11:05):
My thought is that if a guy was going to
an event with a girl, they're gonna want to sit
there and stare at the girl because she's pretty. Yeah,
if you go with your guy friend, I'm not gonna
stare at my guy friend because well, he's not doing right. Yeah,
just saying Okay, well you could get prettier friends.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
There you go, all right, saw band fit? No, you
ain't pretty enough. Now here's the other one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
And this is a thing I've thought for a long time,
and I just want to make clear I'm I'm generalizing right,
and and there are gonna be lots of men who
don't fit what I'm going to say about men, and
lots of women, probably including my wife, who don't really
fit what I'm going to sort of generalize about women.
But what I find for me, and I think is
true of a lot of guys is with some of

(01:11:48):
some of the people I consider my best friends, I
can go not just weeks, but months without talking to them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Oh yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Then we talk and it says if we talked last week,
it's as if no time has passed. It's as if
nothing has changed. And I suspect that it's not usually
the same with women, but I'm purely guessing, So I
want to know what your take is on that.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
I would say it's similar.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Yeah, maybe I'm an outlier because I feel like a
lot of my friends are out of state.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
I don't see them often. We only do phone calls.
And if a phone call doesn't happen often.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
It's no, you don't take any offense to it. You're
just like, oh, yeah, we're both busy. We go about
our lives. I do know there's definitely some women out
there though, that if you aren't constantly in contact with them,
they will think you're mad at right, right, and that
will lead to more drama when it's not even drama.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
To begin with.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
It's funny because my wife has a friend that she
talks to a lot, and when that friend doesn't call,
my wife wonders if she's mad, and she's never actually
no mad. And yet my wife is also a person
who doesn't want to be on the phone that much,
so she's happy about the person not calling, even though
she likes talking from time to time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
Very It's very strange.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
But you know, over however many moons you and I
are doing this together, I will probably ask you lots
of questions to try to better understand the female of
the species, even though at this age, if I don't
understand you yet, I probably never will, which is probably
some of the fun of the mystery of it all.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Anyway, Sure, and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
On the other side of the coin is you probably
understand men more or less perfectly, so that because we're
very simple creatures, we are much simpler than you are.
And every woman knows that when Gina says right, she's
not being condescending.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
It's just obviously true.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
So you will probably almost never need to ask me
something about men. Yeah, okay, sure, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
Yes, no, it's true, it's absolutely true.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
All right, let me do a few minutes here on
this government shutdown thing that you've heard Gina talk about
a lot in the news this morning because it's big
political news.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
And the vote.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Last night they got just enough Democratic senators eight in
order to invote culture, which doesn't mean the government is
open now, but it means they ended the filibuster now.
So now they go back to work and they're going
to vote on a variety of packages to fund the government.
The House has to come back now. House members have

(01:14:17):
to go back to Washington, d c. Because they're going
to have to take up whatever bills the Senate is
talking about, and if they're spending bills, they're supposed to
originate in the House. I'm not sure how that'll all
play out, but I do expect that at some point
this week the government will be open again, there may
will still be some hiccups in some of these government systems.

(01:14:38):
Right when, How long will it take for SNAP, the
SNAP benefit funding system to be fully functioning again? How
long will it take to eliminate the delays and cancellations
at various American airports.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
I don't know. I don't know. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
I think the airline thing will probably take a little
bit longer.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Than the SNAP thing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
I don't think it'll take a long time, and I
think we will be back to almost normal with flights
maybe by this coming weekend, even fully normal maybe another
week or two after that. On the political side of
this story, I think what's interesting to note is that

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the Democrats basically got nothing out of this, and it's
going to be interesting, and it was interesting for me
last night. I was watching TV last night when this
was going on pretty late, and a bunch of folks
who either are elected Democrats or are unelected Democrats, but

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activists and strategists and consultants and so on, we're on
the various news shows trying to make a case for
how Democrats won out of this. And my next statement
is not some kind of partisan thing or some kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Cheering or whatever. It's just straight up analysis.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
I don't think the Democrats really won anything. And the
main thing that they wanted first was a permanent extension
of Obamacare subsidies that were temporary to begin with because
Democrats made them temporary when they wrote the American Rescue
Plan during the Biden administration, and Democrats were in charge

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of everything, right, and they wrote it and they made
them temporary. So going into the shutdown they shut there,
they thought they would use the shutdown as leverage to
make these temporary subsidies permanent. Then they said, well, you know,
we know they're not going to go along with that.
We want to win here, so we will agree to
a one year extension of subsidies and then we'll negotiate

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more after that. And instead, what they're going to get
is a promise from the Senate Majority Leader John Thune
to get a vote probably next month on subsidies, a
vote they're going to lose.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
And this is part of the reason that the.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Democratic base is so upset with Senate Democrats right now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
This time, Chuck Schumer voted no.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
In March in the same situation, Chuck Schumer voted yes,
but eight essentially, you know, centrist ish what counts for
centrist these days when we have more polarized politics than
we used to. Eight centrist Democrats voted to invote cloture,
and in the filibuster, as I noted earlier in the show,
precisely zero of those eight.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Are senators who are facing election next year.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Six of them are facing elections either three or five
years from now, and two of them have already announced
their retirement and not running for re election again. And
if you're curious, those two are Jean Shaheen out of
New Hampshire and Dick Durbin out of Illinois.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
They each would have.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Been facing election next year, but they're not running again anyway.
Democrats are pretty upset, And I even saw a quote
by John Hickenlooper saying, and he voted no, and Michael
Bennett voted no, and hicken Looper said something. I'm not
reading it, but it's something along the lines of hopefully

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we'll come back and negotiate something that makes Republicans squirm.
And on the one hand, I get it, politics ain't beanbag,
but I think it's a dangerous road when either side
plays it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Republicans have done this as well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
They did it under Obama to say our goal here
is simply to obstruct the other guy without even offering
a compelling argument for what it is you stand for.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
And if I were John hicken Looper.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
And Michael Bennett and other Democrats who voted against this stuff,
I would be more aggressive talking about what you really want,
and especially what you really want that you might actually get,
rather than saying, you know, we want to make Republicans squirm.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
I don't think that will work very well. KOA News
Time A fourteen. I'm Gina Gondek.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
Even with an end to the government and shut down
in sights, Colorado travelers can expect more flight headaches this week.

Speaker 19 (01:19:04):
It seems to be a lot lower in foot traffic
than it was on Thursday and Friday of last week,
and that number is only going to go up as
this week continues, starting tomorrow, and it's all a part
of the FAA's plan to get to that ten percent
number by Friday. Now, right now, the numbers at four
percent of flights. Tomorrow, it's going to jump up to
six percent. And that's across again the forty major markets,

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so not just here in Denver.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
That's Fox thirty one's Jared Dean reporting from DIA this morning.
The Trump administration working on a plan to introduce a
fifty year fixed mortgage rate.

Speaker 20 (01:19:37):
The Federal Housing Finance Agency director posted on Saturday of
the news. The agency director called the move a complete
game changer. His announcement comes after Trump shared a graphic
online comparing his proposal to the thirty year mortgage policies
backed by President of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal.
Agency director Bill Polting also said the administration is laser
focused on ensuring the American dream for young people, which

(01:19:59):
he says can only happened on economic level of home buying.
I'm mark Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
More than four hundred thousand Honda Civics are under a
recall because the wheels may come off while moving three
call Effex model years twenty sixteen through twenty twenty one.
The company says a supplier error could cause the wheel
nuts to loose in and eventually detach. And Colorado ranks
high among the country's most charitable states.

Speaker 14 (01:20:21):
It's a Wallet Hub study, Colorado ranks eleventh, and the
percentage of people who donate money twelfth. For volunteer rate
and thirteenth for the amount of time donated.

Speaker 8 (01:20:30):
When the report is shaken.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Out, Colorado is sixth.

Speaker 14 (01:20:33):
Overall, Americans donate close to six hundred billion dollars a
year to charity. Since you're wondering, Wyoming comes in at
the most charitable state, with Utah second and Maryland third
dead last New Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
David cao Koa news Our.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
Next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina condek on Koa.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
I have a question for for Gina. A bunch of
people have said throughout the course of the shutdown that
it appears to be ending right now that members of
Congress should not get paid while the government is shut down.
And I want to just clarify something for you, as
a matter of law, not as a matter of what
I want or politics or anything like that members of

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Congress are allowed if they want to defer their paychecks
until the government shutdown ends, which is to say, to
not collect the money. But once the government shut down ends,
they will be paid, including back pay, for all the
time that they worked.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
And this is the point I want to make very
very clear.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
It's essentially a constitutional provision that would prevent a law
from being passed even if Congress wanted to, they could
not pass a law that says members of Congress will
simply not earn any money, including being owed back pay
later while the government is shut down. It would require

(01:21:55):
amending the Constitution because of a provision in the Constance
that says members of Congress may not change their own pay.
Members of Congress may not pass a law that changes
the compensation of Congress without.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
I'm rewording this badly.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
They can pass the law, but it cannot take effect
until the next Congress. They cannot pass a law that
changes their own compensation.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
You have to wait until the next Congress.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
And therefore, I under while I understand folks saying, hey,
they shouldn't get paid, even if Congress wanted to vote
to say no member of Congress gets paid and not
back pay later either, they can't. Okay, So, Gina, I
sort of half listened sometimes during the news because I'm
thinking about other things I want to do as well.

(01:22:46):
But can you please go back to that car recall story,
because I heard you say something like wheels come off
when you're moving, and I would think when you're moving
would be a worse time for a wheal to come off.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
Than when you're not moving. Well, here's the funniest part
about that whe else.

Speaker 4 (01:23:02):
When it comes to Honda's statement, it is for Honda's
Civic vehicles, and it looks like this is between twenty
sixteen and twenty twenty one vehicles, and it says the
steel lug seat inserts were not pressed into the nut
seating surface of the aluminum wheels when they were made,
so drivers operating the wheel of the vehicles that is
the wheels Safety Service may deform, causing the wheel nut

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to loosen and detach, leading to wheel separating from the vehicle.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
This could increase the risk of.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
A crash, says Honda. If the wheel is coming off,
I think you're gonna crash.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
So I have a couple questions that you probably will.
I shouldn't say probably, you might or might not be
able to answer. Have there been any known crashes because
of this? Sometimes they say there haven't been any, and
sometimes they say.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
We've had some problem.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Every once in a while they figure out a problem
before anybody actual crashes.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Do you do you know on this one they might
not disclose it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:58):
From what I'm seeing right now, it doesn't say anything
about it. It was issued on October thirty first by
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the recalls were
made over four hundred thousand vehicles, increasing the risk of
the crash when it comes to these wheels detaching.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
So from what I see, I don't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
So all right, and Dragon you you you remarked on
the years of the vehicles involved in the recluse.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
It's taken them ten years. The point to find this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Problem twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one is that what
you said on specifics, Yep, the wheels.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
Might fall off.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
I think I think my favorite part of that whole
story was the use of the words while moving, the wheels.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Might fall off. No one has just parked in all.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
I mean that would that would be funny too if
a wheel fell off when when parked, but falling off
while while moving. Oh my gosh. All right, thank you,
thank you, Ginap. Just I take your Honda Civic somewhere
and get it fixed. So let me do a couple
of minutes on sports here. It's been an interesting few

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weeks for sports and gambling. Right, So you had that
huge thing with the with the professional basketball coach and
some players involved with a mafia run poker cheating ring
were essentially there were only two kinds of people who
were at the games. At these big, big, fancy poker games,
there were only two kinds of people there. People who

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were in on it and people who were the victims.
Right there were apparently, right, that's it. And so they've
arrested a bunch of people.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
Then you had the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
Other thing with NBA players, apparently allegedly, we'll see, pretending
they were injured or taking themselves out of games so
that betters could bet on, you know, such and such
a player, we'll score fewer than nineteen points today, that
kind of thing. So you got those arrests. Then there's
one that I don't know that I've met on the show,

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but there was a UFC fighter who appears to have
thrown a fight, and an enormous amount of money, like
millions of dollars were bet against this guy who had
never lost a fight, and they were bet against him,
and he lost in the first round in a way
that everybody who watched the fight thought it looked like

(01:26:22):
he lost on purpose. So that happened to maybe a
week ago, and now this story is from yesterday. Let's
see here we go, Cleveland Guardians pictures, Emmanuel Classe a
clase I don't know, and Luis Ortiz indicted in gambling
scheme bombshell. And the bottom line on this one is
it appears that they were paid thousands of dollars per

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pitch to throw a ball instead of a strike as
the first pitch against a particular batter. There are other
things that appears that they've been doing wrong. One of
these guys already makes four and a half million dollars
a year, and you do wonder about that kind of thing.
But there is a big picture you hear of sports
really needing to figure out how to keep themselves out

(01:27:06):
of being tainted and corrupted by gambling. I don't know
just how they'll do it when we come back. Governor
Jared Polus joins the show.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
KOA News Time eight thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
I'm Ginagondek New this morning, the Supreme Court rejects a
call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same sex marriages.
The justices declined to take up the appeal from former
Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis to overturn the twenty fifteen decision.
Davis received national attention when she refused to issue marriage
licenses to a same sex couple due to her religious beliefs.

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There's a glimmer of hope to end the government shutdown.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
On this vote.

Speaker 6 (01:27:45):
The yas are sixty and the nayser forty. Three fifths
of the Senate duly chosen and sworn having voted in
the affirmative. The motion upon reconsideration is agreed to, and
a late night.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
Session on Capitol Hill last night justin off Democrats voting
to advance a Republican bill that would extend the funding
for the government through the end of January. They'll reconvene
this morning to continue working to process the bill, and
the House we'll have to return and sign off on
the Senate's version before it goes to the President's desk.
Colorado senators explaining their no votes to the bill to

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end the shutdown, with.

Speaker 7 (01:28:18):
John hick and Looper and Michael Bennett, cited the lack
of the extension of healthcare premium tax credits as a
reason for a no vote. Bennett says, if Congress fails
to extend the credits, now millions of Americans and more
than two hundred eighty thousand Colorados will see their healthcare
premiums double triple or even quadruple. Bennett says we should
reopen the government, but he refuses to do it at
the expensive families who are simply trying to pay for healthcare.

Speaker 8 (01:28:41):
Chad Power koa News on Wall.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
Street, stocks Hire on the news of that tentative deal
to end the shutdown. Dow up one hundred and fifty
five points, SMP climbing eighty one, Nasdaq up four hundred
and sixty nine. In sports, the Avs picking up an
overtime win defeating the Vancouver Canucks five to four last
night at Rogers Arena, and the Nuggets looking for their
fifth straight victory taking on the Sacramento Kings tomorrow. Night

(01:29:04):
on the Road, Fox thirty one pinpoint Weather today plenty
of sunshine. Temperature will be hovering around seventy degrees, about
fifteen degrees above normal, dipping down into the upper forties
overnight tonight back into the upper sixties to near seventies
for Veterans Day. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina Gondeck on Kowa.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
So this is the inaugural edition of Ross Kaminski on
the News with Gina Gondeck, and we thought very carefully
about who to have as guests today. Just two guests today,
and I think they're, you know, both hopefully represent the
quality of the show. We had former NATO Supreme Allied
Commander Admiral James Stivritas, and now we have a guy
who's trying to get auto insurance premiums down in the

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state of Colorado. He also happens to be Governor of Colorado.
Jared Polish Dragon was just playing music drive about auto insurance.
But I think Jared's on the road too, So good morning, Jared,
thanks for being here.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Ardin Ross and Gena, congratulations on landing the coveted time
slot during drivetime.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
We're very proud of ourselves. We'll try to live up.

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
To advice of both of you. My advice to health
you is be perky. I think a couple of cups
of coffee before you go on the air at six
in the morning, expecting to in the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
I'm more of a tea drinker, but I'll give it
a try.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
And I was just reading a story about Pooh. Have
you ever have you heard of pool coffee?

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Jared doesn't sound very appetizing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
No, No, it's like some animal eats coffee beans and
then they poop it out and then they make coffee
out of it, and it's the most expensive coffee in
the world. It would probably keep me up though, just
worrying about how much it costs. All right, Jared, you
released and I love the obvious pun A road map
to reduce auto insurance premiums.

Speaker 1 (01:30:44):
What's going on here?

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
So, look, Colorado has actually the fifth and every your
motor is driving today notices fifth highest auto insurance in
the country. So we dissected in all the reasons and
we have a strategy for each of them. The biggest
thing that's changed over the last decade has increased hail
claims sale damage, so we're focused on that with early alerts.
Auto theft is another, so we've already auto theft is

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down fifty percent of the last two years. It's about
a year lag till that's reflected in premiums, but that's
when we've worked on. We supported prosecution, we've increased penalties
uninsured motorists DUIs. We now we just had a Highway
fifty eight and Golden DUI checkpoint this last weekend. We're
doing these high profile DUI checkpoints so people will know

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if they do drink and drive, they will be caught
and severely penalized. So really sort of comprehensive strategy, because
we can reduce all these risk factors the next year
that will be reflected in the insurance rates and they
will come down.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
So one of the I think big factors and insurance
rate increases in recent years is something that even a
governor can't do much.

Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
About, and that's hail.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Right, So how much of the increase over the last
ten years or so do you think is due to
how do I want to put this hail or other
things that are completely out of not just your control,
but really out of a driver's control, Versus how much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Of it do you think are things that maybe we
can control at least a little.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
So hal is the single biggest driver increased hail claims,
But there are things we can do rouss even on hale.
I can't stop the hail obviously. However, what we're talking
about doing is instituting early alert systems or monitor severe
hail so people know, hey, cover your car moving indoors.
If you can, don't drive on the road. It's a

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hazard to drive or and sever your hail anyway. So
we're working on these outbound warning systems that we're hoping
to launch. Hail seasons generally spring, so next spring. In addition,
there's some abuses on the autobody repair shop side. It's
actually illegal to waive the deductible for hail damage, and
we found autobody shops that are One of that means
is people that have no get up their back. If

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you have a couple of little nicks, they might go
in and not have to pay a pending. It's all
built to basically other people's insurance previews that then go up.
So there's a few things we're doing on Hell, of
course we can't stop the hill, but yes, we think
we can make a difference there. That's the single biggest one.
I don't know for sure whether it's forty fifty sixty
percent of the increase, but that it's on that magniting
it's the biggest one. Then you go to things like

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auto theft, unassured motor insurance, driving carelessly, all these other ones.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Well, anything you could do would be much appreciated by
me and everybody else who drives.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Again, Yeah, I mean if you think of this like,
even if like most people, even if you don't have
everybody doesn't recover, If these early alert systems can get
twenty or thirty percent of people to intervene to protect
their car from hale, that alone could bring down insurance rates,
you know, five seven percent something of that magnitude, So
it's significant.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
All Right, we're talking with Governor Jared Polis.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
He's got a new roadmap to reduce auto insurance premiums.
My colleague Gina Gondek has a question for you about
something else.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Yeah, good morning, governor, I mean, obviously story today we've
been talking throughout the morning, the Senate voting on the
funding measure in that late night session to fund the
government through January thirtieth. Still lots of hurdles they face here,
but curious what your thoughts are on Colorado's Democratic Senators
John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennett still voting no on this
negotiated deal.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Do you shout off this morning with some of that
pooh coffee, Gina or not?

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
I did not have a reason. No, I certainly did not.
Naturally perky. She's a naturally perky person, naturally perky.

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
Well, look, as governor and for the state. Obviously, I'm
very grateful that it sounds like government will be opening.
We've been dealing with very chaotic situation on SNAP payments.
Obviously a lot of people of Thanksgiving travel plans, all
of that was out there. I also strongly support the
tax credits that will prevent major premium increases for health care,
so I certainly hope it leads to that. But obviously,

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like many Americans, I'm relieved if in fact they do
reopen government the next few days. I know it hasn't
came across the finish line yet, but I certainly hope
that happens.

Speaker 4 (01:34:58):
Is the state still looking at how thing those who
rely on snap benefits, even though they might be restored
if this all plays out in the next week.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
We got the first five million dollars out of the
money that we're setting the food bags pantries. We have
a second five million reserve. We won't need to use
that second five if it reopens this week. That was
sort of a plan where if it stays closed, we
got the authorisation to do another five million next week,
but if it reopens this week, it'll just be that
one round of assistance of food banks and pantries, which

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are better stock now because of that. With that five million,
they're able to buy retail. They build it a twenty
thirty million dollars worth of they get very low pricing.

Speaker 1 (01:35:37):
Govnor pull us.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
While we have you, you also have your proposed budget
for next year totally nearly fifty one billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
Likely to face a number of.

Speaker 4 (01:35:45):
Changes, like the hurdles of the shutdown, similar hurdles. But
when it comes down to it, can you outline a
little bit about the largest increases that you see in
funding and some of those that may be facing some
big funding cuts in this budget?

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
Well, it's hard to describe. I have the whole budget
in like, what is it one or two minutes here.
I will be appearing before the Choice Budget Committee Wednesday.
But unlike Congress, we present a balance budget here in Colorado.
It's balanced. We presented it a head of schedule. Our
government remains open. We're trying to rate it in some
of the excess spending, particularly in medicaid, there's been a

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number of benefits that added over the last few years.
We have to put some limits on those to make
sure it's sustainable. And of course our priority continue to
fund our schools, fully funded education, focus on funding students
where they're at rather than where they were a few
years before. So on all those things we make progress.
And then, of course our focus also improving public safety,
so funding for law enforcement thanks to Proposition one thirty

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and as well as some prevention initiatives to further reduced crime.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Jared, I've got just one last question for you here.
One of the powers of a governor, at least when
it comes to state crimes rather than federal crimes, is
the ability to issue a pardon. Right and for the
president it's well it's not every status like that, but
and for the presidents it's the other way. You can
pardon federal crimes and not state. So today my understanding

(01:37:09):
is that you are going to be issuing a couple
of pardons. I don't know if these uh, you know,
if these folks that you're pardoning are hardened criminals or
you know what they've what they've done, But can you
please just tell us you're pardoning and what they did.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
I think I think you have me mistaken with Donald Trump.
I know that's natural because we say Donald Trump is
doing the party today. I traditionally do mine right before
Christmas and we go through them, so we're very much
early in that process. Ross and I like some of
Donald Trump's. I like Darryl Strawberry. I looked at that one.
I probably would have done that too, if it was
a state tribe crime. I'm a big baseball fab So

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we look every year. A lot of them are folks
that did so twenty thirty years ago. They're out of prison,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
I think I was a little jared. I think I
was a little too subtle.

Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
Are are there a couple of birds who may be
involved with this story?

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
I don't know what you're what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
What I'm talking about is this story on KADIVR that
says you're pardoning turkeys.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
Oh those pardons, Ross, you gotta be all serious, because
Prue juliatumn no.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
I was asking just what crimes those turkeys have committed
that they are getting pardoned for.

Speaker 1 (01:38:23):
Oh, man, I thought you'd just that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid are the two
turkeys in Colorado's annual free Thanksgiving Turkey pardon at the
Governor's mentioned today we will be pardoning and they'll be
going to live out their days at loving Arms, uh
animal shelter. And we do this to highlight sort of
Colorado ranchers. Yes, Colorado to produces turkeys, obviously, chickens, beef,

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all this great produce. And every year we pardon two
turkeys in a ceremony with veterans at the Governor's mansion.
So that's happening today. I was thinking all serious, like,
because he did pardon to Julianto.

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
I know, you know, but let me and then Gina
has one last thing. But I'm just gonna say, so.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
The answer to your question when I asked you what
clims did they commit? The answer is bank robbery. So
you're pardoning to bank robbers today.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
Well, I just wanted to know too if they or
if you name them.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
So we had actually a contest to dame them. So
we had vote public voting on well, first of all,
as my staff, they came up with the canon, so
they came up with, you know, several names, and then
with the public voted on them, and the public shows
butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Sundance Kid obviously a
shout out to the fact that Colorado has won the
prestigious Sundance Festival for jeddru Of twenty twenty seven over Utah.

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So that's what that was all about. Not partying. Rudy
Giuliani would consider it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
You're much too serious.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
I would pardon Daryl Strawberry Colorado Cross.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
All right, all right, next time, I'll be a little
less subtle. Jared, You're a little too literal this morning.
I mean that you need some of that poo coffee. Yeah,
you do, Governor Jared Paulus, thank you, thank you so
much for being a guest on our very first edition
of ros Kominski on the News with Gina Gondeck.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
Congratulations to both of you, and good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
Good morning. We'll take a quick break, be right back
KOA News Time eight forty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
I'm Gina Goddeck, Day forty one of the government shutdown.
And while a' in may come this week, flight delays
continue at our airports. The FAA has been cutting flights
since Friday at forty of the busiest airports and more.
We'll be ramping up this week locally, DIA dealing with
about seventy two cancellations and one hundred and twenty two delays.
So far this morning, residents in the nation's midwest northeast

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feeling their first winter like conditions of the season and
their very first snowfall. Locally, we're still dealing with unseasonably
warm temperatures for this time of the year, high temperatures
today hovering around seventy degrees. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabou
has died at the age of eighty four. Tagliaboo served
as a commissioner from nineteen eighty nine to two thousand
and six before he succeeded what by current Commissioner Roger Goodell.

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Another gray wolf has died in Colorado. Parks and Wildlife
says this happened in southwest Colorado back on October thirtieth.

Speaker 17 (01:41:04):
As of now, eleven reintroduced wolves have died since the
program began in December of twenty twenty three. The deaths
include six of the fifteen wolves brought in from British
Columbia this year and five of the ten wolves brought
from Oregon in late twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
The causes of death vary.

Speaker 17 (01:41:20):
They include predation by other animals, illegal poaching, being shot
by officials after livestock.

Speaker 1 (01:41:25):
Attacks, and even being hit by a car.

Speaker 17 (01:41:28):
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is now looking into
the latest female wolf that died because it's listed under
the Endangered Species Act.

Speaker 1 (01:41:36):
Neo Bender.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
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update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondec, I'm Kowa.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
We're just about done with our inaugural episode of Rosskaminski
on the News anagrammed Rotten with Gina gone deck. Gina,
how do you How do you feel about our first
show together?

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
How are you feeling? Oh? Pretty good?

Speaker 10 (01:42:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:42:11):
I actually am you that it's over even busy, even
doing a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
And I'll just say, Gina, Gina's role in this show
has a lot more moving parts than mine does. She's
got to do more throughout the show. And you know
you're gonna your workflow is different than what it was
for the previous show.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
And I can.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
Tell it's different by the way that I'm still standing
at eight fifty three, because usually in the original Colorado's
morning news lineup by seven was my sit down time.
I had my granola bar. I started to settle in
a little bit. I have not had my granola bar
and it's eight fifty three and I'm still standing. So
not a bad thing. Yeah, it takes some time to

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get used to.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
I had my granola bar and Reese's peanut butter something
not exactly a peanut butter cup.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
And they're a lawsuit over the pumpkin because it didn't
look like a pumpkin.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
It was one of the pumpkins. Yeh, wait, what was
what are we talking about?

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
There was a lawsuit on the Reese's pumpkins, Yeah, because
somebody claimed that it didn't look like on the on
the label, it looks like it's supposed to be like
a jack a Lannard face, but there is no face.
It's kind of just like a circular blob. Did they
lose it looks like I don't recall.

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
I don't know. I don't know what the outcome later
to put.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
Out these Reese's bats. Yeah, they don't even look like bats.
So it's like, really, you guys, guys are going to
keep going on this, you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
So what the label makes it look like the candy
is supposed to look like something, and then the candy
doesn't look like that, and then somebody sues them.

Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
Yeah, what what do you think is.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
The proper penalty for the person and the lawyer who
files that lawsuit, like, maybe have a one hundred thousand
reeses flung at them.

Speaker 5 (01:43:48):
I mean, not as far as you would say, with
you and your finger, you know, cut off.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
Yeah, pretty well.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
So yeah, I mean people who file those lawsuits, they
need to be severely beaten about the head and neck.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
The judge ruled the plaintiffs failed to prove economic harm,
noting the candy was still edible and not defective, and
disappointment over appearance alone is not legally required injury.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
Oh my god, I personally like the pumpkin ones because
there's no rapper on it, so you just open the
package and ready to go.

Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
You have to because I think there's a little bit
more chocolate.

Speaker 1 (01:44:19):
On the ends of it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
The blob doesn't really have like the very true like
crust of Reese's cup.

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
All right, that makes sense, It makes perfect sense.

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
And as long as you're down with some version of
Reese's then I'm good with you and we can be friends.
All Right, We're gonna call it a show, and thanks
to everyone for listening. Keep those you know cards and
letters coming at five six six nine zero during the show,
not after the show because we won't see them, but
during the show. With things maybe you'd like to hear
us do more of, or maybe things you'd like to

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hear us do less of. This is a work in progress.
We're gonna figure it out as we go along. But
we're all gonna have a lot of fun together. Speaking
of having fun, Michael.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
Brown's new show on KOA

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
It's not really a new show, but it's new on
Khwai starts right after this