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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ross. This is Ross Kaminski on the News with
Gina Gondeck. I'll say good morning to Gina exactly as
she just drank something, so to make it as excimes.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
There's little ice chunks in my water, so every.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Once in a while, I'm like chomping on a piece
of bikes.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So good morning, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We've got a ton of stuff to do on today's show.
I want to start with what Gina ended with there,
or almost ended with, the government shutdown, which may be
ending today, we hope, and we're going to talk about
that more than once over.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The course of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I saw a tweet yesterday from Jimmy Fayla, who is
just an incredibly funny dude. Fox News guy also has
his own Fox News radio show somewhere. I haven't heard it,
but anyway, very funny dude, former New York City cab
driver turned comedian, and he put this out on X yesterday,
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which I thought really summarized it very very well. Pro tip,
if you're to call it the Republican shutdown, you're not
supposed to get mad that it's ending. If you're a Democrat.
If you're going to call it the Republican shutdown. You're
not supposed to get mad that it's ending. So Democrats
are mad that it's ending. And I think I'm not
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going to rehash all of that right now, but I
do want to say one kind of forward looking thing.
And and you've heard in the newscast just there.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You hear the.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Democrats making this about extending Obamacare subsidies and in general
broadening this out into an issue about healthcare. Now, let
me say that in the very short term, I think
it's pretty obvious that Republicans won the shutdown battle. Does
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that mean they're going to win the war, though, I've
got much bigger questions about that. Right, they won the
shutdown battle in the sense that Democrats went into itolute
slutely demanding first a permanent extension of temporary Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And I just want to be very very clear about this.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Boo for folks who have been misled by the news
and maybe haven't heard me talk about it. The Obamacare
subsidies that they're talking about are not the regular subsidies
that are in and have been in Obamacare since day one.
What they're talking about are temporary subsidies that Democrats put
in explicitly to be temporary in the so called American
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Rescue Plan that was passed only by Democrats no Republican
votes when Joe Biden was president. It was part of
it was primary legislation that led to the massive inflation.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So Democrats put in these.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Things as temporary, and now that they are expiring as
written by Democrats, they're upset about it because some people
who have been getting more of other people's money than
they normally would want to keep getting more of other
people's money than they normally would. So those are the
expiring subsidies. It's not all of Obamacare. Okay, So here's
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the thing. Democrats said, we want a permanent extension. Republicans
partly they said no, and partly they just after that
they just ignored them. And then Democrats said, well, we
want it for a year or then, and Republicans not
only ignored them, but then Donald Trump made it clear
that he's not going to back down at all. Not
only did he say we're not funding food stamps, but
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for states that did send out some money, they said
you need to caw that back.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And at that point Democrats.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Probably thought to themselves, all right, this guy's not messing around,
some Democrats. He's not messing around. We're not going to
win this negotiation. We're just going to hurt people if
we keep the government closed, so we might as well
open it. And enough of them thought that way that
government hopefully will be opened today after the.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
House gets back and votes.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But so so, Republicans won the battle in the short term.
Democrats clearly laws the shutdown battle. There's a lot of
division within the party right now. And actually it would
not surprise me at all to see Chuck Schumer decide
perhaps to step down as party leader at the end
of this Congress and maybe to announce that he won't
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run for reelection, because he is, as one person said
this morning, politically a dead man walking right now. But
but Democrats kind of stumbled into something that I think
is going to serve them pretty well politically, and that
is the healthcare issue. And here's the thing. Whenever you
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get government involved in a particular sector, and the two
sectors that come most to mind are healthcare and college education,
where government gets involved in a way that causes people
to think that other people are paying for their stuff,
that other people are paying for their health care, treatments,
that other people are paying for their college, or that
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the loans are so cheap and takes so long that
it's almost like you're not paying for college. Right, those
two things, as far as major categories go, are and
have for twenty years been the major sectors of our
economy that have consistently increased fastest in price, because there
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is nothing more expensive than when you make people think
it's free or cheap, because people then over consume it,
and because the people who are providing it have a
lot of incentive to just keep raising price as much
as they can possibly get away with. That's especially true
with colleges. So now you've got going back to healthcare,
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you've got a healthcare system, and especially the health insurance system.
Even more than the healthcare system itself, the health insurance
system is it's very expensive, it's unpoper popular. And here's
the thing Republicans have not had since maybe Paul Ryan.
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And I know Paul Ryan isn't very popular with a
lot of Republicans these days, but I'm still a fan.
Not since Paul Ryan have they had someone willing to
come out and aggressively say here's what we need to
do with healthcare. Here's the plan. Try to explain it
to people. Ran to Paul a little bit, he's a
medical doctor. But mostly what you have is a bunch
of Republicans with no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They've had fifteen years to come up.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
With an alternative to Obamacare, and if they've done it,
they've been very quiet about it, and to the extent
that Democrats now turn this issue into the issue for
the next election, say, look how much your health insurance
premiums have gone up.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
If Republicans are sitting.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
There like and no idea what to say, because they
don't have the honees to tell people the truth. And
instead you're gonna find a few Republicans out there saying, oh, yeah,
let's extend the subsidies for a while while we work
out some other solution. No, No, the problem is government,
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and you're not gonna fix it by adding more government.
And you're also it's also immoral to try to fix
the cost quote unquote fix the cost of overly expensive
healthcare by subsidizing it, which means giving today's voters buying
their votes with our children's future earnings. It's deeply, deeply immoral.
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So here's my advice. For the Republican Party. Take a
page out of Donald Trump's playbook. What do I mean
by that? Republicans are way, way, way too often, on
issues like this where they think they have political risk,
only propose these small, modest reforms. We're just gonna nibble
around the edge is Trump does not work that way,
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and Republicans should not work that way on this. What
Trump will do is he will say something so so crazy,
so far out beyond what anybody is thinking about, that
he shifts the Overton window. If you haven't heard me
talk about the Overton window in the past, just go.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Look it up right now. O V E R T
O N overtin window.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He shifts the overten window dramatically. And then Trump almost
never ends up where he said, but he could easily
end up a lot further in that direction than anyone
might have thought possible if the only way they ever
talked about it to begin with was just a slight
move in that direction. This is absolutely necessary with healthcare.
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We'll see if Republicans have the cajones and the wisdom
to do it. All right, let's go back to GENA
and find out a little more about what's going on
in the world.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Ross.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I think you'll be touching on this story later this morning.
The Columbine Valley police officer who falsely accused of Denver
woman of theft will be facing disciplinary action, but what
that will be is still unclear. Sergeant Jamie Millman was
recorded trying to serve a summons to Chrissana Elser in
late September, saying that he used to block safety cameras
to track her before and after a package was stolen
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in Beaumar is locked in.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
There is a zero down.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I wouldn't have come here.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Unless I was one.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Then sure, Elser was able to gather her own evidence
from her phone and her vehicle to show that she
never stole the package.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The summons was dismissed.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Breaking the law will soon cost more in Colorado Springs.
In a five to four vote, the city council narrowly
approved a twenty dollars police tech surcharge. This will apply
to traffic of municipal violations, but not to parking tickets.
Police say the charge could raise about five hundred and
forty thousand dollars a year to fund new body cameras, tasers,
and other equipment. It's a slow start to the ski
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season warm weather in the metro and in the high country.
Breckenridge spokesman Max Winter says their team has worked hard
to get their mountain open in time.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Really, when we're trying to build a base for our
early season terrain, we're really looking for good snowmaking windows,
and so that means a wet bult temperature of twenty
seven degrees or less. We haven't exactly had the temperatures
we've been looking for either, and so our teams have
had to work really, really hard in this early season
getting our terrain ready to open.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
He says they expect more than a foot of snow
to fall in the area over the next two weeks.
And if you were ever curious, Pope Leo is revealing
is all time favorite movies. In an interview with Variety,
The Pope said is all time favorite film is the
nineteen forty six holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life. Is
favorite musical the nineteen sixty five Oscar winner The Sound
of Music. Later this week, Pope Leo, the first pontiff
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to be born in the US, will be meeting with
a number of Hollywood celebrities as part of an ongoing
Holy Year celebration. Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondek on Kowa Dragon.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Did you put your trash out?
Speaker 8 (10:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I can't hear you the other body to do that
button right there? Yeah, and now turn yourself up a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Right there there. Yeah that's better. Yeah right, yeah, I
almost forgot.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I pulled out of the driveway, made it a half
a house and went, wait a minute, trash and recycling.
But what about the holiday for the Northern Lights. Oh,
I didn't check. It might be sitting out there for
a day and a half.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Then crap, Yeah, so is your trash and recycling days
on the same day.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I don't even know when his his and knocktually, I
don't even know when mine is.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Really, I don't mind him every day.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He tells me every day to put my trash out,
in a successful effort to confuse me.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So your trash is just always sitting at the curb.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I usually know, like within a couple of days. So yeah, no,
you know what normally happens. And I couldn't tell you
what day it is, Well I could, but I'm pretending
that I can't. Is I'll go out and I'll see
that my neighbors have their trash out. Yeah, and then
I'll put my trash out.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Well, Ross has a unique problem right now because he's
building a house and is renting a house. So the
house that he is renting has one and the building
has a complete lead.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You know, they're very near each other.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I want to I want to stick with.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You here, Gina for a second on that on the
story you just talked about with the Columbine Valley police officer.
So I think you have the same information I have
that this police let. We don't know what the disciplinary
action is going to be.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
No, they said that they will do some type of
review and there will be disciplinary action, but there's no
explanation of what that could be.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And for those who missed the story, you know, we
covered it on the show maybe two weeks ago, and
it really bothered me. Basically, this cop shows up at
this lady's house and says, we have you on camera
and we know with one hundred percent certainty that you
did a porch pirate thing, that you that you stole
an Amazon package off of this lady's porch, and uh,
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and the lady who was being accused said, uh, I
didn't uh. And not only that, but she said, if
you just stick with me here for a second, I
can show you the tracking from her riv So she
got a Rivian, a super high tech car, so she's
got cameras, and she could prove, she could she could
overtly prove that it wasn't her, that she just drove
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through that neighborhood, didn't stop, and it wasn't her.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And she's done a great job gathering all the episodes
sure needed because she was literally able to show look,
I was at a different house, not even near this house.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
She went to her tailor, She went to a tailor.
She just drove through the neighborhood. And the cop said, uh, don't.
Basically I'm paraphrasing, don't waste your time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We know you did it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And if you're going to start, you know, trying to
tell me you didn't do it, I'm not going to
be courteous to you anymore. And what I was trying
to figure out early on, and I wonder if you
get any insights, like reading between the lines, do you
get the sense that this was all him? Like he's
the one who looked at the camera. He's the one,
because I don't see any mention in here of anybody
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else in the police department. There the Columbine Columbine Valley
Police Department having been part of the decision to do
all this. Have you seen anything.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's the gray area that I'm not sure about of
like did he know exactly what the make and model
of the car was but didn't have the correct license
plate or was there a license plate similar that was
picked up.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It really did feel like when.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
He's talking to the body cam footage that he's doubling
down on just continuing to say, we know it's Ui, No,
it's you, right, So I don't I don't really know
what that what that line is because obviously the flop
cameras have been a high debates even in Denver, and
we were talking with may Or Mike Johnson about it too,
and he was saying, well, you know, other counties, other
areas aren't allowed to utilize them. It's just us and
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it's not going to third parties and things like that.
So it's it's a really gray area of where it
really lied up of how he had this information and
showed up at her house and accused.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Her of doing this.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I I think he actually got her truck, but I
don't think I think the truck was just driving through
the neighborhood. And he said, well, you were there on
that time, and you've been in the neighborhood a lot,
so we think you're casing the joint, and therefore, because
you know you did it.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, with her car, she could prove that she didn't
even stop right like that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yes, she wouldn't even she didn't even stop. Technology of
cars nowadays, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Root for people to lose their jobs, but the way
this cop did this thing, it seems to me he
should just go like he's just not suited to the job,
and I think he should be made an example of
one other very quick thing I want to mention, as
long as we're talking about these these flock cameras, I
saw this story yesterday over at our news partners katiev
R Fox thirty one. Here's the headline, Boulder flock cameras
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helped catch wanted fugitive with nearly eighty prior arrests.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
The Boulder Police Department said last.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Week that, yeah, sometime sometime recently, these this flock safety
that's the company alerted officers to a vehicle associated with
a wanted fugitive. They found that the owner of the
vehicle was wanted in Larimer County on multiple charges, had
active warrants, had an extensive criminal history with nearly eighty
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prior arrests including DUI, drug stuff, domestic violence, vehicle theft.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And burglary.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And they found the car near Pearl Street Mall in Boulder,
and they found the dude, and they and they arrested
the dude and they found drugs and drug power and
finalia and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I mean, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I don't care if they find drugs on someone, but
eighty arrests and open warrants for other things is a
big deal. And this ties directly into the comment Gena
made a moment ago about how these flot cameras are
the subject of a lot of conversation. So, all right,
we still have a ton of stuff to do on
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today's show. I'm going to take a quick break, have
a few words, have a little more news. Keep it
here on KOA.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
KOA News Time six point thirty. I'm Gina Gondek.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The federal government says step closer to reopening maybe as
soon as tomorrow. A House committee voting to send the
latest measure to the full House for a vote later
this afternoon. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warning of dire consequences
if the measure fails.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
If this doesn't open, you might have airlines that say
we're gonna ground our planes.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
We're not going to fly any one. That's how serious
this is.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Air traffic controllers have now gone without two paychecks. Many
are calling out sick, leaving airports around the country shorthanded.
Many Democrats say they'll vote against the funding bill unless
it's amended to include an extension of Obamacare tax credits
that are set to expire at the end of the
year and drive a healthcare cost for millions of Americans.
Republican Congressman Buddy Carter willing to compromise.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
I agree, we're probably going to have to extend some
of the stubs these temporarily to see if we can't
get some of those premiums down.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
But long term, the unaffordable care agg is not working.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The Senate promises to take a vote on that next month.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
A packed Douglas County School board meeting last night with
two controversial items on the agenda.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
One would change the contract renewal period for some Ard
schools from five to ten years.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It failed on a four to three vote.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
It was also the first reading of a transgender athlete policy.
It would prohibit biological males from participating in women's sports
and vice versa.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Doesn't spoke. Some opposed to the ban.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
This is a less than one percent issue. That is
a fake culture war issue.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It is a distraction from real issues like student education.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
And help others.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
Favorite my daughter was a high school athlete. She told
me just today, I never would have participated in sports
if I knew a boy was also going to participate.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
A final vote on the policy will be taken at
a later date. Chad Bauer Kowa.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
News, Colorado one of seven states that missed a deadline
this week to decide how rights to the Colorado River
divvied up.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now the federal governments could step in.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Gary Wonker with to Save the Colorado points out that
they're fighting over a dwindling resource, and I think.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
That is the cause of why this has taken so long,
and why it's a few times sort of openly broken
out into a rhetorical.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Sights the current agreement expires next year, and Aurora topping
the door Dash cheeseburger index at fourteen dollars and fifty
four cents compared to the national average of eighteen fifty eight.
Comparing cheeseburger prices, door Dash Chief analytics officer Jessica lax As,
Aurora ranked highly in the most of the company's affordability
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and resilience indicators on Wall Street. Doll Futures up one
hundred and fourteen points this morning, SMP up about twenty five,
Nasdaq up one sixty two. In sports, the Nuggets improved
to eight and two after beating the Kings last night.
They host the Los ange They'll be taking on the
Los Angeles Clippers away tonight, and the Abs snatching their
fourth straight win last night, beating the Ducks four to one.
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Fox thirty one pinpoint Whether our stretch of seventy degree
temperatures continues. High temperature right around seventy today, dipping down
into the mid forties overnight tonight. Currently we're at forty
four in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina Gondeck on.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
KOA spectacular sunrise behind behind your head, so you had
to turn around to see it before.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But just amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I didn't get to see the northern lights last night,
but sunrises we get.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, pretty awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Uh is it it?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dragon? Is it too early to talk about cheeseburgers? Since
she is talking about cheeseburgers?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Started it? So, yeah, you started it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I started it from a financial perspective. But if you
just want to talk cheeseburgers, you.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Can ask She's well, Dragon does clearly Dragon, what's your question?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well, she had talked about in her newscast that the
Denver region, Colorado has the lowest cheeseburger prices nationwide, So
who has the best cheeseburger here in Colorado? Since we
have the lowest prices, what's the best one?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, So it's like a it's a door Dash Cheeseburger
index is what they call him.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think you've heard of like the Hamburger Helper Index and.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Also the Big Mach Index, comparing prices around the whole world,
not just the country.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So DoorDash looks at a cheeseburger and fries and then
kind of compares the prices across multiple cities, and they
say that Aurora has the most affordable.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I think they said eighteen fifty is.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The average price of a cheeseburger meal like that nowadays?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Isn't that nuts?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, that's cheezburger. That's a bigger conversation.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
You had said here in the aura it was like
fourteen something, so it was four dollars less, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But who has the best cheeseburger?
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You know, I I just thought of a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Now that I'm on six to nine instead of nine
to noon, it'd be even easier to schedule to meet
listeners for lunch totally. And we've talked about this in
the past. Gina, would you be up for that? Are
you sure?
Speaker 8 (21:40):
So?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Okay, why don't we do that? And I've actually sort
of started down this road in the past, but I
don't know that I followed through or maybe just one time,
just one time, But text us some ideas for where
you think has the best cheeseburger. Text us at five
six six nine zero. Please include Ross, Gina or Dragon.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That would help.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Please, Yes, please.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Start your text with one of our names so we
know you're you're texting at us rather than.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
The other radio station.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And what we will do the three of us as
a committee, with me as always being the junior member.
What we will do is we will look for the
best combination of yummy burger and convenient location and pick
a spot and and we'll we'll meet for lunch.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Dragon. Would you would you come to lunch?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Unfortunately I don't get off till after two.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh that's right, difficult, Yeah, okay, sorry? Can I make
this more difficult? Oh? Yeah, you don't need burgers, So
it's got to have a veggie burger.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Gotta have a veggie burger or some of it, like
would you eat a salad?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Would you eat a Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
But if you can give me a burger place that
also has a great veggie burger.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, all right, Well, why don't mean make that part
of the challenge. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Right, Or at least if you send a place and
we're considering it, we'll rule it out then if it
doesn't have a veggie burger or something like.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That, So we may have a good vegetarian option and
it's not a veggie burger.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
But you're like, but they have this veggie sandwich.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
You don't mind eating with us troglodytes, though, who are
significantly carnivorous, can't. Yeah, no, that's fine. I don't mind.
This is your husband significantly carnivorous, Yes, yep, Yeah, he
cooks vegetarian because it's just easier.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But when he goes out, yeah, he's always getting a
meat meal.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yes see. I'm My style in life generally is, if
there are some things that I need to do, and
some of the things are more enjoyable than the other things,
I'll do the less enjoyable things first, and then I'll
do the more like.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You know, deferred gratification.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
For example, for example, I will eat the cake part
of the cake first, oh, yes, and then have the frost, yes, right,
which I think is what normal people do, right.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Probably not, but that's what I do too, Yeah, Okay, the.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Majority of people do.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I think a lot of people do that, and so
that's the same thing for you know, I'll have a
I'll have a meal, or I've got a steak or
a broughtwurst or even a piece of fish or whatever,
and then some vegetables vegables first, get it over with, sea,
get it over with.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, a couple other things.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Already, by the way, cherry cricket, that's one of the
ones that's yeah, Crown.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Burger, Crown Berger. Do they have veggie Burger?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Crownurger. Crown Burger's really good. This is the thing and
where this is actually how the topic came up. A
cheeseburger made with blue cheese. That's disgusting. But burgers are
so Beef is so expensive. Like I was in the
supermarket yesterday, and I always look, because I'm me, I
(24:39):
always look in that section all the way at the
end of the meat where they put like the manager specials, right,
and even the Manager's special ground beef when it's on
sale is six and a half dollars a pound, and
the Ribbi steak on sale is like.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Twenty one pound.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And meanwhile, and this is now I'm not so much compliant,
I am complaining about beef prices. But the other thing
that's interesting for me just as a consumer is you
can get these fantastic they're called Duroc.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Which is a particular kind of pig, but.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
A Duroc pork chop really really delicious. And those are,
you know, not on sale, let's say, around six dollars
a pound. So beef like just ground beef, which is
basically the cheapest beef is even more than a great
pork chop and a steak any you know, sirloin RHEBBI
(25:35):
New York strip are going to be anywhere from two
to four times the price. And I do wonder, just
as a matter of economics, how much substitution is going
on and whether people are buying more chicken, more pork,
more whatever, just not just not so many veggie burgers,
because because veggie burgersreg youre just telling me about timing thing,
(26:00):
Is that what you're doing? There was Yeah, yeah, I
was trying to be professional, semi professional, all right, So
all right, so let me let me do like almost
one minute here on a thing. Westward has an interesting story.
Marijuana lost with a whimper on Colorado election day. Now
you probably didn't hear about marijuana on the ballot because
it wasn't on the ballot in very many places. But
there's a small town, believe it or not, called Springfield,
(26:23):
Like there's a Springfield everywhere in the world or everywhere
in America. It's only thirteen hundred people in Baca County.
They actually voted down having any kind of marijuana stuff
in their town.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And then the town of Craig, Colorado.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They passed by seven votes, nine eighty four to nine
seventy seven, So with four people had voted the other way,
it wouldn't have passed a thing that allows the already
have marijuana, but it allows their city council to raise
the marijuana sales tax by four percent. And that's going
to be very interesting because what they say they want
to do is to fund a library and a museum there.
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And the problem, like in so many other places, as
Manitou Springs just lived through with the marijuana tax issue,
is that it looks like they are going to base
some semi permanent spending on a declining revenue source and
they need to be very careful about that.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back on KOA.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
KOA News time six forty seven. I'm ginagondek. A vote
is set forward today on a bill that would end
the longest government shutdown in history, but still delays and
cancelations at airports are expected to get worse. The FAA
has been ramping up flight cancelations since Friday due to
the shutdown related staffing issues. Locally, DIA is seeing seventeen
(27:41):
delays so far this morning, but eighty seven cancelations. The
deal to reopen the government comes with what some are
saying could be an industry killing change. The bill that
passed the Senate on Monday includes a federal ban on
hemp products containing more than zero point four milligrams of THHC.
Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of oregons as the move would
effectively wipe out an industry.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That we have spent more than a decade creating.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
American's infant botulism outbreak is growing despite a nationwide recall
of a certain baby formula.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
The FDA warn parents on Saturday that thirteen babies in
ten states had gotten sick and needed to be hospitalized
after drinking by Heart Whole Nutrition infant formula, but now
that number has grown to fifteen babies in twelve states.
All the infents are being treated with baby Big, a
special IV medicine designed to treat bochulism.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
New York City Mayor alexor on Mandani says he'll call
President Trump before he takes office, even though Trump endorsed
former Governor Andrew Cuomo and threatened to cut federal funding
if Mondami won and no jackpot winner in last night's
Mega Million's Lottery. That means the next estimated jackpot is
at nine hundred and sixty five million dollars for Friday nights.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
Drawing.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina
Gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This is Russ.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Kiminski on the news with Gina Gondek. That's Gina Gondeck
over there. Hi. Hi, So we don't have our guest yet,
so I actually want to just follow up with you
for a second on that Hemp story, which I think
is a super interesting story because it's a I think
we grow some of that actually in Colorado, I think
a fair bit and it was a thing that former
(29:18):
Senator Corey Gardner was very involved with. But Kentucky, they
grow a ton of this stuff. And Ran Paul had
Put had been trying to Oh, oh, I see the
phone ringing.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I see the phone ringing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So we may have the guest here in a second,
and maybe we'll maybe we'll come back to the Hemp
story in a second. Yeah, let's do it that way,
all right, Dragon, you can just we got him.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Let's do that. Okay, let's do this or I'm very.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Happy to be joined by John Decker, who is the
iHeartMedia and twenty four to seven News White House correspondent.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
John.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Welcome back to KOA. Good to have you here.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
It's good to be with you, Thanks for having me.
We're day thirty day thirty day forty three of the
government shutdown, and this could be the final day of
the longest shutdown in US history. The reason I say
that there's a vote that's scheduled today in the House
of Representatives on that legislation that's already passed the Senate
that would reopen the federal government. So we'll see if
(30:15):
that vote indeed happens today. The only thing I think
that could be a fly in the ointment is that
if not enough members get back to Washington because of
the flight delays and cancelations that we've seen all over
the country.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So are you is there a scheduled time already for
this or is it kind of play it by year
and see when enough people.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Are round by year by year?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I think that's right. You know, I think that the
expectation is that all of the members will be on
the House floor for that vote, but you know, you
never know and you know, with the very narrow majority
that Republicans have. That's the reason why I say this
vote is scheduled for today, but it could slide into
tomorrow if you know, there are problems as it relates
(30:59):
to air travel.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Today.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Speaking of air travel, John, I know there was one
congress member I don't remember whose name was. He was
literally riding his motorcycle to DC in order to get
there in time. And when we look at the shutdown
and look at the impacts, obviously flights are the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That are impacting just average Americans.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Do we have any expectation of, okay, of votes of
votes once it passes, it passes, But how long are
the ripple effects because people are looking at their Thanksgiving
travel and be like, what's going to happen here?
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah, that's the big unknown. And I think that what
we heard yesterday from the Transportation Secretary, that's Sean Duffy,
when he has asked a similar question, is that I
think he doesn't know the answer to that.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
He said, it's not.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Like flipping a switch.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
And for that reason, there could just you know, certainly
through the weekend, be some more delays and cancelations related
to the government shutdown even though the government has reopened.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
John, I suppose it doesn't matter much as long as
the thing passes. But is there any chatter at all
about any Republicans like maybe Thomas Massey who will vote no,
or any Democrats who might vote yes. And I will
just mention to you, John, just for your own information.
I see Steve Scalise on television right now saying he
(32:15):
expects the vote to be tonight more like seven pm
Eastern time, just so you know.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Well, No, I appreciate that, and thanks for telling me that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I think Thomas Massey is going to be just among
a very very small handful of Republicans that vote against
his legislation. He may be the only one, but someone
like Jared Golden, He's a Democratic congressman who represents one
of the two districts in Maine, I think he's going
to be a yes vote for agreeing to reopen the government,
(32:45):
breaking away from his party. He's not running for reelection
number one and number two. He represents a district that
is overwhelmingly gone for President Trump in his three runs
for president.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
John Decker iHeartMedia and twenty four a News White House correspondent.
Thanks for doing that quick hit with us, John, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thank you. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
About you too, You too. All right, we'll take quick break.
We got a few words. We got Geno on the news.
Keep it here on KOA.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
KOA News time, seven o'clock. I'm Gina Goddek. Well, it
was the vote to set up the vote to reopen
the government.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Jay as four A's yeah, I sav with demotion to
report is agreed to.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It happened early this morning the House Rules Committee, and
it teases up for a final House vote later today.
Speaker 15 (33:29):
And bill will keep the government operating through Janguary and
will fund some government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture
through September, which of course controls those SNAP or food
stamp benefits.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Foxes Lucas Tomlinson. The shutdown cut off some of that
food assistants. The Supreme Court extended in order blocking full
SNAP payments that will go out once the government reopens. Now,
the bill does not include the subsidies to help millions
of Americans pay for health insurance that Democrats have been
fighting for. That's why Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys plans offer
an amendment to include healthcare subsidies, something he wishes Senate
(34:04):
Democrats had fought for.
Speaker 16 (34:05):
They're going to have to explain themselves to their constituents
and to the American people. The overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats,
led by Chuck Schumer, have waged a valiant fight over
the last seven weeks.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Eight Senate Democrats voted with Republicans this week to fund
the government until the end of January. The lack of
air traffic controllers still taking a toll on travelers, with
over twelve hundred cancelations and more than four thousand flight
delays across the country yesterday. Nearly one hundred of those
were in and out of Denver, Dia already reporting eighty
seven cancelations this morning. Aurora police want to expand their
(34:39):
flock camera program. The cameras identify cars involved in crimes
by their license plates. Chief Todd Chamberlain says privacy concerns
about the cameras are unwarranted.
Speaker 14 (34:49):
They don't alert to every hit. They only alert to
the hits where there's crime involved. They alert to a
hit where somebody has taken your property and is now
driving it around and most likely going to use it
to victimize somebody else.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Those flock cameras recently helped identify the driver involved in
a deadly shooting on I two twenty five. Police made
an arrest in that case, but the use of the
cameras has not been fool proof. In September, a Columbine
Valley police officer accused a woman of theft, using flock
camera images as evidence. She was able to prove she
wasn't anywhere near the scene at the time. Now that
(35:22):
officer who made the false accusation will be disciplined.
Speaker 17 (35:25):
The woman's story went viral after her ring doorbell camera
captured officer Jamie Millman handing her a citation for stealing
a package, claiming he used a flock license plate reader
to track her down. Turns out the woman had her
own video captured from her dash cam proving her innocence,
and the police chief dismissed the citation. The town administrator
(35:48):
says officer Millman will be disciplined, but won't say how.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Brenda Stewart Koway News.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
On Wall Street, the dow SMP, Nazmudac all pointing to
a higher opening after our record set day yesterday. In sports,
the Nuggets on the road taking on the La Clippers
tonight after beating the Sacramento Kings last night one.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Twenty two to one oh eight.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
The Avs getting ready to host Buffalo tomorrow night, notching
their fourth straight win beating the Ducks four to one
last night. Fox thirty one pinpoint, whether our stretch of
seventies continues?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
High temperature again today in.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
The low seventies, dipping to the mid forties overnight tonight.
Currently we're at forty six. Our next update in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondeck on Koa.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Played connections and made one mistake. Got through it, though, Gina,
do you do wordle or connections or any of you're
a word person?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Just have my twelve hundred due lingo streak going on
and cannot speak a lick of Spanish to you, So
that is my entertainment.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Uh wait, what does the streak mean? Like twelve hundred
days in a row studying it?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, yep, but studying it is uh is a loosely
is a loose term for me?
Speaker 18 (36:59):
Do?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
How does how does that program work?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Like? How does it teach you?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
If you really want to dive into it? Do a
lingo laid off a majority of its staff, and most
of it's done by AI nowadays, So I'm learning how
to say things like, uh, where is the menu? Or
I went to the store. Not anything helpful or useful nowadays.
And uh, you pretty much do like ten exercises. You
(37:24):
can speak them, you can write them, you can match them,
like match the word. So they do almost like a
match game. It's really just turning off my brain for
five minutes, and I'm definitely not learned.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Okay, can you hit us with no?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Can you no? Where can I get the best cheeseburger?
Dun day is sta?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I don't know?
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Best?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Is it? Mahorr? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I don't speak Spanish. I speak French and some Dutch,
but I want to say, all right, what about it?
What about a good burger? Burger bueno bueno berg?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I don't know. I don't speak Spanish.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
It's really bad.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
It's like you should not be using due lego. It's
not as unless.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
You're oh my gosh, here we ask the text line
at five six six nine zero ross gino or dragons
and see.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
If they can. How do you say?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Where do I find it?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
How about this? We'll mate, we'll genify it.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Where where can I get the best vegetarian burger?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Okay, so that's what we need from listeners. Where can
we get the best that's what we need.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Are you asking for it in Spanish? And Spanish?
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
In Spanish? Not the answer to the question.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I'm asking you to how to you give us the
question in Spanish? Although although as long as we're going
to waste people's time, and Gina has not yet been
fully immersed in time wasting tiptoeing into it, you are
welcome to email the translation of the question, where can
I get the best vegetarian burger? In any language? You
(38:59):
want to send it to us in? And in fact,
what you could do, Oh how about this? Send it
to us in any language and we'll try to guess
what the language is. Don't tell us what the language is.
Maybe it'll be something real tricky, like you know, Croatian
or or right. I mean, there's got to be people
listening who speak all kinds of languages.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Are you going to try to speak it once they
email it? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, No, Rosin would speak Australia. Not really, I could say,
Struth when I interview the Australian punder of the Denver Broncos.
All right, let me do a little news story here
while these cards and letters come in text us at
five six six nine zero, with that question not the
answer to the question text us the question where can
I find the best vegetarian burger? In some text us
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that question in some language other than English, and we'll
try to figure out what language it is. Obviously some
will be easy, some not so easy. All right, there's
some speculation going on out there right now, and it's
just speculation, and he's publicly.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Denying it, but of course he kind of has to that.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Denver Public School superintendent Alex Morrero might leave Denver to
go take the same job in Chicago. Now, I would
have thought, and I know this is going to be
a crazy thing to say, but I would have thought that,
given how unbelievably terrible the Chicago public schools are, that
(40:30):
their goal would have been to try to make their
school system better. So I don't know why they would
want Alex Morrero, who would not seem to be the
guy to do that. But in any case, the Denver
Gazette says, after months of speculation and repeated assurances, that
he wasn't looking to leave Denver Public School Superintendent Alex
(40:54):
Morrero is now one of two finalists for the top
job at Chicago Public Schools. Morrero did not deny or
confirm that he is seeking the job.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
He said in his statement, while I have.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Great respect for Chicago Public Schools and appreciate the professional
recognition implied by recent.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Speculation about my.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Potential candidacy for superintendent, I want to be clear that
my dedication remains firmly with Denver Public Schools, where I
am proud to continue serving as superintendent. Morrero went on
to add, but when they signed their first check, I'm
out of here. No, he did not add that. I
just added that, But I kind of think that's what's
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going on. The Chicago Sun Times and other outlets reported
the tightly held secret, also noting that Chicago School Board
members signed non disclosure agreements to keep the process confidential.
During a public comment session on Monday, former Chicago Schools
Board member Dwayne Trust criticized the lack of transparency. He
(41:58):
said to the board president, we know each other somewhat,
but please don't say the word transparent, because I might
laugh for the rest of my time. On the microphone here,
because this process of electing a CEO has been nothing
but good old Chicago politics.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
And backroom dealing.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
So what I would like to say regarding the concept
of Chicago hiring Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Morrero away
from Denver, what I want to say to that is yes.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Please, yes please.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
What I will note, however, in a moment of seriousness,
is that Denver Public School the board has just moved.
It was already very left, but now is even more
left after recent elections.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And one should not be assured.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
That, as bad as you might think Alex Morrero is,
you should not feel highly confident that this new school
board will actually choose somebody better.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
KOA news time seven sixteen.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
One person is injured after a possible road rage incident
led to a shooting near Carr.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Jefferson County.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Sheriff's deputies were called to an area of Highway two
eighty five south of and Sourdough Drive just before he
thirty last night. After shots were fired and one person
was taken to the hospital. A portion of the highway
was closed for several hours, but has since reopened. The
twenty seven year old horse is dead two others are
recovering from serious injuries after they were attacked by mountain
(43:21):
lions on a ranch and Fort Collins. Ranch owner Dennis
White tells Fox thirty one he's never seen this before,
and he's concerned.
Speaker 19 (43:28):
It's a matter of time, I think, before something else
serious happens with a human and that's a little different
cycle of life.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
He's lived on the property for sixty years and said
he's never seen this many lions, even catching footage of
one on his outdoor camera. Some top CEOs are expected
to have dinner at the White House today with President Trump.
That could include the CEOs of JP Morgan, Chase, Meta, Google,
Open Ai, Microsoft, and Apple. It's the latest in a
series of meetings Trump is held with business leaders. President
(43:55):
Trump says the US doesn't have enough talented people to
fill jobs requiring some skills.
Speaker 12 (44:00):
In an interview on Fox News, Trump said the HB
one Skilled Worker visa program is needed in the US
to bring in talent. When Fox News host Laura Ingram said,
we have plenty of talented people here in the US,
Trump replied, no, you don't, and said you can't take
people off an unemployment line and put them in a
factory making missiles. I'm Tammy Trihio and did you capture
(44:20):
Mother Nature's light show?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (44:22):
The Northern lights or the Aurora borealis produced a rainbow
full of colors visible over much of our state. It
occurs when the sun puts out a mass so strong
it reaches the Earth's magnetic field, creating a geometric geomagnetic storm.
You could let us know what our social media poll
question this morning. If you saw the Northern lights last night,
there is this slight possibility that you could see them
(44:44):
again tonight. Just check Noah's website and you can share
some photos with us as well. Our next update in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Goddek. I'm koa.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
We should make Gina do this because her question the
in a foreign language, the question where can I find
the best vegetarian burger?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
You're gonna make me try to say it.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Out of the three of us, you're the only one
actively taking Spanish.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Yeah, that's true, actively taking Spanish is uh. I'm I'm
the only one that enjoys dual lingo as my leisure
activity and not learning anything and playing it more as
a game on my app.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
But sure, let's see.
Speaker 20 (45:23):
Yeah, pick one, uh, don't de pueto in control la
major ambergesa vehariana.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know you're absolutely right. Those lessons are not sticking.
It's so much better to absolutely right. I told you.
I'm so sorry to a Spanish speakers in.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
His state dragon. Can you put my audio up?
Speaker 1 (45:50):
So I've gone to the source of all knowledge, Google Translate. Yes,
And what I found in Google Translate is that you
can have it speak the thing right. So a listener
sent in a version of this that I could not
even begin to attempt to pronounce, and have a listen
(46:14):
play Asha kaile burgerai wow, right, that is Welsh for
where can I get the best veggie burger?
Speaker 8 (46:25):
Well?
Speaker 2 (46:26):
And then another person sent in this.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
One nan hou chia sushi hana.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
The word sushi is in there, and I don't know.
This is Chinese, not Japanese, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Know exactly what sushi means. I mean, it would seem
like that would mean either vegetarian or burger. Maybe burger, right,
I don't Maybe there just isn't a word for burger
for burger in Chinese any other any other good ones
in there? There were a couple where I didn't recognize
the language.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
I'm seeing a majority of the Spanish ones, which it
looks like a lot of people just put it into
Google Translate because I'm not sure if we're getting the
right verbs.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
But what am I saying because I have no I
have no idea what you're.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
Saying is, so the people that sent Welsh, Yeah, do you.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Think they speak it?
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Or do you think they just plugged it into Google
Translate and found it?
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Just a good question? Random, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Maybe there's a legit person from from Wales who knows,
but probably the latter, Yeah, Or or maybe they speak
a little Welsh and they thought it would be cool
to do it in Welsh, but they didn't know if
they could do it just right, so then they did
it they put it in Google Translate.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
There was another one that looked like some version of
an Eskimo kind of language, and I don't I don't recall, uh,
just which Eskimo language is, because there's quite a few
of them. Might exist in oh wait here, let's see.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
What is that law? Puss both cons that's the best
I can do. It really is, all right?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
This one translate. Can't even do it translate, can't pronounce
the uh the the in in Okay, Wait, where's the
one we're talking about here? What does it say?
Speaker 5 (48:05):
Nook duck?
Speaker 2 (48:06):
However, see it? I see it?
Speaker 1 (48:08):
All right, Let's go here and then uh, I'll go,
I'll go dis Google. What does does Google know what
it is? Kate kua whatever? It can't it can't pronounce
it though, whatever it is, it's detected. It is khua
all right. Anyway, thanks for playing along. And seriously, folks,
(48:29):
we we Gina and I would love to have lunch
with you guys at a burger place, although it has
to be a burger place that has something Gina will eat,
so a veggie burger or black bean burger or something
like that. But if you want to text us at
five six six nine zero in Spanish, it could be
in Spanish, but as long as the name of the
restaurant is the actual name, you can put in any
(48:51):
language you want. Hey, Ross and Gina, we should all
go have lunch at and then put the name of
the restaurant and text us at five six six nine zero,
and we'll pick.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
A restaurant and we'll all meet there. Sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back
on KOA.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
KOA News Time seven thirty. I'm Gina Gondek. The shutdown
nearly over.
Speaker 6 (49:12):
We're going to reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
That's Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer, part of the House Republican leadership,
speaking after a rules committee votes this morning to set
up the final vote later today. He's confident they have
the votes to reopen the government.
Speaker 6 (49:25):
We may lose one, we may get everybody. I mean,
it's the right thing to do, but not.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
All Democrats are on board with the bill that provides
funding through January thirty, f.
Speaker 21 (49:33):
Furious with the decision by some of their Senate colleagues
to push for the reopening because they're still not getting
that guarantee on refunding Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Foxs Mark Meredith says the Democrats are planning to introduce
an amendment tonight to extend those healthcare tax credits through
the end of the year. Until the shutdown ends, travel
will remain a challenge. There are nearly thirteen hundred more
flights canceled or delayed today due to an air traffic
controller shortage. Transportation sec Terry Sewan Duffy is promising to
pay those workers within forty eight hours of the government reopening.
(50:05):
Following some breaking news this morning out of the House
Oversight Committee, which has just released emails to and from
deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 21 (50:13):
Committee Democrats releasing this January twenty nineteen email or Epstein
corresponds with author Michael Wolfe, less than six months before
the financier would be charged again, this time with sex
trafficking of miners. Discussing President Trump's repeated claim he kicked
Epstein out of his Palm Beach club, Epstein, writing Trump
said he asked me to resign, never a member ever.
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Of course he knew about the girls as he asked
Gileen to stop.
Speaker 3 (50:39):
At ABC's j O'Brien, he says there's no comment yet
from the White House. Ravada police are hoping you can
help them identify a man accused of stealing credit or
debit cards and using them at various businesses in Highlands Ranch.
Please say the man went into an open garage on
October fifteenth and stole lawn equipment, IDs, cash and cards.
(51:00):
As a white man around twenty, he has brown hair
and was wearing a white and black True Religion Letterman
style jacket.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
He also drives a dark colored suv, and.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance says that their Southern Toman
dua named Winnie is pregnant. It's native to South America
and is also known as a lesser anteater.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
On Wall Street, stocks are opening higher.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
At the opening bell, and in sports, the Colorado Abs
hosts the Sabers tomorrow night. After notching their fourth straight
win last night, beating the Ducks four to one. The
Nuggets improve eight and two after beating the Kings last
night one twenty two to one oh eight. They're again
on the road, taking on the La Clippers tonight. Fox
thirty one pinpoint whether our stretch of seventies continues. High
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temperature again today in the low seventies, dipping to the
mid forties overnight tonight. Currently we're at forty six in Denver.
Your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondeck on Koa.
Besie tells it was definitely like a Christian video pro
Graham show. That's Theale singing about Jesus and jeezburgers.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
Cheers.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Yeah, really, yeah, it's silly songs with Larry. I think
that's where exactly burger song came from.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
As a carnivorous jew, I guess I missed it. Although
it sounds it sounds mildly entertaining. Its great. You know,
we've mentioned a time or two here that there's another
radio station that uses the same text line at the
same time as us, and sometimes they have some wacky conversations.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
That's why we respectfully asked for you guys when you
text into five six six nine zero, to please text Ross,
Gina or Dragon and uh, but dragging you had a
thought about what we might do just for funzies randomly
throughout the day if they're doing something good over there.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Yeah, good is in quote.
Speaker 5 (52:46):
Just find some random text message from that show and
just see how it plays.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Here's the one. Uh, if a man turns it down.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
The wife is going to think he's getting it elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
So we never turn it down.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Mm hmm, yeah, that seems to be I'm not sure
I want to drag you into that conversation.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
So it's I'm just glad that you you're now seeing
what I see every morning day because the conversations are interesting.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Uh huh. Plus you're newly married, so you're still doing
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
I've been married much longer than you are, so I'm
I'm much.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
In the same boat.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
It's these people on the text line trying to remember
what that was like when I was when I was
newly married.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
But I think we won't get into that today.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
Lest I caused Gina to blush. Oh hey, Gina, let
me drag you into this thing for a second. Because
the topic that you found that I thought was really interesting.
And here's the headline that that you found at Denver.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Seven dot com.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Solution in the sky Weld County sees success using a
drone to fight noxious weeds. And I love this story,
partly because of the use of drones and you know,
way to adapt new technology, and partly because if it's
just really practical import and especially for you know, I
(54:08):
think we've got lots of listeners in the city and
lots of listeners in the suburbs, but we also have
lots of listeners, you know, outside in more rural areas
in the country who live on farms and live on
on land. And I want to make sure that whenever,
whenever we can, we bring stories that relate to them
as well.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
So you found this thing, so tell us a little bit.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
I mean, I know a lot of people have different
opinions when it comes to drones. They talk about how
they're using them on police forces to respond to situations
and stuff like that, and that could be controversial, but
I think this one is pretty fascinating because they talk
about how there's all these weeds and these hard to
reach places and swampy areas.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
That they don't really want people walking out and trying
to deal with.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
And so they have this drone in the Weld County
Drone Weed Program and they named it blue.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
And they named it blue.
Speaker 3 (54:56):
Because it literally sprays out this blue spray that is
killing the weeds and all these invasive non native plants.
I think they said they're even non native to the country,
not just to our state, but they're just things that
they're looking to get rid of. So they're using it
on like county properties and some private properties that need
to be treated.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
If they see that there.
Speaker 3 (55:18):
Is this invasive species and they say that it's more accurate,
they can cover more. They can you know, fly it
over and target exactly what they're looking for. Use it
in the spring when like the weeds are most active.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
And things like that.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
I just think it's it's very fascinating. It's a massive
drone too. We're not talking the little tiny ones that
sometimes people pilot just for fun. It's a heavy duty
device because they're using it with the spray on it,
going to the areas that they need to treat and
then being able to target exactly what they're looking for.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah, and as Gina said in this in this piece,
so far they're mostly using it on government land, but
there are some private properties that have what the folks
who are running this program call listed mandatory eradication species.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
And they've been doing it a couple of years now.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
And and I'll quote from one of the people running
the program here. One of the bigger sites that we've
been dealing with is Coal Bank Dam, and we've always
hand treated scotch thistle up there. In twenty twenty four
we treated it with blue this drone, and this year
we had substantially less, so we actually made progress. And
we're saying, yeay, there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
So as we're heading.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Into Winterna, they're gonna stop using it. But when we'd
start growing get next spring, they're gonna start using it again,
and they seem pretty optimistic that they can do more
and more every year.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Does it have a price? Did it say a price
in there?
Speaker 7 (56:42):
All?
Speaker 1 (56:43):
That's a great question, it's the right question. It doesn't
have a price in here. But what it says is
that they believe that it's demonstrated that it's worth it
for taxpayers. Okay, And you know what I you know,
and you and I haven't talked about this stuff a
lot directly, but you know, I'm kind of skeptical of
government doing this and government doing that, and government spending.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
But when you think about the alternative.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
For this, Like they were just talking about sending lots
of people out there with sprayers, and they got to.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Mix up the chemicals and then you know, and.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
Liquid or water weighs what nine pounds per gallon, and
they got to carry in how many people and spray
all this and maybe, like you said, maybe they can't
access it.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
And I know exactly what they're looking for too. All
these people have.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
To be knowledgeable of Okay, this is this is what
we're looking for, and not start spraying some native plants
and killing off the planet.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (57:35):
So I'm I'm guessing this probably should be a huge
cost saver, right.
Speaker 2 (57:40):
I mean, you've got the upfront cost of buying the drones.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
Probably a little bit expensive, but I bet you're the
cost of operating the drone versus the cost of operating
you know, three or six or twelve or fifty people
going out and spraying.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
I bet, I bet it's a huge savings.
Speaker 8 (57:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
But the other thing that comes to mind because of
what you just said, Gina, is how does the drone
know what to spray? So does it have any ai
does it see a plant and recognize it? Which could
be because I'm sure you've seen these apps on the
smartphones you can point it at a tree or a
plant and it'll tell you what it is, So maybe
it has that, or maybe they just give it a
(58:17):
map and say go to this area and just.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
Disperse the spray.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
But at that point, I guess it depends whether the
spray kills lots of other things or really just the weeds.
But I don't know about that when I saw the video.
Speaker 3 (58:28):
Obviously, drones still relatively have pilots nowadays, so the guy's
piloting it and.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
He's looking through the camera to see it.
Speaker 3 (58:35):
But I think that's the pilot of the drone, So
I don't know if he's then determining what it's hovering over,
or if someone else is looking over his shoulder that
is knowledgeable of what it needs to target, or if
the drone itself is talented enough to be able to
do that. I don't know, but I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (58:51):
I think it would be cool to outfit these drones
with air to surface missiles and for the guy who's
piloting the drone to be able to just take one
shot dog or just or a stump in the ground
that's in the way by just anything, just And wouldn't
that be fun?
Speaker 2 (59:07):
Just why why.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Why did you start with the prairie dog? Why did
you start with the stump? Well, we were talking about
invasive species. I mean, yeah, I don't know. That just
seems like it would make the job so much more fun.
Speaker 2 (59:21):
What dragon?
Speaker 5 (59:22):
I was just gonna jump back here to the text
line and how to say where you can get a
vegetarian hamburger? Yeah, we have a nerdy audience here. Yeah,
the nook quack duck hamburger apparently cling on, cling on,
cling on according to the texture.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
Gen did you speak cling on?
Speaker 8 (59:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (59:44):
You think due? LINGO can help you with that? All right,
let me do this for one minute here.
Speaker 18 (59:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (59:53):
I love this story.
Speaker 1 (59:54):
This is from our news partners at kativ R Fox
thirty one. There's a building at fourteen twenty North Ogden Street.
It's called called the Emerson School. It's in the Capitol
Hill neighborhood, and it was built in the eighteen eighties
and it is the oldest surviving school building in all
of Denver.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Now, it's not operating as a school now.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
It's it's basically an office building and it's been massively refurbished,
and it has this kind of environmental certification because they
did all kinds of thermal stuff for heating and cooling,
with drilling thirty kind of tunnels under it or something.
But anyway, this building, the Emerson School, is up for sale.
It's listed for six and a half million dollars and
(01:00:36):
I have no idea whether that's the right price for
a building like that, but it is just such a beautiful,
beautiful old building, a real piece of Denver history. So
I wanted to mention it to you. I think I've
got it in the blog. If you go to Roskiminski
dot com, which you should check out every day, and
if it's not there, just just go to the Google
machine and type in Denver's oldest surviving school and you'll
(01:00:58):
you'll find the listing. And the picktures of the exterior
and interior of this building are just spectacular. They really
don't make them like that anymore. All right, let's go
back to Gene and see what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
KOA means time seven forty four House members scrambling to
get back to DC for a vote to reopen the government.
Speaker 22 (01:01:19):
We've even got a member, Derek van Orton from Wisconsin,
riding his motorcycle all the way to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
So I think we'll all get here and we will
have a vote to reopen the government. That's Indiana.
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Republican Congresswoman Aaron Houchen overnight to the House Rules Committee
voted along party lines to advance the measure, but did
not adopt any amendments to the bill that would extend
federal healthcare subsidies. The funding package now makes its way
to the House, a final vote expected before the end
of the day. The Columbine Valley police officer who falsely
accused a Denver woman of theft will be facing disciplinary action,
(01:01:50):
but what that will be is still unclear. Sergeant Jamie
Millman was recorded trying to serve a summons to chrisana
Elser in late September, saying that he used block safety
cameras to track her before and after a package was
stolen in Bomar.
Speaker 21 (01:02:04):
It is locked in.
Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
There is a zero down.
Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I wouldn't have come here unless I was.
Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
One hundred sure.
Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
El Sir was able to gather evidence from her phone
in her own vehicle to show that she never stole
the package.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
The summons was dismissed.
Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Breaking the law will soon cost more in Colorado Springs.
In a five to four vote, the city council narrowly
approved a twenty dollars police tech surcharge. This will apply
to traffic and municipal violations, but not to parking tickets.
Police say the charge could raise about five hundred and
forty thousand dollars a year to fund new body camps, tasers,
and other equipment. It's a slow start to the ski season,
(01:02:41):
with warm weather in the metro and in the high country.
Breckenridge spokesman Max Winter that is his last name.
Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Winter.
Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
He says their team has worked hard to get their
mountain open in time.
Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Really, when we're trying to build a base for our
early season terrain, we're really looking for good snowmaking windows,
and so that means a wet built temperature of twenty
seven degrees or less. We haven't exactly had the temperatures
we've been looking for either, and so our teams have
had to work really, really hard in this early season
getting our terrain ready to open.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
He says.
Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
They expect more than a foot of snow to fall
in the area over the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina
gandak Im Kowa by coming to best of.
Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Right, I actually understood that, but that's that's where can
I find the best.
Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Vegetarian burger in Dutch?
Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
And so I actually understood that one because I speak
a little bit of Dutch. But anyway, that's that's what
that's what we're trying to figure out today. And folks,
text us at five six six nine zero with and
this is serious now where you might like to meet
up with me and Gina for lunch for a burger,
although Gina will have to have a vegetarian burger, a
(01:03:51):
black bean burger, something.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Like that, because that's her, that's her thing.
Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
So but send us some ideas and we'll try to
pick a place where we think there's good burgers and
a location where a few people can get together. All right,
a couple things I want to do with you in
this segment. First from the Better Late than Never files
a headline from the Associated Press, the FDA removes a
long standing warning from hormone based menopause drugs. Now, Gina
(01:04:21):
is many, many years away from even thinking about this,
but for lots and lots of women, going into menopause
is no fun. And you know, I, and well my
wife is of an age where this is, you know,
an issue at this point, and I can't speak to
it very directly, but I am led to understand that
many of the symptoms of menopause are not that much fun.
(01:04:44):
I think the hot flashes are probably most famous, or
at least what guys know about, but lots of other
stuff as well. And so there are treatments for that
that involve hormones like estrogen and progestin, and they come
in hills, and they come in patches, and they come
in creams, and these things are aimed to kind of
(01:05:07):
tamp down some of those symptoms, right, the hot flashes,
the sweating at.
Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Night, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Now, for many, many years, there's been a warning label
on this stuff that says that they can cause all
all kinds of problems, all kinds of health issues, and
the data just isn't there to support that.
Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
The data shows that this stuff is safe. And they
quote in this ap article a doctor who deals.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
With this kind of stuff, and he says, I can.
Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Spend thirty minutes counseling someone about hormone replacement therapy, tell
them everything, but when they fill the prescription and they
see that warning label on the package, they just get scared.
And so the FDA is now going to remove that
warning label. Now, some folks say they shouldn't do it.
Some folks say the evident the evidence is not conclusive
(01:06:03):
or definitive enough to feel.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
That confident to remove the warning label.
Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
One doctor at Harvard says the evidence for overall health
benefits is not quite as definitive as what the head
of the FDA said, But she also says the black
box that's the warning is really one size fits all
and it scares everyone away. So anyway, I think this
is a good move because the upside of this for
women who need this help is so large.
Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
And I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
But based on what I've seen in the data, I
think the downside is quite small.
Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So it's a kind of some kind of warning, but
not a warning.
Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Maybe that makes it look like, hey, if you take this,
there's a decent chance something really really bad is going
to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
So anyway, there's that for folks who need that information.
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
One other thing I mentioned yesterday that one of President
Trump's underlings proposed, and then President Trump put out on
social media this idea of offering Americans fifty year mortgages.
I think for most Americans it's a bad idea. I
think it's a financial trap. And the White House isn't
(01:07:11):
actually happy that Trump put that out because this message
got to him without going through the proper channels. Anyway,
from one of my favorite news and I put that
in air quote sources, the Babylon b let me share
this story with you. Financial consultant and radio host Dave Ramsey.
You probably know Dave Ramsey, right big Time financial advice
radio show, was reported to be in critical condition Monday
(01:07:34):
after learning that President Donald Trump had begun pushing a
fifty year home mortgage. According to sources, Ramsey collapsed at
his desk after reading a true social post from Trump
in which he pushed the concept of a fifty year
home mortgage to combat the growing housing crisis.
Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
It was just a sudden shock.
Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
He wasn't able to handle, one person close to Ramsey's
family said, quoting again, just the word mortgage is usually
enough to cause adverse effects on Dave. The president pushing
for a fifty year mortgage, however, was just more than
he could bear. Ramsey was rushed to the hospital after
suffering what was suspected to have been a major cardiac
event from seeing such terrible economic policy. After regaining consciousness,
(01:08:14):
he condemned the President for not following his envelope method. Quote,
you can't spend money you don't have, even if it's
stretched out over fifty years. Sure you'll be able to
afford the monthly payment, but you'll never be out of debt. Ever,
Ramsey said from his hospital. Bad nurses later gave him
a sedative and asked reporters to leave him alone. Ramsey's
wife asked for prayers for her husband and for Trump,
(01:08:37):
that the Lord work on his heart and change.
Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
His economic policy. Quote.
Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
I love the President, but he's clearly trying to kill
my husband.
Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Sharon Ramsey said.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
I told Dave to stay off truth social.
Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
But he didn't listen.
Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
At publishing time, Dave Ramsey had been discharged from the
hospital and was able to pay his bill bill in
full with an envelope of cash.
Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Dave Ramsey in critical condition after learning of fifty year
mortgage from the Babylon B.
Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
And if you don't know what.
Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
The Babylon b is, go look that up before you
text at me.
Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
KOA News time, eight o'clock. I'm Gina Gondek. We're on
the verge at the end of the government shutdown.
Speaker 6 (01:09:17):
I'm very confident that we have those votes.
Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
I'm very confident we're going to get this pass.
Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
That's what Congressman Buddy Carter's holds fellow Republicans ahead of
the final votes that's expected at some point today.
Speaker 23 (01:09:27):
Early this morning, a House committee voted to advance the
legislation and reopen the government, sending it to the House
floor for a full vote that they would fund the
government through the end of January and provide some funding
for government agencies.
Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Foxes Lucas Tomlinson says that includes food assistant programs. SNAP
benefits have been delayed this month for millions of Americans.
The Supreme Court has extended in order that bars most
states from fully funding those benefits until Thursday. Republicans will
have to go at it alone. Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 16 (01:09:55):
House Democrats will strongly oppose any legislation that the does
not decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis.
Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
He says he will vote for the measure if he's
able to attach an amendment that will extend Obamacare subsidies
for three months. Controversial issues brought out a lot of
people to last night's Douglas County school Board meeting.
Speaker 9 (01:10:16):
There was a first reading of a transgender athlete policy
that would prohibit biological males from participating in women's sports
and vice versa, and he voiced their opinion on the policy,
some in favor.
Speaker 13 (01:10:26):
When schools ignore this reality and allow boys to compete
against girls, it is demeaning unfair and dangerous for girls
and denies girls the equal opportunity.
Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
Others spoke against it.
Speaker 12 (01:10:38):
This filing is highly offensive in the language used to
attack transgender, non binary and gender non conforming youth, and
is plainly an effort to codify transphobia into our school district.
Speaker 9 (01:10:47):
A final vote on the policy will be taken at
a later date.
Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Chad Bauer Kowa News.
Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
The doug Coast School Board voted down and proposal last
night to extend some charter school contract renewals from five
to ten years. And you may have unclaimed property being
held by the state. State Treasurer Dave Young says they're
finding a lot of valuables in abandoned safe deposit boxes
and other places.
Speaker 18 (01:11:09):
Thanks when they transfer the safety deposit boxes are of
great sentimental value to people.
Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
They may have some pretty good value.
Speaker 18 (01:11:17):
I mean, we've got a six and a half carrot
canary diamond ring that's valued at one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Unclaimed property can also include unpaid wages, utility refunds on
cash checks, stocks, and investment returns. The program has returned
more than eight hundred and twenty million dollars to Colorado
residents since it was created in nineteen eighty seven. On
Wall Street, the Dow up five hundred and three points,
SMP five hundred is up slightly, Nasdack down twenty seven.
(01:11:42):
In sports, the Ads host Buffalo tomorrow nights after getting
their fourth Street win last night, beating the Ducks four
to one. The Nuggets improved to eight and two after
beating the Kings last night. There again on the road,
taking on the Clippers tonight, Fox thirty one pinpoint weather.
Our warming trend continues seventies for much of this work week,
seventies today, dipping down into the forties overnight tonight. Currently
(01:12:05):
forty six in Denver or next update in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
I'm Gina gondek on koa best the grimet is pork?
Mm hmm one more time with that, please.
Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Clarvin, you best the crimeat is pork r m hm uh.
Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
That's Icelandic for Gina's question, where can I find the
best vegetarian burger? What dragon obvious?
Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Really?
Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
If you're you're much too quiet? Is it just me?
Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Or is it you got to be just you? Because
I'm already Do you think he's a little bit quiet
or no? Maybe a little little yah. Shannon never talked,
So I mean that is true. Okay, so what were
you saying now? At normal volume?
Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
At normal volume, it's obvious really when you when you listen,
play it one more time.
Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Okay, sure, best right there? Easy, What.
Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
If you didn't know, you're not going to know? Can
I just spell this word for you real quick?
Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
G r ae And it's that kind of ae where
the E is overlapping the A a little bit. They're
stuck together. They're stuck together g r A E N
M E T I s b O r g A
r A n n, which must be Icelandic for veggie burger.
But I mean, veggie burger is kind of a long word. Already,
let's do this other thing real quick. So I just
(01:13:13):
want to say one thing. There was a listener who
just texted in who said, I wish you would do
more local and national news, and I said, well, we
just spent like the last forty five minutes doing a
whole bunch of local and national news stories, and therefore,
in response to the listener's request that we do more news,
I would like to not do more news for a minute,
(01:13:34):
because dragon, what was that listener text that came in
a moment ago that you just asked Gina about regarding
like the perks.
Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
Besides working with Dragon, what is the biggest perk of radio?
Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Okay, I'll give you my answer, and I'll let Gina
ponder her answer for a second, because Gina is a
more thoughtful person than I am, and I tend not
to think about things very much. For me, the biggest
perk of this job, and his answer is so easy
for me, is being able to hold the parabolic microphone
on the sideline of the Broncos game. And it has
been my favorite perk of this job every year for
(01:14:07):
as long as I've been doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
And I tell.
Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Everybody, not just when they ask on the air like this,
but I tell people all the time. Biggest perk of
the job being able to be on the sideline the
Broncos games from time to time.
Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Love that I still need to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
I requested to be on the list, but I know
I'm very late for this season, so hopefully I'm on
the top of next seasons.
Speaker 5 (01:14:25):
Yeah, all right, And just as an fyi to those
for this new time slot from Ross Kaminski, Yeah, he's
got an immense power.
Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
This year.
Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
When Ross listens to the Broncos game, they are eight
to oh yep, undefeated. When Ross Kaminsky listens to the game.
Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Yep, meaning when I listen to Rick and Dave on
the kickaway broadcast, which can be on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Benjamin Albright also claims that when he guesses.
Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
The wrong score, you.
Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Know how we always have long against the bron Against
the Broncos, they also says or eight No, So I
don't know if both of you are causing this, or
if one of you or if I don't know, but
just don't.
Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Okay, So enough about my microphones. What's your what's your? Greatest?
Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Person is going to give some thought provoking I really
enjoy informing the community, being a voice for listeners. And yeah, YadA,
but the concert tickets, I had to say, which doesn't
happen often. But if there is a show where like
I have a tier of shows I usually go through
of like, if there's a show I must see, I
(01:15:31):
will buy tickets for it because I don't want a
chance not having that opportunity. If there's a secondary show
that I actually really want to see, I also will
buy tickets for it. If there's a show where I
would love to see, but I won't be heartbroken if
I don't get tickets for it.
Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Yeah, I'll ask for tickets. Yeah, I'm kind of with
you on that.
Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
But like, I really wanted to see Rush, so I
bought them because I don't know whether we'll get them,
and if we get them here, I don't know whether
they'll be very good.
Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
So I wanted very good.
Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Seats for this listener to best vegetarian burger. Seeking the
best vegetarian burger is like seeking the best suppository.
Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
That's not very nice.
Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Do you love all of those?
Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
It does seem very nice.
Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
That have been saying the best veggie burger is in
the trash.
Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Yeah, that's a little rough.
Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Let me do just a quick financial markets thing here
for a second. Yesterday the Dow was up something like
five hundred and fifty points. The Nasdaq has been a
little bit weak. I think it's down three of the
last four days, and actually down a little bit today,
even though the Dow is up again and the S
and P is up again, and it's it's been this mass. Yeah,
(01:16:38):
the Dow is up another four hundred and forty So
what is that? A thousand points in two days in
the Dow, and part of it, I think is a
sigh of relief that the government shut down is likely.
Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
To end, maybe tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
And also I think there's another thing going on that
I just want to mention briefly. Yes, the Nasdaq is
down the last few days, but that's because the Nasdaq
has been up massively in the last month or so,
And a lot of it has to do with the
idea of not just billions, but perhaps trillions of dollars
(01:17:15):
in upcoming spending regarding AI and data centers and everything
related to that. So it's not just buying the chips,
buying the servers, but it's even things like how do
you get the energy to these data centers?
Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
So maybe they are going to be companies that build
energy systems. Maybe there will be companies that build the interconnectors.
How you get the power from whether it's a natural
gas plant or solar or wind or whatever, but how
do you get it from there over to the data center.
Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
There will be companies having to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
And there's this view out there that the infrastructure spending
on all this is going to be a massive driver
of economic growth. We'll see. I don't have an opinion
about it, but I kind of wanted to help you
understand a little bit why the market has been just
so so frothy over the last couple of weeks. I
(01:18:07):
have more than a couple of weeks, a couple of
months anyway, that look at markets and finances. Brought to
you by Blue Heron Capital. I'll hope you found that interesting.
Let me do another thing that is is not exactly
finance related, but a thing that bums me out a
little bit. You may or may not have been aware
that for many years there have been a lot of
(01:18:29):
trade tensions regarding Italian pasta. And there have been folks
in the American wheat business, wheat milling business, pasta business
who have said.
Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
For many years that Italy quote.
Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Unquote dumps pasta on America at a price that is
not only maybe too low for some Americans to compete with,
but maybe lower even from time to time than the cost.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
And I don't know if this is true.
Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
It's just a claim that in the cost of producing
the pasta.
Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
In any case, there was a piece at the Wall
Street Journal.
Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
That I saw a couple of days ago, and you know,
I don't dig this very much. The headline is Italian
pasta is poised to disappear from American grocery shelves, and
the subhead Trump administration is set to impose duties of
one hundred and seven percent on Italian pasta imports, among
the most punitive of tariffs it has levied. And they
(01:19:28):
quote in this piece the CEO of a company that
has a big pasta factory, and he says, it's an
incredibly important market for us, but no one has those
kinds of margins.
Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
What he means is there's.
Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
No pasta business profitable enough that they can still sell
pasta into the United States if there are one hundred
and seven percent tariffs. And it's not that the pasta
making company in Italy pays the tariffs right. What he
means when he says we don't have that kind of
margin is that when the US imposed the tariffs, imposed
(01:20:02):
to the tariff, and the tariff is paid by the
American company that imports the pasta and then has passed
along to one degree or another, to the supermarket, to
the consumer. Even if the entire supply chain, including the
pasta company itself, is willing to make less profit, there
(01:20:23):
is not enough profit through that entire supply chain to
be able to justify having that Italian pasta to be
available for sale in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
There is just not enough profit. So it's not a done.
Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Deal yet, But this is just something to keep an
eye on and maybe you'll end up seeing at some
point soon Italian pasta will either get very expensive or
it will disappear from shelves entirely.
Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
I sure hope not. That would be bad. It's CooA
news time eight fourteen.
Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
A vote is set for today on a bill that
would end the longest government shutdown and you history, but
still delays and cancelations at airports are expected to get worse.
Speaker 9 (01:21:04):
If this doesn't open, you might have airlines that say
we're gonna ground our planes.
Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
We're not going to fly any more. That's how serious
this is.
Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's comments come the same day
the FAA increased its requirement of airlines to cut six
percent of all domestic flights.
Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
Due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Locally, DIA is dealing with nineteen delays so far this morning,
as well as eighty seven flight cancelations. The deal to
reopen the government comes with what some are saying could
be an industry killing change. The bill that passed the
US Senate on Monday includes a federal ban on hemp
products containing more than point four milligrans of THHC. Democratic
(01:21:43):
Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon says the move would effectively
wipe out an industry that we have been spending more
than a decade creating. America's infant botulism outbreak is growing
despite a nationwide recall of a certain baby formula.
Speaker 13 (01:21:56):
The FDA warn parents on Saturday that thirteen babies in
ten states had gotten sick and needed to be hospitalized
after drinking by Heart Whole Nutrition infant formula, but now
that number has grown to fifteen babies in twelve states.
All the infents are being treated with baby Big, a
special IV medicine designed to treat bachelorism.
Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
New York City mayor elects or on Mundani says he'll
call President Trump before he takes office, even though Trump
endorsed former Governor Andrew Cuomo and threatened to cut federal
funding if Mandami won. No jackpot winner and last night's
Magamillion's lottery. That means the estimated jackpot is now at
nine hundred and sixty five million dollars for Friday Nights drawing,
(01:22:38):
and Pope Leo revealing his all time favorite movies In
an interview with Variety, The Pope said is all time
favorite film is the nineteen forty six holiday classic It's
a Wonderful Life, and his favorite musical is the nineteen
sixty five Oscar winner The Sound of Music. Your next
update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina condek on'm koa.
Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Because somebody mentions Neil Young doesn't mean they're asked you
to play it?
Speaker 6 (01:23:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
No, Why would you run in their mornings like that?
That's not possible, the listener said, So Neil Young tickets
were easy to get, low demand, right.
Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
No, obviously asking for me to play it?
Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
No, not no, No, Fiddler's Green was full and I
did get those tickets for free, but not from work, right.
Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
We didn't want to let work know that we really
wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
No, no, And I yeah, So I just I knew
another way. I know a business that has sort of
they call it a box, but it's sort of a
set of reserve seats, and I asked them if they
had an extra pair of tickets for for Neil Young,
and they did.
Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
To make it even worse, the guy that you asked
wanted to go but didn't have tickets because he gave
them to us.
Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
I know, and I sure wish he had kept him
for himself, right, gosh, bad.
Speaker 16 (01:23:56):
Bad.
Speaker 24 (01:23:57):
So it was his tickets, it was his company's tickets,
but he gave them to you because I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
A client of the company. It's my bank. Go with
you or what was I'm missing?
Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
I wanted a pair of tickets because I didn't ship
for Neil Young, because I didn't want to suffer a loon,
so I didn't want one ticket. So I wanted Dragon
to go with me so he could feel the pain
of going to Neil Young.
Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
And the reason we wanted to go was because reasons.
Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Yeah, it's just a long running gag about how much
I hate Neil Young. Oh, And actually I should say,
as we learned more about him and sort of the
things that he makes sure to get done at the
concerts and all these things that he cares deeply about,
it really makes me feel even worse about him. Can't
(01:24:43):
stand the guy at all no name brand soda, beer,
no name brand beer. No beef, Yeah, no beef. I
think he might be vegetarian or vegan, and he wants
to impose that on the rest of us. You can't
buy a burger and a Neil Young concert.
Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
Those were threety years old. Eighty years old.
Speaker 24 (01:25:03):
Sound all of your opinions aside. Did he sound terrible? Yeah,
but he sounded terrible for a long time. Right, he
sounded just like a slightly older version of terrible. But
he's just an annoying, annoying guy.
Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
All right. Anyway, tickets you.
Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
Didn't have, so on the Neil Young tickets you still overpaid. Yes, yes,
if we were smart, we would have given them away
or paid someone to go in our stead.
Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
But we did it for a bit. But when were
the only ones that walked out?
Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
No? We and yeah and well we we stayed for
a long time, but we had worked the next day,
so I think would we leave just before no encore
or something like that.
Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
But we saw most of the show, eight ten songs
in and they were like, all right, we're out.
Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Yeah, painful, All right, let me do this story that
I had mentioned. His birthday today?
Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Really, yeah, today, I hope there's mandatory retirement at eighty gosh,
all right, I mentioned this story, you know, a few
hours ago when when Ginea and I were sort of
doing the cross talk at the end of Colorado's Morning
News and the beginning of this show. And I just
want to do a couple of minutes with you on
it because I think it's very interesting, and especially because
(01:26:16):
of where this article is, and it's in the New
York Times, and the headline is the Sierra Club embraced
social justice then tore itself apart.
Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
And I will say there's a bit of schadenfreude here.
Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
So schadenfreud a German word meaning enjoying the suffering of
your opponents. So the Sierra this is again New York
Times kind of amazing. The Sierra Club calls itself the
largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the country,
but it's in the middle of an implosion, left weakened, distracted,
and divided, just as environmental protections are under assault by
(01:26:52):
the Trump administration. Now I don't know if that latter
part is true, but this is the New York Times
after all.
Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Now here's the schadenfreud.
Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
A bit the group has lost six eighty percent six
zero percent of the four million members and supporters it
had in twenty nineteen. It has had three rounds of
employee layoffs since twenty twenty two, trying to climb out
of a forty million dollar projected budget deficit.
Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Its political giving has also dropped.
Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
It shows that they gave three point six million dollars
trying to beat Donald Trump in twenty twenty, but none
in twenty twenty four. And I just want to kind
of go into what they did here because it strikes
me as a much bigger, more aggressive version of the
thing that I was saying a few years ago, where
(01:27:38):
where I said, I said, I realized there's a big
generational difference and younger people will tend to feel a
little bit differently about this than I do. But I
thought it was a big mistake for corporations to get
involved in politics and for businesses to start taking overt
positions on controversial issues of politics and culture, because again
(01:28:00):
going back to that Michael Jordan thing, Republicans buy sneakers too,
so Michael Jordan is not in the business of offending
you know, potentially half of the customer base, and to
me what the Sierra Club did. Even though they are
already you think of them as kind of left leaning
as an environmental organization, they were very, very focused for
their entire existence up until several years ago on just
(01:28:21):
the environmental stuff. But as the New York Times says,
the Sierra Club lost its focus and then its strength,
and they hired Ben Jellis, who I think I've had
on the show one time before, who ran the NAACP
for a while. But basically what they did was they
decided that environmentalism wasn't enough to raise enough money, and
(01:28:45):
they had these very very left wing people running the
board of directors and all this stuff, and so they
wanted to get involved in all kinds of other stuff.
So they got involved in in in DEI and all
kinds of culture issues and social justice, and they thought
they would recruit more young members, and it just didn't work.
(01:29:08):
They also expanded the number of their own workers covered
by a union and then voluntarily raised the union members'
salaries by an average of more than thirty percent over
five years, which is contributing to their downfall.
Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
And then listen to this.
Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
This just gives you a sense of how far they
abandoned their environmental mission. They issued what they called an
equity Language Guide, which warned employees to not use words
like vibrant and hard working because they reinforced racism. Wait
what they also said don't use terms like a lame
duck session of Congress because the word lame is offensive.
(01:29:45):
And they also said don't use the word Americans because
it excludes non US citizens. So I don't have time
to go into this in greater detail, but I do
have it up on the blog at Rosskominsky dot com,
and it is a fascinating story that I think has
wider implications for when an organization loses its focus and
(01:30:06):
the perils of that.
Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
KOA News Time A thirty, I'm Gina Goddek.
Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Still a lot of housework ahead.
Speaker 16 (01:30:15):
Welcome back from your taxpayer funded seven week vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries preparing Democrats to vote today
on a funding bill to reopen the government. He wants
an amendment attached to the bill that will include an
extension of Obamacare tax credits that are set to expire
at the end of the year and drive up healthcare
costs for millions of Americans. Republican Congressman Buddy Carter willing
to compromise.
Speaker 10 (01:30:37):
I agree, we're probably going to have to extend some
of the substies temporarily to see if we can't get
some of those premiums down.
Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
But long term, the Unaffordable Care Act is not working.
Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
The Senate promises to take a vote on that next month.
Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Republicans reacting this morning after Democrats on the House committee
investigating Jeffrey Epstein released a series of emails referencing President Trump,
we haven't.
Speaker 22 (01:31:01):
Heard back yet from the White House on this that
we have heard from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee,
and if they accused Democrats on this panel who released
these files of quote, carelessly cherry picking documents to generate clickbait.
They say they ultimately will release these documents once they
go through redact things like victims' names.
Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Et cetera.
Speaker 22 (01:31:19):
And they say, quote, Democrats should stop politicizing this investigation.
Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
ABC's j O'Brien. President Trump says he plans to sue
the BBC over a special that contained edits of his
speech on January sixth.
Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Those edits combined comments that were far apart.
Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
The BBC called the cuts and error in judgment, and
two top leaders resigned to over them. Colorado is one
of seven states that missed a deadline this week to
decide how rights to the Colorado River get divvied up.
Now the federal government may step in. Gary Wanker with
Save the Colorado points out they're fighting over a dwindling resource, and.
Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
I think that is the cause of why this has
taken so long and why it's a few times that
have openly broken out into rhetorical site.
Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
The current agreement expires next year, but he believes the
next deal won't change much and says the government could
give states an extension to reach an agreement. And there's
a slight chance you may be able to see bright
colors light up the skies again tonight in our state,
after many of you took some pretty stunning photos last
night of the northern lights. But meteorologists are predicting more
cloud cover overnight tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Which could obscure the view.
Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
You can check out the forecast for the Aurora Borealis
by logging onto the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space
Weather Prediction Center website on Wall Street. The Dow is
up four hundred and fifteen points s and p up slightly.
Nasdaq has down sixty four. In sports, the Nuggets improved
to eight and two after beating the Kings last night.
Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
They're in La tonight taking on the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
The Abs got their fourth straight win last night, beating
the Ducks four to one and box thirty one pinpoint.
Weather seems like it's the same forecast on and on again,
in the seventies for the next couple of days, dipping
down into the forties overnight tonight. Currently we're at forty eight.
Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina gondek on Koa.
Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
I only mentioned.
Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
It was his birthday because you played the first.
Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Song, which was requested from the text line led.
Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
To me googling how old Neil Young is, which led
to him being eighty today.
Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
I should just leave now birthday. You two can just
play Neil Young and.
Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Happy birthday Neil Young.
Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
I do love this text though, that says the best
veggie burger is like the best Neil Young song.
Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
That's even better than comparing it to a suppository.
Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
That's absolutely perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
I want to touch on a news story that's just
breaking today and Gina mentioned it already, but she's sort of,
you know, coming out over the past hour or two.
I'm going to go to Politico for this, and it's
going to be interesting to see. I don't know whether
this is an important story or not. I think I
think in the substance of it, I suspect it's not
particularly important, but in the politics of it could be.
Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
And so this is the headline from Politico.
Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
Jeffrey Epstein, a newly released email, says Trump quote knew
about the girls.
Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Now, let me just give a little context here.
Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
When if somebody says that Donald Trump knew about the
girls with Jeffrey Epstein, and specifically if Jeffrey Epstein says.
Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
It, we got to be really careful.
Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
And I'm not looking to be sort of just aggressively
defensive of Trump at the moment. I continue to believe
that Trump most likely did not do anything wrong with
any of those girls, and.
Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Perhaps didn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
I think probably didn't know, but I won't go too
far on that what Jeffrey Epstein was doing to slash
with these underage girls in a way I suppose you
can't say with it has to be two right when
you're talking about girls who are under the age of consent,
then you're not doing really something with the So I
(01:35:01):
suspect that Trump didn't know, and I suspect that Trump
didn't participate. So when Jeffrey Epstein says, and I'll get
to the email in a second, that Trump knew, what
exactly did he know? Again, without looking to be overly
defensive of Trump, because I just want to know the truth,
(01:35:22):
it could be that knew about just means that Trump
knew that Jeffrey Epstein liked to can noodle with, you know,
girls on the younger side. Now I don't mean I
don't mean underage, okay, of age, but young. And of
course Donald Trump has his own history with with women,
(01:35:45):
with cheating on wives, and when he was a younger guy,
certainly dating women who as far as we know, young
but of the age of consent, you know, legal. The
whole thing just sort of makes me want to take
a shower just talking about it. It's all kind of gross.
Congressional Democrats just released some stuff that was handed over
(01:36:08):
to Congressional investigators on the House Overside Panel, handed over
to them by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. The House Overside Panel
has been looking into this stuff for quite a long time,
and this committee has also subpoena DOJ records. And in
any case, Epstein wrote in a twenty nineteen email to
(01:36:28):
author Michael Wolfe, who is the sort of muckraking guy
who wrote a book that appears to have a lot
of stuff that isn't true. But in any case, Epstein wrote,
Trump said he asked me to resign, but I was
never a member, and talking about the Mara Lago Club,
and then Epstein wrote, quote, of course he knew about
(01:36:49):
the girls as he asked Gelaine to stop.
Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
So here's what I think this is about.
Speaker 1 (01:36:56):
I think Gallaine Maxwell who was procuring these girls for
Jeffrey Epstein and perhaps for Jeffrey Epstein's friends. That's part
of the story that remains a little bit unclear as
to who might have done that stuff. Like, for example,
at this point, it looks like the former Prince Andrew
of England, who has now been stripped of his title
(01:37:17):
prince in addition to everything else he was stripped of
before just a few weeks ago, actually removed the title prince,
which has probably never happened before in the history of England, right,
not just in recent years, there's probably never been a
time where a prince had that title stripped from him,
and I think there's only one time where it got
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even close, but it was voluntary, where King Edward the
eighth of England abandoned his throne to marry a divorced American.
Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
Woman named Wallace Simpson.
Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
So it's an incredible thing that happened there with Prince Andrew.
What I suspect is that Gallaine Maxwell, who was procuring
these girls, went to Marrow Lago. And we know she
did this with Virginia Giuffrey, the woman whose book was
(01:38:13):
recently published posthumously because she killed herself. But we know
that Epstein's henchman or henchwoman was going to mar A
Lago and recruiting girls there and Epstein and Trump said
(01:38:33):
cut that out. This is you're poaching my employees. Separate
perhaps from a question of what the employees were then
gonna go do. Trump was mad that Epstein directly or
indirectly was stealing his employees. So we will see how
this all plays out. The other thing that I wanted
to mention here is that with the House back in session,
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the first thing I think.
Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
That they're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
Maybe it'll be the second thing, but I think Johnson
said it might be the first thing is to swear
into office the newly elected congresswoman gri Halva is her surname,
which is the same surname as her dad who held
that office. She was elected now to Congress. She's a Democrat.
She was elected something like seven weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
Ago or eight weeks ago, but not.
Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
Sworn in because of the government shut down, and also
Speaker Johnson wanted to delay there a little bit because
she is going to be the final vote needed to
force the House to.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Then take a vote on.
Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Opening up the Epstein files whatever Congress has, rather than
going through the regular committee process. So it'll be interesting
now that this is out there to see whether any
of the small number of Republicans who are going to
go along with all the Democrats in releasing the Epstein files,
will any of them change their vote? I suspect they won't.
Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Okoa News eight forty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
One person is injured after a possible road rage incident
that led to a shooting near Conifer.
Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
Jefferson County.
Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
Sheriff's deputies were called to the area of Highway to
eighty five and Sourdoak Drive just before eight to thirty
last night. After shots were fired. One person was taken
to the hospital. The investigation is underway. Mountain lions causing
grief un of Fort Collins Ranch. They've attacked three horses,
killing one of them, the other two recovering from serious injuries.
Then his White Tailsbox thirty one. He found his twenty
(01:40:28):
seven year old horse dead in a ravine.
Speaker 19 (01:40:30):
He tells he was covered with Mountain lioners will cover
their kill for seven to ten days and then they'll
come back.
Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
He's lived on the property for sixty years and says
he's never seen anything like it. The Denver Public Schools
Foundation using its Food Security Fund to help feed families
affected by the federal government shutdown. The organization has given
more than one hundred thousand dollars to schools and community
hubs to help stock food pantries during the shutdown. And
some top CEOs are expected to have dinner at the
(01:40:58):
White House today with President Trump. It could include the
CEOs of JP Morgan, Chase, Meta, Google, Open Ai, Microsoft,
and Apple. The newscast sponsored by done Right Home Improvements,
Your Next Update coming up at nine o'clock I'm Gina
Gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Dragon is playing this Neil Young.
Speaker 1 (01:41:16):
So I played some Tom Sawyer good music, and then
I had to play the kneel down.
Speaker 5 (01:41:22):
I had to play the Neil Young Dragon. My birthday
is the same as Neil Young. I've seen him maybe
five times. Happy birthday to me and Neil. Okay you,
Happy birthday to you. Random text birthday to the listener.
Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
But you know, like if you eat something that's not
very good, you get a palette cleanser.
Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
It's often like.
Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
A little maybe lemon soorbet. Even after you eat maybe
something good in the middle of a fine meal, you
have a little pallette cleanser, and so then you can
get on to new things.
Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
So can you pop my computer up for a second place?
Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
No, palt cleanser. No, no, he says, this is the
palette cleanser.
Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
Go ahead, Nope, see because it's still playing, I can
put it in queue and hear it off the air.
Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
All right, fine, I'll do something else. Go ahead and
put my computer up now. Not a chance, is it.
I've worked with you far too long to know. Wait,
is my computer up?
Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
No? It's not all right.
Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Uh, let's do a thing that I used to do
with Mandy and now I'm gonna do with Gina.
Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
You ready, Oh? Okay, it's real or fake?
Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
And I give you four headlines. One of them is
fake and you have to guess which one it is. Okay, okay,
and Dragon, If Gina gets it right today.
Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
What does she win?
Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
A veggie burger? I knew you were going to say that.
We can actually make that, make that happen. All right,
Here we go. Oh look what we're starting with. Right
after we talk about food?
Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
You'urin based astronaut food to be tested on space station.
Man who bought used Mercedes finds out it had wooden
brake pads. A study says people who binge drink and
as teenagers earn more money later in life.
Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
WHOA and your last headline?
Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
Research seems to show that people who own an alpaca
live as much as seven years longer.
Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
Huh ah, Can you give me the first one again?
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
First one is you're in based astronaut food to be
tested on space station? Dragon, put my computer up. No,
I just heard it, Gina. What do you think is
the fake headline? Can? I?
Speaker 17 (01:43:28):
God?
Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
I really hope it's the first one, but for some reason,
I have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'll go with the first one.
The actual fake headline dragon is.
Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
Research seems to show that people who own an alpaca
live as much as seven years long. Arn can you
put my computer up for a second, not a chance.
I hate you a little bit today, Gina, you do
not win a Edgie Burger, but you will have another
opportunity tomorrow. All right, all right, that's another three hours
of radio magic of Ross come in Ski on the
(01:44:00):
news with Gina gandak Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Well played because we have it in our system. Because
they're coming to Ballerina next year. So fabulous. Everybody, have
a wonderful rest of your day. That other guy up
next
I'm Ross. This is Ross Kaminski on the News with
Gina Gondeck. I'll say good morning to Gina exactly as
she just drank something, so to make it as excimes.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
There's little ice chunks in my water, so every.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Once in a while, I'm like chomping on a piece
of bikes.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So good morning, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We've got a ton of stuff to do on today's show.
I want to start with what Gina ended with there,
or almost ended with, the government shutdown, which may be
ending today, we hope, and we're going to talk about
that more than once over.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The course of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I saw a tweet yesterday from Jimmy Fayla, who is
just an incredibly funny dude. Fox News guy also has
his own Fox News radio show somewhere. I haven't heard it,
but anyway, very funny dude, former New York City cab
driver turned comedian, and he put this out on X yesterday,
(00:55):
which I thought really summarized it very very well. Pro tip,
if you're to call it the Republican shutdown, you're not
supposed to get mad that it's ending. If you're a Democrat.
If you're going to call it the Republican shutdown. You're
not supposed to get mad that it's ending. So Democrats
are mad that it's ending. And I think I'm not
(01:16):
going to rehash all of that right now, but I
do want to say one kind of forward looking thing.
And and you've heard in the newscast just there.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You hear the.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Democrats making this about extending Obamacare subsidies and in general
broadening this out into an issue about healthcare. Now, let
me say that in the very short term, I think
it's pretty obvious that Republicans won the shutdown battle. Does
(01:50):
that mean they're going to win the war, though, I've
got much bigger questions about that. Right, they won the
shutdown battle in the sense that Democrats went into itolute
slutely demanding first a permanent extension of temporary Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And I just want to be very very clear about this.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Boo for folks who have been misled by the news
and maybe haven't heard me talk about it. The Obamacare
subsidies that they're talking about are not the regular subsidies
that are in and have been in Obamacare since day one.
What they're talking about are temporary subsidies that Democrats put
in explicitly to be temporary in the so called American
(02:32):
Rescue Plan that was passed only by Democrats no Republican
votes when Joe Biden was president. It was part of
it was primary legislation that led to the massive inflation.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So Democrats put in these.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Things as temporary, and now that they are expiring as
written by Democrats, they're upset about it because some people
who have been getting more of other people's money than
they normally would want to keep getting more of other
people's money than they normally would. So those are the
expiring subsidies. It's not all of Obamacare. Okay, So here's
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the thing. Democrats said, we want a permanent extension. Republicans
partly they said no, and partly they just after that
they just ignored them. And then Democrats said, well, we
want it for a year or then, and Republicans not
only ignored them, but then Donald Trump made it clear
that he's not going to back down at all. Not
only did he say we're not funding food stamps, but
(03:29):
for states that did send out some money, they said
you need to caw that back.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And at that point Democrats.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Probably thought to themselves, all right, this guy's not messing around,
some Democrats. He's not messing around. We're not going to
win this negotiation. We're just going to hurt people if
we keep the government closed, so we might as well
open it. And enough of them thought that way that
government hopefully will be opened today after the.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
House gets back and votes.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But so so, Republicans won the battle in the short term.
Democrats clearly laws the shutdown battle. There's a lot of
division within the party right now. And actually it would
not surprise me at all to see Chuck Schumer decide
perhaps to step down as party leader at the end
of this Congress and maybe to announce that he won't
(04:14):
run for reelection, because he is, as one person said
this morning, politically a dead man walking right now. But
but Democrats kind of stumbled into something that I think
is going to serve them pretty well politically, and that
is the healthcare issue. And here's the thing. Whenever you
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get government involved in a particular sector, and the two
sectors that come most to mind are healthcare and college education,
where government gets involved in a way that causes people
to think that other people are paying for their stuff,
that other people are paying for their health care, treatments,
that other people are paying for their college, or that
(04:58):
the loans are so cheap and takes so long that
it's almost like you're not paying for college. Right, those
two things, as far as major categories go, are and
have for twenty years been the major sectors of our
economy that have consistently increased fastest in price, because there
(05:23):
is nothing more expensive than when you make people think
it's free or cheap, because people then over consume it,
and because the people who are providing it have a
lot of incentive to just keep raising price as much
as they can possibly get away with. That's especially true
with colleges. So now you've got going back to healthcare,
(05:48):
you've got a healthcare system, and especially the health insurance system.
Even more than the healthcare system itself, the health insurance
system is it's very expensive, it's unpoper popular. And here's
the thing Republicans have not had since maybe Paul Ryan.
(06:09):
And I know Paul Ryan isn't very popular with a
lot of Republicans these days, but I'm still a fan.
Not since Paul Ryan have they had someone willing to
come out and aggressively say here's what we need to
do with healthcare. Here's the plan. Try to explain it
to people. Ran to Paul a little bit, he's a
medical doctor. But mostly what you have is a bunch
of Republicans with no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They've had fifteen years to come up.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
With an alternative to Obamacare, and if they've done it,
they've been very quiet about it, and to the extent
that Democrats now turn this issue into the issue for
the next election, say, look how much your health insurance
premiums have gone up.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
If Republicans are sitting.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
There like and no idea what to say, because they
don't have the honees to tell people the truth. And
instead you're gonna find a few Republicans out there saying, oh, yeah,
let's extend the subsidies for a while while we work
out some other solution. No, No, the problem is government,
(07:17):
and you're not gonna fix it by adding more government.
And you're also it's also immoral to try to fix
the cost quote unquote fix the cost of overly expensive
healthcare by subsidizing it, which means giving today's voters buying
their votes with our children's future earnings. It's deeply, deeply immoral.
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So here's my advice. For the Republican Party. Take a
page out of Donald Trump's playbook. What do I mean
by that? Republicans are way, way, way too often, on
issues like this where they think they have political risk,
only propose these small, modest reforms. We're just gonna nibble
around the edge is Trump does not work that way,
(08:02):
and Republicans should not work that way on this. What
Trump will do is he will say something so so crazy,
so far out beyond what anybody is thinking about, that
he shifts the Overton window. If you haven't heard me
talk about the Overton window in the past, just go.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Look it up right now. O V E R T
O N overtin window.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He shifts the overten window dramatically. And then Trump almost
never ends up where he said, but he could easily
end up a lot further in that direction than anyone
might have thought possible if the only way they ever
talked about it to begin with was just a slight
move in that direction. This is absolutely necessary with healthcare.
(08:48):
We'll see if Republicans have the cajones and the wisdom
to do it. All right, let's go back to GENA
and find out a little more about what's going on
in the world.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Ross.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I think you'll be touching on this story later this morning.
The Columbine Valley police officer who falsely accused of Denver
woman of theft will be facing disciplinary action, but what
that will be is still unclear. Sergeant Jamie Millman was
recorded trying to serve a summons to Chrissana Elser in
late September, saying that he used to block safety cameras
to track her before and after a package was stolen
(09:20):
in Beaumar is locked in.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
There is a zero down.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I wouldn't have come here.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Unless I was one.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Then sure, Elser was able to gather her own evidence
from her phone and her vehicle to show that she
never stole the package.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The summons was dismissed.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Breaking the law will soon cost more in Colorado Springs.
In a five to four vote, the city council narrowly
approved a twenty dollars police tech surcharge. This will apply
to traffic of municipal violations, but not to parking tickets.
Police say the charge could raise about five hundred and
forty thousand dollars a year to fund new body cameras, tasers,
and other equipment. It's a slow start to the ski
(09:57):
season warm weather in the metro and in the high country.
Breckenridge spokesman Max Winter says their team has worked hard
to get their mountain open in time.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Really, when we're trying to build a base for our
early season terrain, we're really looking for good snowmaking windows,
and so that means a wet bult temperature of twenty
seven degrees or less. We haven't exactly had the temperatures
we've been looking for either, and so our teams have
had to work really, really hard in this early season
getting our terrain ready to open.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
He says they expect more than a foot of snow
to fall in the area over the next two weeks.
And if you were ever curious, Pope Leo is revealing
is all time favorite movies. In an interview with Variety,
The Pope said is all time favorite film is the
nineteen forty six holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life. Is
favorite musical the nineteen sixty five Oscar winner The Sound
of Music. Later this week, Pope Leo, the first pontiff
(10:45):
to be born in the US, will be meeting with
a number of Hollywood celebrities as part of an ongoing
Holy Year celebration. Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondek on Kowa Dragon.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Did you put your trash out?
Speaker 8 (10:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I can't hear you the other body to do that
button right there? Yeah, and now turn yourself up a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Right there there. Yeah that's better. Yeah right, yeah, I
almost forgot.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I pulled out of the driveway, made it a half
a house and went, wait a minute, trash and recycling.
But what about the holiday for the Northern Lights. Oh,
I didn't check. It might be sitting out there for
a day and a half.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Then crap, Yeah, so is your trash and recycling days
on the same day.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I don't even know when his his and knocktually, I
don't even know when mine is.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Really, I don't mind him every day.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He tells me every day to put my trash out,
in a successful effort to confuse me.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So your trash is just always sitting at the curb.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I usually know, like within a couple of days. So yeah, no,
you know what normally happens. And I couldn't tell you
what day it is, Well I could, but I'm pretending
that I can't. Is I'll go out and I'll see
that my neighbors have their trash out. Yeah, and then
I'll put my trash out.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Well, Ross has a unique problem right now because he's
building a house and is renting a house. So the
house that he is renting has one and the building
has a complete lead.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You know, they're very near each other.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I want to I want to stick with.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You here, Gina for a second on that on the
story you just talked about with the Columbine Valley police officer.
So I think you have the same information I have
that this police let. We don't know what the disciplinary
action is going to be.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
No, they said that they will do some type of
review and there will be disciplinary action, but there's no
explanation of what that could be.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And for those who missed the story, you know, we
covered it on the show maybe two weeks ago, and
it really bothered me. Basically, this cop shows up at
this lady's house and says, we have you on camera
and we know with one hundred percent certainty that you
did a porch pirate thing, that you that you stole
an Amazon package off of this lady's porch, and uh,
(12:52):
and the lady who was being accused said, uh, I
didn't uh. And not only that, but she said, if
you just stick with me here for a second, I
can show you the tracking from her riv So she
got a Rivian, a super high tech car, so she's
got cameras, and she could prove, she could she could
overtly prove that it wasn't her, that she just drove
(13:15):
through that neighborhood, didn't stop, and it wasn't her.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And she's done a great job gathering all the episodes
sure needed because she was literally able to show look,
I was at a different house, not even near this house.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
She went to her tailor, She went to a tailor.
She just drove through the neighborhood. And the cop said, uh, don't.
Basically I'm paraphrasing, don't waste your time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We know you did it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And if you're going to start, you know, trying to
tell me you didn't do it, I'm not going to
be courteous to you anymore. And what I was trying
to figure out early on, and I wonder if you
get any insights, like reading between the lines, do you
get the sense that this was all him? Like he's
the one who looked at the camera. He's the one,
because I don't see any mention in here of anybody
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else in the police department. There the Columbine Columbine Valley
Police Department having been part of the decision to do
all this. Have you seen anything.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's the gray area that I'm not sure about of
like did he know exactly what the make and model
of the car was but didn't have the correct license
plate or was there a license plate similar that was
picked up.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It really did feel like when.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
He's talking to the body cam footage that he's doubling
down on just continuing to say, we know it's Ui, No,
it's you, right, So I don't I don't really know
what that what that line is because obviously the flop
cameras have been a high debates even in Denver, and
we were talking with may Or Mike Johnson about it too,
and he was saying, well, you know, other counties, other
areas aren't allowed to utilize them. It's just us and
(14:41):
it's not going to third parties and things like that.
So it's it's a really gray area of where it
really lied up of how he had this information and
showed up at her house and accused.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Her of doing this.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I I think he actually got her truck, but I
don't think I think the truck was just driving through
the neighborhood. And he said, well, you were there on
that time, and you've been in the neighborhood a lot,
so we think you're casing the joint, and therefore, because
you know you did it.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, with her car, she could prove that she didn't
even stop right like that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yes, she wouldn't even she didn't even stop. Technology of
cars nowadays, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Root for people to lose their jobs, but the way
this cop did this thing, it seems to me he
should just go like he's just not suited to the job,
and I think he should be made an example of
one other very quick thing I want to mention, as
long as we're talking about these these flock cameras, I
saw this story yesterday over at our news partners katiev
R Fox thirty one. Here's the headline, Boulder flock cameras
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helped catch wanted fugitive with nearly eighty prior arrests.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
The Boulder Police Department said last.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Week that, yeah, sometime sometime recently, these this flock safety
that's the company alerted officers to a vehicle associated with
a wanted fugitive. They found that the owner of the
vehicle was wanted in Larimer County on multiple charges, had
active warrants, had an extensive criminal history with nearly eighty
(16:05):
prior arrests including DUI, drug stuff, domestic violence, vehicle theft.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And burglary.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And they found the car near Pearl Street Mall in Boulder,
and they found the dude, and they and they arrested
the dude and they found drugs and drug power and
finalia and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I mean, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I don't care if they find drugs on someone, but
eighty arrests and open warrants for other things is a
big deal. And this ties directly into the comment Gena
made a moment ago about how these flot cameras are
the subject of a lot of conversation. So, all right,
we still have a ton of stuff to do on
(16:43):
today's show. I'm going to take a quick break, have
a few words, have a little more news. Keep it
here on KOA.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
KOA News Time six point thirty. I'm Gina Gondek.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The federal government says step closer to reopening maybe as
soon as tomorrow. A House committee voting to send the
latest measure to the full House for a vote later
this afternoon. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warning of dire consequences
if the measure fails.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
If this doesn't open, you might have airlines that say
we're gonna ground our planes.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
We're not going to fly any one. That's how serious
this is.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Air traffic controllers have now gone without two paychecks. Many
are calling out sick, leaving airports around the country shorthanded.
Many Democrats say they'll vote against the funding bill unless
it's amended to include an extension of Obamacare tax credits
that are set to expire at the end of the
year and drive a healthcare cost for millions of Americans.
Republican Congressman Buddy Carter willing to compromise.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
I agree, we're probably going to have to extend some
of the stubs these temporarily to see if we can't
get some of those premiums down.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
But long term, the unaffordable care agg is not working.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The Senate promises to take a vote on that next month.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
A packed Douglas County School board meeting last night with
two controversial items on the agenda.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
One would change the contract renewal period for some Ard
schools from five to ten years.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It failed on a four to three vote.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
It was also the first reading of a transgender athlete policy.
It would prohibit biological males from participating in women's sports
and vice versa.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Doesn't spoke. Some opposed to the ban.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
This is a less than one percent issue. That is
a fake culture war issue.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It is a distraction from real issues like student education.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
And help others.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
Favorite my daughter was a high school athlete. She told
me just today, I never would have participated in sports
if I knew a boy was also going to participate.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
A final vote on the policy will be taken at
a later date. Chad Bauer Kowa.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
News, Colorado one of seven states that missed a deadline
this week to decide how rights to the Colorado River
divvied up.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now the federal governments could step in.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Gary Wonker with to Save the Colorado points out that
they're fighting over a dwindling resource, and I think.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
That is the cause of why this has taken so long,
and why it's a few times sort of openly broken
out into a rhetorical.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Sights the current agreement expires next year, and Aurora topping
the door Dash cheeseburger index at fourteen dollars and fifty
four cents compared to the national average of eighteen fifty eight.
Comparing cheeseburger prices, door Dash Chief analytics officer Jessica lax As,
Aurora ranked highly in the most of the company's affordability
(19:22):
and resilience indicators on Wall Street. Doll Futures up one
hundred and fourteen points this morning, SMP up about twenty five,
Nasdaq up one sixty two. In sports, the Nuggets improved
to eight and two after beating the Kings last night.
They host the Los ange They'll be taking on the
Los Angeles Clippers away tonight, and the Abs snatching their
fourth straight win last night, beating the Ducks four to one.
(19:45):
Fox thirty one pinpoint Whether our stretch of seventy degree
temperatures continues. High temperature right around seventy today, dipping down
into the mid forties overnight tonight. Currently we're at forty
four in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina Gondeck on.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
KOA spectacular sunrise behind behind your head, so you had
to turn around to see it before.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But just amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I didn't get to see the northern lights last night,
but sunrises we get.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, pretty awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Uh is it it?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dragon? Is it too early to talk about cheeseburgers? Since
she is talking about cheeseburgers?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Started it? So, yeah, you started it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I started it from a financial perspective. But if you
just want to talk cheeseburgers, you.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Can ask She's well, Dragon does clearly Dragon, what's your question?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well, she had talked about in her newscast that the
Denver region, Colorado has the lowest cheeseburger prices nationwide, So
who has the best cheeseburger here in Colorado? Since we
have the lowest prices, what's the best one?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, So it's like a it's a door Dash Cheeseburger
index is what they call him.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think you've heard of like the Hamburger Helper Index and.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Also the Big Mach Index, comparing prices around the whole world,
not just the country.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So DoorDash looks at a cheeseburger and fries and then
kind of compares the prices across multiple cities, and they
say that Aurora has the most affordable.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I think they said eighteen fifty is.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The average price of a cheeseburger meal like that nowadays?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Isn't that nuts?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yeah, that's cheezburger. That's a bigger conversation.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
You had said here in the aura it was like
fourteen something, so it was four dollars less, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But who has the best cheeseburger?
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You know, I I just thought of a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Now that I'm on six to nine instead of nine
to noon, it'd be even easier to schedule to meet
listeners for lunch totally. And we've talked about this in
the past. Gina, would you be up for that? Are
you sure?
Speaker 8 (21:40):
So?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Okay, why don't we do that? And I've actually sort
of started down this road in the past, but I
don't know that I followed through or maybe just one time,
just one time, But text us some ideas for where
you think has the best cheeseburger. Text us at five
six six nine zero. Please include Ross, Gina or Dragon.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That would help.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Please, Yes, please.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Start your text with one of our names so we
know you're you're texting at us rather than.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
The other radio station.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And what we will do the three of us as
a committee, with me as always being the junior member.
What we will do is we will look for the
best combination of yummy burger and convenient location and pick
a spot and and we'll we'll meet for lunch.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Dragon. Would you would you come to lunch?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Unfortunately I don't get off till after two.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh that's right, difficult, Yeah, okay, sorry? Can I make
this more difficult? Oh? Yeah, you don't need burgers, So
it's got to have a veggie burger.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Gotta have a veggie burger or some of it, like
would you eat a salad?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Would you eat a Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
But if you can give me a burger place that
also has a great veggie burger.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, all right, Well, why don't mean make that part
of the challenge. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Right, Or at least if you send a place and
we're considering it, we'll rule it out then if it
doesn't have a veggie burger or something like.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That, So we may have a good vegetarian option and
it's not a veggie burger.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
But you're like, but they have this veggie sandwich.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
You don't mind eating with us troglodytes, though, who are
significantly carnivorous, can't. Yeah, no, that's fine. I don't mind.
This is your husband significantly carnivorous, Yes, yep, Yeah, he
cooks vegetarian because it's just easier.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But when he goes out, yeah, he's always getting a
meat meal.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yes see. I'm My style in life generally is, if
there are some things that I need to do, and
some of the things are more enjoyable than the other things,
I'll do the less enjoyable things first, and then I'll
do the more like.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You know, deferred gratification.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
For example, for example, I will eat the cake part
of the cake first, oh, yes, and then have the frost, yes, right,
which I think is what normal people do, right.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Probably not, but that's what I do too, Yeah, Okay, the.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Majority of people do.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I think a lot of people do that, and so
that's the same thing for you know, I'll have a
I'll have a meal, or I've got a steak or
a broughtwurst or even a piece of fish or whatever,
and then some vegetables vegables first, get it over with, sea,
get it over with.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, a couple other things.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Already, by the way, cherry cricket, that's one of the
ones that's yeah, Crown.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Burger, Crown Berger. Do they have veggie Burger?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Crownurger. Crown Burger's really good. This is the thing and
where this is actually how the topic came up. A
cheeseburger made with blue cheese. That's disgusting. But burgers are
so Beef is so expensive. Like I was in the
supermarket yesterday, and I always look, because I'm me, I
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always look in that section all the way at the
end of the meat where they put like the manager specials, right,
and even the Manager's special ground beef when it's on
sale is six and a half dollars a pound, and
the Ribbi steak on sale is like.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Twenty one pound.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And meanwhile, and this is now I'm not so much compliant,
I am complaining about beef prices. But the other thing
that's interesting for me just as a consumer is you
can get these fantastic they're called Duroc.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Which is a particular kind of pig, but.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
A Duroc pork chop really really delicious. And those are,
you know, not on sale, let's say, around six dollars
a pound. So beef like just ground beef, which is
basically the cheapest beef is even more than a great
pork chop and a steak any you know, sirloin RHEBBI
(25:35):
New York strip are going to be anywhere from two
to four times the price. And I do wonder, just
as a matter of economics, how much substitution is going
on and whether people are buying more chicken, more pork,
more whatever, just not just not so many veggie burgers,
because because veggie burgersreg youre just telling me about timing thing,
(26:00):
Is that what you're doing? There was Yeah, yeah, I
was trying to be professional, semi professional, all right, So
all right, so let me let me do like almost
one minute here on a thing. Westward has an interesting story.
Marijuana lost with a whimper on Colorado election day. Now
you probably didn't hear about marijuana on the ballot because
it wasn't on the ballot in very many places. But
there's a small town, believe it or not, called Springfield,
(26:23):
Like there's a Springfield everywhere in the world or everywhere
in America. It's only thirteen hundred people in Baca County.
They actually voted down having any kind of marijuana stuff
in their town.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And then the town of Craig, Colorado.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They passed by seven votes, nine eighty four to nine
seventy seven, So with four people had voted the other way,
it wouldn't have passed a thing that allows the already
have marijuana, but it allows their city council to raise
the marijuana sales tax by four percent. And that's going
to be very interesting because what they say they want
to do is to fund a library and a museum there.
(27:00):
And the problem, like in so many other places, as
Manitou Springs just lived through with the marijuana tax issue,
is that it looks like they are going to base
some semi permanent spending on a declining revenue source and
they need to be very careful about that.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back on KOA.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
KOA News time six forty seven. I'm ginagondek. A vote
is set forward today on a bill that would end
the longest government shutdown in history, but still delays and
cancelations at airports are expected to get worse. The FAA
has been ramping up flight cancelations since Friday due to
the shutdown related staffing issues. Locally, DIA is seeing seventeen
(27:41):
delays so far this morning, but eighty seven cancelations. The
deal to reopen the government comes with what some are
saying could be an industry killing change. The bill that
passed the Senate on Monday includes a federal ban on
hemp products containing more than zero point four milligrams of THHC.
Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of oregons as the move would
effectively wipe out an industry.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That we have spent more than a decade creating.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
American's infant botulism outbreak is growing despite a nationwide recall
of a certain baby formula.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
The FDA warn parents on Saturday that thirteen babies in
ten states had gotten sick and needed to be hospitalized
after drinking by Heart Whole Nutrition infant formula, but now
that number has grown to fifteen babies in twelve states.
All the infents are being treated with baby Big, a
special IV medicine designed to treat bochulism.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
New York City Mayor alexor on Mandani says he'll call
President Trump before he takes office, even though Trump endorsed
former Governor Andrew Cuomo and threatened to cut federal funding
if Mondami won and no jackpot winner in last night's
Mega Million's Lottery. That means the next estimated jackpot is
at nine hundred and sixty five million dollars for Friday nights.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
Drawing.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina
Gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This is Russ.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Kiminski on the news with Gina Gondek. That's Gina Gondeck
over there. Hi. Hi, So we don't have our guest yet,
so I actually want to just follow up with you
for a second on that Hemp story, which I think
is a super interesting story because it's a I think
we grow some of that actually in Colorado, I think
a fair bit and it was a thing that former
(29:18):
Senator Corey Gardner was very involved with. But Kentucky, they
grow a ton of this stuff. And Ran Paul had
Put had been trying to Oh, oh, I see the
phone ringing.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I see the phone ringing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So we may have the guest here in a second,
and maybe we'll maybe we'll come back to the Hemp
story in a second. Yeah, let's do it that way,
all right, Dragon, you can just we got him.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Let's do that. Okay, let's do this or I'm very.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Happy to be joined by John Decker, who is the
iHeartMedia and twenty four to seven News White House correspondent.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
John.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Welcome back to KOA. Good to have you here.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
It's good to be with you, Thanks for having me.
We're day thirty day thirty day forty three of the
government shutdown, and this could be the final day of
the longest shutdown in US history. The reason I say
that there's a vote that's scheduled today in the House
of Representatives on that legislation that's already passed the Senate
that would reopen the federal government. So we'll see if
(30:15):
that vote indeed happens today. The only thing I think
that could be a fly in the ointment is that
if not enough members get back to Washington because of
the flight delays and cancelations that we've seen all over
the country.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So are you is there a scheduled time already for
this or is it kind of play it by year
and see when enough people.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Are round by year by year?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I think that's right. You know, I think that the
expectation is that all of the members will be on
the House floor for that vote, but you know, you
never know and you know, with the very narrow majority
that Republicans have. That's the reason why I say this
vote is scheduled for today, but it could slide into
tomorrow if you know, there are problems as it relates
(30:59):
to air travel.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Today.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Speaking of air travel, John, I know there was one
congress member I don't remember whose name was. He was
literally riding his motorcycle to DC in order to get
there in time. And when we look at the shutdown
and look at the impacts, obviously flights are the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That are impacting just average Americans.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Do we have any expectation of, okay, of votes of
votes once it passes, it passes, But how long are
the ripple effects because people are looking at their Thanksgiving
travel and be like, what's going to happen here?
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah, that's the big unknown. And I think that what
we heard yesterday from the Transportation Secretary, that's Sean Duffy,
when he has asked a similar question, is that I
think he doesn't know the answer to that.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
He said, it's not.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Like flipping a switch.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
And for that reason, there could just you know, certainly
through the weekend, be some more delays and cancelations related
to the government shutdown even though the government has reopened.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
John, I suppose it doesn't matter much as long as
the thing passes. But is there any chatter at all
about any Republicans like maybe Thomas Massey who will vote no,
or any Democrats who might vote yes. And I will
just mention to you, John, just for your own information.
I see Steve Scalise on television right now saying he
(32:15):
expects the vote to be tonight more like seven pm
Eastern time, just so you know.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Well, No, I appreciate that, and thanks for telling me that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I think Thomas Massey is going to be just among
a very very small handful of Republicans that vote against
his legislation. He may be the only one, but someone
like Jared Golden, He's a Democratic congressman who represents one
of the two districts in Maine, I think he's going
to be a yes vote for agreeing to reopen the government,
(32:45):
breaking away from his party. He's not running for reelection
number one and number two. He represents a district that
is overwhelmingly gone for President Trump in his three runs
for president.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
John Decker iHeartMedia and twenty four a News White House correspondent.
Thanks for doing that quick hit with us, John, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thank you. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
About you too, You too. All right, we'll take quick break.
We got a few words. We got Geno on the news.
Keep it here on KOA.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
KOA News time, seven o'clock. I'm Gina Goddek. Well, it
was the vote to set up the vote to reopen
the government.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Jay as four A's yeah, I sav with demotion to
report is agreed to.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It happened early this morning the House Rules Committee, and
it teases up for a final House vote later today.
Speaker 15 (33:29):
And bill will keep the government operating through Janguary and
will fund some government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture
through September, which of course controls those SNAP or food
stamp benefits.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Foxes Lucas Tomlinson. The shutdown cut off some of that
food assistants. The Supreme Court extended in order blocking full
SNAP payments that will go out once the government reopens. Now,
the bill does not include the subsidies to help millions
of Americans pay for health insurance that Democrats have been
fighting for. That's why Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys plans offer
an amendment to include healthcare subsidies, something he wishes Senate
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Democrats had fought for.
Speaker 16 (34:05):
They're going to have to explain themselves to their constituents
and to the American people. The overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats,
led by Chuck Schumer, have waged a valiant fight over
the last seven weeks.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Eight Senate Democrats voted with Republicans this week to fund
the government until the end of January. The lack of
air traffic controllers still taking a toll on travelers, with
over twelve hundred cancelations and more than four thousand flight
delays across the country yesterday. Nearly one hundred of those
were in and out of Denver, Dia already reporting eighty
seven cancelations this morning. Aurora police want to expand their
(34:39):
flock camera program. The cameras identify cars involved in crimes
by their license plates. Chief Todd Chamberlain says privacy concerns
about the cameras are unwarranted.
Speaker 14 (34:49):
They don't alert to every hit. They only alert to
the hits where there's crime involved. They alert to a
hit where somebody has taken your property and is now
driving it around and most likely going to use it
to victimize somebody else.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Those flock cameras recently helped identify the driver involved in
a deadly shooting on I two twenty five. Police made
an arrest in that case, but the use of the
cameras has not been fool proof. In September, a Columbine
Valley police officer accused a woman of theft, using flock
camera images as evidence. She was able to prove she
wasn't anywhere near the scene at the time. Now that
(35:22):
officer who made the false accusation will be disciplined.
Speaker 17 (35:25):
The woman's story went viral after her ring doorbell camera
captured officer Jamie Millman handing her a citation for stealing
a package, claiming he used a flock license plate reader
to track her down. Turns out the woman had her
own video captured from her dash cam proving her innocence,
and the police chief dismissed the citation. The town administrator
(35:48):
says officer Millman will be disciplined, but won't say how.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Brenda Stewart Koway News.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
On Wall Street, the dow SMP, Nazmudac all pointing to
a higher opening after our record set day yesterday. In sports,
the Nuggets on the road taking on the La Clippers
tonight after beating the Sacramento Kings last night one.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Twenty two to one oh eight.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
The Avs getting ready to host Buffalo tomorrow night, notching
their fourth straight win beating the Ducks four to one
last night. Fox thirty one pinpoint, whether our stretch of
seventies continues?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
High temperature again today in.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
The low seventies, dipping to the mid forties overnight tonight.
Currently we're at forty six. Our next update in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondeck on Koa.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Played connections and made one mistake. Got through it, though, Gina,
do you do wordle or connections or any of you're
a word person?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Just have my twelve hundred due lingo streak going on
and cannot speak a lick of Spanish to you, So
that is my entertainment.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Uh wait, what does the streak mean? Like twelve hundred
days in a row studying it?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, yep, but studying it is uh is a loosely
is a loose term for me?
Speaker 18 (36:59):
Do?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
How does how does that program work?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Like? How does it teach you?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
If you really want to dive into it? Do a
lingo laid off a majority of its staff, and most
of it's done by AI nowadays, So I'm learning how
to say things like, uh, where is the menu? Or
I went to the store. Not anything helpful or useful nowadays.
And uh, you pretty much do like ten exercises. You
(37:24):
can speak them, you can write them, you can match them,
like match the word. So they do almost like a
match game. It's really just turning off my brain for
five minutes, and I'm definitely not learned.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Okay, can you hit us with no?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Can you no? Where can I get the best cheeseburger?
Dun day is sta?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I don't know?
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Best?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Is it? Mahorr? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I don't speak Spanish. I speak French and some Dutch,
but I want to say, all right, what about it?
What about a good burger? Burger bueno bueno berg?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I don't know. I don't speak Spanish.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
It's really bad.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
It's like you should not be using due lego. It's
not as unless.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
You're oh my gosh, here we ask the text line
at five six six nine zero ross gino or dragons
and see.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
If they can. How do you say?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Where do I find it?
Speaker 2 (38:22):
How about this? We'll mate, we'll genify it.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Where where can I get the best vegetarian burger?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Okay, so that's what we need from listeners. Where can
we get the best that's what we need.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Are you asking for it in Spanish? And Spanish?
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
In Spanish? Not the answer to the question.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I'm asking you to how to you give us the
question in Spanish? Although although as long as we're going
to waste people's time, and Gina has not yet been
fully immersed in time wasting tiptoeing into it, you are
welcome to email the translation of the question, where can
I get the best vegetarian burger? In any language? You
(38:59):
want to send it to us in? And in fact,
what you could do, Oh how about this? Send it
to us in any language and we'll try to guess
what the language is. Don't tell us what the language is.
Maybe it'll be something real tricky, like you know, Croatian
or or right. I mean, there's got to be people
listening who speak all kinds of languages.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Are you going to try to speak it once they
email it? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, No, Rosin would speak Australia. Not really, I could say,
Struth when I interview the Australian punder of the Denver Broncos.
All right, let me do a little news story here
while these cards and letters come in text us at
five six six nine zero, with that question not the
answer to the question text us the question where can
I find the best vegetarian burger? In some text us
(39:45):
that question in some language other than English, and we'll
try to figure out what language it is. Obviously some
will be easy, some not so easy. All right, there's
some speculation going on out there right now, and it's
just speculation, and he's publicly.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Denying it, but of course he kind of has to that.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Denver Public School superintendent Alex Morrero might leave Denver to
go take the same job in Chicago. Now, I would
have thought, and I know this is going to be
a crazy thing to say, but I would have thought that,
given how unbelievably terrible the Chicago public schools are, that
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their goal would have been to try to make their
school system better. So I don't know why they would
want Alex Morrero, who would not seem to be the
guy to do that. But in any case, the Denver
Gazette says, after months of speculation and repeated assurances, that
he wasn't looking to leave Denver Public School Superintendent Alex
(40:54):
Morrero is now one of two finalists for the top
job at Chicago Public Schools. Morrero did not deny or
confirm that he is seeking the job.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
He said in his statement, while I have.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Great respect for Chicago Public Schools and appreciate the professional
recognition implied by recent.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Speculation about my.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Potential candidacy for superintendent, I want to be clear that
my dedication remains firmly with Denver Public Schools, where I
am proud to continue serving as superintendent. Morrero went on
to add, but when they signed their first check, I'm
out of here. No, he did not add that. I
just added that, But I kind of think that's what's
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going on. The Chicago Sun Times and other outlets reported
the tightly held secret, also noting that Chicago School Board
members signed non disclosure agreements to keep the process confidential.
During a public comment session on Monday, former Chicago Schools
Board member Dwayne Trust criticized the lack of transparency. He
(41:58):
said to the board president, we know each other somewhat,
but please don't say the word transparent, because I might
laugh for the rest of my time. On the microphone here,
because this process of electing a CEO has been nothing
but good old Chicago politics.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
And backroom dealing.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
So what I would like to say regarding the concept
of Chicago hiring Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Morrero away
from Denver, what I want to say to that is yes.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Please, yes please.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
What I will note, however, in a moment of seriousness,
is that Denver Public School the board has just moved.
It was already very left, but now is even more
left after recent elections.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And one should not be assured.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
That, as bad as you might think Alex Morrero is,
you should not feel highly confident that this new school
board will actually choose somebody better.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
KOA news time seven sixteen.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
One person is injured after a possible road rage incident
led to a shooting near Carr.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Jefferson County.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Sheriff's deputies were called to an area of Highway two
eighty five south of and Sourdough Drive just before he
thirty last night. After shots were fired and one person
was taken to the hospital. A portion of the highway
was closed for several hours, but has since reopened. The
twenty seven year old horse is dead two others are
recovering from serious injuries after they were attacked by mountain
(43:21):
lions on a ranch and Fort Collins. Ranch owner Dennis
White tells Fox thirty one he's never seen this before,
and he's concerned.
Speaker 19 (43:28):
It's a matter of time, I think, before something else
serious happens with a human and that's a little different
cycle of life.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
He's lived on the property for sixty years and said
he's never seen this many lions, even catching footage of
one on his outdoor camera. Some top CEOs are expected
to have dinner at the White House today with President Trump.
That could include the CEOs of JP Morgan, Chase, Meta, Google,
Open Ai, Microsoft, and Apple. It's the latest in a
series of meetings Trump is held with business leaders. President
(43:55):
Trump says the US doesn't have enough talented people to
fill jobs requiring some skills.
Speaker 12 (44:00):
In an interview on Fox News, Trump said the HB
one Skilled Worker visa program is needed in the US
to bring in talent. When Fox News host Laura Ingram said,
we have plenty of talented people here in the US,
Trump replied, no, you don't, and said you can't take
people off an unemployment line and put them in a
factory making missiles. I'm Tammy Trihio and did you capture
(44:20):
Mother Nature's light show?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (44:22):
The Northern lights or the Aurora borealis produced a rainbow
full of colors visible over much of our state. It
occurs when the sun puts out a mass so strong
it reaches the Earth's magnetic field, creating a geometric geomagnetic storm.
You could let us know what our social media poll
question this morning. If you saw the Northern lights last night,
there is this slight possibility that you could see them
(44:44):
again tonight. Just check Noah's website and you can share
some photos with us as well. Our next update in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Goddek. I'm koa.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
We should make Gina do this because her question the
in a foreign language, the question where can I find
the best vegetarian burger?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
You're gonna make me try to say it.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Out of the three of us, you're the only one
actively taking Spanish.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Yeah, that's true, actively taking Spanish is uh. I'm I'm
the only one that enjoys dual lingo as my leisure
activity and not learning anything and playing it more as
a game on my app.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
But sure, let's see.
Speaker 20 (45:23):
Yeah, pick one, uh, don't de pueto in control la
major ambergesa vehariana.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know you're absolutely right. Those lessons are not sticking.
It's so much better to absolutely right. I told you.
I'm so sorry to a Spanish speakers in.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
His state dragon. Can you put my audio up?
Speaker 1 (45:50):
So I've gone to the source of all knowledge, Google Translate. Yes,
And what I found in Google Translate is that you
can have it speak the thing right. So a listener
sent in a version of this that I could not
even begin to attempt to pronounce, and have a listen
(46:14):
play Asha kaile burgerai wow, right, that is Welsh for
where can I get the best veggie burger?
Speaker 8 (46:25):
Well?
Speaker 2 (46:26):
And then another person sent in this.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
One nan hou chia sushi hana.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
The word sushi is in there, and I don't know.
This is Chinese, not Japanese, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Know exactly what sushi means. I mean, it would seem
like that would mean either vegetarian or burger. Maybe burger, right,
I don't Maybe there just isn't a word for burger
for burger in Chinese any other any other good ones
in there? There were a couple where I didn't recognize
the language.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
I'm seeing a majority of the Spanish ones, which it
looks like a lot of people just put it into
Google Translate because I'm not sure if we're getting the
right verbs.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
But what am I saying because I have no I
have no idea what you're.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
Saying is, so the people that sent Welsh, Yeah, do you.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Think they speak it?
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Or do you think they just plugged it into Google
Translate and found it?
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Just a good question? Random, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Maybe there's a legit person from from Wales who knows,
but probably the latter, Yeah, Or or maybe they speak
a little Welsh and they thought it would be cool
to do it in Welsh, but they didn't know if
they could do it just right, so then they did
it they put it in Google Translate.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
There was another one that looked like some version of
an Eskimo kind of language, and I don't I don't recall, uh,
just which Eskimo language is, because there's quite a few
of them. Might exist in oh wait here, let's see.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
What is that law? Puss both cons that's the best
I can do. It really is, all right?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
This one translate. Can't even do it translate, can't pronounce
the uh the the in in Okay, Wait, where's the
one we're talking about here? What does it say?
Speaker 5 (48:05):
Nook duck?
Speaker 2 (48:06):
However, see it? I see it?
Speaker 1 (48:08):
All right, Let's go here and then uh, I'll go,
I'll go dis Google. What does does Google know what
it is? Kate kua whatever? It can't it can't pronounce
it though, whatever it is, it's detected. It is khua
all right. Anyway, thanks for playing along. And seriously, folks,
(48:29):
we we Gina and I would love to have lunch
with you guys at a burger place, although it has
to be a burger place that has something Gina will eat,
so a veggie burger or black bean burger or something
like that. But if you want to text us at
five six six nine zero in Spanish, it could be
in Spanish, but as long as the name of the
restaurant is the actual name, you can put in any
(48:51):
language you want. Hey, Ross and Gina, we should all
go have lunch at and then put the name of
the restaurant and text us at five six six nine zero,
and we'll pick.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
A restaurant and we'll all meet there. Sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back
on KOA.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
KOA News Time seven thirty. I'm Gina Gondek. The shutdown
nearly over.
Speaker 6 (49:12):
We're going to reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
That's Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer, part of the House Republican leadership,
speaking after a rules committee votes this morning to set
up the final vote later today. He's confident they have
the votes to reopen the government.
Speaker 6 (49:25):
We may lose one, we may get everybody. I mean,
it's the right thing to do, but not.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
All Democrats are on board with the bill that provides
funding through January thirty, f.
Speaker 21 (49:33):
Furious with the decision by some of their Senate colleagues
to push for the reopening because they're still not getting
that guarantee on refunding Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
Foxs Mark Meredith says the Democrats are planning to introduce
an amendment tonight to extend those healthcare tax credits through
the end of the year. Until the shutdown ends, travel
will remain a challenge. There are nearly thirteen hundred more
flights canceled or delayed today due to an air traffic
controller shortage. Transportation sec Terry Sewan Duffy is promising to
pay those workers within forty eight hours of the government reopening.
(50:05):
Following some breaking news this morning out of the House
Oversight Committee, which has just released emails to and from
deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 21 (50:13):
Committee Democrats releasing this January twenty nineteen email or Epstein
corresponds with author Michael Wolfe, less than six months before
the financier would be charged again, this time with sex
trafficking of miners. Discussing President Trump's repeated claim he kicked
Epstein out of his Palm Beach club, Epstein, writing Trump
said he asked me to resign, never a member ever.
(50:35):
Of course he knew about the girls as he asked
Gileen to stop.
Speaker 3 (50:39):
At ABC's j O'Brien, he says there's no comment yet
from the White House. Ravada police are hoping you can
help them identify a man accused of stealing credit or
debit cards and using them at various businesses in Highlands Ranch.
Please say the man went into an open garage on
October fifteenth and stole lawn equipment, IDs, cash and cards.
(51:00):
As a white man around twenty, he has brown hair
and was wearing a white and black True Religion Letterman
style jacket.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
He also drives a dark colored suv, and.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance says that their Southern Toman
dua named Winnie is pregnant. It's native to South America
and is also known as a lesser anteater.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
On Wall Street, stocks are opening higher.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
At the opening bell, and in sports, the Colorado Abs
hosts the Sabers tomorrow night. After notching their fourth straight
win last night, beating the Ducks four to one. The
Nuggets improve eight and two after beating the Kings last
night one twenty two to one oh eight. They're again
on the road, taking on the La Clippers tonight. Fox
thirty one pinpoint whether our stretch of seventies continues. High
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temperature again today in the low seventies, dipping to the
mid forties overnight tonight. Currently we're at forty six in Denver.
Your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondeck on Koa.
Besie tells it was definitely like a Christian video pro
Graham show. That's Theale singing about Jesus and jeezburgers.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
Cheers.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Yeah, really, yeah, it's silly songs with Larry. I think
that's where exactly burger song came from.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
As a carnivorous jew, I guess I missed it. Although
it sounds it sounds mildly entertaining. Its great. You know,
we've mentioned a time or two here that there's another
radio station that uses the same text line at the
same time as us, and sometimes they have some wacky conversations.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
That's why we respectfully asked for you guys when you
text into five six six nine zero, to please text Ross,
Gina or Dragon and uh, but dragging you had a
thought about what we might do just for funzies randomly
throughout the day if they're doing something good over there.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Yeah, good is in quote.
Speaker 5 (52:46):
Just find some random text message from that show and
just see how it plays.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Here's the one. Uh, if a man turns it down.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
The wife is going to think he's getting it elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
So we never turn it down.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Mm hmm, yeah, that seems to be I'm not sure
I want to drag you into that conversation.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
So it's I'm just glad that you you're now seeing
what I see every morning day because the conversations are interesting.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Uh huh. Plus you're newly married, so you're still doing
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
I've been married much longer than you are, so I'm
I'm much.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
In the same boat.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
It's these people on the text line trying to remember
what that was like when I was when I was
newly married.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
But I think we won't get into that today.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
Lest I caused Gina to blush. Oh hey, Gina, let
me drag you into this thing for a second. Because
the topic that you found that I thought was really interesting.
And here's the headline that that you found at Denver.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Seven dot com.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Solution in the sky Weld County sees success using a
drone to fight noxious weeds. And I love this story,
partly because of the use of drones and you know,
way to adapt new technology, and partly because if it's
just really practical import and especially for you know, I
(54:08):
think we've got lots of listeners in the city and
lots of listeners in the suburbs, but we also have
lots of listeners, you know, outside in more rural areas
in the country who live on farms and live on
on land. And I want to make sure that whenever,
whenever we can, we bring stories that relate to them
as well.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
So you found this thing, so tell us a little bit.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
I mean, I know a lot of people have different
opinions when it comes to drones. They talk about how
they're using them on police forces to respond to situations
and stuff like that, and that could be controversial, but
I think this one is pretty fascinating because they talk
about how there's all these weeds and these hard to
reach places and swampy areas.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
That they don't really want people walking out and trying
to deal with.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
And so they have this drone in the Weld County
Drone Weed Program and they named it blue.
Speaker 2 (54:56):
And they named it blue.
Speaker 3 (54:56):
Because it literally sprays out this blue spray that is
killing the weeds and all these invasive non native plants.
I think they said they're even non native to the country,
not just to our state, but they're just things that
they're looking to get rid of. So they're using it
on like county properties and some private properties that need
to be treated.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
If they see that there.
Speaker 3 (55:18):
Is this invasive species and they say that it's more accurate,
they can cover more. They can you know, fly it
over and target exactly what they're looking for. Use it
in the spring when like the weeds are most active.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
And things like that.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
I just think it's it's very fascinating. It's a massive
drone too. We're not talking the little tiny ones that
sometimes people pilot just for fun. It's a heavy duty
device because they're using it with the spray on it,
going to the areas that they need to treat and
then being able to target exactly what they're looking for.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah, and as Gina said in this in this piece,
so far they're mostly using it on government land, but
there are some private properties that have what the folks
who are running this program call listed mandatory eradication species.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
And they've been doing it a couple of years now.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
And and I'll quote from one of the people running
the program here. One of the bigger sites that we've
been dealing with is Coal Bank Dam, and we've always
hand treated scotch thistle up there. In twenty twenty four
we treated it with blue this drone, and this year
we had substantially less, so we actually made progress. And
we're saying, yeay, there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
So as we're heading.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Into Winterna, they're gonna stop using it. But when we'd
start growing get next spring, they're gonna start using it again,
and they seem pretty optimistic that they can do more
and more every year.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Does it have a price? Did it say a price
in there?
Speaker 7 (56:42):
All?
Speaker 1 (56:43):
That's a great question, it's the right question. It doesn't
have a price in here. But what it says is
that they believe that it's demonstrated that it's worth it
for taxpayers. Okay, And you know what I you know,
and you and I haven't talked about this stuff a
lot directly, but you know, I'm kind of skeptical of
government doing this and government doing that, and government spending.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
But when you think about the alternative.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
For this, Like they were just talking about sending lots
of people out there with sprayers, and they got to.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Mix up the chemicals and then you know, and.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
Liquid or water weighs what nine pounds per gallon, and
they got to carry in how many people and spray
all this and maybe, like you said, maybe they can't
access it.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
And I know exactly what they're looking for too. All
these people have.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
To be knowledgeable of Okay, this is this is what
we're looking for, and not start spraying some native plants
and killing off the planet.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (57:35):
So I'm I'm guessing this probably should be a huge
cost saver, right.
Speaker 2 (57:40):
I mean, you've got the upfront cost of buying the drones.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
Probably a little bit expensive, but I bet you're the
cost of operating the drone versus the cost of operating
you know, three or six or twelve or fifty people
going out and spraying.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
I bet, I bet it's a huge savings.
Speaker 8 (57:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
But the other thing that comes to mind because of
what you just said, Gina, is how does the drone
know what to spray? So does it have any ai
does it see a plant and recognize it? Which could
be because I'm sure you've seen these apps on the
smartphones you can point it at a tree or a
plant and it'll tell you what it is, So maybe
it has that, or maybe they just give it a
(58:17):
map and say go to this area and just.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
Disperse the spray.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
But at that point, I guess it depends whether the
spray kills lots of other things or really just the weeds.
But I don't know about that when I saw the video.
Speaker 3 (58:28):
Obviously, drones still relatively have pilots nowadays, so the guy's
piloting it and.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
He's looking through the camera to see it.
Speaker 3 (58:35):
But I think that's the pilot of the drone, So
I don't know if he's then determining what it's hovering over,
or if someone else is looking over his shoulder that
is knowledgeable of what it needs to target, or if
the drone itself is talented enough to be able to
do that. I don't know, but I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (58:51):
I think it would be cool to outfit these drones
with air to surface missiles and for the guy who's
piloting the drone to be able to just take one
shot dog or just or a stump in the ground
that's in the way by just anything, just And wouldn't
that be fun?
Speaker 2 (59:07):
Just why why.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Why did you start with the prairie dog? Why did
you start with the stump? Well, we were talking about
invasive species. I mean, yeah, I don't know. That just
seems like it would make the job so much more fun.
Speaker 2 (59:21):
What dragon?
Speaker 5 (59:22):
I was just gonna jump back here to the text
line and how to say where you can get a
vegetarian hamburger? Yeah, we have a nerdy audience here. Yeah,
the nook quack duck hamburger apparently cling on, cling on,
cling on according to the texture.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
Gen did you speak cling on?
Speaker 8 (59:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (59:44):
You think due? LINGO can help you with that? All right,
let me do this for one minute here.
Speaker 18 (59:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (59:53):
I love this story.
Speaker 1 (59:54):
This is from our news partners at kativ R Fox
thirty one. There's a building at fourteen twenty North Ogden Street.
It's called called the Emerson School. It's in the Capitol
Hill neighborhood, and it was built in the eighteen eighties
and it is the oldest surviving school building in all
of Denver.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Now, it's not operating as a school now.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
It's it's basically an office building and it's been massively refurbished,
and it has this kind of environmental certification because they
did all kinds of thermal stuff for heating and cooling,
with drilling thirty kind of tunnels under it or something.
But anyway, this building, the Emerson School, is up for sale.
It's listed for six and a half million dollars and
(01:00:36):
I have no idea whether that's the right price for
a building like that, but it is just such a beautiful,
beautiful old building, a real piece of Denver history. So
I wanted to mention it to you. I think I've
got it in the blog. If you go to Roskiminski
dot com, which you should check out every day, and
if it's not there, just just go to the Google
machine and type in Denver's oldest surviving school and you'll
(01:00:58):
you'll find the listing. And the picktures of the exterior
and interior of this building are just spectacular. They really
don't make them like that anymore. All right, let's go
back to Gene and see what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
KOA means time seven forty four House members scrambling to
get back to DC for a vote to reopen the government.
Speaker 22 (01:01:19):
We've even got a member, Derek van Orton from Wisconsin,
riding his motorcycle all the way to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
So I think we'll all get here and we will
have a vote to reopen the government. That's Indiana.
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Republican Congresswoman Aaron Houchen overnight to the House Rules Committee
voted along party lines to advance the measure, but did
not adopt any amendments to the bill that would extend
federal healthcare subsidies. The funding package now makes its way
to the House, a final vote expected before the end
of the day. The Columbine Valley police officer who falsely
accused a Denver woman of theft will be facing disciplinary action,
(01:01:50):
but what that will be is still unclear. Sergeant Jamie
Millman was recorded trying to serve a summons to chrisana
Elser in late September, saying that he used block safety
cameras to track her before and after a package was
stolen in Bomar.
Speaker 21 (01:02:04):
It is locked in.
Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
There is a zero down.
Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I wouldn't have come here unless I was.
Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
One hundred sure.
Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
El Sir was able to gather evidence from her phone
in her own vehicle to show that she never stole
the package.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
The summons was dismissed.
Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Breaking the law will soon cost more in Colorado Springs.
In a five to four vote, the city council narrowly
approved a twenty dollars police tech surcharge. This will apply
to traffic and municipal violations, but not to parking tickets.
Police say the charge could raise about five hundred and
forty thousand dollars a year to fund new body camps, tasers,
and other equipment. It's a slow start to the ski season,
(01:02:41):
with warm weather in the metro and in the high country.
Breckenridge spokesman Max Winter that is his last name.
Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Winter.
Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
He says their team has worked hard to get their
mountain open in time.
Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Really, when we're trying to build a base for our
early season terrain, we're really looking for good snowmaking windows,
and so that means a wet built temperature of twenty
seven degrees or less. We haven't exactly had the temperatures
we've been looking for either, and so our teams have
had to work really, really hard in this early season
getting our terrain ready to open.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
He says.
Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
They expect more than a foot of snow to fall
in the area over the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina
gandak Im Kowa by coming to best of.
Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Right, I actually understood that, but that's that's where can
I find the best.
Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Vegetarian burger in Dutch?
Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
And so I actually understood that one because I speak
a little bit of Dutch. But anyway, that's that's what
that's what we're trying to figure out today. And folks,
text us at five six six nine zero with and
this is serious now where you might like to meet
up with me and Gina for lunch for a burger,
although Gina will have to have a vegetarian burger, a
(01:03:51):
black bean burger, something.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Like that, because that's her, that's her thing.
Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
So but send us some ideas and we'll try to
pick a place where we think there's good burgers and
a location where a few people can get together. All right,
a couple things I want to do with you in
this segment. First from the Better Late than Never files
a headline from the Associated Press, the FDA removes a
long standing warning from hormone based menopause drugs. Now, Gina
(01:04:21):
is many, many years away from even thinking about this,
but for lots and lots of women, going into menopause
is no fun. And you know, I, and well my
wife is of an age where this is, you know,
an issue at this point, and I can't speak to
it very directly, but I am led to understand that
many of the symptoms of menopause are not that much fun.
(01:04:44):
I think the hot flashes are probably most famous, or
at least what guys know about, but lots of other
stuff as well. And so there are treatments for that
that involve hormones like estrogen and progestin, and they come
in hills, and they come in patches, and they come
in creams, and these things are aimed to kind of
(01:05:07):
tamp down some of those symptoms, right, the hot flashes,
the sweating at.
Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Night, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Now, for many, many years, there's been a warning label
on this stuff that says that they can cause all
all kinds of problems, all kinds of health issues, and
the data just isn't there to support that.
Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
The data shows that this stuff is safe. And they
quote in this ap article a doctor who deals.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
With this kind of stuff, and he says, I can.
Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Spend thirty minutes counseling someone about hormone replacement therapy, tell
them everything, but when they fill the prescription and they
see that warning label on the package, they just get scared.
And so the FDA is now going to remove that
warning label. Now, some folks say they shouldn't do it.
Some folks say the evident the evidence is not conclusive
(01:06:03):
or definitive enough to feel.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
That confident to remove the warning label.
Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
One doctor at Harvard says the evidence for overall health
benefits is not quite as definitive as what the head
of the FDA said, But she also says the black
box that's the warning is really one size fits all
and it scares everyone away. So anyway, I think this
is a good move because the upside of this for
women who need this help is so large.
Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
And I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
But based on what I've seen in the data, I
think the downside is quite small.
Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So it's a kind of some kind of warning, but
not a warning.
Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Maybe that makes it look like, hey, if you take this,
there's a decent chance something really really bad is going
to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
So anyway, there's that for folks who need that information.
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
One other thing I mentioned yesterday that one of President
Trump's underlings proposed, and then President Trump put out on
social media this idea of offering Americans fifty year mortgages.
I think for most Americans it's a bad idea. I
think it's a financial trap. And the White House isn't
(01:07:11):
actually happy that Trump put that out because this message
got to him without going through the proper channels. Anyway,
from one of my favorite news and I put that
in air quote sources, the Babylon b let me share
this story with you. Financial consultant and radio host Dave Ramsey.
You probably know Dave Ramsey, right big Time financial advice
radio show, was reported to be in critical condition Monday
(01:07:34):
after learning that President Donald Trump had begun pushing a
fifty year home mortgage. According to sources, Ramsey collapsed at
his desk after reading a true social post from Trump
in which he pushed the concept of a fifty year
home mortgage to combat the growing housing crisis.
Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
It was just a sudden shock.
Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
He wasn't able to handle, one person close to Ramsey's
family said, quoting again, just the word mortgage is usually
enough to cause adverse effects on Dave. The president pushing
for a fifty year mortgage, however, was just more than
he could bear. Ramsey was rushed to the hospital after
suffering what was suspected to have been a major cardiac
event from seeing such terrible economic policy. After regaining consciousness,
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he condemned the President for not following his envelope method. Quote,
you can't spend money you don't have, even if it's
stretched out over fifty years. Sure you'll be able to
afford the monthly payment, but you'll never be out of debt. Ever,
Ramsey said from his hospital. Bad nurses later gave him
a sedative and asked reporters to leave him alone. Ramsey's
wife asked for prayers for her husband and for Trump,
(01:08:37):
that the Lord work on his heart and change.
Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
His economic policy. Quote.
Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
I love the President, but he's clearly trying to kill
my husband.
Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Sharon Ramsey said.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
I told Dave to stay off truth social.
Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
But he didn't listen.
Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
At publishing time, Dave Ramsey had been discharged from the
hospital and was able to pay his bill bill in
full with an envelope of cash.
Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Dave Ramsey in critical condition after learning of fifty year
mortgage from the Babylon B.
Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
And if you don't know what.
Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
The Babylon b is, go look that up before you
text at me.
Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
KOA News time, eight o'clock. I'm Gina Gondek. We're on
the verge at the end of the government shutdown.
Speaker 6 (01:09:17):
I'm very confident that we have those votes.
Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
I'm very confident we're going to get this pass.
Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
That's what Congressman Buddy Carter's holds fellow Republicans ahead of
the final votes that's expected at some point today.
Speaker 23 (01:09:27):
Early this morning, a House committee voted to advance the
legislation and reopen the government, sending it to the House
floor for a full vote that they would fund the
government through the end of January and provide some funding
for government agencies.
Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Foxes Lucas Tomlinson says that includes food assistant programs. SNAP
benefits have been delayed this month for millions of Americans.
The Supreme Court has extended in order that bars most
states from fully funding those benefits until Thursday. Republicans will
have to go at it alone. Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 16 (01:09:55):
House Democrats will strongly oppose any legislation that the does
not decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis.
Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
He says he will vote for the measure if he's
able to attach an amendment that will extend Obamacare subsidies
for three months. Controversial issues brought out a lot of
people to last night's Douglas County school Board meeting.
Speaker 9 (01:10:16):
There was a first reading of a transgender athlete policy
that would prohibit biological males from participating in women's sports
and vice versa, and he voiced their opinion on the policy,
some in favor.
Speaker 13 (01:10:26):
When schools ignore this reality and allow boys to compete
against girls, it is demeaning unfair and dangerous for girls
and denies girls the equal opportunity.
Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
Others spoke against it.
Speaker 12 (01:10:38):
This filing is highly offensive in the language used to
attack transgender, non binary and gender non conforming youth, and
is plainly an effort to codify transphobia into our school district.
Speaker 9 (01:10:47):
A final vote on the policy will be taken at
a later date.
Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Chad Bauer Kowa News.
Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
The doug Coast School Board voted down and proposal last
night to extend some charter school contract renewals from five
to ten years. And you may have unclaimed property being
held by the state. State Treasurer Dave Young says they're
finding a lot of valuables in abandoned safe deposit boxes
and other places.
Speaker 18 (01:11:09):
Thanks when they transfer the safety deposit boxes are of
great sentimental value to people.
Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
They may have some pretty good value.
Speaker 18 (01:11:17):
I mean, we've got a six and a half carrot
canary diamond ring that's valued at one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Unclaimed property can also include unpaid wages, utility refunds on
cash checks, stocks, and investment returns. The program has returned
more than eight hundred and twenty million dollars to Colorado
residents since it was created in nineteen eighty seven. On
Wall Street, the Dow up five hundred and three points,
SMP five hundred is up slightly, Nasdack down twenty seven.
(01:11:42):
In sports, the Ads host Buffalo tomorrow nights after getting
their fourth Street win last night, beating the Ducks four
to one. The Nuggets improved to eight and two after
beating the Kings last night. There again on the road,
taking on the Clippers tonight, Fox thirty one pinpoint weather.
Our warming trend continues seventies for much of this work week,
seventies today, dipping down into the forties overnight tonight. Currently
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forty six in Denver or next update in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
I'm Gina gondek on koa best the grimet is pork?
Mm hmm one more time with that, please.
Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Clarvin, you best the crimeat is pork r m hm uh.
Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
That's Icelandic for Gina's question, where can I find the
best vegetarian burger? What dragon obvious?
Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Really?
Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
If you're you're much too quiet? Is it just me?
Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Or is it you got to be just you? Because
I'm already Do you think he's a little bit quiet
or no? Maybe a little little yah. Shannon never talked,
So I mean that is true. Okay, so what were
you saying now? At normal volume?
Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
At normal volume, it's obvious really when you when you listen,
play it one more time.
Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Okay, sure, best right there? Easy, What.
Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
If you didn't know, you're not going to know? Can
I just spell this word for you real quick?
Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
G r ae And it's that kind of ae where
the E is overlapping the A a little bit. They're
stuck together. They're stuck together g r A E N
M E T I s b O r g A
r A n n, which must be Icelandic for veggie burger.
But I mean, veggie burger is kind of a long word. Already,
let's do this other thing real quick. So I just
(01:13:13):
want to say one thing. There was a listener who
just texted in who said, I wish you would do
more local and national news, and I said, well, we
just spent like the last forty five minutes doing a
whole bunch of local and national news stories, and therefore,
in response to the listener's request that we do more news,
I would like to not do more news for a minute,
(01:13:34):
because dragon, what was that listener text that came in
a moment ago that you just asked Gina about regarding
like the perks.
Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
Besides working with Dragon, what is the biggest perk of radio?
Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Okay, I'll give you my answer, and I'll let Gina
ponder her answer for a second, because Gina is a
more thoughtful person than I am, and I tend not
to think about things very much. For me, the biggest
perk of this job, and his answer is so easy
for me, is being able to hold the parabolic microphone
on the sideline of the Broncos game. And it has
been my favorite perk of this job every year for
(01:14:07):
as long as I've been doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
And I tell.
Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Everybody, not just when they ask on the air like this,
but I tell people all the time. Biggest perk of
the job being able to be on the sideline the
Broncos games from time to time.
Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Love that I still need to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
I requested to be on the list, but I know
I'm very late for this season, so hopefully I'm on
the top of next seasons.
Speaker 5 (01:14:25):
Yeah, all right, And just as an fyi to those
for this new time slot from Ross Kaminski, Yeah, he's
got an immense power.
Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
This year.
Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
When Ross listens to the Broncos game, they are eight
to oh yep, undefeated. When Ross Kaminsky listens to the game.
Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Yep, meaning when I listen to Rick and Dave on
the kickaway broadcast, which can be on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Benjamin Albright also claims that when he guesses.
Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
The wrong score, you.
Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Know how we always have long against the bron Against
the Broncos, they also says or eight No, So I
don't know if both of you are causing this, or
if one of you or if I don't know, but
just don't.
Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Okay, So enough about my microphones. What's your what's your? Greatest?
Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Person is going to give some thought provoking I really
enjoy informing the community, being a voice for listeners. And yeah, YadA,
but the concert tickets, I had to say, which doesn't
happen often. But if there is a show where like
I have a tier of shows I usually go through
of like, if there's a show I must see, I
(01:15:31):
will buy tickets for it because I don't want a
chance not having that opportunity. If there's a secondary show
that I actually really want to see, I also will
buy tickets for it. If there's a show where I
would love to see, but I won't be heartbroken if
I don't get tickets for it.
Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Yeah, I'll ask for tickets. Yeah, I'm kind of with
you on that.
Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
But like, I really wanted to see Rush, so I
bought them because I don't know whether we'll get them,
and if we get them here, I don't know whether
they'll be very good.
Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
So I wanted very good.
Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Seats for this listener to best vegetarian burger. Seeking the
best vegetarian burger is like seeking the best suppository.
Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
That's not very nice.
Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Do you love all of those?
Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
It does seem very nice.
Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
That have been saying the best veggie burger is in
the trash.
Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Yeah, that's a little rough.
Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Let me do just a quick financial markets thing here
for a second. Yesterday the Dow was up something like
five hundred and fifty points. The Nasdaq has been a
little bit weak. I think it's down three of the
last four days, and actually down a little bit today,
even though the Dow is up again and the S
and P is up again, and it's it's been this mass. Yeah,
(01:16:38):
the Dow is up another four hundred and forty So
what is that? A thousand points in two days in
the Dow, and part of it, I think is a
sigh of relief that the government shut down is likely.
Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
To end, maybe tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
And also I think there's another thing going on that
I just want to mention briefly. Yes, the Nasdaq is
down the last few days, but that's because the Nasdaq
has been up massively in the last month or so,
And a lot of it has to do with the
idea of not just billions, but perhaps trillions of dollars
(01:17:15):
in upcoming spending regarding AI and data centers and everything
related to that. So it's not just buying the chips,
buying the servers, but it's even things like how do
you get the energy to these data centers?
Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
So maybe they are going to be companies that build
energy systems. Maybe there will be companies that build the interconnectors.
How you get the power from whether it's a natural
gas plant or solar or wind or whatever, but how
do you get it from there over to the data center.
Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
There will be companies having to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
And there's this view out there that the infrastructure spending
on all this is going to be a massive driver
of economic growth. We'll see. I don't have an opinion
about it, but I kind of wanted to help you
understand a little bit why the market has been just
so so frothy over the last couple of weeks. I
(01:18:07):
have more than a couple of weeks, a couple of
months anyway, that look at markets and finances. Brought to
you by Blue Heron Capital. I'll hope you found that interesting.
Let me do another thing that is is not exactly
finance related, but a thing that bums me out a
little bit. You may or may not have been aware
that for many years there have been a lot of
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trade tensions regarding Italian pasta. And there have been folks
in the American wheat business, wheat milling business, pasta business
who have said.
Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
For many years that Italy quote.
Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Unquote dumps pasta on America at a price that is
not only maybe too low for some Americans to compete with,
but maybe lower even from time to time than the cost.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
And I don't know if this is true.
Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
It's just a claim that in the cost of producing
the pasta.
Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
In any case, there was a piece at the Wall
Street Journal.
Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
That I saw a couple of days ago, and you know,
I don't dig this very much. The headline is Italian
pasta is poised to disappear from American grocery shelves, and
the subhead Trump administration is set to impose duties of
one hundred and seven percent on Italian pasta imports, among
the most punitive of tariffs it has levied. And they
(01:19:28):
quote in this piece the CEO of a company that
has a big pasta factory, and he says, it's an
incredibly important market for us, but no one has those
kinds of margins.
Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
What he means is there's.
Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
No pasta business profitable enough that they can still sell
pasta into the United States if there are one hundred
and seven percent tariffs. And it's not that the pasta
making company in Italy pays the tariffs right. What he
means when he says we don't have that kind of
margin is that when the US imposed the tariffs, imposed
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to the tariff, and the tariff is paid by the
American company that imports the pasta and then has passed
along to one degree or another, to the supermarket, to
the consumer. Even if the entire supply chain, including the
pasta company itself, is willing to make less profit, there
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is not enough profit through that entire supply chain to
be able to justify having that Italian pasta to be
available for sale in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
There is just not enough profit. So it's not a done.
Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Deal yet, But this is just something to keep an
eye on and maybe you'll end up seeing at some
point soon Italian pasta will either get very expensive or
it will disappear from shelves entirely.
Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
I sure hope not. That would be bad. It's CooA
news time eight fourteen.
Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
A vote is set for today on a bill that
would end the longest government shutdown and you history, but
still delays and cancelations at airports are expected to get worse.
Speaker 9 (01:21:04):
If this doesn't open, you might have airlines that say
we're gonna ground our planes.
Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
We're not going to fly any more. That's how serious
this is.
Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's comments come the same day
the FAA increased its requirement of airlines to cut six
percent of all domestic flights.
Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
Due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Locally, DIA is dealing with nineteen delays so far this morning,
as well as eighty seven flight cancelations. The deal to
reopen the government comes with what some are saying could
be an industry killing change. The bill that passed the
US Senate on Monday includes a federal ban on hemp
products containing more than point four milligrans of THHC. Democratic
(01:21:43):
Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon says the move would effectively
wipe out an industry that we have been spending more
than a decade creating. America's infant botulism outbreak is growing
despite a nationwide recall of a certain baby formula.
Speaker 13 (01:21:56):
The FDA warn parents on Saturday that thirteen babies in
ten states had gotten sick and needed to be hospitalized
after drinking by Heart Whole Nutrition infant formula, but now
that number has grown to fifteen babies in twelve states.
All the infents are being treated with baby Big, a
special IV medicine designed to treat bachelorism.
Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
New York City mayor elects or on Mundani says he'll
call President Trump before he takes office, even though Trump
endorsed former Governor Andrew Cuomo and threatened to cut federal
funding if Mandami won. No jackpot winner and last night's
Magamillion's lottery. That means the estimated jackpot is now at
nine hundred and sixty five million dollars for Friday Nights drawing,
(01:22:38):
and Pope Leo revealing his all time favorite movies In
an interview with Variety, The Pope said is all time
favorite film is the nineteen forty six holiday classic It's
a Wonderful Life, and his favorite musical is the nineteen
sixty five Oscar winner The Sound of Music. Your next
update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina condek on'm koa.
Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Because somebody mentions Neil Young doesn't mean they're asked you
to play it?
Speaker 6 (01:23:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
No, Why would you run in their mornings like that?
That's not possible, the listener said, So Neil Young tickets
were easy to get, low demand, right.
Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
No, obviously asking for me to play it?
Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
No, not no, No, Fiddler's Green was full and I
did get those tickets for free, but not from work, right.
Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
We didn't want to let work know that we really
wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
No, no, And I yeah, So I just I knew
another way. I know a business that has sort of
they call it a box, but it's sort of a
set of reserve seats, and I asked them if they
had an extra pair of tickets for for Neil Young,
and they did.
Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
To make it even worse, the guy that you asked
wanted to go but didn't have tickets because he gave
them to us.
Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
I know, and I sure wish he had kept him
for himself, right, gosh, bad.
Speaker 16 (01:23:56):
Bad.
Speaker 24 (01:23:57):
So it was his tickets, it was his company's tickets,
but he gave them to you because I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
A client of the company. It's my bank. Go with
you or what was I'm missing?
Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
I wanted a pair of tickets because I didn't ship
for Neil Young, because I didn't want to suffer a loon,
so I didn't want one ticket. So I wanted Dragon
to go with me so he could feel the pain
of going to Neil Young.
Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
And the reason we wanted to go was because reasons.
Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Yeah, it's just a long running gag about how much
I hate Neil Young. Oh, And actually I should say,
as we learned more about him and sort of the
things that he makes sure to get done at the
concerts and all these things that he cares deeply about,
it really makes me feel even worse about him. Can't
(01:24:43):
stand the guy at all no name brand soda, beer,
no name brand beer. No beef, Yeah, no beef. I
think he might be vegetarian or vegan, and he wants
to impose that on the rest of us. You can't
buy a burger and a Neil Young concert.
Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
Those were threety years old. Eighty years old.
Speaker 24 (01:25:03):
Sound all of your opinions aside. Did he sound terrible? Yeah,
but he sounded terrible for a long time. Right, he
sounded just like a slightly older version of terrible. But
he's just an annoying, annoying guy.
Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
All right. Anyway, tickets you.
Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
Didn't have, so on the Neil Young tickets you still overpaid. Yes, yes,
if we were smart, we would have given them away
or paid someone to go in our stead.
Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
But we did it for a bit. But when were
the only ones that walked out?
Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
No? We and yeah and well we we stayed for
a long time, but we had worked the next day,
so I think would we leave just before no encore
or something like that.
Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
But we saw most of the show, eight ten songs
in and they were like, all right, we're out.
Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Yeah, painful, All right, let me do this story that
I had mentioned. His birthday today?
Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Really, yeah, today, I hope there's mandatory retirement at eighty gosh,
all right, I mentioned this story, you know, a few
hours ago when when Ginea and I were sort of
doing the cross talk at the end of Colorado's Morning
News and the beginning of this show. And I just
want to do a couple of minutes with you on
it because I think it's very interesting, and especially because
(01:26:16):
of where this article is, and it's in the New
York Times, and the headline is the Sierra Club embraced
social justice then tore itself apart.
Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
And I will say there's a bit of schadenfreude here.
Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
So schadenfreud a German word meaning enjoying the suffering of
your opponents. So the Sierra this is again New York
Times kind of amazing. The Sierra Club calls itself the
largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the country,
but it's in the middle of an implosion, left weakened, distracted,
and divided, just as environmental protections are under assault by
(01:26:52):
the Trump administration. Now I don't know if that latter
part is true, but this is the New York Times
after all.
Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Now here's the schadenfreud.
Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
A bit the group has lost six eighty percent six
zero percent of the four million members and supporters it
had in twenty nineteen. It has had three rounds of
employee layoffs since twenty twenty two, trying to climb out
of a forty million dollar projected budget deficit.
Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Its political giving has also dropped.
Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
It shows that they gave three point six million dollars
trying to beat Donald Trump in twenty twenty, but none
in twenty twenty four. And I just want to kind
of go into what they did here because it strikes
me as a much bigger, more aggressive version of the
thing that I was saying a few years ago, where
(01:27:38):
where I said, I said, I realized there's a big
generational difference and younger people will tend to feel a
little bit differently about this than I do. But I
thought it was a big mistake for corporations to get
involved in politics and for businesses to start taking overt
positions on controversial issues of politics and culture, because again
(01:28:00):
going back to that Michael Jordan thing, Republicans buy sneakers too,
so Michael Jordan is not in the business of offending
you know, potentially half of the customer base, and to
me what the Sierra Club did. Even though they are
already you think of them as kind of left leaning
as an environmental organization, they were very, very focused for
their entire existence up until several years ago on just
(01:28:21):
the environmental stuff. But as the New York Times says,
the Sierra Club lost its focus and then its strength,
and they hired Ben Jellis, who I think I've had
on the show one time before, who ran the NAACP
for a while. But basically what they did was they
decided that environmentalism wasn't enough to raise enough money, and
(01:28:45):
they had these very very left wing people running the
board of directors and all this stuff, and so they
wanted to get involved in all kinds of other stuff.
So they got involved in in in DEI and all
kinds of culture issues and social justice, and they thought
they would recruit more young members, and it just didn't work.
(01:29:08):
They also expanded the number of their own workers covered
by a union and then voluntarily raised the union members'
salaries by an average of more than thirty percent over
five years, which is contributing to their downfall.
Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
And then listen to this.
Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
This just gives you a sense of how far they
abandoned their environmental mission. They issued what they called an
equity Language Guide, which warned employees to not use words
like vibrant and hard working because they reinforced racism. Wait
what they also said don't use terms like a lame
duck session of Congress because the word lame is offensive.
(01:29:45):
And they also said don't use the word Americans because
it excludes non US citizens. So I don't have time
to go into this in greater detail, but I do
have it up on the blog at Rosskominsky dot com,
and it is a fascinating story that I think has
wider implications for when an organization loses its focus and
(01:30:06):
the perils of that.
Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
KOA News Time A thirty, I'm Gina Goddek.
Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Still a lot of housework ahead.
Speaker 16 (01:30:15):
Welcome back from your taxpayer funded seven week vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries preparing Democrats to vote today
on a funding bill to reopen the government. He wants
an amendment attached to the bill that will include an
extension of Obamacare tax credits that are set to expire
at the end of the year and drive up healthcare
costs for millions of Americans. Republican Congressman Buddy Carter willing
to compromise.
Speaker 10 (01:30:37):
I agree, we're probably going to have to extend some
of the substies temporarily to see if we can't get
some of those premiums down.
Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
But long term, the Unaffordable Care Act is not working.
Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
The Senate promises to take a vote on that next month.
Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Republicans reacting this morning after Democrats on the House committee
investigating Jeffrey Epstein released a series of emails referencing President Trump,
we haven't.
Speaker 22 (01:31:01):
Heard back yet from the White House on this that
we have heard from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee,
and if they accused Democrats on this panel who released
these files of quote, carelessly cherry picking documents to generate clickbait.
They say they ultimately will release these documents once they
go through redact things like victims' names.
Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Et cetera.
Speaker 22 (01:31:19):
And they say, quote, Democrats should stop politicizing this investigation.
Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
ABC's j O'Brien. President Trump says he plans to sue
the BBC over a special that contained edits of his
speech on January sixth.
Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Those edits combined comments that were far apart.
Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
The BBC called the cuts and error in judgment, and
two top leaders resigned to over them. Colorado is one
of seven states that missed a deadline this week to
decide how rights to the Colorado River get divvied up.
Now the federal government may step in. Gary Wanker with
Save the Colorado points out they're fighting over a dwindling resource, and.
Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
I think that is the cause of why this has
taken so long and why it's a few times that
have openly broken out into rhetorical site.
Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
The current agreement expires next year, but he believes the
next deal won't change much and says the government could
give states an extension to reach an agreement. And there's
a slight chance you may be able to see bright
colors light up the skies again tonight in our state,
after many of you took some pretty stunning photos last
night of the northern lights. But meteorologists are predicting more
cloud cover overnight tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Which could obscure the view.
Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
You can check out the forecast for the Aurora Borealis
by logging onto the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space
Weather Prediction Center website on Wall Street. The Dow is
up four hundred and fifteen points s and p up slightly.
Nasdaq has down sixty four. In sports, the Nuggets improved
to eight and two after beating the Kings last night.
Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
They're in La tonight taking on the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
The Abs got their fourth straight win last night, beating
the Ducks four to one and box thirty one pinpoint.
Weather seems like it's the same forecast on and on again,
in the seventies for the next couple of days, dipping
down into the forties overnight tonight. Currently we're at forty eight.
Our next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina gondek on Koa.
Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
I only mentioned.
Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
It was his birthday because you played the first.
Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Song, which was requested from the text line led.
Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
To me googling how old Neil Young is, which led
to him being eighty today.
Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
I should just leave now birthday. You two can just
play Neil Young and.
Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Happy birthday Neil Young.
Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
I do love this text though, that says the best
veggie burger is like the best Neil Young song.
Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
That's even better than comparing it to a suppository.
Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
That's absolutely perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
I want to touch on a news story that's just
breaking today and Gina mentioned it already, but she's sort of,
you know, coming out over the past hour or two.
I'm going to go to Politico for this, and it's
going to be interesting to see. I don't know whether
this is an important story or not. I think I
think in the substance of it, I suspect it's not
particularly important, but in the politics of it could be.
Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
And so this is the headline from Politico.
Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
Jeffrey Epstein, a newly released email, says Trump quote knew
about the girls.
Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Now, let me just give a little context here.
Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
When if somebody says that Donald Trump knew about the
girls with Jeffrey Epstein, and specifically if Jeffrey Epstein says.
Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
It, we got to be really careful.
Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
And I'm not looking to be sort of just aggressively
defensive of Trump at the moment. I continue to believe
that Trump most likely did not do anything wrong with
any of those girls, and.
Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Perhaps didn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
I think probably didn't know, but I won't go too
far on that what Jeffrey Epstein was doing to slash
with these underage girls in a way I suppose you
can't say with it has to be two right when
you're talking about girls who are under the age of consent,
then you're not doing really something with the So I
(01:35:01):
suspect that Trump didn't know, and I suspect that Trump
didn't participate. So when Jeffrey Epstein says, and I'll get
to the email in a second, that Trump knew, what
exactly did he know? Again, without looking to be overly
defensive of Trump, because I just want to know the truth,
(01:35:22):
it could be that knew about just means that Trump
knew that Jeffrey Epstein liked to can noodle with, you know,
girls on the younger side. Now I don't mean I
don't mean underage, okay, of age, but young. And of
course Donald Trump has his own history with with women,
(01:35:45):
with cheating on wives, and when he was a younger guy,
certainly dating women who as far as we know, young
but of the age of consent, you know, legal. The
whole thing just sort of makes me want to take
a shower just talking about it. It's all kind of gross.
Congressional Democrats just released some stuff that was handed over
(01:36:08):
to Congressional investigators on the House Overside Panel, handed over
to them by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. The House Overside Panel
has been looking into this stuff for quite a long time,
and this committee has also subpoena DOJ records. And in
any case, Epstein wrote in a twenty nineteen email to
(01:36:28):
author Michael Wolfe, who is the sort of muckraking guy
who wrote a book that appears to have a lot
of stuff that isn't true. But in any case, Epstein wrote,
Trump said he asked me to resign, but I was
never a member, and talking about the Mara Lago Club,
and then Epstein wrote, quote, of course he knew about
(01:36:49):
the girls as he asked Gelaine to stop.
Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
So here's what I think this is about.
Speaker 1 (01:36:56):
I think Gallaine Maxwell who was procuring these girls for
Jeffrey Epstein and perhaps for Jeffrey Epstein's friends. That's part
of the story that remains a little bit unclear as
to who might have done that stuff. Like, for example,
at this point, it looks like the former Prince Andrew
of England, who has now been stripped of his title
(01:37:17):
prince in addition to everything else he was stripped of
before just a few weeks ago, actually removed the title prince,
which has probably never happened before in the history of England, right,
not just in recent years, there's probably never been a
time where a prince had that title stripped from him,
and I think there's only one time where it got
(01:37:38):
even close, but it was voluntary, where King Edward the
eighth of England abandoned his throne to marry a divorced American.
Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
Woman named Wallace Simpson.
Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
So it's an incredible thing that happened there with Prince Andrew.
What I suspect is that Gallaine Maxwell, who was procuring
these girls, went to Marrow Lago. And we know she
did this with Virginia Giuffrey, the woman whose book was
(01:38:13):
recently published posthumously because she killed herself. But we know
that Epstein's henchman or henchwoman was going to mar A
Lago and recruiting girls there and Epstein and Trump said
(01:38:33):
cut that out. This is you're poaching my employees. Separate
perhaps from a question of what the employees were then
gonna go do. Trump was mad that Epstein directly or
indirectly was stealing his employees. So we will see how
this all plays out. The other thing that I wanted
to mention here is that with the House back in session,
(01:38:54):
the first thing I think.
Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
That they're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
Maybe it'll be the second thing, but I think Johnson
said it might be the first thing is to swear
into office the newly elected congresswoman gri Halva is her surname,
which is the same surname as her dad who held
that office. She was elected now to Congress. She's a Democrat.
She was elected something like seven weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
Ago or eight weeks ago, but not.
Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
Sworn in because of the government shut down, and also
Speaker Johnson wanted to delay there a little bit because
she is going to be the final vote needed to
force the House to.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Then take a vote on.
Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Opening up the Epstein files whatever Congress has, rather than
going through the regular committee process. So it'll be interesting
now that this is out there to see whether any
of the small number of Republicans who are going to
go along with all the Democrats in releasing the Epstein files,
will any of them change their vote? I suspect they won't.
Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Okoa News eight forty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
One person is injured after a possible road rage incident
that led to a shooting near Conifer.
Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
Jefferson County.
Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
Sheriff's deputies were called to the area of Highway to
eighty five and Sourdoak Drive just before eight to thirty
last night. After shots were fired. One person was taken
to the hospital. The investigation is underway. Mountain lions causing
grief un of Fort Collins Ranch. They've attacked three horses,
killing one of them, the other two recovering from serious injuries.
Then his White Tailsbox thirty one. He found his twenty
(01:40:28):
seven year old horse dead in a ravine.
Speaker 19 (01:40:30):
He tells he was covered with Mountain lioners will cover
their kill for seven to ten days and then they'll
come back.
Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
He's lived on the property for sixty years and says
he's never seen anything like it. The Denver Public Schools
Foundation using its Food Security Fund to help feed families
affected by the federal government shutdown. The organization has given
more than one hundred thousand dollars to schools and community
hubs to help stock food pantries during the shutdown. And
some top CEOs are expected to have dinner at the
(01:40:58):
White House today with President Trump. It could include the
CEOs of JP Morgan, Chase, Meta, Google, Open Ai, Microsoft,
and Apple. The newscast sponsored by done Right Home Improvements,
Your Next Update coming up at nine o'clock I'm Gina
Gondek on Kowa.
Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Dragon is playing this Neil Young.
Speaker 1 (01:41:16):
So I played some Tom Sawyer good music, and then
I had to play the kneel down.
Speaker 5 (01:41:22):
I had to play the Neil Young Dragon. My birthday
is the same as Neil Young. I've seen him maybe
five times. Happy birthday to me and Neil. Okay you,
Happy birthday to you. Random text birthday to the listener.
Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
But you know, like if you eat something that's not
very good, you get a palette cleanser.
Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
It's often like.
Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
A little maybe lemon soorbet. Even after you eat maybe
something good in the middle of a fine meal, you
have a little pallette cleanser, and so then you can
get on to new things.
Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
So can you pop my computer up for a second place?
Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
No, palt cleanser. No, no, he says, this is the
palette cleanser.
Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
Go ahead, Nope, see because it's still playing, I can
put it in queue and hear it off the air.
Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
All right, fine, I'll do something else. Go ahead and
put my computer up now. Not a chance, is it.
I've worked with you far too long to know. Wait,
is my computer up?
Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
No? It's not all right.
Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Uh, let's do a thing that I used to do
with Mandy and now I'm gonna do with Gina.
Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
You ready, Oh? Okay, it's real or fake?
Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
And I give you four headlines. One of them is
fake and you have to guess which one it is. Okay, okay,
and Dragon, If Gina gets it right today.
Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
What does she win?
Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
A veggie burger? I knew you were going to say that.
We can actually make that, make that happen. All right,
Here we go. Oh look what we're starting with. Right
after we talk about food?
Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
You'urin based astronaut food to be tested on space station.
Man who bought used Mercedes finds out it had wooden
brake pads. A study says people who binge drink and
as teenagers earn more money later in life.
Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
WHOA and your last headline?
Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
Research seems to show that people who own an alpaca
live as much as seven years longer.
Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
Huh ah, Can you give me the first one again?
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
First one is you're in based astronaut food to be
tested on space station? Dragon, put my computer up. No,
I just heard it, Gina. What do you think is
the fake headline? Can? I?
Speaker 17 (01:43:28):
God?
Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
I really hope it's the first one, but for some reason,
I have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'll go with the first one.
The actual fake headline dragon is.
Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
Research seems to show that people who own an alpaca
live as much as seven years long. Arn can you
put my computer up for a second, not a chance.
I hate you a little bit today, Gina, you do
not win a Edgie Burger, but you will have another
opportunity tomorrow. All right, all right, that's another three hours
of radio magic of Ross come in Ski on the
(01:44:00):
news with Gina gandak Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Well played because we have it in our system. Because
they're coming to Ballerina next year. So fabulous. Everybody, have
a wonderful rest of your day. That other guy up
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