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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Inspiration from Gina this morning and start the show standing. Wow, Yeah,
(00:05):
which I like doing in my In my previous career, Gina,
I was a I don't even know if you know this,
but I was.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
An options trader in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Waving my hands and yelling on the trading floor, so
I'd be standing.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Most of the time.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Every once in a while, if the markt was really slow,
I could sit down on a step in the trading
pit and do a crossword puzzle or something. But I
spent much of my career standing, so.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I kind of agree.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Reason I know that is because you talked about your
lucky pants that you wore when you were when you
were doing well, are.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
There any chairs at all? No? No chairs? Wow? No, No,
there were no chairs at all. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You're always You're always standing unless you sit down on
the step.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Well, what do you say we just remove our chairs today.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We could do it, Gina and I could do it.
I'm not sure that I want to do it, but
we definitely could.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
First, I just want to start by thanking all of
our American veterans, whether you're listening to the show or not.
If you've got veterans in your family, please thank them
for me. Veteran friends, please thank them for both of us.
I'll speak vir Gina here for a moment. And I
also want to say an enormous thank you to my
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own parents, both of whom served in the United States Navy.
They were physicians medical doctors in the United States Navy,
and of course in the Navy, the doctors take care
of Navy people and the Marines as well. The Marines
use Navy doctors and Navy lawyers as well. And then
also when my parents were stationed in Bethesda, you would
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also there they would there take care of the families,
of take care of politicians and their families and stuff
like that. My dad joined the Navy as a you know,
as a young man when people do, basically out of
medical school.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And eventually I'll tell you this story real quick. So
my mom my parents.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Met in medical school, and my dad joined the Navy,
and they would be you know, bouncing around as you do.
And my mom found that it was very, very difficult
for her to get a job once the potential employer
found out that she was married to somebody was in
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the Navy, because it meant she wouldn't be sticking around
very long. And these medical practices didn't want to go
through a thing where you know, they train a doctor
to you know, handle whatever their procedures are at that
particular medical practice and build up patients and then leave
in two or three years, and then who knows where
the patients go after that. And so my mom said,
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all right, I'll just join the Navy too, and we'll
have them just transfer us together. And that's what happened
for the you know, most of the rest of their careers.
My parents after some point weren't married anymore, and then
they got transferred separately. But still that plan worked out
very well for them for a long time. And I'll
tell you a little more about my parents in the
military service a little bit later, a little bit later on,
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but just wanted to start the show with just a
very heartfelt gratitude for our America and veterans. Gina, I
have a question for you, very important question. So my
wife bought some Mint Girl Scout cookie flavored pop tarts, okay,
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and I brought in a packet that has two of them.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And if I go get.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Them later and maybe warm them up for some prime
number of seconds in the.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Microwave, would you like one. Yeah, I'm in Yeah, you're okay.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
To be honest, the mint flavored Girl Scout Cookie pop
tarts sounds like it would be better.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
In the freezer. Oh have you ever done a thing?
Dragons agreeing? Okay, So how about this.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Maybe during the next break when I have a moment,
I'll go put one in the freezer and then so
we'll do one cold and one hot, and we'll make
it a taste test.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Let's do it, Dragon, Are you down from that? I'm
ready to go. Let's go love it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
For those of you who who don't know Producer Dragon
very well, like folks who mostly have been you know,
listening listening to Koa in the earlier hours when it
hasn't been Producer Dragon until now, Dragon has worked out
in one form or another depending you know, it's it's
not always you know, bench presses, but all different forms
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of exercise every day. For I don't say yet, because
I want to take you. I haven't asked you this
question for in a long time. I'm going to guess
somewhere between seventeen hundred and eighteen hundred more really more
correct nineteen thirty more twenty one.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hundred, a little less than that. All right, what's the answer?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Nineteen today will be nineteen fifty four and fifty four
days in a row.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Do you have an app that keeps track of it?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I just asked Google to count from day one?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
How many days since July sixth, twenty twenty wow?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Wow? Before or after.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Work, depending on what my schedule was at the time.
Currently it's after work because I ain't getting up at
two to yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I also want to note for folks who are tuning
in now and maybe didn't tune in yesterday and have
been a little bit under a radio rock maybe what
you're listening to this is Ross Kominsky on the News
with Gina Gondeck and producer Dragon. Yes, go ahead, Dragon,
I know you take such joy in this.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Go ahead. I didn't think of it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Go ahead of lovely friend Mandy Connell and Mandy Lorians.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Came up with the shortened acronym for Ross Kaminsky on
the News with Gina Gondeck. Ross on the News can
be shortened too rotten with Gina Gundeck perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, perfect, and I Gina and I have the have
the same reaction to that. All right, let's do as
long as the as long as the show name includes
a little bit of news. Let's just talk about a
little bit of news.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And Gina talked about this quite a bit already in
in Colorado's Morning News from five to six this morning. Obviously,
the biggest national news overnight is that the Senate passed
now that the previous night they had invoked culture. The
Senate passed a few packages to end the longest shutdown
in US history. So, I guess what yesterday was. Today
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was day forty one. I guess we're in day forty
two now, and technically the government is still shut down
because they can't spend the money yet because the House
hasn't passed the bill yet, and I don't know when
the House is gonna pass it. I'd be a little
surprised if it were today. I think there's a good
chance for tomorrow, and then they'll get things moving. Also,
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as Gina had mentioned during the news, it's we shouldn't expect,
especially on the airline side of things. We should not
expect all of these delays and cancelations to suddenly stop
the day that the government opens again, because there's just
still a lot to do. First of all, you're gonna
have to get all the air traffic controllers back to work.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But second of all, remember lots and.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Lots of flights were canceled separate from the delays. Lots
of flights were canceled, so a lot of those people
may still be trying to get somewhere. It's gonna put
extra burden on the system. I don't know what the
airlines are going to do as far as bringing flights back.
They have had to cut back on the number of
flights four percent. I think it's six percent now, and
there's just gonna still be a lot to do. And
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the hope is and I think this will work out,
But the hope is that by getting the government reopen,
this week will be in a situation where Thanksgiving travel,
which is the busiest time.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
The day before Wednesday before Thanksgiving is normally the busiest
travel day of the year. We hope that'll all be
back to normal, which doesn't mean it'll be great.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's still going to be pretty nuts. Probably. It's a
day that I always avoid traveling.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
In fact, I usually try to avoid traveling around Thanksgiving
if I can.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But my kid who.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Moved to Washington State, is coming back here on that Wednesday, and.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So well, well we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Another thing, I'm just gonna mention this briefly and then
I'll probably talk about it in some more detail a
little later on. But Dragon found this story, and I
hadn't I hadn't even thought of this. And this ties
into two Veterans Day. Because of the government shutdown, there
is there's going to be a lot less Veterans' Day
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activity involving active duty military units and involving UH military facilities.
And this is from Military dot Com. Officials told military
dot Com that federal rules block service members from taking
part in public events during a lapse in funding. Communities
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from Virginia to Oregon are scrambling, canceling long planned tributes
and shifting to quiet, private observances instead.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And that's that's a bummer. That's a bummer.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I mean, well, but whoever it is who's going to
be doing these things, wherever they're going to be doing them,
I'm sure they're going to make the best of it.
And it remains a very very meaningful day for me
and so many of you as well. All Right, we
still have an immense amount of stuff to do on
today's show, including some silly trivia questions. I'm going to
ask you throughout the course of the show, so we'll
take a very quick break here and a well, is.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The time to go to Gina for some news? Is
that what I do? Now? Gina? That's it? All right?
Do I hit the button? Dragon or not? Dragon? If
you do not hit the button? All right? KOA News
Time six fourteen.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Despite a tied vote, Denver's next budget is going to
be implemented. The city council was split six to six
on Deaver Mayor Mike Johnston's one point sixty six billion
dollars spending plan. Measures that wind up in a tie
are usually considered dead, but budget measures are an exception,
so the city charter says that any budget not passed
by the council will still take effect with all of.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
The approved amendments.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Denver Public School leaders say they're seeing more drivers ignoring
school buses and kids in craw walks as they're heading
to school. This comes after three students were hit on
the way to school last week. TPS spokesman Scott Fribble
tells Fox thirty one their consequences for ignoring crossing arms
and flashing lights on buses.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
There was a new law that started this summer where
school districts can put a camera on that stop arm
and if they record you going through there, you can
receive a ticket and up to a three hundred dollars fine.
We're doing this just for the safety of our students
and we want to make sure that that they get
home safely to their families and their loved one.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The new safety measures are designed to prevent accidents before
they happen. Canada no longer measles free. The country has
been hit by several outbreaks as childhood vaccination rates fall.
Jennifer Nuzzo is a professor at Brown University School Public Health.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Losing elimination status means that the virus has been allowed
to transmit in one continuous chain for a year now,
which is quite a considerable costs and really an important.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Public health setback.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Canada now reporting more than five thousand diesels cases so
far this year. You're too late if you wanted season
tickets to Denver's new women's soccer team.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
The Denver Summits sold out of their eighty five hundred
season tickets. You can still see a match though with
single tickets. Their first match of the season will be
at Empower Field and they're hoping to break the attendance
record for a women's soccer match.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm Cynthia vail Our. Next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think we have our first real controversy of rotten
with Gina Dragon.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
What are you saying?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, you had mentioned that you were going to put
the pop tarts in the microwave. Yeah, and I just
figured it was a slip of the tongue. No, but
some several texters at five sixty six nine zero, and
it does help if you put ross Gina or Dragon first,
because we're not the only ones that use this text
line at this specific time. Five six six nine zero.
But somebody texted in saying pop tarts in the microwave
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question mark. So was it a slip of the tongue
or do you really put pop tarts in the microwave?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I've been I've been putting pop tarts in the microwave
for longer than Gene.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Has been alive.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is this because a toaster isn't available, or if you
have the choice between a toaster and a microwave.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You're choosing the microwave.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They're both fine to me, they're about equivalent. But the
thing but the toasters and the toaster is a lot
more work. But the good news actually with pop tarts
is you don't have to put them in a toaster
for very long. It's not like toasting a bagel where
you gotta wait minutes. You can, you can, so I would,
I would use a toaster, but I don't think we
have one in the iHeart kitchen.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Here we do, we do? We do?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I did not know? It's right above the microwave. It is, yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The only problem with a toaster, though, is sometimes it
can fall through the little grates of the toaster because
the pop tarts are so skinny. So but it toasted
so much better than a microwave microwave. You're just heating
it up toaster, you're getting a little crispy, and.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
The one we're gonna do later, what microwave just feels
like it had come out as a pile of.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Mush if you overdo it. But that's the thing you
gotta The easiest mistake to make with a with a
pop tart is microwaving it for too long. You got
to do like maybe seven seconds or something. But it's
hard after that because you got to go all the
way up to eleven to get to the next prime number,
and so you can't do eight, nine or ten.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
How the heck are you saying a microwave is easier
when a toaster is one push down, where microwave you
have to put seven zero seven start, all right?
Speaker 9 (13:29):
I mean, if you already have two pop tarts, I
only had more tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I can bring more tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
We need microwave, toaster and freezer at this point try
them out.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, hey, dragon, what an abomination. Next he'll tell us
he doesn't wash his legs. I would never say that.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I would.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
All right, let's do a couple of a couple of
little news things here. After all, news is in the
name of the show, so we should probably do a
couple of things. So there was an interesting pair of
news reports yesterday, and I'll to do the second one first,
because the second one's real easy. The second one is
the International Olympic Committee saying that they have not yet
made a decision, the decision that is referenced in the
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first story. That now I will go back to even
though I didn't say it first. I don't know why
I called it first, and so I didn't say it first.
Here's the headline from the UK Guardian IOC, that's the
International Olympic Committee edge is closer to ban on transgender.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Women and female Olympic events.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Sources expect to ban within the next six to twelve months.
The IOC president, who is a woman named Kirsty Coventry,
and I'm quoting from the Guardian, making clear that she
wants to drive.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Through whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I guess it means like stay consistent with This is
a British newspaper, so they've got some slightly different idioms.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
She wants to.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And what I would say about this, First of all.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't need to relitigate the whole, the whole thing
about you know, fairness regarding biological men competing against women.
But beyond that, because we've talked about that enough over
the past couple of years. Beyond that, I also think
that in this age of Trump, I think that kind
of you know, greases the skids a little bit toward
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various organizations that want to do this kind of thing,
because after all, Donald Trump has actually threatened to block
travel visas for transgender men, so transgender women, biological men
who want to come compete against female athletes, and for example,
the Olympics, it'll be coming up in in I think
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it's Los Angeles, right, and so Trump has said, well,
I might just not even give you a visa, or
if there are teams that have transgender women, he might
block those teams visas. It's kind of unknown just what
he will do, but I think the risk of that
makes it such that some of these organizations, it makes
it a little bit easier for them to make that particular,
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make that particular decision. One other thing that I want
to mention regarding the government shutdown, and I talked about
this a little bit yesterday, and it's not getting any
better for Democrats. And again, there's so many aspects of
this to talk about, but the politics, I mean, this
was all politics.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It was all politics all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I think that many Democrats don't even really care that
much about the particular expiring Obamacare subsidies that are only
really applying to mostly applying to people making at least
four hundred or families making at least four hundred percent
of the federal poverty level.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right, all the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Obamacare subsidies are not affected by any of this, and
people don't seem to understand that. And the other thing
people don't understand is that for most people, most of
the big increase that's coming in Obamacare premiums is coming
whether or not the subsidies get because the subsidies are
a very small part of this conversation for most people.
But in any case, a lot of the politicians who
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are dealing with this stuff there it's not so much
that they care about the policy, but rather it's that
on the Democratic side, the energy and the activism and
the motivation and the turning out the vote has been
coming mostly from the further left part of the base.
And they want Democrats to fight against Trump all day,
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every day, in any way possible. They don't want Trump
to get a win on anything. They want to beat
him up wherever and wherever they can, just for the
sake of doing so. And you know what, politics as politics,
that's fine. They can think that way if they want to.
But now the problem is that since Democrats realized, well
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a handful of Democrats realized that this wasn't going their
way and wasn't going to.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Go their way.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You had eight Democrats side with all the Republicans to
continue this process forward. Now and you've got well, here's
here's a headline. People, and now they're talking about Democrats.
People are bleeping pissed.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And what this is.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Doing right now that we're gonna have to keep an
eye on is it's very much dividing the Democratic Party
and they are gonna have to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's a long time until the next election, and they
probably will figure it out, but it's a very interesting
thing to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All Right, We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Got a yeah, we got some words, we got some news,
some traffic, some weather, and.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Then Gina and I will be right back on Rotten with.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Gina Koa News time six thirty.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I'm Gina Gondek.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
On this vote, the eyes are sixty, the nays are forty.
The bill as amended has passed.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The Senate passes a funding deal, moving a step closer
to ending the nation's longest government shut down. The funding
measure still has to pass the House. That won't happen today.
On the Veterans' Day holiday.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
In its first round of votes Wednesday afternoon, but the
deal leaving many Democrats outraged because it does nothing to
address the expiring Obamacare subsidies that the party spent weeks
holding out on as a precondition for reopening the government. Instead,
the deal reached in the Senate comes with a promise
from Republicans to hold a future vote on healthcare, even
Republicans acknowledging that's.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
At ABC's Rachel Scott Bolts of Colorado's senators voted no.
Michael Bennett said it was because a health insurance tax
credit extension was not included.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
We shouldn't make matters worse, and that's why I voted
again against the budget that's been proposed by President Trump
and the Republicans because they refuse to extend the tax crick.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
President Trump has announced his support for the bipartisan agreement.
The President will be marking Veterans Day with a visit
to Arlington National Cemetery. He's expected to lay a wreath
at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and deliver remarks
as part of an official observance ceremony. Warm and dry
conditions the mountains, keeping resorts from opening more terrain for
skiers and riders.
Speaker 13 (20:04):
The snowpack in Colorado's high country is at twenty percent
of normal, with windy, dry conditions forecast the next few days.
NWS meteorologist Maggie Idecker is forecasting snow at the end
of the week, so we.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
Have a system coming through over the weekend which could
bring more light snowshowers to the mountain.
Speaker 13 (20:21):
She says a couple of good storms is all it
takes to turn the tables on the ski season quickly.
Connor Shreeve can't wait News Wall.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Street Cloths shurply hired yesterday on optimism that the government
shutdown will come to an end this week. At the
closing bell, the doll gained about three hundred and eighty
one points, SMP rows one to oh three, and the
Nasdaq climbed five hundred and twenty two points.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Sports. The Avs are at home tonight hosting the Ducks.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
They'll try to win their fourth game in a row,
and the Nuggets will also be playing tonight, visiting the Kings.
They're coming off a Saturday win against the Pacers. Fox
thirty one pinpoint weather. As you heard Connor mentioned there
are unseasonably warm conditions continue. High temperatures nearing seventy degrees
this afternoon, dipping down to the forties overnight tonight, back
into the seventies for much of this week. Currently sixty
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degrees in Denver. Our next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gida god on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And the answer is yes, I have put butter on
a pop tart and it's good. Wow, Okay, it's good.
I did just go put the pop tart in the
in the freezer GENA one I put. There's two pop.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Tarts, so I put one in the freezer and the
other one. We're gonna there's two toasters by the way.
There's a toaster oven right, and then there's the kind
where you push the.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Little handle down.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But I'm afraid because I looked in at Gina and
I'm afraid it is one where you'll lose the pop
tart down in there. So I might go with the
toaster oven one perhaps if I can figure out how
to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
As for the song, you probably don't want to put
butter on this type of pop tart, which is the
thin Mint Girl Scout cookie version.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Which is brown on top. It doesn't have white frosting.
It's all it's all brown, my wife says. My wife
often says that the more that food looks like pooh,
the more I will enjoy eating it like chili dogs
and you know, smothered burritos and hot fudge Sundays.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You're listening off right now. Sounds fantastic, exactly, Gina.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Just practice, if she had had coffee in her mouth
when I said that that, it would have gone all
over her computer screen.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Right, yeah, you weren't expecting that. You weren't expecting that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
A listener text here Gina Ross and Gina good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That's a listener text, good morning, okay, and then another
another listener text on let me let me find this
one because I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I owe you an apology.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
When I first heard about the change, I gave a
boo and two thumbs down. But after listening yesterday and today,
it's actually okay, Well, thank you thanks for thanks for
giving us a chance hit for semi professional radio. Yeah
well yeah exactly, just okay, just okay, uh, all right,
you know what, let me let me do just a
couple of minutes on sort of a finance a finance
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thing I heard. I heard Gina talk about how much
the market was up yesterday and looking like maybe down
a little today on the Nasdaq and S and P.
We'll see when it opens in an hour. But a
pretty huge day yesterday. And you know, you hear from
time to time in this econ nerdiness Lingo, you hear
about recoveries, economic recoveries described as various kinds of letters. Right,
(23:24):
a V shaped recovery the economy declines quickly and then
bounces back quickly, and it looks like a V or
a W shaped recovery. Right, the economy goes badly, recovers
a little, goes badly again, and then.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Gets on with a much bigger recovery. That kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
One of the most interesting, this concept that I never
even heard of until sometime within probably well definitely within
the past decade and maybe more recently than that, is
a K shaped recovery.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So what is a K shaped recovery mean?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
If you imagine the right side of the K, You've
got these two legs coming off of it, and one
of them's going down and one of them's going up.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And the concept with the K shaped recovery.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Is that not everybody in America, well, it's never everybody
in America, but that there are distinct groups that you
can more or less categorize as a very large segment
of the population for home the recovery is going great,
and a large segment of the population for whome it's
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going not so great.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And this is.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Interesting and important from an economic perspective. It's also interesting
and important politically, right. And if you imagine everybody in
America being only in one of those legs of the K,
you're really going to miss a lot about what the
American public want, about how they might vote, about how
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they're feeling about things.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And this was kind of brought home to me in
a piece that I saw in the Wall Street Journal
yesterday or the day before, I forget, maybe it was
two days ago, and this was the headline, feeling great
about the economy, you must own stocks.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Now that's interesting, right. A few months ago, with the
market surging, Rick Wickman watched his investment portfolio balloon in value.
The sixty seven year old retired consultant sold his Toyota
and leased a new Tesla after one of the AC
units in his home broke. He replaced the whole property's
HVAC system this fall, at a cost of seventy two
(25:42):
thousand dollars. When stocks fell last week, he spoke to
his financial advisor, who added some options to protect against declines.
But Wickman is staying in the market and doesn't plan
to cut back on his spending. He says he's fairly
bullish about the economy. Many Americans who own stocks are
feeling good about their finances with a market that's continually
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shrugged off economic concerns and pushed major indexes to new highs.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Let me keep going here a little bit.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They've seen stocks dive through the dot com bust and
the financial crisis and the pandemic, only to recover and
keep going up. Even after a big sell off after
President Trump's tariff announcements in April and a smaller dip
last week, the S and P five hundred is still
up more than fourteen percent so far this year. And
by the way, this was written before that huge rally yesterday, right,
(26:31):
so now it's more than fifteen percent gains in the
top thirty artificial intelligence related stocks just those have added
five trillion dollars to household wealth across the country in
the past year. So then skipping down a little bit
in the article, so that was about people who owned stocks,
(26:52):
then they say it's very different for everyone else. Americans
with large investment portfolios feel markedly better about the economy
than those who don't own stocks. According to the University
of Michigan Sentiment Index, sentiment among people who don't own
stocks is at the lowest level as far as a
(27:12):
three month moving average since the university began tracking this
in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
This all makes the economy.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Especially vulnerable to a stock market swoon. And what they
mean by that is if half of the people in
or what it doesn't have to be half, but if
some significant number of Americans already don't feel great about
the economy, maybe they're cutting back on their spending a
little bit. The other half has been feeling very good
in the so called wealth effect. Right, if the stock
(27:43):
market goes bad, and I'm not predicting that, it's just
an if, and those folks then start cutting back on
their spending, you don't have the other folks to kind
of rely on as a bit of an economic buffer.
So anyway, there's a lot more to this article, but
in the interest of time, I'm not going to share
more of it with you. You can find it at the
Wall Street Channel WSJ dot com. Feeling great about the economy,
(28:05):
you must own stocks. I think it's very interesting insight
and no matter where you are on that kind of
K shape recovery, if you think that's right, it's really
important to think about the people who are in the
other leg of the K to try to understand what's
going on in this country in terms of economics and politics.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back on koa.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
CooA News Time six forty eight. I'm Gina Goddek. Day
forty two of the government shutdown, and while the Senate
did narrowly pass a bill to keep the government funded
through January thirtieth, the ripple effects of the shutdown will continue.
Delays and cancelations at airports rising nationwide as the FAA
flight reductions increase to six percent today ten percent by Friday. Locally,
(28:51):
DiiA is reporting ninety two canceled flights so far this morning,
as well as twenty four delays. As where the Senate
passed bill, the House is not expected to take it
up till tomorrow at the earliest, while we bask in
seventy to greet temperatures winter taking parts of the other
countries other parts of the country by storm.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Abc'sjni Norman is in Syracuse.
Speaker 15 (29:13):
It's not just this part of upstate New York that's
getting snow, but also parts of Pennsylvania and Vermont, and
snow showers could move as far south as Kentucky, West Virginia,
even parts of Tennessee, even as far south as parts
of the.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Carolinas old and snow.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
In fact, Atlanta is colder than Denver today at thirty
two degrees. They'll get used to the warmer temps, though,
National Weather Service meteorologists Maggie I.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Deckers as the situation can change quickly.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Even though we're at a warm start to the season,
that doesn't necessarily mean that we'll have a bad snow season.
We're just waiting for a good couple storms to get
us back on track for a regular snow season.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Well likely see snow by the end of the month.
Today is Veterans Day, and there are discounts for those
who have served. They're free entrees at Applebee's, free haircuts
at Great Clips, and a number of other discount and
freebies at places like Starbucks, Denny's, Red Lobster, Chipotle and
Wendy's and buch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid are pardoned. No,
it's not the notorious Bandits, but rather the two turkeys
(30:10):
that were named after them. Governor Pullus saved the turkeys
from Slaughtery yesterday as part of the third annual Turkey
part in. The turkeys will live out the rest of
their lives at a sanctuary in Erie. Your next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gida Gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Welcome to ros Kaminski on the News with Gina Gondek.
We still have a ton of stuff to do on
today's show. Oh, I want to give a shout out here,
not just a shout out, a mention, a very specific
mention for a specific reason to Oliver's Restaurant, which is
in Greenwood Village near Bellevue and Yosemite. In that I
(30:43):
don't remember the name of that shopping center, but Scott A.
King Souper's on the north end, but on the south
east end of that shopping center at Bellevue and Yosemite
is Oliver's.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Restaurant, really good Italian food.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And the reason I'm mentioning this to you is that
on Veterans Day, all veterans and active duty military go
to Oliver's restaurant and you will eat free up to
thirty dollars for your meal, and they'll give you a
free non alcoholic beverage.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That is so awesome of them. And I've actually eaten at.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Olivers quite a lot of times and it's it's really
good food.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And so just a big thank you to.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Oliver's for taking care of our veterans in active duty
military today. So head on, head on over there Bellevue
and Yosemite. Active duty in military, active duty and veterans
eat free up to thirty bucks and get a.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Free beverage as well. Let me do just two minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
On a quick thing here that's been in the news
for the past couple of days, and that's this idea
of a fifty year mortgage.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
So this guy Bill Polti.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Who's running a federal housing finance authority for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
He's an interesting character.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I can't say I'm much of a fan, but anyway,
he's a huge Trump and always cheering, cheerleading for Trump.
And doing whatever he's doing over there, and of course,
you know, he wants to you know, help his president
be more not just be more popular, that's a little
too cynical, probably, but to maybe try to get some
things done that might be good for people. And Bill
(32:17):
Poulty put out on social media this idea of a
fifty year mortgage, and he put it out with a
picture that showed FDR and Donald Trump and you know,
and putting those two together in terms of greatness or whatever.
And then Trump retweeted it or reposted it on social media,
(32:37):
you know, implying that he supports a fifty year mortgage.
Now it turns out that this guy, Bill Poulty here
i'll quote from Politico, the White House was blindsided by
the idea and is now dealing with the furious backlash
from conservative allies, business leaders, and lawmakers. And I just
want folks to know, and I don't have time to
get into this in great detail, but I think that
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a fifty year mortgage might offer a slightly lower monthly payment,
not as much lower as you think it will, but
the downside is absolutely enormous in terms of building up equity.
And let me just see if I can do this
in twenty seconds. I did two calculations on a three
hundred thousand dollars loan, thirty years at six point two percent,
fifty years at six point six percent, and that's probably
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pretty close to what the difference in the interest rates
would be. If you do the thirty year loan, your
payment is eighteen hundred and thirty seven dollars. The fifty
year loan it's seventeen hundred and fourteen dollars. So it's
a savings of one hundred and twenty three dollars a month,
which is not nothing, but it's not a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Here's the real problem.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
If you do the thirty year loan, and if you
hold the mortgage for all thirty years, you will pay
three hundred and sixty one thousand dollars in interest. For
the fifty year loan, it's double seven hundred and twenty
eight thousand dollars in interest. And it gets actually even
worse than that one last thing. If you have the
thirty year loan and you're paying into it for twelve years,
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you'll have built up sixty nine thousand dollars in equity.
If you have the fifty year loan over that same
twelve years, you're gonna build up sixteen thousand dollars in
equity for almost everybody. The fifty year loan is a
bad idea, and by the way, it's been tried before
in America about twenty years ago and failed.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It shouldn't be coming up now. Joa News Time seven o'clock.
I'm Gina Goddek.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's a major step toward ending the record breaking government
shutdown as the Senate passes a funding bill to keep
the government open till the end of January. But there
are a lot of Democrats still angry that eight of
their colleagues voted in favor of the measure without getting
subsidies that would have helped millions of Americans pay for
their health insurance premiums.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Center Republicans promised in a side deal a separate vote
in December on a healthcare bill, but Johnson says he
can't guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies in the House,
saying he has to build consensus among members.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Fox's Madeline Rivera House Credit Leader Hakeem Jeffries calls the
latest deal unacceptable.
Speaker 10 (35:03):
Tens of millions of Americans are about to experience dramatically
increased healthcare costs.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
The bill does include money for snap assistance through next September.
It now moves onto the House for a vote. The
pilot of a small plane forced to land on a
street in Castle Rock. The aircraft reported power problems before
emergency landing at Wolfensberger and Prairie Hawk Drive, west of
By twenty five yesterday afternoon. Castle Rock Fire chief Norris
Kroom tells Fox thirty one it's amazed that.
Speaker 16 (35:30):
No one was hurt, but considering what we've got here
with power lines, the power polls, he said again he
saw minimal traffic on the roadway, thought it was his
best shot and he was pretty successful in putting it down.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
The plane did clip a car on the road.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Three people were inside, but they managed to walk away
with no injuries. A deadly dog virus has been discovered
in North Glen.
Speaker 17 (35:50):
The city's animal Control says the parvo virus is contained
to one home so far, and that home is near
Muriel Drive and Irma Drive. Police say they don't think
of the dogs in the area are affected, but Warren
canine parro virus spreads easily. It's preventable through vaccination, which
veterinarians recommend dogs gettus puppies and every three years afterward.
(36:13):
Brenda Stewart Koway News in Sports.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
The Nuggets looking for their fifth Street victory, taking on
the Sacramento Kings tonight on the road. The Avs at
home hosting the Ducks. They'll try to win their fourth
game in a row. And when the Broncos host the
Chiefs on Sunday, they'll be with out linebacker Alex Singleton.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
He underwent surgery for testicular cancer on Friday.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
What I wanted to do was just focus on football
for the week, for the Thursday game and just kind
of not let it change my life yet, if that
makes sense, you know, because it was.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It's still so shocking.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It's still not known exactly how much time Singleton will
miss as he recovers from surgery. Kway's coverage of Sunday's
Broncos Chiefs game begins at eight am, kickoff at two
twenty five on Wall Street. Stock futures pointing to a
mixed opening, Dow Future up thirty points, SMP down slightly,
NASDAK down one thirteen, Box thirty one pinpoint. Weather our
warmer temperatures continue sunshine today. Eyes will be right around
(37:07):
seventy degrees for much of this week. Currently we're at
sixty in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina Gondeck. I'm Kowa Bross is telling me I should
open this Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Hi, Hi Kuminsky on the News with Gina Gondeck.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
If you are just tuning in.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
And like you mentioned, you live under a radio rock,
which I'm not really sure what a radio rock is,
but they might exist.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Different schedule, check it out.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
We will be here until wrapping up the show at
nine o'clock, and then Michael Brown the Situation with Michael
Brown will be joining us later on as well, and
then the normal rundown of your KOA Favorites will.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Be after that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
We've been talking a little bit about the weather and
what we've been seeing as of late, unseasonably warm temperatures
for the last couple of days. It's been weird because
it's November eleventh and it's been in the seventies for
a lot of time, and I've been seeing a lot
of really eager skiers and Borders Gorge is itching to
get out our local ski resorts and the conditions are
just a.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Business suboptimal, suboptimal.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'll say, you know, with this, with this change in
my working hours, Gina, I'm I'm actually thinking from time
to time in the winter, I might get out of
here right after the show. It's awesome and go snowboarding.
I'm not I don't know how to ski, but I
love snow. Are you a skier or a border or both?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I'm a skier. The husband's a border. Yeah, and we've
done it before.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Where right after the show I get out to Keystone
because it's usually the best one to try to get
to for parking and to get out there just for
a couple.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Of runs and it's awesome because nobody's out there. Like,
how do you get a decent price on lift tickets?
Or do you just see I'm an Epic pass holder?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know, if it works out where
I do this enough, maybe I'll get an Epic pass
next year. But like you were talking about here, is
there going to be any snow? Like how do these
places even have snow now? To open?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Longs that have opened?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
So a couple of years ago, I went on Keystone's
opening day and I remembered a ton of koa listeners going.
That was the biggest mistake you've ever made of your life,
because I learned the definition of what people now call
the white ribbon of death, which is when ski resorts
are able to make snow just enough to cover a.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Single run, cram it all together.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
You still have dirt and rocks and things on either
side of you, and then all these ear skiers and
borders are just going way too fast on this run,
getting all excited, crashing into people. You have the toboggan
of shame people love to say when you have to
go down that little sled, if you get injured and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
So I learned the hard way.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
And then the lines on top of just having chairlift
lines that are just outrageous.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And it's hot.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Because you're still into these warmer fall temperatures, so you're
bundled up in all of your gear thinking it's going
to be colder, it's not. The sun is beating on you, you're
waiting for the chairlift, and then it's not really great conditions.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
And so like, I don't think I would ever do
opening day for all those all those reasons, but it
is kind of cool, say, and I've only done this once.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Well even I haven't even done it.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
I've just been there when other people doing it skiing
in shorts.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yes, right, because it's just so warm. It's just it
that does seem awesome.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I was able to take off my ski jacket at
the end of last year. I don't remember how late
we were going into I mean pretty much March April,
especially end of April. And some people really aim to
ski every month of the year, which can be possible, wow,
if you have a really good ski season.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
But right now they're saying that it's not great.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
It's like twenty percent below normal of what we usually see.
But places like winter Park, Keystone, a Basin, Copper Mountain.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Breckenridge, they all still are open.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
There's not a ton of runs and it's not the
greatest condition, but people are just you know, they're always
trumpet at the bit to get that out there and
start the season.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Are you so much? This isn't a sarcastic question, are you?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Are you saying that it's theoretically possible to ski year
round without leaving the United States?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Is there snow sowhere?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
The reason why I know this is because, Okay, when
they scan your pass if you have an epic pass
and they scan your past.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
It was funny. I was at Breckenridge one.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Year and the little scanner that they had started a
jingle of happy Birthday. It was that person's birthday that day,
and I was like, Wow, that's so cute that plays
happy birthday. Yeah, I'll never get that. My birthday's in June.
And he said nope. He's like, there's a good possibility
here in Breckenridge that there is the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
To ski in June.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Wasn't that year, but he said that we've had it before.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Wow. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough to know about our current
ski conditions. I bet Texters can say, oh, yeah, I've
skied every month of the year in our state, but
I'm not sure if that's really possible with the conditions
that we've seen.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
As all right, I have I have two questions for listeners.
One has have any of you ever gone skiing in
the United States in August? And if so, where text
us at five six six nine zero and tell us
and then separately and there will be a lot more
yes answers for this. And I have my own yes,
(42:08):
answer that, I'll maybe I'll tell you later. But have
you ever been skiing in let's say July or August anywhere?
Right southern hemisphere typically is where you would go for
that kind of thing. And if so, where did you
go and how was it? Text us at five six
six nine zero and tell us Gin, have you ever
been skiing in another country?
Speaker 13 (42:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Well, Canada? So yeah, yeah, it's good. Yeah, I kind
of forgot when you were growing up in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
You go to Canada for some really good conditions, but
it didn't feel.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Like you're really traveling that far.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Wonder if it was like, Okay, when I first.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Learned to snowboard, I was living in Chicago, and we
would and we would drive up to like will Mott
and Alpine Valley and these things that are like a
fraction the size of the smallest place in Colorado, like
much smaller than Eldorra for example.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
We literally learned on a landfill. It's just a trash mountain. Yeah,
that's how they taught.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
It was just it was just.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
A literal landfill that they were able to get just
enough snow to put together and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I mean like, how much longer was the lift ride
than the.
Speaker 18 (43:16):
Ski da right, it runs maybe a minute and three
or four or five.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
But okay, so we're almost out of time here.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
But when you went to Canada for what you just described,
it sounded kind of like you were talking about driving,
not flying driving. So in that part of Canada, we're
not talking about driving to no bands and Lake Louise
and whistlers.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
So were they also small? Relatively small?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Relatively small compared to what we have out here, because
anything was bigger than what we were skiing on in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
But size or not larger, it would be it would
be a little larger than that you're just driving distance
from from Michigan. Yeah, I want to say it's remember
the name, is it Blue Mountain? I don't know. You
tell me. I've never been there. I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I think it's Blue Mountain, all right, So look, folks,
I want you to tell us by texted. While Gina
is looking up her answer, tell us at five six,
six nine zero, have you ever skied in the middle
of summer basically in the United States?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
And if so, where, and then have you.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Ever skied in what would be the American summer anywhere
else in the world, and if so, where was it?
How was it? We want to know. We're going to
take a quick break while Gina research.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Is the way Blue Mountain and it's in Ontario. So
maybe I was just a little kid and it felt
a lot bigger than it might be. I don't know
I remember it at all. Yeah, keep it here on Koa.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Koa News Time, seven seventeen. I'm Gina Gondeck.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
The government shutdown appears to be nearing an end to
eight Democrats joining Republicans and passing a funding bill last
night and now moves to the House where a boat
could happen as soon as tomorrow, but it could take
a while after the government reopens for air traffic to
get back to normal. Some air traffic controllers left their
job after being forced to work without pay. President Trump
tells Foxes Laura Ingram he has a solution.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
We should not have had people leaving their jobs. And
what I basically did is say the ones that state
of which way, there were a lot of them. I'm
sending them a ten thousand dollars. Where's that money coming from?
Speaker 9 (45:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
I'll get it from someplace. Those who continue to work
will get back pay. Locally.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
We're seeing ninety two cancelations at DIA so far this morning,
as well as twenty eight delays. A sixty four year
old Colorado man who spent nearly two decades in prison
for a murder he did not commit, has died at
the age of sixty four. Robert Dewey was sentenced to
life in prison for the death of nineteen year old J. C.
Taylor and Palisade back in nineteen ninety four. After DNA
(45:41):
evidence exonerated him, he was set free do He then
helped Colorado pass a new law to require the state
to compensate people were wrongfully incarcerated. A new study suggests
coffee may help protect against an irregular heartbeat.
Speaker 19 (45:55):
More than ten million Americans live with a heart disorder
known as a FIB that could lead to heart failure
and blood clots. The research results of a four year
clinical trial presented at the American Heart Association conference showed
drinking just one cup of coffee per day appeared to
have a protective effect on a FIB recurrence.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
On Monica Nelson, terrible gina is not rotten. It's just
terrible dragon. Why are you so quiet when you're talking?
I can barely hear you. Can you make me? Can
you make you louder to me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
That's better, not just to you, Okay, to everybody, Yeah,
it would be to everybody. Ross Kaminski on the news
with Gina Gondek, you take out the Kaminski and then
you make the acronym rotten with Gina. And I don't
know if that means Gina is now associated with something
rotten or Gina is the only thing that isn't rotten?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (46:41):
That one?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, you think we think it's that one, Gina. A
whole bunch of people talked about skiing in July in
Colorado at a basin and veil and such in twenty
and eleven. That must have been That must have been
some big year here. I mean I was here, I
just I don't remember. And a lot of folks have
also said skiing Saint Mary's Glacier.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Have you ever been to Saint Mary's Glacier?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
No, that's a place you would like because you're an outdoorsy, hiking,
you know, exploration kind of person.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Been there? Yes?
Speaker 9 (47:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Okay? Were they hike up? Yeah, it's not a skier's
card or anything. It's it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
So a whole bunch of people are saying you can,
and yeah, I guess if you're willing to hike up
a glacier and then ski down where there might be
more ice than than snow, perhaps, but still you could
definitely do that year round. It probably got you know,
a dozen people saying that they've done that.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Ross. Did you ski in Australia when you lived there? No?
I did not. My wife grew up.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
My wife is Australian and she's actually a very good
skier because she and her family went skiing pretty much
every year.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Here's a little tidbit for you.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
When I first moved to Colorado, we moved to well,
not when I first a couple years after moving here,
we moved to just outside Netherland, back where they used
to have the frozen dead guy days and the altitude
gina of my house there was.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Eighty three hundred feet.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Eighty three hundred feet is higher than the top of
the highest mountain in Australia.
Speaker 20 (48:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, so but still they get some snow.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
You go a little bit down south and they have
a whole they have a whole ski thing.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
I'm wondering if anyone has done those indoor ski resorts.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
So we did have a listener text here. Let me
see if I can find it real quick think they're
Ross and Gina. I skied in June in Dubai and
it sucked. He says. It was indoors in the mall,
only lasted thirty seconds. There's a joke there, but I
won't make it, he says, thank you for not making it.
We won't help you make it either.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I know there's some giant indoor ski resorts in like China,
Netherlands and places like that.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Yeah, I don't know. That would be very weird, very
weird to experience. I would do it on just say
I did, yea.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But for me, the part of the thing is being
outdoors and being in the forest and being in the
trees and doing all that all that crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
All right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
We still have a ton of stuff to do on
today's show, including a really funny guest coming up in
the next hour. But we're going to take a quick
break and we'll come back with President Trump doing something
that hasn't been done in the United States for quite.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Some time.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
KOA News Time seven thirty. I'm Gina Condek.
Speaker 10 (49:33):
On this vote. The eyes are sixty, the nays are forty.
The bill, as amended, has passed the.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
Senate, passing a funding deal, moving a step closer to
ending the nation's longest government shut down. The measure would
fund the government through January thirtieth. However, the bill does
not include a deal on Obamacare subsidies, Republicans promising a
separate vote in December on a healthcare bill. It would
also reverse the Trump administration's mass firings of federal workers
and guarantee backpay.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Once the shutdown ends.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
The House is not expected to take up the bill
until tomorrow at the earliest. President Trump says the government
will open quickly.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
The dealer is very good. We're not going to be
giving one and a half trillion dollars to people that
came in from jails and from you know, the gangs
and drug dealers and all of these others. The agreement
has been passed by the Senate. Now it goes to
the House and then to the President for his signature.
I'm Tammy Truheo.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
Bolts of Colorado. Senators voting no. Michael Bennett said it
was because health insurance tax credits extensions were not included.
Speaker 12 (50:33):
We shouldn't make matters worse, and that's why I voted
again against the budget that's been proposed by President Trump
and the Republicans because they refuse to extend the tax rates.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
President Trump has said he supports the bipartisan agreement. The
President will be marking Veterans Day with a visit to
Arlington National Cemetery. He's expected to lay a reef that
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and then deliver a
march as part of an official observance ceremony. Warm and
dry conditions in the mountains keeping ski resorts from opening
more terrain for skiers and riders.
Speaker 13 (51:05):
The snowpack in Colorado's high country is at twenty percent
of normal, with windy, dry conditions forecast the next few days.
NWS meteorologist Maggie Idecker is forecasting snow at the end
of the week, so.
Speaker 14 (51:16):
We have a system coming through over the weekend which
could bring more light snowshowers to the mountain.
Speaker 13 (51:22):
She says a couple good storms is all it takes
to turn the tables on the ski season quickly.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Connor Shreeve ken't wait news on.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Wall Street stocks opening, Dow is up, S and P flat,
and Nasdaq is down half a percent. In sports, the
Avs at home tonight. They'll be hosting the Ducks and
trying to win their fourth game in the row. The
Nuggets also playing tonight, visiting the Kings. They'll be coming
off a Saturday win against the Pacers.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Box thirty one pinpoint. Weather.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
Our unseasonably warm conditions continue. High temperatures today nearing seventy degrees.
We'll dip down into the forties overnight tonight, back into
the seventies for much this week. Seems like we could
get a little bit of a cool down when the
Chiefs come to town for the Broncos up later on Sunday. Currently,
we're at sixty degrees in Denver. Our next update coming
up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Condeck, I'm Kowa.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
We haven't done that in a while, and actually, since
this is the new show, Ross Kaminski on the News
with Gina Gondeck, folks might not know if your folks
who normally listen, you know, in these hours rather than
our former later hours, that producer Dragon tends to be
fairly agreeable. If you text in and ask him for
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particular bumper music, there's a decent chance, at least maybe
fifty to fifty they he'll play song.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Yeah, if it's a classic rock kind of genre that
both you and I like.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeaheah, of course, So there's still stipulations of what you
will play.
Speaker 9 (52:47):
Well, I played the pop Tarts song earlier. Yeah, that's true.
So I mean, did someone request the Poptart song?
Speaker 2 (52:51):
No?
Speaker 9 (52:52):
I didn't think so. Well, Gina, what kind of Yeah,
I don't know. There's Rush fine, Yeah, Rush is fine?
Speaker 2 (53:03):
That's fine?
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Is Rush better than fine?
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Sure? Wow, that's good. That's good to know. I like
you even better now. Hey, I bought tickets. I've paid
way too much for those tickets.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Man. Yeah, I don't know what we paid for those,
but around three hundred. Yeah, I'm I'm in I'm in
the nosebleedes. So I think they were maybe like one
eighty app.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah, okay, we got to Actually don't know exactly where
our seats are, but they should be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
But they're they're Yeah, they're around three hundred. But I'm
sure it's gonna be the last time I ever see them. Yeah,
you know, all right, let me do some things here
that I just wanted to get to. First of all,
President Trump met yesterday with Syrian President Ahmed al Sharha,
whose previous name he went by the nom de guere
of I think I'll go Lani.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
I forget the whole name.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
But this guy was previously affiliated with some offshoot of
al Qaeda.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
He had a bounce on him.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
There was some multimillion dollar reward available from the United
States of America for people.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Who led to his capture.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
And long story short kind of in the aftermath of
the Israeli attack on Iran, which massively weakened the support
structure for the Syrian government of President bashar Assad, that
government collapsed, this guy al shara he and his rebels
(54:30):
just sort of marched through the country and Asad vacated
to I think he's living in or near Moscow now.
And yesterday President Trump met with this guy al Sharad.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
They didn't do very much.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
In public, not as much as Trump often does with
foreign leaders, and that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
I wouldn't either with this guy.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
He talks a good game, right, He talks a good
game about sort of pluralism and wanting everybody to be
able to live in peace in Syria. And he surely
doesn't talk like a jihada, and he hasn't for a
long time, and it's possible he's legit. But it is
a kind of thing where you very much have to,
you know, to use the Reaganism here. You have to
trust but verify. But this is the first time, I
(55:13):
think it's the first time ever that a president of
Syria has been to the White House. And it's an
interesting choice by President Trump, but I think it's a
decent choice. I think one of President Trump's major I think,
not one of I think President Trump's major foreign policy focus,
although he does seem to have a few of them,
but I think the top one by far is the
(55:35):
Middle East, and so meeting with that guy is definitely
an interesting thing. Oh, let me interject something here.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (55:45):
I thought of this yesterday and I thought it would
be fun just to interject these throughout the show. And
I should have started earlier, because we're halfway through the
show already.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
But here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
And I promise you that if you do well on
this contest. Hey, dragon, what is it that people can
normally win on this show if they're able to properly
answer just trivia questions that I might ask, you know,
over the course of the show. What do they normally win?
Is something random like a high five or something at best? Yeah,
the answer normally is you nothing. You can't win anything
(56:15):
at all.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
If you see us out in public and you tell
us that you've won, yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yeah, well yeah nothing. It's it's mostly about your own ego.
So from time to time, I'll ask you trivia questions,
and I'm going to ask a few of them, but
all the same kind.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
Of question over the course of today's show.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
And it was just a topic that I had thought
of yesterday for no particular reason.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Here's what we're gonna do. I'm going to name a
person and.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
You are going to text me at five six six
nine zero telling me in what city is the airport
that is named for that person? And how many of
these did I get?
Speaker 4 (56:57):
And when you text in trying to text in raws first, Yeah,
put Ross or Dragon or Gina.
Speaker 1 (57:02):
But just something so that we know you're texting at
our show rather than the other radio station that uses
the same text line at this time of day. So
text us at five six six nine zero. And if
you get more of these rights than anybody else, then
if you see me or Dragon in public and tell us,
we will give you either a handshake or a high five,
(57:24):
because we are feeling generous enough today that we will
let you choose.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (57:29):
No, I was gonna say maybe a bro hug. No,
that's too far, that's too much.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, first one and Dragon, if you know what it is,
don't say what it is, but tell me you think
you know what it is, so you.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
Understand the question. Right.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
I'm gonna name a person and there's a an airport
named after this person in a city somewhere. And this
is only the United States. Obviously there's thousands of them
around well not thousands, but there's a lot around the world.
But I'm only doing the United States. And the first
one is Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali. Gina's nodding her head.
Do you know what city, Mohammed. Don't say what the
(58:02):
city is, but do you think you know? Okay, well,
don't tell I'm just basfled that it's like, that's an airport,
and I think it came up in the news in
the past couple of days, So yeah, I believe I
heard I heard you mention that. All right, so Texas
at five six six nine zero in what city is
their airport name for Muhammad Ali? And I'll have more
(58:25):
of these throughout the show. All right now, I just
want to get a little bit political with you. I'm
watching Donald Trump recently and I'm just I'm a little concerned,
and I'm not trying to be sarcastic, and I'm not
looking to bash the guy, and I'm not looking This
is just straight up analysis and kind of thinking about
what I'm seeing right now, and I see a guy
(58:49):
who seems to.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
Be flailing a little bit. And when you think.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
About the stuff that he's doing, like yesterday saying that
he wants to give bonuses to air traffic controllers who
stayed at work the whole time, It's unclear where he
would get the money or the authority to do that.
Although within the executive branch he could probably get it done,
they would have to take the money from some other places.
The other thing that he mentioned was he wants to
(59:15):
dock the pay of air traffic controllers who didn't come
to work some days. I don't think he has the
authority to do that, but maybe maybe, But anyway, my
point is Okay, So he brings that up, and then
he brings up this two thousand dollars tariff dividend, which
I think there's almost no chance of getting done.
Speaker 2 (59:35):
And it's a really really bad idea. Right.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
Trump is talking about tariff's tariff dividend checks to everybody
who makes.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
Less than some amount of money.
Speaker 1 (59:48):
And depending on how you define that, who's going to
get it? Where the cutoff is for too much money
that you know, do you have to be an adult?
But it sure seems like the math of that tariff
dividend is such that if you really wrote those checks,
he would be spending more than we're collecting on tariffs.
By the way, the tariffs might be ruled illegal, but
(01:00:09):
he would be spending more than that when really get
separate from how I feel about the tariffs, any and
every extra dollar that the government is collecting in taxes
from the American people should go to paying down reducing the.
Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Deficit, and paying down the debt.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
And doesn't Trump remember that one of the primary reasons
that he won election was the inflation caused by Joe
Biden's policy, much of which was due to helicopter money,
you to just giving people checks that they then went
out and spend, and yet Donald Trump is now proposing
the same thing. I think there are two things going
(01:00:48):
on here. One, Trump sees the very bad results from
Republicans from the election for Republicans from the elections.
Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
A week ago, and he's tried to do something to
kind of buy back.
Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
People's lawyer by giving them by taxing them and then
giving them back their own money, which is what this
would be. The other thing that I think he's trying
to do with the tariff thing in particular, is to
nudge the Supreme Court to say, look, millions of American
people are going to get two thousand dollars checks unless
(01:01:19):
you overturn the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
And you don't really want to do that, do you.
Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
But I just think right now you see him also
tweeting about a fifty year mortgage and just after thing
where it feels like Trump is flailing around and he
feels like his presidency is getting away from him a
little bit. And if I were to make a prediction,
and I'm not saying this with any kind of happiness,
I'm just telling you what I think I think we
(01:01:45):
will look back and say that the date of President
Trump's highest popularity during his second term was the day
he was inaugurated.
Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Let's go to Gina get some.
Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Headlines AOA news Time seven forty four. Despite a tied vote,
Denver's next budget will be implemented. The city Council will
split six to six yesterday on Mayor Mike Johnston's one
point sixty six billion dollar spending plan. Measures that wind
up in a tie are usually considered dead, but budget
measures are an exception.
Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
The city charter.
Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Says that any budget not passed by the council will
still take effect with all the approved amendments. Fort Lopton
Police investigating an employee with the Weldre eight School District
who they say had unlawful contact with a student at
a middle school. The district is not saying what position
the employee held, only that they have been emplaced on
administrative leave while the investigation continues. You're too late if
(01:02:44):
you wanted season tickets to Denver's new women's soccer team.
Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
The Denver Summits sold out of their eighty five hundred
season tickets. You can still see a match, though, with
single tickets. Their first match of the season will be
at Empower Field and they're hoping to break the attendance
record for a whim Inn's soccer match.
Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I'm Cynthia Vale. Today is Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
There are a number of discounts for those who have
served free andrees at Apple, Pea's, free haircuts at Great Clips,
and a number of other discounts and freebes at places
like Starbucks, Stenny's, Red Lobster, Chipotle, and Wendy's. Actress Sally
Kirkland has died at the age of eighty four. Kirklin
was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards back
in nineteen eighty eight for her role in Anna. She
(01:03:25):
last appeared in the film Eighty for Brady in twenty
twenty three. Representatives say she died in hospice care in
Palm Springs, California, after suffering a fall. Soon have the
chance to own iconic costume pieces from the film. Margaret
Hamilton's original Wicked, which the West Black Hat, will be
going up for auction as part of the Heritage Auctions
December Hollywood Signature Auction. The auction will also include Judy
(01:03:47):
Garland's Red rehearsal slipper and a cast copy signed copy
of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
I did say that the Lumineers were one of my
top artists when we had our ask me anything, Yeah,
very good.
Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
So all right, so let let's keep going with this
trivia question for a bit. So I've the trivia question
we're doing here is I'm going to give you the
name of a person, and you're going to tell me
the name of the city that has the airport that's
named for that person. And I started with Muhammad Ali
and Gina, you know the answer to that because it
was in the newscast today or two ago, although I
don't recall exactly why it was in the newscast.
Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Was it just about overall? What?
Speaker 16 (01:04:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
No, no, no, that was that ups cargo? Oh my gosh.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
So where is this is just a crazy video? Is
it technically Louisville, Kentucky?
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Louisville, Kentucky exactly right. Yeah, So Gina
knew that for bad reasons. All right, next one, and
this is the answer for this one is going to
be slightly slightly tricky.
Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
But the next dragon did you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Know Louisville for for Muhammad Ali? Okay, where is the
airport named for John Wayne?
Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Hmm, I'll give you I'll give you a hint. I'll
give you a hint.
Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
I just flew into it for the first time ever,
like three weeks ago. Uh so and and so some
listeners know what I was doing a few weeks ago.
So if you that that might that might give you
a clue. Where is John Wayne Airport? All right, let
me do a couple other quick things here. Just still
so much to do on today's show. Lots of folks
(01:05:24):
are huge fans. A fan doesn't even begin to cover
just the degree of adoration for Warren Buffett. And Warren
Buffett is ninety five years old, and he has announced
his retirement. And in his annual message he does this
annual message that people read like the way some people read.
Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
You know, the Bible.
Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
And I'm not I'm not exaggerating like they they they
anxiously awaited, they read every word, they read it again,
they read it again. He's been writing this for sixty years,
this annual message to shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
He started this right, So Warren.
Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Buffett started writing this stuff like before I was born,
and he said that he will be quote going quiet
after he retires at the end of the year, or
mostly retiring.
Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
He's not totally going away, and he will keep giving
an annual Thanksgiving message. But what he's really going to
spend his time doing is giving away his.
Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Giving away his fortune. Right he's leaving very little to
his kids, and right now.
Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Based on the current stock price of Berkshire Hathaway, his
net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred
and fifty billion dollars. And he is going to spend
his time working with some of the nonprofits, some of
the foundations that he and his family are involved with,
to give away his money. So there you go. That's
(01:07:04):
Warren Buffett going quiet. A lot of people are really going.
Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
To miss him.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
He is one of the greatest investors of all time,
absolutely of all time. I should have mentioned this yesterday.
I had it on the show sheet, but I didn't
get around to it, just because I am a science nerd.
I want to mention this to you. But a couple
of days ago, James Watson passed away. And Watson is
a guy American guy who, along with a British guy
(01:07:30):
named Francis Crick and a couple of other folks sort
of involved around the edges, discovered the structure of DNA.
He passed away at the age of ninety seven. Watson
was interesting for a few reasons. First of all, this
incredible work that he did, and I guess you would
call it biochemistry effectively, he did at a very young age.
(01:07:51):
He was in his twenties when he did this stuff,
So that's one thing. Later in life, he started saying
some things that basically were racist and sexist.
Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
He was making some some bogus biology based claims that
I won't even fully you know, fully repeat that were
denigrating to black people's intelligence and raw uh and similar
stuff about sexism, and that kind of dogged him for
the rest of his life. And the research lab that
(01:08:24):
he had been in charge of UH dropped him, and he,
you know, somewhat disappeared from public life.
Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
In any case, though, I think at this point it's.
Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Important that we focus on what he did in terms
of science. You know, he's gone now, so there's a
very little point in, you know, badgering him about the
stupid stuff that he said. And and think about just
the fact that this guy, his creativity came up with
figured out the structure of DNA.
Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
And I learned something while I was reading about this.
Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
There's a particular photo and this I actually put in
yesterday's blog.
Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Oh, if you're new, it's kind of new to me
new to the show.
Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Each day I post a blog note that you can
access at Rosskominsky dot com. It's called the Blogcast, and
it includes usually more than all the.
Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Topics we get to during the show.
Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Yes, you don't have to worry about the silent three
in Ross Kaminsky, right, it's okay, just pass right on by.
Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
It, and just it's the silent three is in my
first name, all right, but you don't have to worry
about it. But yeah, it's silent, so you can skip.
You can just pass right over it.
Speaker 13 (01:09:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
It's like the word what's a good one paradigm with
a silent G near the end. It's like that. You
can just keep going right on through it and pretend
it's not even there. So when you see the three
in my name, you can ignore that. In any case,
So yesterday's blog at Rosskiminsky dot com includes some stuff
about including a video about something.
Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Called photo fifty one.
Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
And photo fifty one is an X ray of a
five diffraction image and I'm quoting from Wikipedia of a
paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber. Anyway, it's a nineteen
fifty two X ray and based on the dispersion pattern
of the X ray, they figured out that DNA is
(01:10:18):
likely to be a helix, and then it got to
a double helix and just absolutely incredible. And this discovery
led eventually to so much of modern biology and modern medicine,
including pharmaceuticals specifically.
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Tailored to someone's DNA. So, James Watson, indeed, James.
Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Watson, even though you said a couple of stupid things
later in life, rest in peace and thank you for
all you did for humanity.
Speaker 9 (01:10:49):
I guess free It's never sounded so GOODA Denver nine
FM News Talk.
Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Good Tuesday morning on Gina Gondek.
Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
The end of the government shutdown in sight Tefter the
Senate passed a deal that would fund the government through January.
It now goes to the House, which is not expected
to take up the bill. Until tomorrow at the earliest.
Democratic House Leader Hakim Jeffreyes says he'll fight the bill,
but given that eight Senate Democrats have voted to pass it,
most in the House are expected to cross the aisle
and send it to the President's desk.
Speaker 21 (01:11:24):
I measure would fund agencies through the end of January
and require any federal workers laid off during the shutdown
to be reinstated, drawing most Democrats hire The bill does
not extend expiring COVID era attax credits that have made
health insurance exchange plans more for them.
Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
ABC's Stephen Portinoy, Colorado's congressional Democrats say they will all
vote no. The end of the shutdown doesn't mean an
end to the flight troubles anytime soon. Another fifteen hundred
flights have been canceled across the country so far this morning,
more than nine hundred delayed as the FAA is trying
to ease the stream on air traffic controllers who are
working without pay. Locally, ninety two flights in and out
(01:12:00):
of Dia are canceled so far this morning, with over
thirty delayed. The pilot of a small plane forced to
land on a street in Castle Rock. The aircraft reported
power problems before the emergency landing at Wolfensberger and Prairie
Hawk Drive, Westdubay twenty five, yesterday evening, Castle Rock Fire
chief Norris Kroom tells Fox thirty one, it's amazing no
one was hurt considering.
Speaker 16 (01:12:21):
What we've got here with power lines, the power polls.
He said again, he saw minimal traffic on the roadway,
thought it was his best shot and he was pretty successful.
Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
In putting it down.
Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
The plane did clip a car on the road. Three
people were inside, but they managed to walk away with
no injuries. A twenty eight year old man avoids prison
time after admitting that he hit an elderly couple crossing
the street in Castle Rock while he was driving drunk.
Sixty nine year old Craig Costa eventually died from his injuries.
His family was in court for the sentencing and asked
the judge for the harshest punishment.
Speaker 22 (01:12:52):
I asked that you imposed a maximum sentence of thirteen
years the offended muskie held fully accountable for his choice
and the devastating consequences.
Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Instead, the judge sentence Samuel Michael to four years of
community corrections. The prosecutor is asking state lawmakers to pass
laws mandating stiffer penalties for.
Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
A vehicular homicide.
Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
When the Broncos host the Chiefs on Sunday, they'll be
with out linebacker Alex Singleton. He went underwent surgery for
testicular cancer on Friday. He was diagnosed just over a
week ago following a random drug test that flagged indicators,
resulting in further evaluation. Still not known exactly how much
time Singleton will miss as he recovers. On Wall Street
stocks mixed, stow Is up ninety two points, SMP five hundred,
(01:13:35):
downs slightly, Nasdack down one hundred and one points. And
in sports, the Nuggets looking for their fifth straight victory
taking on the Kings tonight on the road. The Aves
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temperatures right around seventy degrees dipping down into the forties
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overnight tonight. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina, God,
I'm Ross.
Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
That's Gene over there, high GENA Hi. Do you know
where John Wayne Airport. Is I do not John Wayne Airport.
Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
Aren't you just in California? Yes? I was.
Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
That's John Wayne Airport is Orange County, California. Some people
say it's in Santa Anna. Some people say it's in Orange.
It's more of an Orange County thing. So yeah, that's
my first time ever into into John Wayne Airport. It's
it's where you would fly into if you wanted to
go to the airport.
Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Closest to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Oh, not that I want to do that, all right,
I've got two what dragons did?
Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
I've never been to Disneyland. I think going to Disneyland
would be the same as doing the White Snow Line
of Death, right, like going to Keystone on opening day
with huge lines and just you waste all your time.
And you're pretty accurate. I have to say I managed, Dragon,
I managed, and I address this to Dragon because Gina
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doesn't have kids. I managed to get through.
Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
My entire child rearing years without ever taking my kids
to Disneyland or disney World.
Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
My parents did too. Really, were you bitter with them
about that? Or yeah you wanted to go? Yep, yeah,
but not as a kid.
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
But looking back at it, and then and then working
in Florida for a little bit, everybody was like, you've
never been to Disney World. I was like, nope, So
we went once when we were working in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
I wonder how much it costs to go to Disney now,
especially especially what if you want to get like that
pass that gets you lets you cut in in the
lines a little bit. It's got to be a couple
hundred bucks per person per day, yeah, or something like that,
like for a family.
Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
I can't I can't imagine. If I remember.
Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
Two years ago when we went, it was a couple
hundred for a day, and the park hopper where you
can visit all the parks for a day.
Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
I want to say it was probably two hundred bucks
from the Disney that was Disney World.
Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
On the disney Land website, a standard theme park ticket
can range from one hundred and four dollars to two
hundred and twenty four dollars a day.
Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Yeah, that's some serious money. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Let me keep going with some of these because I
want to try to get through as many as I can.
So I'm gonna give you two of them here, And
these are both presidents, and so the question is I'll
tell you the name of the president, and you tell
me where the airport is.
Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
One of these is slightly obscure, and.
Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
The other one is a slightly tricky answer if you
really want to be accurate about it. And I suspect
that the first one, the more obscure one, is one
that Gina will know.
Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
And I think if you know anything about Gina, that'll
give you a clue as to what the answer is.
So the first one is where is there an airport
named for Gerald Ford? And the other one is where
is the airport named for Ronald Reagan? And I want
you to be pretty specific on these and really try
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to get them right.
Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Text us at five six.
Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Six nine zero, and tell us where's the airport named
for Gerald Ford? Where's the airport named for Ronald Reagan?
You you definitely know the first one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
The first one.
Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
I was supposed to fly into over the weekend and
chose not to it chose not to.
Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Did you do anything fun over the weekend, like just
for a little mental health break.
Speaker 13 (01:17:22):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
I remember you saying not that long ago that you
went to Garden of the Gods. Yeah, so I went
to the Garden of the Gods Spa and resort.
Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
Oh yeah, how was that? It was really nice? So
it really nice. I've never done any take on the
hill like Mesa Road or something overlooking. It was very pretty.
Did you get a massage? Did you get?
Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
Yeah, which I've never done before. But because I had
to cancel that flight, I was very sad about it.
I said, I'm gonna treat myself. Let's see what this
is all about. And it was very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
I liked it. Listener text, I was just a Disneyland
fast pass is about two hundred and twenty five dollars
ross family of six one day in disney World is
about one thousand dollars a day or ross. A ticket
to Disneyland is less expensive than a lift ticketed veil.
That's a that's a decent comparison. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Let me just mention that today, of course, is Veterans Day,
November eleventh, and I want to give a big shout
out to all veterans out there, including my parents. And
I'll just tell you a quick thing about my parents
for those who you know, maybe haven't been listening to
me for for some years. But so, my dad is
a surgeon who served in the United States Navy, and
(01:18:26):
there's a book that was written, and I'm not not
a big selling book, but there was a book that
was written, a nonfiction book called super Carrier, and there's
actually a short segment in that book, Supercarrier, about my
dad saving the life of a sailor who got injured
on the deck of the aircraft carrier. My dad was
(01:18:47):
ship's surgeon on the USS John F. Kennedy, the first
USS John F. Kennedy that has since been decommissioned, and
now there's a new one. It's they're actually two different ships.
But my dad was ship's surgeon on the Campy. One
of the many things that my dad did in his
career in the Navy. And then my mom, who actually
ended up out ranking my dad.
Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
She stayed in longer than he did.
Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
My mom was in charge of US Navy medicine for
Europe and then was commanding officer of two or three
big US Navy hospitals, including Portsmouth, which is the hospital
that is attached to the Norfolk Navy Base, which is
the home of the Atlantic Fleet. She was also commanding
officer of the Navy Hospital at Pensacola, which is where
(01:19:38):
the Blue angels are stationed anyway. That's kind of I
did not serve. Some folks asked me why not. Look,
I was going through the time of making that decision
whether to join the military or not, in the mid
nineteen eighties when Ronald Reagan was president, and it was
this very very quiet time in the world, and I
(01:20:00):
really did think about it, and I would if I
felt like they needed me, I would have done it.
But I felt like they really didn't particularly need me,
and so and so I didn't. I didn't go ahead
and do that. Let me give you one other story
real quick. Visa and MasterCard are proposing a settlement, or
apparently they've reached a settlement with merchants about something called
(01:20:25):
swipe fees. So when you use a credit card at
a store, the Visa and MasterCard get some money.
Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Also, the banks that issue the card get some money.
Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Those are different and usually those fees are typically in
the range of two to two and a half percent,
And this settlement calls for them to lower swipe fees,
but not by much, not by much, by somewhere like
just under a tenth of a percent for five years
or so, but they would still be able to raise
their fees after that. What's going to be interesting about
(01:20:56):
this is they proposed a settlement. Visa and MasterCard posed
a settlement a little while back that would have apparently
saved merchants and hopefully saved customers some of this money,
but thirty billion dollars over some time period.
Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
And the judge said that's not enough.
Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Visa and MasterCard are making so much money, and it does.
It's not technically a monopoly because there's two of them,
and there are some others, but they're much smaller, and
Visa MasterCard.
Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Really really dominate.
Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
But these swipe fees totaled over one hundred and eleven
billion dollars last year, and I don't know. To me,
it feels close to monopoly like. So we'll see how
it all plays out, and if it does play out,
we'll see how it filters down to consumers if at all.
All right, let me give let me give you the answers.
Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Actually, Gina, where is gerald Ford Airport, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
There you go, yep, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Play at University of Michigan. And is he from Grand
Rapids or right around there?
Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Or A good question?
Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
I believe so, because there is a Gerald R four
Museum in Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
There you go, sir Gerald Ford Museum, Museum, airport and museum.
Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
And also like one terminal, think of like half of
a single terminal a of DIA.
Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Uh huh. That's the gr the Ford Airport.
Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
Yeah, all right, So maybe that's not much for president,
but it's still a lot more than you and I've
got that's true, right, that is true. And Ronald Reagan
Reagan Airport is well known and a lot of people
might say DC and it serves DC, but it's actually
in Arlington, Virginia. All right, I'll throw out one more
at you and then i'll give you the answer a
little later on where.
Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Is Bob Hope Airport. We'll be right back on.
Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
KOA KOA News Time, eight fifteen, forty second day of
the government shutdown, and while the Senate did narrowly pass
a bill to keep the government funded through January thirtieth,
the ripple effects of the shutdown will continue, delays and
cancelations at airports rising nationwide as the FAA will have
flight reductions increased to six percent today ten percent by Friday.
(01:22:59):
As for the Senate passed to bill, the House is
not expected to take it up until tomorrow at the earliest.
The government shutdown could also take a toll on the
flu season this year here.
Speaker 23 (01:23:08):
In the US, A record two hundred and eighty children
died from the flu last season, the highest level since
two thousand and nine. This year, doctor say the government
shutdown is posing an extra challenge, with the CDC not
updating its data for week.
Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
At ABC's Sophie Flay while we bask in seventy degree temperatures,
winter taking other parts of the country by storm.
Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
ABC's Juni Norman is in Syracuse. It's not just this.
Speaker 15 (01:23:31):
Part of upstate New York that's getting snow, but also
parts of Pennsylvania and Vermont, and snow showers could move
as far south as Kentucky, West Virginia, even parts of Tennessee,
even as far south as parts of the Carolinas old
and snowy.
Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Atlanta is actually colder than Denver right now at thirty
eight degrees, but don't get used to these warmer temperatures.
National Weather Service meteorologists Maggie ideckers as the situation could change.
Speaker 14 (01:23:55):
Even though we're at a warm start to the season,
that doesn't necessarily mean that will have a bad snow season.
We're just waiting for a good couple storms to get
us back on truck for a regular snow season.
Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
Will likely see snow by the end of the months.
Our Act update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina
Gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Do we know why?
Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Got a clue? Didn't ask it was cool? Said why not?
Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Yeah? Why not? Why not?
Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
A couple quick Veterans Day things I want to mention
here also, and Dragon sent me this story from Military
dot Com. I mentioned it two hours ago, but I
want to mention it again now in case you're wondering
why things seem a little bit different this Veteran's Day.
Officials told military dot Com that federal rules block service
members from taking part in public events during a lapse
(01:24:45):
in funding. Wow, Communities from Virginia to Oregon are scrambling,
canceling long planned tributes and shifting to quiet, private observances instead.
Military families are closely watching pay and benefits, and in
any case, so the idea is here.
Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
That well here, let me skip ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
In this piece, Military dot Com asked officials why time
honored ceremonies honoring service members vanished from community calendars. Pentagon
and ROTC leaders pointed to a directive that halts all
community outreach activity during the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
So I don't think I need to elaborate on that
very much. But what if there were public ceremonies at
federal facilities and military facilities, including national cemeteries.
Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
They've probably been canceled. And you know, members of the military.
One of the things I wonder about is whether they
are allowed to participate in any of these public events
if they're not wearing their uniform, And it seems like
the answer may be no. So if you're wondering why
(01:25:57):
some Veterans' Day stuff a little bit subdued today, that's why.
Because even though even though the Senate has passed the
bill that needs to be passed to keep government operational,
the House hasn't passed it yet, so really government is
not open yet. I also want to just mention again
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I mentioned this gut two hours ago as well, or
an hour and a half ago. Oliver's Restaurant in Greenwood Village,
which is right along Bellevue just east of Yosemite and
that shopping center that has King Soupers. It's at the
southeast corner of that shopping center Oliver's restaurant where I've
eaten a bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
It's really good Italian food.
Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
They are giving They are having veterans in active duty
military eating free today up to thirty dollars for your meal,
and they'll give you a free non alcoholic beverage as well.
And I think that is just awesome of Oliver's Italian restaurant.
So active duty members of the military and veterans eat
free today up to bucks free non alcoholic drink as
(01:27:02):
well at Oliver's Italian Restaurant. So thank you so much
to Oliver's for that. All right, let me let me
give you the answer the trivia question. I'm just sort
of throwing these out over the course of the show.
Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Dragon.
Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Do you have a guess where Bob Hope Airport is?
And I want to see how many listeners got it.
Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
I'm gonna just go with like somewhere in Florida because
of the golf courses.
Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Only a few people got it, And the answer is Burbank, California. Well,
there you go, Burbank, California. I couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Okay, the next two I want to mention to you
are both people who served in the US military, although
one also served as president. Where are these airports? Where
are airports named for these two men?
Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
Dwight D.
Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Eisenhower and John Glenn? They each have an airport named
for him. And I'll give you a clue. They're both
in the Midwest. They're both in the Midwest because both
those guys are from the Midwest.
Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Textas at five sixty six nine zero.
Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
If you get them both right, but you have to
get them both, you will win nothing nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
You will win the opportunity to tell your friends you
got them both right.
Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
You will win the opportunity to tell Dragon or me, hey,
I got them both right? Can I have a handshake
or a high five? And then we probably will because
that's how we roll around.
Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Though, if you're at the bar and you're like, hey,
I want a contest on the Ross Kiminski Show, No,
it's definitely a big.
Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Gina. By the way, Bob Hope Airport is in Burbank,
in case you were wondering, Jad did shout it out
out there, so he did know.
Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
And then the next two that I just asked, where
are airports named for Dwight Eisenhower and John Glenn and
they're both in the Midwest. Uh So we got about
two minutes left in this segment, and then we're gonna
have a absolutely hilarious comedian Leanne Morgan on the show,
and I am so looking forward to that. So let
(01:28:51):
me just nerd out with you on a sciencey thing
for like one minute. Okay, so we get the nerd
alerted advance on this one. So some Chinese chemists, this
is super nerdy, but some Chinese chemists have come up
with a way to make a particular category of chemical
(01:29:13):
that for one hundred years or more have.
Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Been made in another way.
Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
And I'm not going to bore you with all the details,
but the way these chemicals are made right now is
expensive and dangerous because the other things you have to
work with through the process are quite likely to explode,
and it's a complex process.
Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Anyway, these scientists in China.
Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Have come up with a way to make these chemicals
that is much faster, much cheaper, and doesn't risk explosion.
And the reason that it's worth mentioning is that a
lot of these chemicals are used in the making of pharmaceuticals,
and so there is a good chance that this new
discovery will allow the making of not just industrial chemicals
and there will be some of that, but also life
(01:29:58):
saving pharmaceuticals in ways that might allow these drugs to
become much cheaper for the not just American public, but
around the world people who need these drugs.
Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Kind of a remarkable thing.
Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
It's a challenge that scientists have been working on for
many decades, and it appears that some folks have finally
gotten it done. All Right, we're going to take a
break here. We're gonna have you know, a few words.
Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
We're gonna have Geno on the news, and then we're
gonna have the brilliant and hilarious Lee and Morgan aoa
news time a thirty. I'm Gina Gondek.
Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Not a done deal yet, but a step closer to
ending the government shut down.
Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
The Senate passed a funding measure. Now it's up to
the House right now, I'm inclined to support it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
Colorado Republican Congressman Jeff Hurds says he understands Democrats want
healthcare subsidies to continue, but he's more worried about government
workers who're fur load.
Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
I'm ready willing and able to work on healthcare reform
and preserving our healthcare system, extending in Hanspring and tax
credits and party and legislation that would do that, but
if we got to get the government open for furs.
Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
But Colorado Democrats like Congresswoman Britney Peterson remains steady promising
to oppose the measure unless it helps Americans pay for
rising health insurance premiums.
Speaker 19 (01:31:08):
Because it's not a deal.
Speaker 24 (01:31:09):
This doesn't address the urgent issues facing the American people.
Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Both Colorado Senators Michael Bennett and John Hickloop are voted
no and aren't happy with the eight Senate Democrats who
voted in favor of the measure.
Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
The outgoing Douglas.
Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
County school boards set to vote today on a measure
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Speaker 24 (01:31:26):
The proposal says girls athletic teams cannot be opened to
participation by biological male students and vice versa. This would
also apply to locker rooms at hotels for any trips
that these students may take. Now, the board says this
change is needed so the district can comply with an
executive order that President Trump signed back in February.
Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
That order told the federal government.
Speaker 24 (01:31:46):
To pull any funding from educational programs that deprive women
and girls of fair athletic opportunities.
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That's Fox thirty one's Kasha Carriage.
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The board is also about to vote on last minute
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The charter schools will.
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Have little to no oversights for the next ten years
under this measure. Four Conservative County school board members were
voted out in last week's selections, so they don't have answers.
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To the voters for today's vote.
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The current charter renewal in Douglas County is every five years.
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Canada no longer measles free.
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The country has been hit by several outbreaks as childhood
vaccination rates fault. Jennifer Nouzzo is a professor at the
Brown University School of Public Health.
Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
Losing elimination status means that the virus has been allowed
to transmit in one continuous chain for a year now,
which is quite a considerable costs and really an important
public health setback.
Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Canada are reporting more than five thousand measles cases this year.
On Wall Street, Dow up eighty eight points, as in
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Sacramento Kings and Fox thirty one pinpoint weather. Warmer temperatures
continue for the days of head plenty of sunshine today,
(01:33:00):
I will be right around seventy degrees dipping down to
the forties overnight tonight. Similar pattern for the next couple
of days. Currently sixty one in Denver. Our next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Dwight Eisenhower Airport is in Wichita and John Glenn.
Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
Airport is in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
All Right, I am so excited to have Leanne Morgan
back on the show. I had her once on the
show a couple of years ago, and she is just
one of the funniest people.
Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
And Leanne has a new Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
Special called Unspeakable Things, and she also has her own
Netflix sitcom called Leanne.
Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
And she wrote a book last year called What in
the World.
Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's unexpected curve
balls and beautiful Blessings. Leanne, it's so good to talk
to you again. Thank congratulations on all your ongoing massive success,
and it's so good to have.
Speaker 20 (01:33:49):
You back, well, you angel, Thank you Jordan, and thank
you for not asking me about Dwight austenhow purge remember
that I have known it, hik Alver having me take O.
I love my Denver and I love the Paramount Theater.
I do it every time I come through.
Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Yeah, and uh, and we love having you here. And
in a moment, my colleague Gina, Gina Gondek is going
to have a question for you, But I want to
start with something that's actually maybe two quick things that
are near and dear to my heart. So I from
time to time find that my my wife starts talking
about something and I'm kind of sort of listening, uh,
(01:34:31):
but I don't say anything at all, and it reminds
it reminded me very much of your uh concept of
your husband Chuck having used up all his words.
Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
And I wonder if you could just talk about that
a little bit, Honey.
Speaker 20 (01:34:48):
I have I know are Chuck Morgan and I'm married.
I mean we've barely spoken. I tell every people all
the time. He left this morning, he was blowing leaves
while I was didn't say goodbye. He blew the lings
while I was doing radio interviews, and the dogs were barking,
and and then he left. I have basically just taken
(01:35:12):
like I know. I mean, he is terribly in love
with me and and grabs me in certain places, so
I know he's there and I know he loves me.
But the token, Yeah, I've had to find. I've had
to find, you know, a conversation with my girlfriends. You know, Yes,
(01:35:32):
I don't let me have your wife's phone number.
Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
I don't.
Speaker 20 (01:35:37):
Yeah, man don't want to talk. Do they know?
Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
We don't know?
Speaker 20 (01:35:40):
Tim Daily did little Tim Daily when I was shooting
the television series. He's a talker and we just sat
on the couch and talk about what we had eaten. Darling.
But but yeah, Chuck Morgan is still introverted. But I
tell people because because of that series, people think that
Chuck Morgan really walked off and left me in that
that's a true story. It is not. He is steal
(01:36:02):
up my butt. I want everybody from up.
Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Again.
Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
Leanne has a new Netflix stand up special. It just
premiered a week ago called Unspeakable Things and maybe we'll
I'll get to the title of that in a bit.
But Gina has a Gina has something she wants to
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
About Ellien.
Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
Earlier on the show, we were talking about our ski
resorts and the lack of snow that we've had as
of late. Obviously, you know you're talking to a state
full of skiers and borders, and you had something that
was very relatable when you talked about gearing up and
getting the kids ready for skiing.
Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Could you tell us a little bit more about that?
Speaker 20 (01:36:36):
Ollo on, y'all, I've never worked somewhere in my life
when in Chuck Morgan, laver Creek, Colorado was one of
the prettiest places I've ever been in my life, and
I was so glad that Chuck Morgan wanted to ski
and raise his show on SCAN. But that is one
of the hardest wakes of my life. And now we've
got green babies. So if we get to go, and
(01:36:58):
we don't get to go every year, but we get
to go, good lord. Putting all that on little children
and they're not paying attention and they're no help. And
then ski boots ken, y'all wear ska boats comfortably put
on from Colorado?
Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
No, not at all. No, that's why snowboard o.
Speaker 20 (01:37:18):
The maanest thing that's ever been. And then what did
I talk about oh that baby the baby child talking
about her butthole engine, okay, And she took all her
clothes off on the gondola going up to that little
bunny slope at Beaver Creek, and y'all, she's my makeup
artist and travels with me. And she said to me,
i'd been doing that vent and trying to go out
(01:37:40):
and doing it on saying, and she goes, Mom, tell
them I was four or five. You did not say that.
She goes, people think I'm twenty seven years old in
my butthole inches and I put my clothes off. I go,
oh my god. I didn't even realize that. So then
I put in there that she was four or five
could kill me. I didn't even realize that's what I
was saying. But anyway, yes, no, skin is a privilege
(01:38:05):
and wonderful, but it's hard, and I don't know anymore, y'all.
I'm scared I'm gonna tear something, so I don't. I
just sat and look at ridge painople.
Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
You know it's for me.
Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
I always find it slightly amusing when I hear folks
with your accent out on the ski hill, because it
just seems a little bit o a place and for me, like,
I'm Jewish, right, so to me, it's as weird as
see in like a like a jew out on a outsailing.
Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
It's just like not a thing we know about.
Speaker 20 (01:38:33):
Oh my darling. Well, and I'm from the country, and
I say, I think I say in that special, I'm
from a town of five hundred people and nobody had
I've never known anybody that skied ever, and I would
see it on TV and think that must be the
queen in her pain.
Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
I think you said, there's not even to stop light
in that town of five hundred.
Speaker 20 (01:38:51):
Right, Uh, there's a caution.
Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
It's a caution life.
Speaker 20 (01:38:55):
We didn't have a Dollar General though, and it is popping.
Speaker 7 (01:38:58):
Oh, that's what's.
Speaker 20 (01:39:00):
Going on at that Dollar General because there's nothing else there.
Speaker 19 (01:39:04):
Plain.
Speaker 20 (01:39:05):
Yeah, And you can go down there, you know, and
get you out some dand of sausages if you're in
a bad flight. But no, I'm very lucky to have
that beautiful saint. You are in a beautiful son.
Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
I got about ninety seconds left with you, Leanne, and
I wanted to talk to you about the title of
your Netflix special Unspeakable Things, because I think it relates
to a pattern of behavior that my wife and I
can entirely relate to.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
So can you just elaborate.
Speaker 20 (01:39:35):
Do you go to a hotel room with your wife
and think it is own like Gonky Kong?
Speaker 7 (01:39:41):
Is that?
Speaker 20 (01:39:41):
Do you get a glazed look over your eyes like
hotel room? Yeah, and it's like your honeymoon. Because that's
what Chuck Morgan does to me. Honey, we can't go
to a hotel room that it is like I don't
even know. I don't even I don't want to be
naist down here. I mean, I can't even tell you
what I've had to do an hotel. And he said
(01:40:02):
to me, Leanne, when I retire, because he's still working
a big job. He said, when I retire, I'll just
travel with you and I no, no, you will not.
You are not going to be traveling with Megan.
Speaker 15 (01:40:13):
No.
Speaker 20 (01:40:14):
It would be like I can't even like we were twenty,
I cannot do I cannot be doing all that y'all
put on a pair of spanks and get ready for
a coffee shows. He thinks, mixed nuts and watching basketball
and grabbing my brains. I cannot do it.
Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Yes, I will just say that Chuck Morgan is fully
representative of every married man.
Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
In the including me.
Speaker 20 (01:40:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
That is my best opportunity to get back to remembering
what it was like shortly after I got married, is
if I take my wife to a hotel. So, just
so you know, Chuck in so many ways, including that way,
represents all men, Leanne.
Speaker 20 (01:40:55):
Oh well, honey, I'm getting that. They all because people
loved up Morgan and want to see Chuck Morgan. And
I tell him, I said, I am building you a
Hollywood courier, Chuck, because people he's becoming a household name.
And I do think that he is very he is
very much a dad like yelling that who left the
garage door open? And I think that's a common thread
(01:41:17):
with men of wall the United States of America and
want to do it in a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Exactly right, exactly we.
Speaker 20 (01:41:24):
Need to do it in a hotel room. I'll do
better now that.
Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
You tell me, yes, please on behalf of all men
and on behalf of Chuck Morgan. I encourage you to
do better, Leanne.
Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Liah Morgan's new Netflix stand up special is called Unspeakable Things.
It's always such a pleasure to talk to you, Leanne,
and congratulations again on the huge success with the Netflix
stuff and the sitcom and the book and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
It's well deserved and you're just awesome.
Speaker 20 (01:41:51):
Thank you, Min Jorling. Thanks Ellen. I can't wait to
be back there. And who knows, maybe we'll go skiing
in March. We're starting to playing it. I will not
be singing. I will be sharing a reach Mike.
Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
Thanks Leah, Thanks Leah. All right, we'll take you, all right,
We'll take you a very quick break. We'll be right
back on Koa, Gina. I am going to heat up
a pop tart and be right all right.
Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
KOA News Time, eight forty eight. The government shutdown appears
to be nearing an end after eight Democrats joined Republicans
and passing a funding bill last night. Now moves to
the House where a boat could happen, possibly as soon
as tomorrow, but it could take a while after the
government reopens for air traffic to get back to normal.
Some air traffic controllers left their job after being forced
(01:42:36):
to work without pay. Locally, we're seeing ninety two cancelations
so far at DIA this morning, as well as over
forty delays in twenty twenty five, becoming one of the
driest falls in the Front Range history.
Speaker 13 (01:42:49):
Snow today would rank his Denvers sixteenth late to snowfall,
but National Weather Service meteorologist Maggie Idecker says there's no
chance for that anytime soon.
Speaker 14 (01:42:57):
We're looking ature. There is about ten to fifteen degrees
above normal currently.
Speaker 13 (01:43:03):
She says the next chance for snow on the Front
Range is late next week, which would move this season
close to the top ten latest snows.
Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
I'm Connor Shreve for next update coming up at nine o'clock.
I'm Gina gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
I just barely got back in here in time because
you people said that I'm not allowed to microwave a
pop tart.
Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
And so I have to toast it. So I had
to do all that, and so I just got back
in time.
Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
So anyway, can you smell how much better it smells
when you toast it than when you microwave it.
Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Microwave it, it's all rubbery?
Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
Least really right about that? I'm not anti toasting. I'm
definitely not anti toasting. And so what we have here,
Dragon and Gina and I each have.
Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
A third of two different pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (01:43:47):
They are both Girl Scout mint cookie flavored pop tarts
that my wife bought yesterday, and and one of them,
at Gina's suggestion or insistence, is frozen, and the other,
at Gina's suggestion or insistence, is toasted.
Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
And I think both Dragon and I said toasted. Yeah,
and he said, I just want to make something.
Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
Clear, and since they were that thin mint version of
the cookie, it has to be frozen.
Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
Yeah. Do you freeze those cookies?
Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Oh, I didn't know that. But it sounds like a
good idea is a sleeve or a box. It sounds
like it sounds like a sleep or a box.
Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
Yeah, And I'd just like to make something very clear here,
just to and you dig in here while I'm talking,
and then you guys can tell me what you think
and then I'll eat whether you're talking about or you
think about them.
Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
By the way, they're all brown and the frosting on
the top is brown.
Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
And I also, like, I've just done four years here
on KOA of the Dragon Redbeard Show. You're welcome with
people knowing who's actually in charge. And I'm just sitting
here doing what I'm told, and I'm thinking, all right now,
Gina is going to come in and at least like
I'll have a peer and.
Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
We'll both just do what we're told. And now, just the.
Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Second day in Gina is already telling me like, you
can't microwave the pop tart and you got to freeze
one yea, and I did.
Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
So now it's like I've got two levels of management
over me and not just one.
Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
And I think we all know, all right, So now
well I eat and we only have like ninety seconds here.
But while I eat these pop darts, when don't YouTube
banter a bit about the warm versus of cold pop tart?
Speaker 4 (01:45:15):
Have you tried them both?
Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
Yeah, which one? You think? You're little?
Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
Toasted, even though the cookies are so much better frozen.
Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
Yeah, the toasted version is.
Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Now I'm wondering if we had it in the freezer
a little bit longer, maybe it wasn't in long enough,
But toasted definitely better.
Speaker 18 (01:45:33):
They're both good, definitely pop dart. That's a solid pop tart.
We've got mouth we all have mouthful of. Yeah, that's great,
this is great radio. Oh yeah, I'm with you. The
toasted is better than the frozen.
Speaker 14 (01:45:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
But and it's not a bad flavor. It's not it's
not a bad flavor. Over overall pretty closer to the cookies.
Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
Also real quick.
Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
You know how earlier you were talking about Disneyland and
Disney Worlds and never going all of us.
Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
You two said you've never got your kids never.
Speaker 1 (01:46:02):
Went to you.
Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
Somehow made that work. Second, I said I never went
as a kid. My mom just texted me and said,
I'll never be forgiven. Sorry, mom, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
Let me do just because I did the work to
round up these questions of of what airports are named
for people, I'm going to mention the last three and
then I'll give you the answers real fast, and you
guys can tell me if you think you know the answers. Actually,
we'll do one at a time. We'll do them real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
Where is Louis Armstrong Airport? Mm? Somewhere in the South?
Speaker 1 (01:46:33):
Famous? Yes, somewhere in the South. Where would you think
the home of Like? Where would you put an airport
named for one of the most famous musicians famous?
Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
Yeah? Keep going New Orleans, New Orleans exactly. George H. W. Bush?
Where's that airport? Texas? Yes? Texas? Where Houston?
Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
And probably the hardest one of all of these, where
is Arnold Palmer Airport? And this is a this is
small so you'd really have to kind of know. Not Florida,
I mean you'd think with all the golf courses, but
where he's from, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
All right, we got.
Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
Our second three hours of radio magic in the can.
How you feeling about it all? Gina better with a
better pop tart?
Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
Yeah, everybody have a wonderful Tuesday. Michael Brown's up next
on KOWA
Inspiration from Gina this morning and start the show standing. Wow, Yeah,
(00:05):
which I like doing in my In my previous career, Gina,
I was a I don't even know if you know this,
but I was.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
An options trader in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Waving my hands and yelling on the trading floor, so
I'd be standing.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Most of the time.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Every once in a while, if the markt was really slow,
I could sit down on a step in the trading
pit and do a crossword puzzle or something. But I
spent much of my career standing, so.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I kind of agree.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Reason I know that is because you talked about your
lucky pants that you wore when you were when you
were doing well, are.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
There any chairs at all? No? No chairs? Wow? No, No,
there were no chairs at all. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You're always You're always standing unless you sit down on
the step.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Well, what do you say we just remove our chairs today.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We could do it, Gina and I could do it.
I'm not sure that I want to do it, but
we definitely could.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
First, I just want to start by thanking all of
our American veterans, whether you're listening to the show or not.
If you've got veterans in your family, please thank them
for me. Veteran friends, please thank them for both of us.
I'll speak vir Gina here for a moment. And I
also want to say an enormous thank you to my
(01:08):
own parents, both of whom served in the United States Navy.
They were physicians medical doctors in the United States Navy,
and of course in the Navy, the doctors take care
of Navy people and the Marines as well. The Marines
use Navy doctors and Navy lawyers as well. And then
also when my parents were stationed in Bethesda, you would
(01:31):
also there they would there take care of the families,
of take care of politicians and their families and stuff
like that. My dad joined the Navy as a you know,
as a young man when people do, basically out of
medical school.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And eventually I'll tell you this story real quick. So
my mom my parents.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Met in medical school, and my dad joined the Navy,
and they would be you know, bouncing around as you do.
And my mom found that it was very, very difficult
for her to get a job once the potential employer
found out that she was married to somebody was in
(02:10):
the Navy, because it meant she wouldn't be sticking around
very long. And these medical practices didn't want to go
through a thing where you know, they train a doctor
to you know, handle whatever their procedures are at that
particular medical practice and build up patients and then leave
in two or three years, and then who knows where
the patients go after that. And so my mom said,
(02:31):
all right, I'll just join the Navy too, and we'll
have them just transfer us together. And that's what happened
for the you know, most of the rest of their careers.
My parents after some point weren't married anymore, and then
they got transferred separately. But still that plan worked out
very well for them for a long time. And I'll
tell you a little more about my parents in the
military service a little bit later, a little bit later on,
(02:53):
but just wanted to start the show with just a
very heartfelt gratitude for our America and veterans. Gina, I
have a question for you, very important question. So my
wife bought some Mint Girl Scout cookie flavored pop tarts, okay,
(03:14):
and I brought in a packet that has two of them.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And if I go get.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Them later and maybe warm them up for some prime
number of seconds in the.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Microwave, would you like one. Yeah, I'm in Yeah, you're okay.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
To be honest, the mint flavored Girl Scout Cookie pop
tarts sounds like it would be better.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
In the freezer. Oh have you ever done a thing?
Dragons agreeing? Okay, So how about this.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Maybe during the next break when I have a moment,
I'll go put one in the freezer and then so
we'll do one cold and one hot, and we'll make
it a taste test.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Let's do it, Dragon, Are you down from that? I'm
ready to go. Let's go love it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
For those of you who who don't know Producer Dragon
very well, like folks who mostly have been you know,
listening listening to Koa in the earlier hours when it
hasn't been Producer Dragon until now, Dragon has worked out
in one form or another depending you know, it's it's
not always you know, bench presses, but all different forms
(04:12):
of exercise every day. For I don't say yet, because
I want to take you. I haven't asked you this
question for in a long time. I'm going to guess
somewhere between seventeen hundred and eighteen hundred more really more
correct nineteen thirty more twenty one.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hundred, a little less than that. All right, what's the answer?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Nineteen today will be nineteen fifty four and fifty four
days in a row.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Do you have an app that keeps track of it?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I just asked Google to count from day one?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Nice?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
How many days since July sixth, twenty twenty wow?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Wow? Before or after.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Work, depending on what my schedule was at the time.
Currently it's after work because I ain't getting up at
two to yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I also want to note for folks who are tuning
in now and maybe didn't tune in yesterday and have
been a little bit under a radio rock maybe what
you're listening to this is Ross Kominsky on the News
with Gina Gondeck and producer Dragon. Yes, go ahead, Dragon,
I know you take such joy in this.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Go ahead. I didn't think of it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Go ahead of lovely friend Mandy Connell and Mandy Lorians.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Came up with the shortened acronym for Ross Kaminsky on
the News with Gina Gondeck. Ross on the News can
be shortened too rotten with Gina Gundeck perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, perfect, and I Gina and I have the have
the same reaction to that. All right, let's do as
long as the as long as the show name includes
a little bit of news. Let's just talk about a
little bit of news.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And Gina talked about this quite a bit already in
in Colorado's Morning News from five to six this morning. Obviously,
the biggest national news overnight is that the Senate passed
now that the previous night they had invoked culture. The
Senate passed a few packages to end the longest shutdown
in US history. So, I guess what yesterday was. Today
(06:12):
was day forty one. I guess we're in day forty
two now, and technically the government is still shut down
because they can't spend the money yet because the House
hasn't passed the bill yet, and I don't know when
the House is gonna pass it. I'd be a little
surprised if it were today. I think there's a good
chance for tomorrow, and then they'll get things moving. Also,
(06:38):
as Gina had mentioned during the news, it's we shouldn't expect,
especially on the airline side of things. We should not
expect all of these delays and cancelations to suddenly stop
the day that the government opens again, because there's just
still a lot to do. First of all, you're gonna
have to get all the air traffic controllers back to work.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But second of all, remember lots and.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Lots of flights were canceled separate from the delays. Lots
of flights were canceled, so a lot of those people
may still be trying to get somewhere. It's gonna put
extra burden on the system. I don't know what the
airlines are going to do as far as bringing flights back.
They have had to cut back on the number of
flights four percent. I think it's six percent now, and
there's just gonna still be a lot to do. And
(07:23):
the hope is and I think this will work out,
But the hope is that by getting the government reopen,
this week will be in a situation where Thanksgiving travel,
which is the busiest time.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
The day before Wednesday before Thanksgiving is normally the busiest
travel day of the year. We hope that'll all be
back to normal, which doesn't mean it'll be great.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's still going to be pretty nuts. Probably. It's a
day that I always avoid traveling.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
In fact, I usually try to avoid traveling around Thanksgiving
if I can.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But my kid who.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Moved to Washington State, is coming back here on that Wednesday, and.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So well, well we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Another thing, I'm just gonna mention this briefly and then
I'll probably talk about it in some more detail a
little later on. But Dragon found this story, and I
hadn't I hadn't even thought of this. And this ties
into two Veterans Day. Because of the government shutdown, there
is there's going to be a lot less Veterans' Day
(08:26):
activity involving active duty military units and involving UH military facilities.
And this is from Military dot Com. Officials told military
dot Com that federal rules block service members from taking
part in public events during a lapse in funding. Communities
(08:46):
from Virginia to Oregon are scrambling, canceling long planned tributes
and shifting to quiet, private observances instead.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And that's that's a bummer. That's a bummer.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I mean, well, but whoever it is who's going to
be doing these things, wherever they're going to be doing them,
I'm sure they're going to make the best of it.
And it remains a very very meaningful day for me
and so many of you as well. All Right, we
still have an immense amount of stuff to do on
today's show, including some silly trivia questions. I'm going to
ask you throughout the course of the show, so we'll
take a very quick break here and a well, is.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The time to go to Gina for some news? Is
that what I do? Now? Gina? That's it? All right?
Do I hit the button? Dragon or not? Dragon? If
you do not hit the button? All right? KOA News
Time six fourteen.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Despite a tied vote, Denver's next budget is going to
be implemented. The city council was split six to six
on Deaver Mayor Mike Johnston's one point sixty six billion
dollars spending plan. Measures that wind up in a tie
are usually considered dead, but budget measures are an exception,
so the city charter says that any budget not passed
by the council will still take effect with all of.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
The approved amendments.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Denver Public School leaders say they're seeing more drivers ignoring
school buses and kids in craw walks as they're heading
to school. This comes after three students were hit on
the way to school last week. TPS spokesman Scott Fribble
tells Fox thirty one their consequences for ignoring crossing arms
and flashing lights on buses.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
There was a new law that started this summer where
school districts can put a camera on that stop arm
and if they record you going through there, you can
receive a ticket and up to a three hundred dollars fine.
We're doing this just for the safety of our students
and we want to make sure that that they get
home safely to their families and their loved one.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The new safety measures are designed to prevent accidents before
they happen. Canada no longer measles free. The country has
been hit by several outbreaks as childhood vaccination rates fall.
Jennifer Nuzzo is a professor at Brown University School Public Health.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Losing elimination status means that the virus has been allowed
to transmit in one continuous chain for a year now,
which is quite a considerable costs and really an important.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Public health setback.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Canada now reporting more than five thousand diesels cases so
far this year. You're too late if you wanted season
tickets to Denver's new women's soccer team.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
The Denver Summits sold out of their eighty five hundred
season tickets. You can still see a match though with
single tickets. Their first match of the season will be
at Empower Field and they're hoping to break the attendance
record for a women's soccer match.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm Cynthia vail Our. Next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think we have our first real controversy of rotten
with Gina Dragon.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
What are you saying?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, you had mentioned that you were going to put
the pop tarts in the microwave. Yeah, and I just
figured it was a slip of the tongue. No, but
some several texters at five sixty six nine zero, and
it does help if you put ross Gina or Dragon first,
because we're not the only ones that use this text
line at this specific time. Five six six nine zero.
But somebody texted in saying pop tarts in the microwave
(11:53):
question mark. So was it a slip of the tongue
or do you really put pop tarts in the microwave?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I've been I've been putting pop tarts in the microwave
for longer than Gene.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Has been alive.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is this because a toaster isn't available, or if you
have the choice between a toaster and a microwave.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You're choosing the microwave.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They're both fine to me, they're about equivalent. But the
thing but the toasters and the toaster is a lot
more work. But the good news actually with pop tarts
is you don't have to put them in a toaster
for very long. It's not like toasting a bagel where
you gotta wait minutes. You can, you can, so I would,
I would use a toaster, but I don't think we
have one in the iHeart kitchen.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Here we do, we do? We do?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I did not know? It's right above the microwave. It is, yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The only problem with a toaster, though, is sometimes it
can fall through the little grates of the toaster because
the pop tarts are so skinny. So but it toasted
so much better than a microwave microwave. You're just heating
it up toaster, you're getting a little crispy, and.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
The one we're gonna do later, what microwave just feels
like it had come out as a pile of.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Mush if you overdo it. But that's the thing you
gotta The easiest mistake to make with a with a
pop tart is microwaving it for too long. You got
to do like maybe seven seconds or something. But it's
hard after that because you got to go all the
way up to eleven to get to the next prime number,
and so you can't do eight, nine or ten.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
How the heck are you saying a microwave is easier
when a toaster is one push down, where microwave you
have to put seven zero seven start, all right?
Speaker 9 (13:29):
I mean, if you already have two pop tarts, I
only had more tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I can bring more tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
We need microwave, toaster and freezer at this point try
them out.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, hey, dragon, what an abomination. Next he'll tell us
he doesn't wash his legs. I would never say that.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I would.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
All right, let's do a couple of a couple of
little news things here. After all, news is in the
name of the show, so we should probably do a
couple of things. So there was an interesting pair of
news reports yesterday, and I'll to do the second one first,
because the second one's real easy. The second one is
the International Olympic Committee saying that they have not yet
made a decision, the decision that is referenced in the
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first story. That now I will go back to even
though I didn't say it first. I don't know why
I called it first, and so I didn't say it first.
Here's the headline from the UK Guardian IOC, that's the
International Olympic Committee edge is closer to ban on transgender.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Women and female Olympic events.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Sources expect to ban within the next six to twelve months.
The IOC president, who is a woman named Kirsty Coventry,
and I'm quoting from the Guardian, making clear that she
wants to drive.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Through whatever that means.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I guess it means like stay consistent with This is
a British newspaper, so they've got some slightly different idioms.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
She wants to.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And what I would say about this, First of all.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't need to relitigate the whole, the whole thing
about you know, fairness regarding biological men competing against women.
But beyond that, because we've talked about that enough over
the past couple of years. Beyond that, I also think
that in this age of Trump, I think that kind
of you know, greases the skids a little bit toward
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various organizations that want to do this kind of thing,
because after all, Donald Trump has actually threatened to block
travel visas for transgender men, so transgender women, biological men
who want to come compete against female athletes, and for example,
the Olympics, it'll be coming up in in I think
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it's Los Angeles, right, and so Trump has said, well,
I might just not even give you a visa, or
if there are teams that have transgender women, he might
block those teams visas. It's kind of unknown just what
he will do, but I think the risk of that
makes it such that some of these organizations, it makes
it a little bit easier for them to make that particular,
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make that particular decision. One other thing that I want
to mention regarding the government shutdown, and I talked about
this a little bit yesterday, and it's not getting any
better for Democrats. And again, there's so many aspects of
this to talk about, but the politics, I mean, this
was all politics.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It was all politics all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I think that many Democrats don't even really care that
much about the particular expiring Obamacare subsidies that are only
really applying to mostly applying to people making at least
four hundred or families making at least four hundred percent
of the federal poverty level.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right, all the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Obamacare subsidies are not affected by any of this, and
people don't seem to understand that. And the other thing
people don't understand is that for most people, most of
the big increase that's coming in Obamacare premiums is coming
whether or not the subsidies get because the subsidies are
a very small part of this conversation for most people.
But in any case, a lot of the politicians who
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are dealing with this stuff there it's not so much
that they care about the policy, but rather it's that
on the Democratic side, the energy and the activism and
the motivation and the turning out the vote has been
coming mostly from the further left part of the base.
And they want Democrats to fight against Trump all day,
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every day, in any way possible. They don't want Trump
to get a win on anything. They want to beat
him up wherever and wherever they can, just for the
sake of doing so. And you know what, politics as politics,
that's fine. They can think that way if they want to.
But now the problem is that since Democrats realized, well
(17:48):
a handful of Democrats realized that this wasn't going their
way and wasn't going to.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Go their way.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You had eight Democrats side with all the Republicans to
continue this process forward. Now and you've got well, here's
here's a headline. People, and now they're talking about Democrats.
People are bleeping pissed.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And what this is.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Doing right now that we're gonna have to keep an
eye on is it's very much dividing the Democratic Party
and they are gonna have to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's a long time until the next election, and they
probably will figure it out, but it's a very interesting
thing to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All Right, We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Got a yeah, we got some words, we got some news,
some traffic, some weather, and.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Then Gina and I will be right back on Rotten with.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Gina Koa News time six thirty.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I'm Gina Gondek.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
On this vote, the eyes are sixty, the nays are forty.
The bill as amended has passed.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The Senate passes a funding deal, moving a step closer
to ending the nation's longest government shut down. The funding
measure still has to pass the House. That won't happen today.
On the Veterans' Day holiday.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
In its first round of votes Wednesday afternoon, but the
deal leaving many Democrats outraged because it does nothing to
address the expiring Obamacare subsidies that the party spent weeks
holding out on as a precondition for reopening the government. Instead,
the deal reached in the Senate comes with a promise
from Republicans to hold a future vote on healthcare, even
Republicans acknowledging that's.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
At ABC's Rachel Scott Bolts of Colorado's senators voted no.
Michael Bennett said it was because a health insurance tax
credit extension was not included.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
We shouldn't make matters worse, and that's why I voted
again against the budget that's been proposed by President Trump
and the Republicans because they refuse to extend the tax crick.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
President Trump has announced his support for the bipartisan agreement.
The President will be marking Veterans Day with a visit
to Arlington National Cemetery. He's expected to lay a wreath
at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and deliver remarks
as part of an official observance ceremony. Warm and dry
conditions the mountains, keeping resorts from opening more terrain for
skiers and riders.
Speaker 13 (20:04):
The snowpack in Colorado's high country is at twenty percent
of normal, with windy, dry conditions forecast the next few days.
NWS meteorologist Maggie Idecker is forecasting snow at the end
of the week, so we.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
Have a system coming through over the weekend which could
bring more light snowshowers to the mountain.
Speaker 13 (20:21):
She says a couple of good storms is all it
takes to turn the tables on the ski season quickly.
Connor Shreeve can't wait News Wall.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Street Cloths shurply hired yesterday on optimism that the government
shutdown will come to an end this week. At the
closing bell, the doll gained about three hundred and eighty
one points, SMP rows one to oh three, and the
Nasdaq climbed five hundred and twenty two points.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Sports. The Avs are at home tonight hosting the Ducks.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
They'll try to win their fourth game in a row,
and the Nuggets will also be playing tonight, visiting the Kings.
They're coming off a Saturday win against the Pacers. Fox
thirty one pinpoint weather. As you heard Connor mentioned there
are unseasonably warm conditions continue. High temperatures nearing seventy degrees
this afternoon, dipping down to the forties overnight tonight, back
into the seventies for much of this week. Currently sixty
(21:05):
degrees in Denver. Our next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gida god on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And the answer is yes, I have put butter on
a pop tart and it's good. Wow, Okay, it's good.
I did just go put the pop tart in the
in the freezer GENA one I put. There's two pop.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Tarts, so I put one in the freezer and the
other one. We're gonna there's two toasters by the way.
There's a toaster oven right, and then there's the kind
where you push the.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Little handle down.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But I'm afraid because I looked in at Gina and
I'm afraid it is one where you'll lose the pop
tart down in there. So I might go with the
toaster oven one perhaps if I can figure out how
to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
As for the song, you probably don't want to put
butter on this type of pop tart, which is the
thin Mint Girl Scout cookie version.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Which is brown on top. It doesn't have white frosting.
It's all it's all brown, my wife says. My wife
often says that the more that food looks like pooh,
the more I will enjoy eating it like chili dogs
and you know, smothered burritos and hot fudge Sundays.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You're listening off right now. Sounds fantastic, exactly, Gina.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Just practice, if she had had coffee in her mouth
when I said that that, it would have gone all
over her computer screen.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Right, yeah, you weren't expecting that. You weren't expecting that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
A listener text here Gina Ross and Gina good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That's a listener text, good morning, okay, and then another
another listener text on let me let me find this
one because I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I owe you an apology.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
When I first heard about the change, I gave a
boo and two thumbs down. But after listening yesterday and today,
it's actually okay, Well, thank you thanks for thanks for
giving us a chance hit for semi professional radio. Yeah
well yeah exactly, just okay, just okay, uh, all right,
you know what, let me let me do just a
couple of minutes on sort of a finance a finance
(22:58):
thing I heard. I heard Gina talk about how much
the market was up yesterday and looking like maybe down
a little today on the Nasdaq and S and P.
We'll see when it opens in an hour. But a
pretty huge day yesterday. And you know, you hear from
time to time in this econ nerdiness Lingo, you hear
about recoveries, economic recoveries described as various kinds of letters. Right,
(23:24):
a V shaped recovery the economy declines quickly and then
bounces back quickly, and it looks like a V or
a W shaped recovery. Right, the economy goes badly, recovers
a little, goes badly again, and then.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Gets on with a much bigger recovery. That kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
One of the most interesting, this concept that I never
even heard of until sometime within probably well definitely within
the past decade and maybe more recently than that, is
a K shaped recovery.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So what is a K shaped recovery mean?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
If you imagine the right side of the K, You've
got these two legs coming off of it, and one
of them's going down and one of them's going up.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And the concept with the K shaped recovery.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Is that not everybody in America, well, it's never everybody
in America, but that there are distinct groups that you
can more or less categorize as a very large segment
of the population for home the recovery is going great,
and a large segment of the population for whome it's
(24:34):
going not so great.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And this is.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Interesting and important from an economic perspective. It's also interesting
and important politically, right. And if you imagine everybody in
America being only in one of those legs of the K,
you're really going to miss a lot about what the
American public want, about how they might vote, about how
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they're feeling about things.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And this was kind of brought home to me in
a piece that I saw in the Wall Street Journal
yesterday or the day before, I forget, maybe it was
two days ago, and this was the headline, feeling great
about the economy, you must own stocks.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Now that's interesting, right. A few months ago, with the
market surging, Rick Wickman watched his investment portfolio balloon in value.
The sixty seven year old retired consultant sold his Toyota
and leased a new Tesla after one of the AC
units in his home broke. He replaced the whole property's
HVAC system this fall, at a cost of seventy two
(25:42):
thousand dollars. When stocks fell last week, he spoke to
his financial advisor, who added some options to protect against declines.
But Wickman is staying in the market and doesn't plan
to cut back on his spending. He says he's fairly
bullish about the economy. Many Americans who own stocks are
feeling good about their finances with a market that's continually
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shrugged off economic concerns and pushed major indexes to new highs.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Let me keep going here a little bit.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They've seen stocks dive through the dot com bust and
the financial crisis and the pandemic, only to recover and
keep going up. Even after a big sell off after
President Trump's tariff announcements in April and a smaller dip
last week, the S and P five hundred is still
up more than fourteen percent so far this year. And
by the way, this was written before that huge rally yesterday, right,
(26:31):
so now it's more than fifteen percent gains in the
top thirty artificial intelligence related stocks just those have added
five trillion dollars to household wealth across the country in
the past year. So then skipping down a little bit
in the article, so that was about people who owned stocks,
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then they say it's very different for everyone else. Americans
with large investment portfolios feel markedly better about the economy
than those who don't own stocks. According to the University
of Michigan Sentiment Index, sentiment among people who don't own
stocks is at the lowest level as far as a
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three month moving average since the university began tracking this
in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
This all makes the economy.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Especially vulnerable to a stock market swoon. And what they
mean by that is if half of the people in
or what it doesn't have to be half, but if
some significant number of Americans already don't feel great about
the economy, maybe they're cutting back on their spending a
little bit. The other half has been feeling very good
in the so called wealth effect. Right, if the stock
(27:43):
market goes bad, and I'm not predicting that, it's just
an if, and those folks then start cutting back on
their spending, you don't have the other folks to kind
of rely on as a bit of an economic buffer.
So anyway, there's a lot more to this article, but
in the interest of time, I'm not going to share
more of it with you. You can find it at the
Wall Street Channel WSJ dot com. Feeling great about the economy,
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you must own stocks. I think it's very interesting insight
and no matter where you are on that kind of
K shape recovery, if you think that's right, it's really
important to think about the people who are in the
other leg of the K to try to understand what's
going on in this country in terms of economics and politics.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back on koa.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
CooA News Time six forty eight. I'm Gina Goddek. Day
forty two of the government shutdown, and while the Senate
did narrowly pass a bill to keep the government funded
through January thirtieth, the ripple effects of the shutdown will continue.
Delays and cancelations at airports rising nationwide as the FAA
flight reductions increase to six percent today ten percent by Friday. Locally,
(28:51):
DiiA is reporting ninety two canceled flights so far this morning,
as well as twenty four delays. As where the Senate
passed bill, the House is not expected to take it
up till tomorrow at the earliest, while we bask in
seventy to greet temperatures winter taking parts of the other
countries other parts of the country by storm.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Abc'sjni Norman is in Syracuse.
Speaker 15 (29:13):
It's not just this part of upstate New York that's
getting snow, but also parts of Pennsylvania and Vermont, and
snow showers could move as far south as Kentucky, West Virginia,
even parts of Tennessee, even as far south as parts
of the.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Carolinas old and snow.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
In fact, Atlanta is colder than Denver today at thirty
two degrees. They'll get used to the warmer temps, though,
National Weather Service meteorologists Maggie I.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Deckers as the situation can change quickly.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Even though we're at a warm start to the season,
that doesn't necessarily mean that we'll have a bad snow season.
We're just waiting for a good couple storms to get
us back on track for a regular snow season.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Well likely see snow by the end of the month.
Today is Veterans Day, and there are discounts for those
who have served. They're free entrees at Applebee's, free haircuts
at Great Clips, and a number of other discount and
freebies at places like Starbucks, Denny's, Red Lobster, Chipotle and
Wendy's and buch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid are pardoned. No,
it's not the notorious Bandits, but rather the two turkeys
(30:10):
that were named after them. Governor Pullus saved the turkeys
from Slaughtery yesterday as part of the third annual Turkey
part in. The turkeys will live out the rest of
their lives at a sanctuary in Erie. Your next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gida Gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Welcome to ros Kaminski on the News with Gina Gondek.
We still have a ton of stuff to do on
today's show. Oh, I want to give a shout out here,
not just a shout out, a mention, a very specific
mention for a specific reason to Oliver's Restaurant, which is
in Greenwood Village near Bellevue and Yosemite. In that I
(30:43):
don't remember the name of that shopping center, but Scott A.
King Souper's on the north end, but on the south
east end of that shopping center at Bellevue and Yosemite
is Oliver's.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Restaurant, really good Italian food.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And the reason I'm mentioning this to you is that
on Veterans Day, all veterans and active duty military go
to Oliver's restaurant and you will eat free up to
thirty dollars for your meal, and they'll give you a
free non alcoholic beverage.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That is so awesome of them. And I've actually eaten at.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Olivers quite a lot of times and it's it's really
good food.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And so just a big thank you to.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Oliver's for taking care of our veterans in active duty
military today. So head on, head on over there Bellevue
and Yosemite. Active duty in military, active duty and veterans
eat free up to thirty bucks and get a.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Free beverage as well. Let me do just two minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
On a quick thing here that's been in the news
for the past couple of days, and that's this idea
of a fifty year mortgage.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
So this guy Bill Polti.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Who's running a federal housing finance authority for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
He's an interesting character.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I can't say I'm much of a fan, but anyway,
he's a huge Trump and always cheering, cheerleading for Trump.
And doing whatever he's doing over there, and of course,
you know, he wants to you know, help his president
be more not just be more popular, that's a little
too cynical, probably, but to maybe try to get some
things done that might be good for people. And Bill
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Poulty put out on social media this idea of a
fifty year mortgage, and he put it out with a
picture that showed FDR and Donald Trump and you know,
and putting those two together in terms of greatness or whatever.
And then Trump retweeted it or reposted it on social media,
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you know, implying that he supports a fifty year mortgage.
Now it turns out that this guy, Bill Poulty here
i'll quote from Politico, the White House was blindsided by
the idea and is now dealing with the furious backlash
from conservative allies, business leaders, and lawmakers. And I just
want folks to know, and I don't have time to
get into this in great detail, but I think that
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a fifty year mortgage might offer a slightly lower monthly payment,
not as much lower as you think it will, but
the downside is absolutely enormous in terms of building up equity.
And let me just see if I can do this
in twenty seconds. I did two calculations on a three
hundred thousand dollars loan, thirty years at six point two percent,
fifty years at six point six percent, and that's probably
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pretty close to what the difference in the interest rates
would be. If you do the thirty year loan, your
payment is eighteen hundred and thirty seven dollars. The fifty
year loan it's seventeen hundred and fourteen dollars. So it's
a savings of one hundred and twenty three dollars a month,
which is not nothing, but it's not a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Here's the real problem.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
If you do the thirty year loan, and if you
hold the mortgage for all thirty years, you will pay
three hundred and sixty one thousand dollars in interest. For
the fifty year loan, it's double seven hundred and twenty
eight thousand dollars in interest. And it gets actually even
worse than that one last thing. If you have the
thirty year loan and you're paying into it for twelve years,
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you'll have built up sixty nine thousand dollars in equity.
If you have the fifty year loan over that same
twelve years, you're gonna build up sixteen thousand dollars in
equity for almost everybody. The fifty year loan is a
bad idea, and by the way, it's been tried before
in America about twenty years ago and failed.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It shouldn't be coming up now. Joa News Time seven o'clock.
I'm Gina Goddek.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's a major step toward ending the record breaking government
shutdown as the Senate passes a funding bill to keep
the government open till the end of January. But there
are a lot of Democrats still angry that eight of
their colleagues voted in favor of the measure without getting
subsidies that would have helped millions of Americans pay for
their health insurance premiums.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Center Republicans promised in a side deal a separate vote
in December on a healthcare bill, but Johnson says he
can't guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies in the House,
saying he has to build consensus among members.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Fox's Madeline Rivera House Credit Leader Hakeem Jeffries calls the
latest deal unacceptable.
Speaker 10 (35:03):
Tens of millions of Americans are about to experience dramatically
increased healthcare costs.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
The bill does include money for snap assistance through next September.
It now moves onto the House for a vote. The
pilot of a small plane forced to land on a
street in Castle Rock. The aircraft reported power problems before
emergency landing at Wolfensberger and Prairie Hawk Drive, west of
By twenty five yesterday afternoon. Castle Rock Fire chief Norris
Kroom tells Fox thirty one it's amazed that.
Speaker 16 (35:30):
No one was hurt, but considering what we've got here
with power lines, the power polls, he said again he
saw minimal traffic on the roadway, thought it was his
best shot and he was pretty successful in putting it down.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
The plane did clip a car on the road.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Three people were inside, but they managed to walk away
with no injuries. A deadly dog virus has been discovered
in North Glen.
Speaker 17 (35:50):
The city's animal Control says the parvo virus is contained
to one home so far, and that home is near
Muriel Drive and Irma Drive. Police say they don't think
of the dogs in the area are affected, but Warren
canine parro virus spreads easily. It's preventable through vaccination, which
veterinarians recommend dogs gettus puppies and every three years afterward.
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Brenda Stewart Koway News in Sports.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
The Nuggets looking for their fifth Street victory, taking on
the Sacramento Kings tonight on the road. The Avs at
home hosting the Ducks. They'll try to win their fourth
game in a row. And when the Broncos host the
Chiefs on Sunday, they'll be with out linebacker Alex Singleton.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
He underwent surgery for testicular cancer on Friday.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
What I wanted to do was just focus on football
for the week, for the Thursday game and just kind
of not let it change my life yet, if that
makes sense, you know, because it was.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It's still so shocking.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It's still not known exactly how much time Singleton will
miss as he recovers from surgery. Kway's coverage of Sunday's
Broncos Chiefs game begins at eight am, kickoff at two
twenty five on Wall Street. Stock futures pointing to a
mixed opening, Dow Future up thirty points, SMP down slightly,
NASDAK down one thirteen, Box thirty one pinpoint. Weather our
warmer temperatures continue sunshine today. Eyes will be right around
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seventy degrees for much of this week. Currently we're at
sixty in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina Gondeck. I'm Kowa Bross is telling me I should
open this Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Hi, Hi Kuminsky on the News with Gina Gondeck.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
If you are just tuning in.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
And like you mentioned, you live under a radio rock,
which I'm not really sure what a radio rock is,
but they might exist.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Different schedule, check it out.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
We will be here until wrapping up the show at
nine o'clock, and then Michael Brown the Situation with Michael
Brown will be joining us later on as well, and
then the normal rundown of your KOA Favorites will.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Be after that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
We've been talking a little bit about the weather and
what we've been seeing as of late, unseasonably warm temperatures
for the last couple of days. It's been weird because
it's November eleventh and it's been in the seventies for
a lot of time, and I've been seeing a lot
of really eager skiers and Borders Gorge is itching to
get out our local ski resorts and the conditions are
just a.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Business suboptimal, suboptimal.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'll say, you know, with this, with this change in
my working hours, Gina, I'm I'm actually thinking from time
to time in the winter, I might get out of
here right after the show. It's awesome and go snowboarding.
I'm not I don't know how to ski, but I
love snow. Are you a skier or a border or both?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I'm a skier. The husband's a border. Yeah, and we've
done it before.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Where right after the show I get out to Keystone
because it's usually the best one to try to get
to for parking and to get out there just for
a couple.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Of runs and it's awesome because nobody's out there. Like,
how do you get a decent price on lift tickets?
Or do you just see I'm an Epic pass holder?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know, if it works out where
I do this enough, maybe I'll get an Epic pass
next year. But like you were talking about here, is
there going to be any snow? Like how do these
places even have snow now? To open?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Longs that have opened?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
So a couple of years ago, I went on Keystone's
opening day and I remembered a ton of koa listeners going.
That was the biggest mistake you've ever made of your life,
because I learned the definition of what people now call
the white ribbon of death, which is when ski resorts
are able to make snow just enough to cover a.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Single run, cram it all together.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
You still have dirt and rocks and things on either
side of you, and then all these ear skiers and
borders are just going way too fast on this run,
getting all excited, crashing into people. You have the toboggan
of shame people love to say when you have to
go down that little sled, if you get injured and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
So I learned the hard way.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
And then the lines on top of just having chairlift
lines that are just outrageous.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And it's hot.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Because you're still into these warmer fall temperatures, so you're
bundled up in all of your gear thinking it's going
to be colder, it's not. The sun is beating on you, you're
waiting for the chairlift, and then it's not really great conditions.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
And so like, I don't think I would ever do
opening day for all those all those reasons, but it
is kind of cool, say, and I've only done this once.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Well even I haven't even done it.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
I've just been there when other people doing it skiing
in shorts.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yes, right, because it's just so warm. It's just it
that does seem awesome.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I was able to take off my ski jacket at
the end of last year. I don't remember how late
we were going into I mean pretty much March April,
especially end of April. And some people really aim to
ski every month of the year, which can be possible, wow,
if you have a really good ski season.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
But right now they're saying that it's not great.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
It's like twenty percent below normal of what we usually see.
But places like winter Park, Keystone, a Basin, Copper Mountain.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Breckenridge, they all still are open.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
There's not a ton of runs and it's not the
greatest condition, but people are just you know, they're always
trumpet at the bit to get that out there and
start the season.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Are you so much? This isn't a sarcastic question, are you?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Are you saying that it's theoretically possible to ski year
round without leaving the United States?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Is there snow sowhere?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
The reason why I know this is because, Okay, when
they scan your pass if you have an epic pass
and they scan your past.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
It was funny. I was at Breckenridge one.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Year and the little scanner that they had started a
jingle of happy Birthday. It was that person's birthday that day,
and I was like, Wow, that's so cute that plays
happy birthday. Yeah, I'll never get that. My birthday's in June.
And he said nope. He's like, there's a good possibility
here in Breckenridge that there is the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
To ski in June.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Wasn't that year, but he said that we've had it before.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Wow. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough to know about our current
ski conditions. I bet Texters can say, oh, yeah, I've
skied every month of the year in our state, but
I'm not sure if that's really possible with the conditions
that we've seen.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
As all right, I have I have two questions for listeners.
One has have any of you ever gone skiing in
the United States in August? And if so, where text
us at five six six nine zero and tell us
and then separately and there will be a lot more
yes answers for this. And I have my own yes,
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answer that, I'll maybe I'll tell you later. But have
you ever been skiing in let's say July or August anywhere?
Right southern hemisphere typically is where you would go for
that kind of thing. And if so, where did you
go and how was it? Text us at five six
six nine zero and tell us Gin, have you ever
been skiing in another country?
Speaker 13 (42:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Well, Canada? So yeah, yeah, it's good. Yeah, I kind
of forgot when you were growing up in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
You go to Canada for some really good conditions, but
it didn't feel.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Like you're really traveling that far.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Wonder if it was like, Okay, when I first.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Learned to snowboard, I was living in Chicago, and we
would and we would drive up to like will Mott
and Alpine Valley and these things that are like a
fraction the size of the smallest place in Colorado, like
much smaller than Eldorra for example.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
We literally learned on a landfill. It's just a trash mountain. Yeah,
that's how they taught.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
It was just it was just.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
A literal landfill that they were able to get just
enough snow to put together and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I mean like, how much longer was the lift ride
than the.
Speaker 18 (43:16):
Ski da right, it runs maybe a minute and three
or four or five.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
But okay, so we're almost out of time here.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
But when you went to Canada for what you just described,
it sounded kind of like you were talking about driving,
not flying driving. So in that part of Canada, we're
not talking about driving to no bands and Lake Louise
and whistlers.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
So were they also small? Relatively small?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Relatively small compared to what we have out here, because
anything was bigger than what we were skiing on in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
But size or not larger, it would be it would
be a little larger than that you're just driving distance
from from Michigan. Yeah, I want to say it's remember
the name, is it Blue Mountain? I don't know. You
tell me. I've never been there. I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I think it's Blue Mountain, all right, So look, folks,
I want you to tell us by texted. While Gina
is looking up her answer, tell us at five six,
six nine zero, have you ever skied in the middle
of summer basically in the United States?
Speaker 2 (44:17):
And if so, where, and then have you.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Ever skied in what would be the American summer anywhere
else in the world, and if so, where was it?
How was it? We want to know. We're going to
take a quick break while Gina research.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Is the way Blue Mountain and it's in Ontario. So
maybe I was just a little kid and it felt
a lot bigger than it might be. I don't know
I remember it at all. Yeah, keep it here on Koa.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Koa News Time, seven seventeen. I'm Gina Gondeck.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
The government shutdown appears to be nearing an end to
eight Democrats joining Republicans and passing a funding bill last
night and now moves to the House where a boat
could happen as soon as tomorrow, but it could take
a while after the government reopens for air traffic to
get back to normal. Some air traffic controllers left their
job after being forced to work without pay. President Trump
tells Foxes Laura Ingram he has a solution.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
We should not have had people leaving their jobs. And
what I basically did is say the ones that state
of which way, there were a lot of them. I'm
sending them a ten thousand dollars. Where's that money coming from?
Speaker 9 (45:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
I'll get it from someplace. Those who continue to work
will get back pay. Locally.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
We're seeing ninety two cancelations at DIA so far this morning,
as well as twenty eight delays. A sixty four year
old Colorado man who spent nearly two decades in prison
for a murder he did not commit, has died at
the age of sixty four. Robert Dewey was sentenced to
life in prison for the death of nineteen year old J. C.
Taylor and Palisade back in nineteen ninety four. After DNA
(45:41):
evidence exonerated him, he was set free do He then
helped Colorado pass a new law to require the state
to compensate people were wrongfully incarcerated. A new study suggests
coffee may help protect against an irregular heartbeat.
Speaker 19 (45:55):
More than ten million Americans live with a heart disorder
known as a FIB that could lead to heart failure
and blood clots. The research results of a four year
clinical trial presented at the American Heart Association conference showed
drinking just one cup of coffee per day appeared to
have a protective effect on a FIB recurrence.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
On Monica Nelson, terrible gina is not rotten. It's just
terrible dragon. Why are you so quiet when you're talking?
I can barely hear you. Can you make me? Can
you make you louder to me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
That's better, not just to you, Okay, to everybody, Yeah,
it would be to everybody. Ross Kaminski on the news
with Gina Gondek, you take out the Kaminski and then
you make the acronym rotten with Gina. And I don't
know if that means Gina is now associated with something
rotten or Gina is the only thing that isn't rotten?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (46:41):
That one?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, you think we think it's that one, Gina. A
whole bunch of people talked about skiing in July in
Colorado at a basin and veil and such in twenty
and eleven. That must have been That must have been
some big year here. I mean I was here, I
just I don't remember. And a lot of folks have
also said skiing Saint Mary's Glacier.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Have you ever been to Saint Mary's Glacier?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
No, that's a place you would like because you're an outdoorsy, hiking,
you know, exploration kind of person.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Been there? Yes?
Speaker 9 (47:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Okay? Were they hike up? Yeah, it's not a skier's
card or anything. It's it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
So a whole bunch of people are saying you can,
and yeah, I guess if you're willing to hike up
a glacier and then ski down where there might be
more ice than than snow, perhaps, but still you could
definitely do that year round. It probably got you know,
a dozen people saying that they've done that.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Ross. Did you ski in Australia when you lived there? No?
I did not. My wife grew up.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
My wife is Australian and she's actually a very good
skier because she and her family went skiing pretty much
every year.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Here's a little tidbit for you.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
When I first moved to Colorado, we moved to well,
not when I first a couple years after moving here,
we moved to just outside Netherland, back where they used
to have the frozen dead guy days and the altitude
gina of my house there was.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Eighty three hundred feet.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Eighty three hundred feet is higher than the top of
the highest mountain in Australia.
Speaker 20 (48:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, so but still they get some snow.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
You go a little bit down south and they have
a whole they have a whole ski thing.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
I'm wondering if anyone has done those indoor ski resorts.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
So we did have a listener text here. Let me
see if I can find it real quick think they're
Ross and Gina. I skied in June in Dubai and
it sucked. He says. It was indoors in the mall,
only lasted thirty seconds. There's a joke there, but I
won't make it, he says, thank you for not making it.
We won't help you make it either.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
I know there's some giant indoor ski resorts in like China,
Netherlands and places like that.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Yeah, I don't know. That would be very weird, very
weird to experience. I would do it on just say
I did, yea.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But for me, the part of the thing is being
outdoors and being in the forest and being in the
trees and doing all that all that crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
All right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
We still have a ton of stuff to do on
today's show, including a really funny guest coming up in
the next hour. But we're going to take a quick
break and we'll come back with President Trump doing something
that hasn't been done in the United States for quite.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Some time.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
KOA News Time seven thirty. I'm Gina Condek.
Speaker 10 (49:33):
On this vote. The eyes are sixty, the nays are forty.
The bill, as amended, has passed the.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
Senate, passing a funding deal, moving a step closer to
ending the nation's longest government shut down. The measure would
fund the government through January thirtieth. However, the bill does
not include a deal on Obamacare subsidies, Republicans promising a
separate vote in December on a healthcare bill. It would
also reverse the Trump administration's mass firings of federal workers
and guarantee backpay.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Once the shutdown ends.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
The House is not expected to take up the bill
until tomorrow at the earliest. President Trump says the government
will open quickly.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
The dealer is very good. We're not going to be
giving one and a half trillion dollars to people that
came in from jails and from you know, the gangs
and drug dealers and all of these others. The agreement
has been passed by the Senate. Now it goes to
the House and then to the President for his signature.
I'm Tammy Truheo.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
Bolts of Colorado. Senators voting no. Michael Bennett said it
was because health insurance tax credits extensions were not included.
Speaker 12 (50:33):
We shouldn't make matters worse, and that's why I voted
again against the budget that's been proposed by President Trump
and the Republicans because they refuse to extend the tax rates.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
President Trump has said he supports the bipartisan agreement. The
President will be marking Veterans Day with a visit to
Arlington National Cemetery. He's expected to lay a reef that
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and then deliver a
march as part of an official observance ceremony. Warm and
dry conditions in the mountains keeping ski resorts from opening
more terrain for skiers and riders.
Speaker 13 (51:05):
The snowpack in Colorado's high country is at twenty percent
of normal, with windy, dry conditions forecast the next few days.
NWS meteorologist Maggie Idecker is forecasting snow at the end
of the week, so.
Speaker 14 (51:16):
We have a system coming through over the weekend which
could bring more light snowshowers to the mountain.
Speaker 13 (51:22):
She says a couple good storms is all it takes
to turn the tables on the ski season quickly.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Connor Shreeve ken't wait news on.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Wall Street stocks opening, Dow is up, S and P flat,
and Nasdaq is down half a percent. In sports, the
Avs at home tonight. They'll be hosting the Ducks and
trying to win their fourth game in the row. The
Nuggets also playing tonight, visiting the Kings. They'll be coming
off a Saturday win against the Pacers.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Box thirty one pinpoint. Weather.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
Our unseasonably warm conditions continue. High temperatures today nearing seventy degrees.
We'll dip down into the forties overnight tonight, back into
the seventies for much this week. Seems like we could
get a little bit of a cool down when the
Chiefs come to town for the Broncos up later on Sunday. Currently,
we're at sixty degrees in Denver. Our next update coming
up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Condeck, I'm Kowa.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
We haven't done that in a while, and actually, since
this is the new show, Ross Kaminski on the News
with Gina Gondeck, folks might not know if your folks
who normally listen, you know, in these hours rather than
our former later hours, that producer Dragon tends to be
fairly agreeable. If you text in and ask him for
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particular bumper music, there's a decent chance, at least maybe
fifty to fifty they he'll play song.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Yeah, if it's a classic rock kind of genre that
both you and I like.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeaheah, of course, So there's still stipulations of what you
will play.
Speaker 9 (52:47):
Well, I played the pop Tarts song earlier. Yeah, that's true.
So I mean, did someone request the Poptart song?
Speaker 2 (52:51):
No?
Speaker 9 (52:52):
I didn't think so. Well, Gina, what kind of Yeah,
I don't know. There's Rush fine, Yeah, Rush is fine?
Speaker 2 (53:03):
That's fine?
Speaker 4 (53:03):
Is Rush better than fine?
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Sure? Wow, that's good. That's good to know. I like
you even better now. Hey, I bought tickets. I've paid
way too much for those tickets.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Man. Yeah, I don't know what we paid for those,
but around three hundred. Yeah, I'm I'm in I'm in
the nosebleedes. So I think they were maybe like one
eighty app.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah, okay, we got to Actually don't know exactly where
our seats are, but they should be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
But they're they're Yeah, they're around three hundred. But I'm
sure it's gonna be the last time I ever see them. Yeah,
you know, all right, let me do some things here
that I just wanted to get to. First of all,
President Trump met yesterday with Syrian President Ahmed al Sharha,
whose previous name he went by the nom de guere
of I think I'll go Lani.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
I forget the whole name.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
But this guy was previously affiliated with some offshoot of
al Qaeda.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
He had a bounce on him.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
There was some multimillion dollar reward available from the United
States of America for people.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Who led to his capture.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
And long story short kind of in the aftermath of
the Israeli attack on Iran, which massively weakened the support
structure for the Syrian government of President bashar Assad, that
government collapsed, this guy al shara he and his rebels
(54:30):
just sort of marched through the country and Asad vacated
to I think he's living in or near Moscow now.
And yesterday President Trump met with this guy al Sharad.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
They didn't do very much.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
In public, not as much as Trump often does with
foreign leaders, and that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
I wouldn't either with this guy.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
He talks a good game, right, He talks a good
game about sort of pluralism and wanting everybody to be
able to live in peace in Syria. And he surely
doesn't talk like a jihada, and he hasn't for a
long time, and it's possible he's legit. But it is
a kind of thing where you very much have to,
you know, to use the Reaganism here. You have to
trust but verify. But this is the first time, I
(55:13):
think it's the first time ever that a president of
Syria has been to the White House. And it's an
interesting choice by President Trump, but I think it's a
decent choice. I think one of President Trump's major I think,
not one of I think President Trump's major foreign policy focus,
although he does seem to have a few of them,
but I think the top one by far is the
(55:35):
Middle East, and so meeting with that guy is definitely
an interesting thing. Oh, let me interject something here.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (55:45):
I thought of this yesterday and I thought it would
be fun just to interject these throughout the show. And
I should have started earlier, because we're halfway through the
show already.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
But here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
And I promise you that if you do well on
this contest. Hey, dragon, what is it that people can
normally win on this show if they're able to properly
answer just trivia questions that I might ask, you know,
over the course of the show. What do they normally win?
Is something random like a high five or something at best? Yeah,
the answer normally is you nothing. You can't win anything
(56:15):
at all.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
If you see us out in public and you tell
us that you've won, yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yeah, well yeah nothing. It's it's mostly about your own ego.
So from time to time, I'll ask you trivia questions,
and I'm going to ask a few of them, but
all the same kind.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
Of question over the course of today's show.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
And it was just a topic that I had thought
of yesterday for no particular reason.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Here's what we're gonna do. I'm going to name a
person and.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
You are going to text me at five six six
nine zero telling me in what city is the airport
that is named for that person? And how many of
these did I get?
Speaker 4 (56:57):
And when you text in trying to text in raws first, Yeah,
put Ross or Dragon or Gina.
Speaker 1 (57:02):
But just something so that we know you're texting at
our show rather than the other radio station that uses
the same text line at this time of day. So
text us at five six six nine zero. And if
you get more of these rights than anybody else, then
if you see me or Dragon in public and tell us,
we will give you either a handshake or a high five,
(57:24):
because we are feeling generous enough today that we will
let you choose.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (57:29):
No, I was gonna say maybe a bro hug. No,
that's too far, that's too much.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, first one and Dragon, if you know what it is,
don't say what it is, but tell me you think
you know what it is, so you.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
Understand the question. Right.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
I'm gonna name a person and there's a an airport
named after this person in a city somewhere. And this
is only the United States. Obviously there's thousands of them
around well not thousands, but there's a lot around the world.
But I'm only doing the United States. And the first
one is Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali. Gina's nodding her head.
Do you know what city, Mohammed. Don't say what the
(58:02):
city is, but do you think you know? Okay, well,
don't tell I'm just basfled that it's like, that's an airport,
and I think it came up in the news in
the past couple of days, So yeah, I believe I
heard I heard you mention that. All right, so Texas
at five six six nine zero in what city is
their airport name for Muhammad Ali? And I'll have more
(58:25):
of these throughout the show. All right now, I just
want to get a little bit political with you. I'm
watching Donald Trump recently and I'm just I'm a little concerned,
and I'm not trying to be sarcastic, and I'm not
looking to bash the guy, and I'm not looking This
is just straight up analysis and kind of thinking about
what I'm seeing right now, and I see a guy
(58:49):
who seems to.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
Be flailing a little bit. And when you think.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
About the stuff that he's doing, like yesterday saying that
he wants to give bonuses to air traffic controllers who
stayed at work the whole time, It's unclear where he
would get the money or the authority to do that.
Although within the executive branch he could probably get it done,
they would have to take the money from some other places.
The other thing that he mentioned was he wants to
(59:15):
dock the pay of air traffic controllers who didn't come
to work some days. I don't think he has the
authority to do that, but maybe maybe, But anyway, my
point is Okay, So he brings that up, and then
he brings up this two thousand dollars tariff dividend, which
I think there's almost no chance of getting done.
Speaker 2 (59:35):
And it's a really really bad idea. Right.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
Trump is talking about tariff's tariff dividend checks to everybody
who makes.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
Less than some amount of money.
Speaker 1 (59:48):
And depending on how you define that, who's going to
get it? Where the cutoff is for too much money
that you know, do you have to be an adult?
But it sure seems like the math of that tariff
dividend is such that if you really wrote those checks,
he would be spending more than we're collecting on tariffs.
By the way, the tariffs might be ruled illegal, but
(01:00:09):
he would be spending more than that when really get
separate from how I feel about the tariffs, any and
every extra dollar that the government is collecting in taxes
from the American people should go to paying down reducing the.
Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Deficit, and paying down the debt.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
And doesn't Trump remember that one of the primary reasons
that he won election was the inflation caused by Joe
Biden's policy, much of which was due to helicopter money,
you to just giving people checks that they then went
out and spend, and yet Donald Trump is now proposing
the same thing. I think there are two things going
(01:00:48):
on here. One, Trump sees the very bad results from
Republicans from the election for Republicans from the elections.
Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
A week ago, and he's tried to do something to
kind of buy back.
Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
People's lawyer by giving them by taxing them and then
giving them back their own money, which is what this
would be. The other thing that I think he's trying
to do with the tariff thing in particular, is to
nudge the Supreme Court to say, look, millions of American
people are going to get two thousand dollars checks unless
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you overturn the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
And you don't really want to do that, do you.
Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
But I just think right now you see him also
tweeting about a fifty year mortgage and just after thing
where it feels like Trump is flailing around and he
feels like his presidency is getting away from him a
little bit. And if I were to make a prediction,
and I'm not saying this with any kind of happiness,
I'm just telling you what I think I think we
(01:01:45):
will look back and say that the date of President
Trump's highest popularity during his second term was the day
he was inaugurated.
Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Let's go to Gina get some.
Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Headlines AOA news Time seven forty four. Despite a tied vote,
Denver's next budget will be implemented. The city Council will
split six to six yesterday on Mayor Mike Johnston's one
point sixty six billion dollar spending plan. Measures that wind
up in a tie are usually considered dead, but budget
measures are an exception.
Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
The city charter.
Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Says that any budget not passed by the council will
still take effect with all the approved amendments. Fort Lopton
Police investigating an employee with the Weldre eight School District
who they say had unlawful contact with a student at
a middle school. The district is not saying what position
the employee held, only that they have been emplaced on
administrative leave while the investigation continues. You're too late if
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you wanted season tickets to Denver's new women's soccer team.
Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
The Denver Summits sold out of their eighty five hundred
season tickets. You can still see a match, though, with
single tickets. Their first match of the season will be
at Empower Field and they're hoping to break the attendance
record for a whim Inn's soccer match.
Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I'm Cynthia Vale. Today is Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
There are a number of discounts for those who have
served free andrees at Apple, Pea's, free haircuts at Great Clips,
and a number of other discounts and freebes at places
like Starbucks, Stenny's, Red Lobster, Chipotle, and Wendy's. Actress Sally
Kirkland has died at the age of eighty four. Kirklin
was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards back
in nineteen eighty eight for her role in Anna. She
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last appeared in the film Eighty for Brady in twenty
twenty three. Representatives say she died in hospice care in
Palm Springs, California, after suffering a fall. Soon have the
chance to own iconic costume pieces from the film. Margaret
Hamilton's original Wicked, which the West Black Hat, will be
going up for auction as part of the Heritage Auctions
December Hollywood Signature Auction. The auction will also include Judy
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Garland's Red rehearsal slipper and a cast copy signed copy
of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
I did say that the Lumineers were one of my
top artists when we had our ask me anything, Yeah,
very good.
Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
So all right, so let let's keep going with this
trivia question for a bit. So I've the trivia question
we're doing here is I'm going to give you the
name of a person, and you're going to tell me
the name of the city that has the airport that's
named for that person. And I started with Muhammad Ali
and Gina, you know the answer to that because it
was in the newscast today or two ago, although I
don't recall exactly why it was in the newscast.
Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Was it just about overall? What?
Speaker 16 (01:04:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
No, no, no, that was that ups cargo? Oh my gosh.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
So where is this is just a crazy video? Is
it technically Louisville, Kentucky?
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Louisville, Kentucky exactly right. Yeah, So Gina
knew that for bad reasons. All right, next one, and
this is the answer for this one is going to
be slightly slightly tricky.
Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
But the next dragon did you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Know Louisville for for Muhammad Ali? Okay, where is the
airport named for John Wayne?
Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Hmm, I'll give you I'll give you a hint. I'll
give you a hint.
Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
I just flew into it for the first time ever,
like three weeks ago. Uh so and and so some
listeners know what I was doing a few weeks ago.
So if you that that might that might give you
a clue. Where is John Wayne Airport? All right, let
me do a couple other quick things here. Just still
so much to do on today's show. Lots of folks
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are huge fans. A fan doesn't even begin to cover
just the degree of adoration for Warren Buffett. And Warren
Buffett is ninety five years old, and he has announced
his retirement. And in his annual message he does this
annual message that people read like the way some people read.
Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
You know, the Bible.
Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
And I'm not I'm not exaggerating like they they they
anxiously awaited, they read every word, they read it again,
they read it again. He's been writing this for sixty years,
this annual message to shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
He started this right, So Warren.
Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Buffett started writing this stuff like before I was born,
and he said that he will be quote going quiet
after he retires at the end of the year, or
mostly retiring.
Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
He's not totally going away, and he will keep giving
an annual Thanksgiving message. But what he's really going to
spend his time doing is giving away his.
Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Giving away his fortune. Right he's leaving very little to
his kids, and right now.
Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Based on the current stock price of Berkshire Hathaway, his
net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred
and fifty billion dollars. And he is going to spend
his time working with some of the nonprofits, some of
the foundations that he and his family are involved with,
to give away his money. So there you go. That's
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Warren Buffett going quiet. A lot of people are really going.
Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
To miss him.
Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
He is one of the greatest investors of all time,
absolutely of all time. I should have mentioned this yesterday.
I had it on the show sheet, but I didn't
get around to it, just because I am a science nerd.
I want to mention this to you. But a couple
of days ago, James Watson passed away. And Watson is
a guy American guy who, along with a British guy
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named Francis Crick and a couple of other folks sort
of involved around the edges, discovered the structure of DNA.
He passed away at the age of ninety seven. Watson
was interesting for a few reasons. First of all, this
incredible work that he did, and I guess you would
call it biochemistry effectively, he did at a very young age.
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He was in his twenties when he did this stuff,
So that's one thing. Later in life, he started saying
some things that basically were racist and sexist.
Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
He was making some some bogus biology based claims that
I won't even fully you know, fully repeat that were
denigrating to black people's intelligence and raw uh and similar
stuff about sexism, and that kind of dogged him for
the rest of his life. And the research lab that
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he had been in charge of UH dropped him, and he,
you know, somewhat disappeared from public life.
Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
In any case, though, I think at this point it's.
Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Important that we focus on what he did in terms
of science. You know, he's gone now, so there's a
very little point in, you know, badgering him about the
stupid stuff that he said. And and think about just
the fact that this guy, his creativity came up with
figured out the structure of DNA.
Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
And I learned something while I was reading about this.
Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
There's a particular photo and this I actually put in
yesterday's blog.
Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Oh, if you're new, it's kind of new to me
new to the show.
Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Each day I post a blog note that you can
access at Rosskominsky dot com. It's called the Blogcast, and
it includes usually more than all the.
Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Topics we get to during the show.
Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Yes, you don't have to worry about the silent three
in Ross Kaminsky, right, it's okay, just pass right on by.
Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
It, and just it's the silent three is in my
first name, all right, but you don't have to worry
about it. But yeah, it's silent, so you can skip.
You can just pass right over it.
Speaker 13 (01:09:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
It's like the word what's a good one paradigm with
a silent G near the end. It's like that. You
can just keep going right on through it and pretend
it's not even there. So when you see the three
in my name, you can ignore that. In any case,
So yesterday's blog at Rosskiminsky dot com includes some stuff
about including a video about something.
Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Called photo fifty one.
Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
And photo fifty one is an X ray of a
five diffraction image and I'm quoting from Wikipedia of a
paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber. Anyway, it's a nineteen
fifty two X ray and based on the dispersion pattern
of the X ray, they figured out that DNA is
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likely to be a helix, and then it got to
a double helix and just absolutely incredible. And this discovery
led eventually to so much of modern biology and modern medicine,
including pharmaceuticals specifically.
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Tailored to someone's DNA. So, James Watson, indeed, James.
Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Watson, even though you said a couple of stupid things
later in life, rest in peace and thank you for
all you did for humanity.
Speaker 9 (01:10:49):
I guess free It's never sounded so GOODA Denver nine
FM News Talk.
Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Good Tuesday morning on Gina Gondek.
Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
The end of the government shutdown in sight Tefter the
Senate passed a deal that would fund the government through January.
It now goes to the House, which is not expected
to take up the bill. Until tomorrow at the earliest.
Democratic House Leader Hakim Jeffreyes says he'll fight the bill,
but given that eight Senate Democrats have voted to pass it,
most in the House are expected to cross the aisle
and send it to the President's desk.
Speaker 21 (01:11:24):
I measure would fund agencies through the end of January
and require any federal workers laid off during the shutdown
to be reinstated, drawing most Democrats hire The bill does
not extend expiring COVID era attax credits that have made
health insurance exchange plans more for them.
Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
ABC's Stephen Portinoy, Colorado's congressional Democrats say they will all
vote no. The end of the shutdown doesn't mean an
end to the flight troubles anytime soon. Another fifteen hundred
flights have been canceled across the country so far this morning,
more than nine hundred delayed as the FAA is trying
to ease the stream on air traffic controllers who are
working without pay. Locally, ninety two flights in and out
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of Dia are canceled so far this morning, with over
thirty delayed. The pilot of a small plane forced to
land on a street in Castle Rock. The aircraft reported
power problems before the emergency landing at Wolfensberger and Prairie
Hawk Drive, Westdubay twenty five, yesterday evening, Castle Rock Fire
chief Norris Kroom tells Fox thirty one, it's amazing no
one was hurt considering.
Speaker 16 (01:12:21):
What we've got here with power lines, the power polls.
He said again, he saw minimal traffic on the roadway,
thought it was his best shot and he was pretty successful.
Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
In putting it down.
Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
The plane did clip a car on the road. Three
people were inside, but they managed to walk away with
no injuries. A twenty eight year old man avoids prison
time after admitting that he hit an elderly couple crossing
the street in Castle Rock while he was driving drunk.
Sixty nine year old Craig Costa eventually died from his injuries.
His family was in court for the sentencing and asked
the judge for the harshest punishment.
Speaker 22 (01:12:52):
I asked that you imposed a maximum sentence of thirteen
years the offended muskie held fully accountable for his choice
and the devastating consequences.
Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Instead, the judge sentence Samuel Michael to four years of
community corrections. The prosecutor is asking state lawmakers to pass
laws mandating stiffer penalties for.
Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
A vehicular homicide.
Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
When the Broncos host the Chiefs on Sunday, they'll be
with out linebacker Alex Singleton. He went underwent surgery for
testicular cancer on Friday. He was diagnosed just over a
week ago following a random drug test that flagged indicators,
resulting in further evaluation. Still not known exactly how much
time Singleton will miss as he recovers. On Wall Street
stocks mixed, stow Is up ninety two points, SMP five hundred,
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downs slightly, Nasdack down one hundred and one points. And
in sports, the Nuggets looking for their fifth straight victory
taking on the Kings tonight on the road. The Aves
at home tonight hosting the Ducks. They'll try to win
their fourth game in a row. Fox thirty one pinpoint,
whether our warming trend continues? Will continue to see high
temperatures right around seventy degrees dipping down into the forties
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overnight tonight. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina, God,
I'm Ross.
Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
That's Gene over there, high GENA Hi. Do you know
where John Wayne Airport. Is I do not John Wayne Airport.
Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
Aren't you just in California? Yes? I was.
Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
That's John Wayne Airport is Orange County, California. Some people
say it's in Santa Anna. Some people say it's in Orange.
It's more of an Orange County thing. So yeah, that's
my first time ever into into John Wayne Airport. It's
it's where you would fly into if you wanted to
go to the airport.
Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Closest to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Oh, not that I want to do that, all right,
I've got two what dragons did?
Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
I've never been to Disneyland. I think going to Disneyland
would be the same as doing the White Snow Line
of Death, right, like going to Keystone on opening day
with huge lines and just you waste all your time.
And you're pretty accurate. I have to say I managed, Dragon,
I managed, and I address this to Dragon because Gina
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doesn't have kids. I managed to get through.
Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
My entire child rearing years without ever taking my kids
to Disneyland or disney World.
Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
My parents did too. Really, were you bitter with them
about that? Or yeah you wanted to go? Yep, yeah,
but not as a kid.
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
But looking back at it, and then and then working
in Florida for a little bit, everybody was like, you've
never been to Disney World. I was like, nope, So
we went once when we were working in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
I wonder how much it costs to go to Disney now,
especially especially what if you want to get like that
pass that gets you lets you cut in in the
lines a little bit. It's got to be a couple
hundred bucks per person per day, yeah, or something like that,
like for a family.
Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
I can't I can't imagine. If I remember.
Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
Two years ago when we went, it was a couple
hundred for a day, and the park hopper where you
can visit all the parks for a day.
Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
I want to say it was probably two hundred bucks
from the Disney that was Disney World.
Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
On the disney Land website, a standard theme park ticket
can range from one hundred and four dollars to two
hundred and twenty four dollars a day.
Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Yeah, that's some serious money. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Let me keep going with some of these because I
want to try to get through as many as I can.
So I'm gonna give you two of them here, And
these are both presidents, and so the question is I'll
tell you the name of the president, and you tell
me where the airport is.
Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
One of these is slightly obscure, and.
Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
The other one is a slightly tricky answer if you
really want to be accurate about it. And I suspect
that the first one, the more obscure one, is one
that Gina will know.
Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
And I think if you know anything about Gina, that'll
give you a clue as to what the answer is.
So the first one is where is there an airport
named for Gerald Ford? And the other one is where
is the airport named for Ronald Reagan? And I want
you to be pretty specific on these and really try
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to get them right.
Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Text us at five six.
Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Six nine zero, and tell us where's the airport named
for Gerald Ford? Where's the airport named for Ronald Reagan?
You you definitely know the first one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
The first one.
Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
I was supposed to fly into over the weekend and
chose not to it chose not to.
Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Did you do anything fun over the weekend, like just
for a little mental health break.
Speaker 13 (01:17:22):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
I remember you saying not that long ago that you
went to Garden of the Gods. Yeah, so I went
to the Garden of the Gods Spa and resort.
Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
Oh yeah, how was that? It was really nice? So
it really nice. I've never done any take on the
hill like Mesa Road or something overlooking. It was very pretty.
Did you get a massage? Did you get?
Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
Yeah, which I've never done before. But because I had
to cancel that flight, I was very sad about it.
I said, I'm gonna treat myself. Let's see what this
is all about. And it was very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
I liked it. Listener text, I was just a Disneyland
fast pass is about two hundred and twenty five dollars
ross family of six one day in disney World is
about one thousand dollars a day or ross. A ticket
to Disneyland is less expensive than a lift ticketed veil.
That's a that's a decent comparison. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Let me just mention that today, of course, is Veterans Day,
November eleventh, and I want to give a big shout
out to all veterans out there, including my parents. And
I'll just tell you a quick thing about my parents
for those who you know, maybe haven't been listening to
me for for some years. But so, my dad is
a surgeon who served in the United States Navy, and
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there's a book that was written, and I'm not not
a big selling book, but there was a book that
was written, a nonfiction book called super Carrier, and there's
actually a short segment in that book, Supercarrier, about my
dad saving the life of a sailor who got injured
on the deck of the aircraft carrier. My dad was
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ship's surgeon on the USS John F. Kennedy, the first
USS John F. Kennedy that has since been decommissioned, and
now there's a new one. It's they're actually two different ships.
But my dad was ship's surgeon on the Campy. One
of the many things that my dad did in his
career in the Navy. And then my mom, who actually
ended up out ranking my dad.
Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
She stayed in longer than he did.
Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
My mom was in charge of US Navy medicine for
Europe and then was commanding officer of two or three
big US Navy hospitals, including Portsmouth, which is the hospital
that is attached to the Norfolk Navy Base, which is
the home of the Atlantic Fleet. She was also commanding
officer of the Navy Hospital at Pensacola, which is where
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the Blue angels are stationed anyway. That's kind of I
did not serve. Some folks asked me why not. Look,
I was going through the time of making that decision
whether to join the military or not, in the mid
nineteen eighties when Ronald Reagan was president, and it was
this very very quiet time in the world, and I
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really did think about it, and I would if I
felt like they needed me, I would have done it.
But I felt like they really didn't particularly need me,
and so and so I didn't. I didn't go ahead
and do that. Let me give you one other story
real quick. Visa and MasterCard are proposing a settlement, or
apparently they've reached a settlement with merchants about something called
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swipe fees. So when you use a credit card at
a store, the Visa and MasterCard get some money.
Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Also, the banks that issue the card get some money.
Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Those are different and usually those fees are typically in
the range of two to two and a half percent,
And this settlement calls for them to lower swipe fees,
but not by much, not by much, by somewhere like
just under a tenth of a percent for five years
or so, but they would still be able to raise
their fees after that. What's going to be interesting about
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this is they proposed a settlement. Visa and MasterCard posed
a settlement a little while back that would have apparently
saved merchants and hopefully saved customers some of this money,
but thirty billion dollars over some time period.
Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
And the judge said that's not enough.
Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Visa and MasterCard are making so much money, and it does.
It's not technically a monopoly because there's two of them,
and there are some others, but they're much smaller, and
Visa MasterCard.
Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Really really dominate.
Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
But these swipe fees totaled over one hundred and eleven
billion dollars last year, and I don't know. To me,
it feels close to monopoly like. So we'll see how
it all plays out, and if it does play out,
we'll see how it filters down to consumers if at all.
All right, let me give let me give you the answers.
Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Actually, Gina, where is gerald Ford Airport, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
There you go, yep, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Play at University of Michigan. And is he from Grand
Rapids or right around there?
Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Or A good question?
Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
I believe so, because there is a Gerald R four
Museum in Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
There you go, sir Gerald Ford Museum, Museum, airport and museum.
Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
And also like one terminal, think of like half of
a single terminal a of DIA.
Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Uh huh. That's the gr the Ford Airport.
Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
Yeah, all right, So maybe that's not much for president,
but it's still a lot more than you and I've
got that's true, right, that is true. And Ronald Reagan
Reagan Airport is well known and a lot of people
might say DC and it serves DC, but it's actually
in Arlington, Virginia. All right, I'll throw out one more
at you and then i'll give you the answer a
little later on where.
Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Is Bob Hope Airport. We'll be right back on.
Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
KOA KOA News Time, eight fifteen, forty second day of
the government shutdown, and while the Senate did narrowly pass
a bill to keep the government funded through January thirtieth,
the ripple effects of the shutdown will continue, delays and
cancelations at airports rising nationwide as the FAA will have
flight reductions increased to six percent today ten percent by Friday.
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As for the Senate passed to bill, the House is
not expected to take it up until tomorrow at the earliest.
The government shutdown could also take a toll on the
flu season this year here.
Speaker 23 (01:23:08):
In the US, A record two hundred and eighty children
died from the flu last season, the highest level since
two thousand and nine. This year, doctor say the government
shutdown is posing an extra challenge, with the CDC not
updating its data for week.
Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
At ABC's Sophie Flay while we bask in seventy degree temperatures,
winter taking other parts of the country by storm.
Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
ABC's Juni Norman is in Syracuse. It's not just this.
Speaker 15 (01:23:31):
Part of upstate New York that's getting snow, but also
parts of Pennsylvania and Vermont, and snow showers could move
as far south as Kentucky, West Virginia, even parts of Tennessee,
even as far south as parts of the Carolinas old
and snowy.
Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Atlanta is actually colder than Denver right now at thirty
eight degrees, but don't get used to these warmer temperatures.
National Weather Service meteorologists Maggie ideckers as the situation could change.
Speaker 14 (01:23:55):
Even though we're at a warm start to the season,
that doesn't necessarily mean that will have a bad snow season.
We're just waiting for a good couple storms to get
us back on truck for a regular snow season.
Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
Will likely see snow by the end of the months.
Our Act update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina
Gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Do we know why?
Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Got a clue? Didn't ask it was cool? Said why not?
Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Yeah? Why not? Why not?
Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
A couple quick Veterans Day things I want to mention
here also, and Dragon sent me this story from Military
dot Com. I mentioned it two hours ago, but I
want to mention it again now in case you're wondering
why things seem a little bit different this Veteran's Day.
Officials told military dot Com that federal rules block service
members from taking part in public events during a lapse
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in funding. Wow, Communities from Virginia to Oregon are scrambling,
canceling long planned tributes and shifting to quiet, private observances instead.
Military families are closely watching pay and benefits, and in
any case, so the idea is here.
Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
That well here, let me skip ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
In this piece, Military dot Com asked officials why time
honored ceremonies honoring service members vanished from community calendars. Pentagon
and ROTC leaders pointed to a directive that halts all
community outreach activity during the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
So I don't think I need to elaborate on that
very much. But what if there were public ceremonies at
federal facilities and military facilities, including national cemeteries.
Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
They've probably been canceled. And you know, members of the military.
One of the things I wonder about is whether they
are allowed to participate in any of these public events
if they're not wearing their uniform, And it seems like
the answer may be no. So if you're wondering why
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some Veterans' Day stuff a little bit subdued today, that's why.
Because even though even though the Senate has passed the
bill that needs to be passed to keep government operational,
the House hasn't passed it yet, so really government is
not open yet. I also want to just mention again
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I mentioned this gut two hours ago as well, or
an hour and a half ago. Oliver's Restaurant in Greenwood Village,
which is right along Bellevue just east of Yosemite and
that shopping center that has King Soupers. It's at the
southeast corner of that shopping center Oliver's restaurant where I've
eaten a bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
It's really good Italian food.
Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
They are giving They are having veterans in active duty
military eating free today up to thirty dollars for your meal,
and they'll give you a free non alcoholic beverage as well.
And I think that is just awesome of Oliver's Italian restaurant.
So active duty members of the military and veterans eat
free today up to bucks free non alcoholic drink as
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well at Oliver's Italian Restaurant. So thank you so much
to Oliver's for that. All right, let me let me
give you the answer the trivia question. I'm just sort
of throwing these out over the course of the show.
Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Dragon.
Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Do you have a guess where Bob Hope Airport is?
And I want to see how many listeners got it.
Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
I'm gonna just go with like somewhere in Florida because
of the golf courses.
Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Only a few people got it, And the answer is Burbank, California. Well,
there you go, Burbank, California. I couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Okay, the next two I want to mention to you
are both people who served in the US military, although
one also served as president. Where are these airports? Where
are airports named for these two men?
Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
Dwight D.
Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Eisenhower and John Glenn? They each have an airport named
for him. And I'll give you a clue. They're both
in the Midwest. They're both in the Midwest because both
those guys are from the Midwest.
Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Textas at five sixty six nine zero.
Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
If you get them both right, but you have to
get them both, you will win nothing nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
You will win the opportunity to tell your friends you
got them both right.
Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
You will win the opportunity to tell Dragon or me, hey,
I got them both right? Can I have a handshake
or a high five? And then we probably will because
that's how we roll around.
Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Though, if you're at the bar and you're like, hey,
I want a contest on the Ross Kiminski Show, No,
it's definitely a big.
Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Gina. By the way, Bob Hope Airport is in Burbank,
in case you were wondering, Jad did shout it out
out there, so he did know.
Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
And then the next two that I just asked, where
are airports named for Dwight Eisenhower and John Glenn and
they're both in the Midwest. Uh So we got about
two minutes left in this segment, and then we're gonna
have a absolutely hilarious comedian Leanne Morgan on the show,
and I am so looking forward to that. So let
(01:28:51):
me just nerd out with you on a sciencey thing
for like one minute. Okay, so we get the nerd
alerted advance on this one. So some Chinese chemists, this
is super nerdy, but some Chinese chemists have come up
with a way to make a particular category of chemical
(01:29:13):
that for one hundred years or more have.
Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Been made in another way.
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And I'm not going to bore you with all the details,
but the way these chemicals are made right now is
expensive and dangerous because the other things you have to
work with through the process are quite likely to explode,
and it's a complex process.
Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Anyway, these scientists in China.
Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Have come up with a way to make these chemicals
that is much faster, much cheaper, and doesn't risk explosion.
And the reason that it's worth mentioning is that a
lot of these chemicals are used in the making of pharmaceuticals,
and so there is a good chance that this new
discovery will allow the making of not just industrial chemicals
and there will be some of that, but also life
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around the world people who need these drugs.
Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Kind of a remarkable thing.
Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
It's a challenge that scientists have been working on for
many decades, and it appears that some folks have finally
gotten it done. All Right, we're going to take a
break here. We're gonna have you know, a few words.
Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
We're gonna have Geno on the news, and then we're
gonna have the brilliant and hilarious Lee and Morgan aoa
news time a thirty. I'm Gina Gondek.
Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Not a done deal yet, but a step closer to
ending the government shut down.
Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
The Senate passed a funding measure. Now it's up to
the House right now, I'm inclined to support it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
Colorado Republican Congressman Jeff Hurds says he understands Democrats want
healthcare subsidies to continue, but he's more worried about government
workers who're fur load.
Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
I'm ready willing and able to work on healthcare reform
and preserving our healthcare system, extending in Hanspring and tax
credits and party and legislation that would do that, but
if we got to get the government open for furs.
Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
But Colorado Democrats like Congresswoman Britney Peterson remains steady promising
to oppose the measure unless it helps Americans pay for
rising health insurance premiums.
Speaker 19 (01:31:08):
Because it's not a deal.
Speaker 24 (01:31:09):
This doesn't address the urgent issues facing the American people.
Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Both Colorado Senators Michael Bennett and John Hickloop are voted
no and aren't happy with the eight Senate Democrats who
voted in favor of the measure.
Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
The outgoing Douglas.
Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
County school boards set to vote today on a measure
involving transgender athletes.
Speaker 24 (01:31:26):
The proposal says girls athletic teams cannot be opened to
participation by biological male students and vice versa. This would
also apply to locker rooms at hotels for any trips
that these students may take. Now, the board says this
change is needed so the district can comply with an
executive order that President Trump signed back in February.
Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
That order told the federal government.
Speaker 24 (01:31:46):
To pull any funding from educational programs that deprive women
and girls of fair athletic opportunities.
Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
That's Fox thirty one's Kasha Carriage.
Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
The board is also about to vote on last minute
charter school extensions.
Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
The charter schools will.
Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Have little to no oversights for the next ten years
under this measure. Four Conservative County school board members were
voted out in last week's selections, so they don't have answers.
Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
To the voters for today's vote.
Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
The current charter renewal in Douglas County is every five years.
Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Canada no longer measles free.
Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
The country has been hit by several outbreaks as childhood
vaccination rates fault. Jennifer Nouzzo is a professor at the
Brown University School of Public Health.
Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
Losing elimination status means that the virus has been allowed
to transmit in one continuous chain for a year now,
which is quite a considerable costs and really an important
public health setback.
Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Canada are reporting more than five thousand measles cases this year.
On Wall Street, Dow up eighty eight points, as in
P five hundred down eighteen, Nasdaq down one hundred and
thirty nine. In sports, the avs at home hosting the
Ducks and the Nuggets on the road, taking on the
Sacramento Kings and Fox thirty one pinpoint weather. Warmer temperatures
continue for the days of head plenty of sunshine today,
(01:33:00):
I will be right around seventy degrees dipping down to
the forties overnight tonight. Similar pattern for the next couple
of days. Currently sixty one in Denver. Our next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Dwight Eisenhower Airport is in Wichita and John Glenn.
Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
Airport is in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
All Right, I am so excited to have Leanne Morgan
back on the show. I had her once on the
show a couple of years ago, and she is just
one of the funniest people.
Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
And Leanne has a new Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
Special called Unspeakable Things, and she also has her own
Netflix sitcom called Leanne.
Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
And she wrote a book last year called What in
the World.
Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's unexpected curve
balls and beautiful Blessings. Leanne, it's so good to talk
to you again. Thank congratulations on all your ongoing massive success,
and it's so good to have.
Speaker 20 (01:33:49):
You back, well, you angel, Thank you Jordan, and thank
you for not asking me about Dwight austenhow purge remember
that I have known it, hik Alver having me take O.
I love my Denver and I love the Paramount Theater.
I do it every time I come through.
Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Yeah, and uh, and we love having you here. And
in a moment, my colleague Gina, Gina Gondek is going
to have a question for you, But I want to
start with something that's actually maybe two quick things that
are near and dear to my heart. So I from
time to time find that my my wife starts talking
about something and I'm kind of sort of listening, uh,
(01:34:31):
but I don't say anything at all, and it reminds
it reminded me very much of your uh concept of
your husband Chuck having used up all his words.
Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
And I wonder if you could just talk about that
a little bit, Honey.
Speaker 20 (01:34:48):
I have I know are Chuck Morgan and I'm married.
I mean we've barely spoken. I tell every people all
the time. He left this morning, he was blowing leaves
while I was didn't say goodbye. He blew the lings
while I was doing radio interviews, and the dogs were barking,
and and then he left. I have basically just taken
(01:35:12):
like I know. I mean, he is terribly in love
with me and and grabs me in certain places, so
I know he's there and I know he loves me.
But the token, Yeah, I've had to find. I've had
to find, you know, a conversation with my girlfriends. You know, Yes,
(01:35:32):
I don't let me have your wife's phone number.
Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
I don't.
Speaker 20 (01:35:37):
Yeah, man don't want to talk. Do they know?
Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
We don't know?
Speaker 20 (01:35:40):
Tim Daily did little Tim Daily when I was shooting
the television series. He's a talker and we just sat
on the couch and talk about what we had eaten. Darling.
But but yeah, Chuck Morgan is still introverted. But I
tell people because because of that series, people think that
Chuck Morgan really walked off and left me in that
that's a true story. It is not. He is steal
(01:36:02):
up my butt. I want everybody from up.
Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Again.
Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
Leanne has a new Netflix stand up special. It just
premiered a week ago called Unspeakable Things and maybe we'll
I'll get to the title of that in a bit.
But Gina has a Gina has something she wants to
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
About Ellien.
Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
Earlier on the show, we were talking about our ski
resorts and the lack of snow that we've had as
of late. Obviously, you know you're talking to a state
full of skiers and borders, and you had something that
was very relatable when you talked about gearing up and
getting the kids ready for skiing.
Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Could you tell us a little bit more about that?
Speaker 20 (01:36:36):
Ollo on, y'all, I've never worked somewhere in my life
when in Chuck Morgan, laver Creek, Colorado was one of
the prettiest places I've ever been in my life, and
I was so glad that Chuck Morgan wanted to ski
and raise his show on SCAN. But that is one
of the hardest wakes of my life. And now we've
got green babies. So if we get to go, and
(01:36:58):
we don't get to go every year, but we get
to go, good lord. Putting all that on little children
and they're not paying attention and they're no help. And
then ski boots ken, y'all wear ska boats comfortably put
on from Colorado?
Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
No, not at all. No, that's why snowboard o.
Speaker 20 (01:37:18):
The maanest thing that's ever been. And then what did
I talk about oh that baby the baby child talking
about her butthole engine, okay, And she took all her
clothes off on the gondola going up to that little
bunny slope at Beaver Creek, and y'all, she's my makeup
artist and travels with me. And she said to me,
i'd been doing that vent and trying to go out
(01:37:40):
and doing it on saying, and she goes, Mom, tell
them I was four or five. You did not say that.
She goes, people think I'm twenty seven years old in
my butthole inches and I put my clothes off. I go,
oh my god. I didn't even realize that. So then
I put in there that she was four or five
could kill me. I didn't even realize that's what I
was saying. But anyway, yes, no, skin is a privilege
(01:38:05):
and wonderful, but it's hard, and I don't know anymore, y'all.
I'm scared I'm gonna tear something, so I don't. I
just sat and look at ridge painople.
Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
You know it's for me.
Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
I always find it slightly amusing when I hear folks
with your accent out on the ski hill, because it
just seems a little bit o a place and for me, like,
I'm Jewish, right, so to me, it's as weird as
see in like a like a jew out on a outsailing.
Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
It's just like not a thing we know about.
Speaker 20 (01:38:33):
Oh my darling. Well, and I'm from the country, and
I say, I think I say in that special, I'm
from a town of five hundred people and nobody had
I've never known anybody that skied ever, and I would
see it on TV and think that must be the
queen in her pain.
Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
I think you said, there's not even to stop light
in that town of five hundred.
Speaker 20 (01:38:51):
Right, Uh, there's a caution.
Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
It's a caution life.
Speaker 20 (01:38:55):
We didn't have a Dollar General though, and it is popping.
Speaker 7 (01:38:58):
Oh, that's what's.
Speaker 20 (01:39:00):
Going on at that Dollar General because there's nothing else there.
Speaker 19 (01:39:04):
Plain.
Speaker 20 (01:39:05):
Yeah, And you can go down there, you know, and
get you out some dand of sausages if you're in
a bad flight. But no, I'm very lucky to have
that beautiful saint. You are in a beautiful son.
Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
I got about ninety seconds left with you, Leanne, and
I wanted to talk to you about the title of
your Netflix special Unspeakable Things, because I think it relates
to a pattern of behavior that my wife and I
can entirely relate to.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
So can you just elaborate.
Speaker 20 (01:39:35):
Do you go to a hotel room with your wife
and think it is own like Gonky Kong?
Speaker 7 (01:39:41):
Is that?
Speaker 20 (01:39:41):
Do you get a glazed look over your eyes like
hotel room? Yeah, and it's like your honeymoon. Because that's
what Chuck Morgan does to me. Honey, we can't go
to a hotel room that it is like I don't
even know. I don't even I don't want to be
naist down here. I mean, I can't even tell you
what I've had to do an hotel. And he said
(01:40:02):
to me, Leanne, when I retire, because he's still working
a big job. He said, when I retire, I'll just
travel with you and I no, no, you will not.
You are not going to be traveling with Megan.
Speaker 15 (01:40:13):
No.
Speaker 20 (01:40:14):
It would be like I can't even like we were twenty,
I cannot do I cannot be doing all that y'all
put on a pair of spanks and get ready for
a coffee shows. He thinks, mixed nuts and watching basketball
and grabbing my brains. I cannot do it.
Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Yes, I will just say that Chuck Morgan is fully
representative of every married man.
Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
In the including me.
Speaker 20 (01:40:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
That is my best opportunity to get back to remembering
what it was like shortly after I got married, is
if I take my wife to a hotel. So, just
so you know, Chuck in so many ways, including that way,
represents all men, Leanne.
Speaker 20 (01:40:55):
Oh well, honey, I'm getting that. They all because people
loved up Morgan and want to see Chuck Morgan. And
I tell him, I said, I am building you a
Hollywood courier, Chuck, because people he's becoming a household name.
And I do think that he is very he is
very much a dad like yelling that who left the
garage door open? And I think that's a common thread
(01:41:17):
with men of wall the United States of America and
want to do it in a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Exactly right, exactly we.
Speaker 20 (01:41:24):
Need to do it in a hotel room. I'll do
better now that.
Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
You tell me, yes, please on behalf of all men
and on behalf of Chuck Morgan. I encourage you to
do better, Leanne.
Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Liah Morgan's new Netflix stand up special is called Unspeakable Things.
It's always such a pleasure to talk to you, Leanne,
and congratulations again on the huge success with the Netflix
stuff and the sitcom and the book and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
It's well deserved and you're just awesome.
Speaker 20 (01:41:51):
Thank you, Min Jorling. Thanks Ellen. I can't wait to
be back there. And who knows, maybe we'll go skiing
in March. We're starting to playing it. I will not
be singing. I will be sharing a reach Mike.
Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
Thanks Leah, Thanks Leah. All right, we'll take you, all right,
We'll take you a very quick break. We'll be right
back on Koa, Gina. I am going to heat up
a pop tart and be right all right.
Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
KOA News Time, eight forty eight. The government shutdown appears
to be nearing an end after eight Democrats joined Republicans
and passing a funding bill last night. Now moves to
the House where a boat could happen, possibly as soon
as tomorrow, but it could take a while after the
government reopens for air traffic to get back to normal.
Some air traffic controllers left their job after being forced
(01:42:36):
to work without pay. Locally, we're seeing ninety two cancelations
so far at DIA this morning, as well as over
forty delays in twenty twenty five, becoming one of the
driest falls in the Front Range history.
Speaker 13 (01:42:49):
Snow today would rank his Denvers sixteenth late to snowfall,
but National Weather Service meteorologist Maggie Idecker says there's no
chance for that anytime soon.
Speaker 14 (01:42:57):
We're looking ature. There is about ten to fifteen degrees
above normal currently.
Speaker 13 (01:43:03):
She says the next chance for snow on the Front
Range is late next week, which would move this season
close to the top ten latest snows.
Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
I'm Connor Shreve for next update coming up at nine o'clock.
I'm Gina gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
I just barely got back in here in time because
you people said that I'm not allowed to microwave a
pop tart.
Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
And so I have to toast it. So I had
to do all that, and so I just got back
in time.
Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
So anyway, can you smell how much better it smells
when you toast it than when you microwave it.
Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Microwave it, it's all rubbery?
Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
Least really right about that? I'm not anti toasting. I'm
definitely not anti toasting. And so what we have here,
Dragon and Gina and I each have.
Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
A third of two different pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (01:43:47):
They are both Girl Scout mint cookie flavored pop tarts
that my wife bought yesterday, and and one of them,
at Gina's suggestion or insistence, is frozen, and the other,
at Gina's suggestion or insistence, is toasted.
Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
And I think both Dragon and I said toasted. Yeah,
and he said, I just want to make something.
Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
Clear, and since they were that thin mint version of
the cookie, it has to be frozen.
Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
Yeah. Do you freeze those cookies?
Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Oh, I didn't know that. But it sounds like a
good idea is a sleeve or a box. It sounds
like it sounds like a sleep or a box.
Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
Yeah, And I'd just like to make something very clear here,
just to and you dig in here while I'm talking,
and then you guys can tell me what you think
and then I'll eat whether you're talking about or you
think about them.
Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
By the way, they're all brown and the frosting on
the top is brown.
Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
And I also, like, I've just done four years here
on KOA of the Dragon Redbeard Show. You're welcome with
people knowing who's actually in charge. And I'm just sitting
here doing what I'm told, and I'm thinking, all right now,
Gina is going to come in and at least like
I'll have a peer and.
Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
We'll both just do what we're told. And now, just the.
Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Second day in Gina is already telling me like, you
can't microwave the pop tart and you got to freeze
one yea, and I did.
Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
So now it's like I've got two levels of management
over me and not just one.
Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
And I think we all know, all right, So now
well I eat and we only have like ninety seconds here.
But while I eat these pop darts, when don't YouTube
banter a bit about the warm versus of cold pop tart?
Speaker 4 (01:45:15):
Have you tried them both?
Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
Yeah, which one? You think? You're little?
Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
Toasted, even though the cookies are so much better frozen.
Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
Yeah, the toasted version is.
Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Now I'm wondering if we had it in the freezer
a little bit longer, maybe it wasn't in long enough,
But toasted definitely better.
Speaker 18 (01:45:33):
They're both good, definitely pop dart. That's a solid pop tart.
We've got mouth we all have mouthful of. Yeah, that's great,
this is great radio. Oh yeah, I'm with you. The
toasted is better than the frozen.
Speaker 14 (01:45:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
But and it's not a bad flavor. It's not it's
not a bad flavor. Over overall pretty closer to the cookies.
Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
Also real quick.
Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
You know how earlier you were talking about Disneyland and
Disney Worlds and never going all of us.
Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
You two said you've never got your kids never.
Speaker 1 (01:46:02):
Went to you.
Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
Somehow made that work. Second, I said I never went
as a kid. My mom just texted me and said,
I'll never be forgiven. Sorry, mom, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
Let me do just because I did the work to
round up these questions of of what airports are named
for people, I'm going to mention the last three and
then I'll give you the answers real fast, and you
guys can tell me if you think you know the answers. Actually,
we'll do one at a time. We'll do them real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
Where is Louis Armstrong Airport? Mm? Somewhere in the South?
Speaker 1 (01:46:33):
Famous? Yes, somewhere in the South. Where would you think
the home of Like? Where would you put an airport
named for one of the most famous musicians famous?
Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
Yeah? Keep going New Orleans, New Orleans exactly. George H. W. Bush?
Where's that airport? Texas? Yes? Texas? Where Houston?
Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
And probably the hardest one of all of these, where
is Arnold Palmer Airport? And this is a this is
small so you'd really have to kind of know. Not Florida,
I mean you'd think with all the golf courses, but
where he's from, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
All right, we got.
Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
Our second three hours of radio magic in the can.
How you feeling about it all? Gina better with a
better pop tart?
Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
Yeah, everybody have a wonderful Tuesday. Michael Brown's up next
on KOWA
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