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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Koa News time six o'clock. I'm gna condek. The government
is open for business again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's an honor now to sign this incredible bill and
get our country working again.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Thank you Brenthian Trump Banking House Republicans for returning to
the Capitol for the first time in seven weeks in
order to pass the short term spending bill to reopen
the government now. The measure does not address expiring Obamacare
tax credits, so most Democrats voted against it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That includes those representing our states.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Congresswoman Britney Petterson says the bill does nothing to address
the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, and Jason Crow says Colorado
families deserve better than an alleged promise from Republicans who
have repeatedly gone back on their word. Republican Congressman Jeff
Heard on what the bill does.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Most importantly making sure that our men and women in
uniform and are dedicated federal LA enforcement officers and TSA
agents and air traffic controllers get paid again. Also restored
funding for critical programs like SNAP.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Republican Congressman Jeff Crank says it's a shame Democrats chose
their own partisan games overpaying our troops and the federal workforce.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Chad Bauer KOA News.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
There's still nearly twelve hundred flight cancelations across the country today,
seventy six of those in Denver, as the FAA is
trying to get air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Back to work.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Now, the FAA is freezing the flight reductions at six percent,
hoping things will get back to normal by the weekend.
House Speaker Mike Johnson promising to address the issue of
health care subsidies again next week and to hold a
vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
The White House sum in Colorado Congressman.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Lauren Bobert yesterday asking her to remove her name from
a petition to force a vote. She refused, but says
she still stands behind the president.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No, I don't feel marginalized at all. President Trump is
an amazing man. I stand by him.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
I stand by his administration and everything that he is
doing to fix the mess on.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
The Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The White House accuses House Democrats of selectively releasing the
emails from Epstein, many of them containing references to President Trump.
This emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that
President Trump did nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Jeffrey Epstein was a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Member at mar A Lago until President Trump kicked him
out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
He was a creep.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. President Trump has repeatedly
called efforts to release all the files a witch hunt.
Denver's newest pro sports team encouraging fans to help break
the new NWSL league attendance record when it kicks off
its inaugural season next spring at a power field at
Mile High.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
When I think about this building, when I think about empower.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
Field at Mile High, it's a symbol where dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That's team owner rop Cohen.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Denver Summit FC is selling single game tickets today. The
team may have some trouble though, getting their new stadium
at I twenty five and Broadway built in time for
the twenty twenty eight season. A city council committee says
it needs more information about the proposal before it agrees
to chip in fifty million dollars to buy the land
for the stadium and make improvements to the surrounding area.
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Stock Future slightly down this morning on Wall Street and Sports.
The Avs aiming for their fifth straight win tonight, as
they're hosting Buffalo at Ball Arena. The Nuggets now there's
sixth Street victory beating the La Clippers on the road
one thirty to one sixteen. They'll be facing the Timber
Timberwolves coming up Saturday night, Fox thirty one.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Pinpoint.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Whether our stretch of seventies continues. High temperture right around
seventy three degrees this afternoon, dipping down to the forties
overnight tonight, back into the seventies tomorrow. Currently we're at
forty seven in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'm Gina Contek on Kowa Thursday. It's my favorite day
of the week.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Gina and I were just talking about how little there
there is in the way of local news. You know,
we're your local news station, but everything's just so national
right now. The you know, front page of the newspapers,
national stories. It's just h That's so today we're gonna
have a lot of national stuff to talk about, and
and lots and lots of news. You've heard many stories
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from from Geno over the last hour, and we're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Talk about quite a few of them.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
I would just like to say and I'm saying this
primarily to producer Dragon, but since we're all friends, I'm
gonna mention it. I'm a little off kilter this morning
because Dragon.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I forgot to put my trash out.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
Oh dear God, I didn't write it in an email.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
I didn't, and you didn't remind me. It's your fault. No,
so it's your fault, just like it would if it's
my fault. If the Broncos don't win, it's your fault
that my trash isn't out.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I do have a question on this trash situation.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is it like your trash is overflowing in your next
couple of days are just gonna be an absolute mess
if you don't take your trash out.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
In reality, no, okay, but psychologically for my wife, yes, ah,
got it. My wife gets the equivalent of terrible psychological
constipation if the trash does not go out, and it's
really bad, it's right, it's really Do you understand that
makes sense?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah? Yep, Okay, Let's let's do.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Some things, and oh, Dragon, can you at least do
your job and remind me, like maybe seven thirty to
call someone at my house and telling them to put
the trash out. Sure, yeah, set an alarm. That would
be kind of funny. Actually, you really, you really should
even like on the air going into that break.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Just remind me on the air, like okay, okay, So
let's do it. We got a lot of news to
talk about today.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
So first it would feel like bigger news than it is,
but there's so much other stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Still.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
We need to mention the end of the government shutdown.
The House passed the bill last night. President Trump signed
it later last night. The government shutdown is officially over.
There will still be some residual impacts on air travel,
and we'll talk about that a little more, and we'll
also see how it plays out. You heard Gina mention
that the FAA had said they were going to stop
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ramping up, but are not yet ramping down the percentage
of flights that they are requiring to be canceled at
the forty biggest airports as the number of air traffic
controllers coming to work starts to ramp up again. The
air traffic controllers are supposed to get seventy percent of
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the back pay they are due within forty eight hours
and the rest within a week. I don't know why
it works out that way. I'm just telling you what
they said. I did also note that Gina posted a
question on Koa's Twitter or x which is x dot
com slash Koa Colorado, and the poll question was how
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much does your day to day life change with the
government shutdown over? And it's not a massive number of votes,
but basically ninety percent of people said it won't change
my life at all, which is a very interesting thing,
and I think that's part of how this played.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Out the way it did.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, when I was looking at it, I had a
feeling that would be a majority what people would say too.
But like my sister's husband, for example, is a government employee,
and he's like.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Man because he's actually somewhat enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now they are very financially able to do that, and
it's not the same for air traffic controllers and people
like that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He was like, I've kind of enjoyed by time.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Just so it'll be interesting to see how, just like work,
progress continues, just like it did when people worked from
home for a little bit and then we're told to
come back to the office or are you going to
see people maybe a little less motivated to keep up
the work.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, and for sure that'll be a problem for management,
like how do you how do you make these people want?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Now?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Air traffic controllers better not there do their job, you
know half you know what it's this is not like
a radio show where you can, you know, be semi
professional and still be sitting behind the microphone. At KOA,
they have much much higher standards for air traffic control
than they have for me. And so anyway, so I'm
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not at all surprised that not at all was the
main answer for Gina's pole question, but I was a
little surprised that it was ninety percent. That's a very
high number. So the other thing, and I'm going to
talk about both of these things repeatedly throughout the show.
But the Jeffrey Epstein thing is getting more and more
interesting politically, and I.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Want to talk about a few things here.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
I'm not going to get all of this in that
I need to talk about, so I'm going to do
it multiple times over the course of this show. But
there was a new member of Congress elected in Arizona.
Her name is Adelita Grihalva, and she was elected to
Congress after her father, whose first name escapes me. Same
last name. I believe he died and she ran for
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that seat. She won that seat. She was elected fifty
days ago. The Speaker of the House did not swear
her in as they were first he was busy, and
then we hit the government shutdown and he said he
not going to swear in until the government is open again,
and then he did once the government was open. But
the key thing is that they were one vote short
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on that so called discharge petition that would force a
House vote on the release of the so called Epstein files.
As soon as she was sworn in, she signed that
petition and that forced the vote. Now one interest to
there's actually a lot of interesting things.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The Speaker of the House could.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Have delayed that vote, not forever, right, there's an expedited
procedure when it comes to a discharge petition, But that
vote probably could have been delayed until after Thanksgiving, you know,
maybe at the latest. Instead it's going to be next week,
which is a very interesting thing. And to me, it
feels like they just want to rip off the band
aid and get it over with.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's how it feels to me. Now.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
The other thing, and again, you heard this in the news,
and you heard Gina play an audio clip of Congresswoman
Lauren Bobert and I talked about this briefly on the
show yesterday. I said, the only way that they're going
to be able to block the discharge petition is if
they could peel off one of the Republicans who is
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on it, and I didn't think it was very likely,
but they gave it the old college try.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
They apparently called.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
But maybe didn't connect with Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who has
become more Boberty than Bobert herself in recent months, but
apparently with Lauren Bobert. Not only did she meet with them,
the reporting is they took her to the White House
situation room and sat her down with the head of
the FBI and some other DOJ big shots. I don't
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recall from the reporting if Pam Bondy was there, but anyway,
they really put the full court press on Lauren Bobert,
and she did not cave in and did not remove
her name from the discharge petition, and so when Adelie
de gret La signed it, that was it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
They had enough and that starts the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
So again, many aspects of this to talk about, but
I'm going to focus on the politics for a second.
So when you think about the vote that's going to
come up, there's two ways that could play out, and
one is much more likely than the other.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'll give you the less likely way first.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
The less likely way that vote plays out is that
all of the Republicans who refused to sign the discharge petition,
which is almost all I think it was four Republicans
maybe who signed it, that all of them who didn't
sign it stay a no vote, and one of them
who did sign it becomes a no vote and the
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thing fails as right by one vote in the House.
That's not likely, after all, if you were someone who
was going to be peeled away from it, you would
have been peeled away at the stage of the discharge petition, which.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is a much less public thing.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Once you get to an actual vote, and you're already
on record, as you know, wanting this stuff out, and
now people know you signed the discharge petition. If you flip,
then you're gonna look terrible, really really terrible. So the
more likely outcome is not only that the vote to
release the Epstein files passes, but that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It passes with everybody who voted.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
For the discharge petition and another twenty five fifty seventy
five even one hundred Republican votes. And where this is
going to get interesting and we'll talk about it later
in the show, is what does this mean, if anything,
for the relationship between Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress.
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All Right, a lot going on in the world. Let's
check in with Gina and see what else she's got
for us.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
JOA News Time six fourteen.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
A Douglas County teacher facing charges, including suspicion of sexual
assault on a child.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
This allegedly happened back in twenty twenty three that teacher,
Teresa Whalen allegedly began a sexual relationship with a middle
school student who was apparently struggling with mental health issues.
Whalen had been assigned to that student as a support person,
according to the affidavit. Now, the relationship allegedly lasted more
than a year, the student telling police that she would
hang out in her office and send each other explicit photos.
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Then core documents show when the student ended this relationship,
Whalen apparently started showing up at his home.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
In a police interview, Whalen.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
Allegedly confessed to the relationship, saying she knew what was
wrong and she deserved to be in jail for her actions.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's Fox thirty one's Lisa Desu's a part of the
huge construction project on the I seventy corridor through Clear
Creek County, completed ahead of schedule. C dot's Floyd Hill
project director Kirk Kianka says they've done a lot of
work on the east bound lanes.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Well.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
We started construction in Jly of twenty twenty three, and
in the last two and a half years we've made
significant that's everything from a quarter to midway down Floyd
Here all the way back to the east to County
Road sixty five.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He says the east side to the midsection of Floyd
Hill is ready for drivers. Once the project is completed
on both sides, it should help ease some of the
congestion we see during the ski season. Starbucks celebrating its
annual Red Cup Day holiday promotion today, but not all
stores will be cherry and bright. One thousand Starbucks employees
are planning to strike its stores in more than forty
(14:26):
cities over a labor dispute and contract negotiations.
Speaker 12 (14:30):
A statement from the Workers Group says the Seattle based
company has refused to offer new proposals on staffing and pay.
While CEO Brian Nicol takes home a reported ninety five
million dollars in compensation, Starbucks insists that it treats it's
burreased as well, that average pay and benefits amounts to
more than thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
At ABC's Jim Ryan and the US Mint struck its
final penny yesterday. President Trump previously announced plans to retire
the coin, citing production cost as a primary reason.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina on KOA.
There's I think I would have gotten it before that.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Right, It's just a camera click, but it's very distinctive
freeze frame first, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I thought there was a little like a shutter of
a camera.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Let's see here, hang on, no, see, yeah, you're right,
and then it's right, and then the camera is right
after that.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, got it?
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Okay, that would have been easy even for me. Even
Gina would have gotten that one. Probably if the song,
oh yeah, yeah, do you know the song?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I don't think I'm gonna be good at name that
tune because I know songs, but I don't know the
names of them.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
That's okay. We're gonna be terrible at the songs that
you pick. Okay, great, because you.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Know all the new music and we know the old music,
and I'm bad at the game.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Anyway, you can get a Rod's quarter point just for
having heard the song.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, song, got it? Okay.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
So there's there's been some controversy, as I'm sure you've
you've heard, and a couple of stories in the Denver
metro area around these flock cameras, and it's a big
thing in Denver itself where the city council wanted to
cancel the contract, but.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
The mayor said, no, We're going to go ahead with it.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
And these are the cameras that capture license plates primarily,
although I'm guessing they can be used for other things.
But the way we think about them is they capture
license plate data and then I guess what they do
is they look at the number, correlate it with some
kind of database, and report to law enforcement. Hey, this
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there's a warrant out or all points bulletin out or
whatever you call it for this vehicle and it just
showed up here. And then the other possible use, of course,
is maybe there's a crime committed and they think they
have a license plate, maybe they have a partial license plate.
Someone said, oh, yeah, it was a blue forward with
a license plate that started, you know, a seven to three,
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and then they can search this database for a seven
to three and then see if it's a blue forward
and then they can try to figure out where the
car went. In any case, there's been some fear or
consternation or something among some folks about how the data
it will otherwise be used, such as might the federal
government get access to the data and use it for
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deportation purposes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And then, of course the story that Gena and I both.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Talked about yesterday regarding Columbine Valley where this police officer
falsely accused a woman of committing a crime based on
quote unquote evidence from those cameras, and I guess in
a way it was evidence, but it was just a
little bit of evidence.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It wasn't anywhere near conclusive evidence.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
It showed that this lady was near the area that
the crime was committed around the time that the crime
was committed. That hardly seems like enough for the coup
to go to the woman's door and say I know
with one hundred percent certainty that you did this, when
in fact she didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But anyway, that's also flocked cameras.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
And I wanted to bring this to you because I
saw a really interesting news story yesterday about a lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
In Washington State. Now, since it's in Washington State, it
does not.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Apply necessarily here in Colorado, but it does give some
guidance as to what might happen if this kind of
lawsuit came to Colorado. And I'm going to kind of
summarize here, but there was a plaintiff who maybe he
was accused, I'm assuming he was accused of something, and
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he was a defendant in a case, and he made
a public records request to the police department in Snowhomish.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
This is an awesome name, Snowhomish, Washington.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
And the police department said, and I'll just tell you
what the police department said back to him, and this
is this year. They said, a search of our electronic
databases and paper records was performed. There were no responsive
records found in the police department's jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
We are not okay, what's the bicyclely? What the guy
asking for was all of.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
The flock camera pictures and data logs for one particular
hour on one particular day. So that must have been
like where I'm surmising the time frame where he was
accused of committing a crime and they say they have
him on camera, right, So he asked for all of
that for one hour on one day, and the police
department said, the police department is not the holder of
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the records you're seeking. You may be able to request
them at flocksafety dot com. The police department believes this
fulfills your records request. So this went to the judge,
and the judge gave a ruling that I think is
going to have a lot of folks, especially folks in
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more left leaning places, folks who already have significant privacy
concerns that kind of thing. I think this is going
to have folks like on the Denver City Council very concerned.
And here's what the judge says. The flock images generated
by the flock cameras are public records under the Washington
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State Public Records Act. The flock images are not exempt
from disclosure wow the agency, meaning the police department, does
not have to possess that record. For that record to
be subject to the Public Records Act. In other words,
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the cops can't just say, oh, we don't have it,
maybe Flock has it. Therefore, you can try to get
it from them and try to use that as as
a way to say you can't get it under a
public records request and rather try to turn it into
some kind of difficult way to get data out of
a private company.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Instead.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
What the judge is saying is these are public records
no matter who possesses them. And the reason is is
not just that, oh, it's a camera that's out in public.
That is not the determinative thing. The determinative thing is
that these camera images and i'll just quote from the
judge are created and used to further a governmental purpose.
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The images created by the cameras were paid for by
these cities and were generated for the benefit of these cities.
And so therefore her ruling is that whether the police
department has them or Flock hasm, this guy who wants
the images must be given them. And that will be
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very interesting to see what happens when somebody who doesn't
like the Flock camera system will see that and bring
that same kind of public records request to Denver and
will end up with the same kind of lawsuit, and
we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
KOA News Time six point thirty. I'm Gada Goddek.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Federal employees getting back to.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Work today now that the House is voted to reopen
the government and President try signed off on the measure.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
For the past forty three days, Democrats in Congress shut
down the government of the United States and an attempt
to extort American taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Now, the measure doesn't solve all the airline troubles right away,
but it does pay air traffic controllers and should bring
most of them back to work.
Speaker 13 (22:17):
Six House Democrats joining nearly every Republicans that pass it.
The bill has passed, but many Democrats still furious that
deal cut by eight Senate Democrats does nothing to address
the expiring Obamacare subsidies that the party spent forty three
days fighting for.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
At ABC's Rachel Scott, Colorado, Democrats did not cross party
lines to vote for the bill, but as expected, Republicans
are all for it.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Just after the vote, Republican Congressman Jeff Herd posted a
video on social media.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Crowd along with my fellow Republicans and to the handful
of Democrats to have reopened the government, restoring funding for
critical programs at families across the district in our country
rely on.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Democratic Congressman Jason Crow says, it's not a bill that
works for Colorado. It does nothing to address the rising
cost of healthcare, and it will leave hundreds of thousands
of Colorado's at risk of seeing their premiums double.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Chad Bower koa news.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Denver prosecutors deciding to file felony charges against the man
accused of stalking Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Burst.
Speaker 14 (23:18):
It's really for me in my case, but it's also
I hope some really's got going forward. The Denver DA's office,
as well as other DA offices around the state, take
stocking more seriously.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Kylie joined us earlier in Colorado's Morning News and says
she spent the past.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Year looking over her shoulder and living in fear. After
the seventy year old suspect began following her. She received
a restraining order and was surprised that he was only
charged with misdemeanor stalking. She's now relieved that charge has
been upgraded and you only have a few days to
get current tags on your car before Denver police start
a campaign cracking down on expired plates.
Speaker 15 (23:53):
It was more important than the number of citations that
we write or the number of people that go and actually.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Register their vehicle.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Newly purchased vehicles must be registered in person at DMV offices,
while registration renewals can be done online or at was
one of their kiosks. Stock Futures down slightly down, Future
down fifty two points, SMP down nine, Nasdaq down thirty four.
In sports, the Abs host the Buffalo Sabers at ball
Aerina tonight. The Nuggets celebrating their sixth straight win last night,
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beating the Clippers on the road one thirty to one sixteen.
They have a few days off before facing the Minnesota
Timberwolves Saturday night, Fox thirty one. Pinpoint whether our stretch
of seventies continues. High temperature right around seventy three degrees
this afternoon, dipping into the mid forties overnight. Looks like
we'll cool down a little bit for the weekend. Currently
forty six in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes.
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I'm Gina gundeck im Kowa.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
I didn't even know if you realized it was dual person.
I know the one, but I'm not sure I could
know the other.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
So the one is what we just talked about with
the flock cameras, okay, and the other is what Gina
and I are going to talk about right now. Her
very interesting interview with Fox thirty one's Kylie Burst about
this stalker who was watching her so well well played,
even if accidentally.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I'll take it as a win.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Yeah, Gina, before we sort of talk, you know about
it in a big way, can you just tell folks
a little about that interview in case they didn't hear
it when you did the interview forty minutes ago, was
Kylie Burst?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
What's it about? We'll get it posted on our website
for sure if you want to hear all of it.
We talked with her about a.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Month ago when she went public on her social media
talking about this stalker situation that she's been dealing with
for years. She said that she had to move as
a result of it. One time this guy followed her
home and it's just been a situation where he actually
believes she is his wife and it's been a situation
where she is he's gotten her personal phone.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Number, and it's been on and on and again.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
But then at one point all came to a lull,
and she said, there were several months where I didn't
hear from him, and then it came back up.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
That's when he followed her to her house. She called
nine one one.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
They responded and filed these charges, which ended up only
being filed.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
As misdemeanor charges.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Their claim was because there was a gap in between
those stalking reports that three months or however money months.
She said that they can't say that it is continued stalking.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It's been going on for years.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
When the Denver Post had an incredible article written about
explaining that just because there was that gap doesn't mean
it stopped.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
He likely was doing it and she wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Noticing, and that's usually something they do as a fear
tactic in order to try to get them to feel
a little more comfortable and maybe just.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Not be looking behind their back as often. So she
went public with this.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
She is a pretty decent following on her social media
and obviously as a Fox thirty one meteorologist, and she said,
I am just so frustrated and the fact that the
denver DA only misdemeanor charges and this should really be
felony stalking and I'm fighting this and I feel bad
for anybody else who has been in similar situations, and
it just blew up on social media, so many people
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talking about similar occurrences, so many people saying.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That the denver DA has to do something.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Different, and just I think I want to say that
maybe that post is the reason why they reevaluated the situation,
because I'm feeling a lot of other people have been
in similar situations, got the misdemeanor charges and they just
that was it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But now because she has such a.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
High profile following and this, I mean, she was on
international news like she was covering it all over the
play she was on news Nation everywhere and just explaining
that I just want.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
To see something change, something needs to change.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And sure enough, the latest update is that the denver
DA is filing felony stalking charges against this individual.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And we were able to kind of catch up with
her today and talk about how it's a.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Relief because she hopes that maybe this can be a
good stepping stone for future people that are dealing with
similar situations.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right, So that'll be up. Where will people be able
to hear that? Faywaycolorado dot Com, go to the Colorado
Morning News tap. Shannon will be getting it up in
just an hour here.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
So well, let's leave his personal life out of this.
So you didn't no, no, uh, I'm just gonna breeze
that right on by that We're just.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Gonna keep going.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Yeah, So, Geine, I'm gonna ask you this is more
of a personal but not sort of non specific question.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I think these stalker issues are that.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
It makes sense that they cause more fear in women
than men because your average man, well it depends who's
doing the stalking, but your average guy is probably certainly
not gonna be too afraid of a woman stalking, and
not a little afraid of a guy stalking. But for
a woman to have a guy stalking her seems very
frightening for a whole range of reasons and just and
(28:57):
I'm wondering how you know, you as a women in
the media, you know, what does that how does that
story make you feel?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's it's definitely very very tough to hear because when
you think of the situations that she's been in, of
literally the man following her home, getting her number, constant calls.
You talk about, you know, gender roles of how it
you know, determines how this works. Okay, Yes, men generally
have more power to them. It is a little more
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concerns about what they can do physically. But also on
the female side of it, I mean they can just
go on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
All these male.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Celebrities are always talking about, you know, female fans that
are so obsessive that it.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Becomes, you know, a disturbance in that situation too.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Sure, but it's been something that obviously anybody in the
media is concerned about. We keep things close to us
of when it comes to privacy, but also.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's not private.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Our jobs are not private by any means, and so
it's like you have to decide and draw a line
of how much you want to share how much you don't.
And obviously, when her face is on TV constantly.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's a lot harder to have that privacy because you
go out and about and people know exactly who you are.
I went into radio for a reason.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I enjoyed being behind the scenes and situations like that.
But it's scary, I mean, it's a very scary situation,
and I feel so bad for her because it's been
something she's been dealing with for so long and finally
said I'm going to do something about it, and then
felt even more beaten down that the justice wasn't.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What she was looking.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I was surprised how long this story went on without
something being done. And I do think there's long been
issues with the Denver DA. I think it's the new
DA now, but that office with prosecuting crimes, not just
this kind of crime. They need to figure some things out.
Thank you, Gina. It's a really important and interesting story.
Let me just do a very very quick sports story
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with you here. I'm gonna do this literally in one minute.
But we talked week and a half ago whenever this
news broke about these two Cleveland guardians pictures who seem
to have gotten involved with fixing particular bets, not so
much fixing games, but fixing bets on individual pitches where
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it seems look it's not proven yet, but it seems
like what they did was they coordinated with gamblers, and
the gamblers would bet that the player would throw a
ball on such and such a pitch rather than a strike.
And of course it's a lot easier to guarantee that
you'll throw a ball. You just throw one and basically
hits the dirt before the plate. And there were some
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there was some odd betting, And it looks like they've
got these guys, so we'll see. In any case, what
I wanted to tell you about is that Major League
Baseball now has told all of the sports betting operators
who are at least authorized by MLB to have MLB
bets two different things regarding pitch betting. One is no
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bet on a pitch can be more than two hundred dollars,
and the other is no bet on a pitch can
be included in a parlay, because parlays tend to not
just add odds, but almost multiply them. So if you
were to put, let's say, a bet on this pitch
and then a bet on another pitch the odds, if
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you get them both right, you would win a lot
more than if you bet them separately and got them both.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
So now you won't be able to do that.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
It's gonna put a lot of it's gonna make it
a lot more difficult to profit by trying to rig
bets on pitches.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Koa News Time six forty eight, a former owner of
a Parker Jim, will be sentenced today after he was found.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Guilty of sexually assaulting two teen athletes.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Prosecutors say fifty one year old Aaron Thomas Currado abused
the teens between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty two at
the Strength and Christ Jim and other locations. The case
began when his ex wife discovered troubling notes and messages
he sent to the victims and notified authorities. President Trump
seeking a pardon for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netniaho, who
is currently standing trial in his country for bribery, fraud,
(33:04):
and breach of trust.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Trump's letter to.
Speaker 16 (33:06):
The President of Israel expressed that he respects the independence
of the Israeli justice system and his requirements. Let's said
the case against Netnyah, who is a political unjustified prosecution.
The office of Israeli President Isaac Hertzog announced it had
received the letter from President Trump, while also noting pardon
requests must be carried out through established procedures.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I'm mark Neyphew.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
An iconic civil rights leader, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, is
hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency.
Speaker 17 (33:31):
For more than a decade, Reverend Jackson has been battling
a neurodegenerative disease called progressive supra nuclear palsy. The eighty
four year old was originally treated for Parkinson's, but last
April his PSP condition was confirmed. Reverend Jackson kicked off
his iconic career more than sixty years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Foxes Anita Blanton and the conditions weren't as ideal as
Tuesday nights, but Colorado residents are still getting a glimpse
of the northern lights. There's still a chance they could
be seen tonight, but it's not as likely as the
past two nights.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He could.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Noah's Space Weather Prediction Center website for the weather conditions,
Your next update in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I'm gina go on deck on KOA kind of.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Like Hosier, but my wife really really loves him. And
we saw him at Red Rocks and he was he
was He was pretty good. Have you have you seen
Hosier a couple of times? It seems like someone you
would dig. Yeah, at Red Rocks.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Not at Red Rocks. I've seen him at a couple festivals.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh oh wait, yeah wait, I was at the Red
Rock show.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, all right, huh. I forgot about that. Honestly
at this point.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I've seen a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
There's very few artists I have haven't seen nowadays.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, so I can sometimes forget where I saw them,
But every Hosier show I have seen, I very much
have a joined.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Okay, just one question before we get to the church thing.
Are you similar to my wife in the sense of
somewhat drooling over Hosier?
Speaker 15 (34:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
He is a cutie pie.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
I like.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I like when he I like when he talks with
his little accents.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Where's he from the Irish? I don't remember where he's from. Yeah,
maybe Irish. Anyway, my wife thinks he's hot.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
But he's Irish. Yeah, all right, Andrew John Hosier Earn.
So that really is part of his name? Yeah, I
guess so. I actually just learned that too. Yeah all right,
it's not his birthday today, like we learned with Neil Young.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Just yes, now you give Dragon ideas, all right, let
me just do this church thing. There's a reason that
Dragon played that song is kind of a funny thing.
And we live in the age of there's an app
for that. Actually, I haven't heard anybody say that in
a long time, maybe because it's just so obvious. Now
there's an app for absolutely everything. But this is from Axios.
(35:46):
Meet Chat bought Jesus. Churches tap AI to save souls
and time. I think it's pretty clever. A new digital
awakening is unfolding in churches, where pastors and prayer apps
are turning to AI to reach worshipers, personalized sermons and
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power chatbots that resemble God. Now I'm not sure how
they would not. Maybe they asked chat GPT, what's God like?
But it is a little that wording is a little
odd resemble God.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
AI is helping some churches stay relevant in the face
of shrinking staff, empty pews, and growing online audiences, but
the practice raises new questions about who or what is
guiding the flock.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
New AI powered apps allow.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
You to quote text with Jesus or talk to the Bible,
giving the impression you're communicating with a deity or an angel.
Other apps can create personalized prayers, let you confess your sins,
or offer religious advice on life's decisions. Robert Jones, CEO
of the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, sarcastically asks.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
What could go wrong? All right, so let me just
on this by you as a listener.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Question text us at five six, six nine zero, and
I basically have two questions for you. Do you have
any experience with these religious kind of apps? And if so,
tell us a little bit about it and generally just
based on what I told you just then, what do
you think about it?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
KOA news time seven o'clock. I'm Gina Goddek.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
After a record forty three days, the government shutdown is over.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
It's an honor now.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
To sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
President's Bob putting in signature on the funding bill right
after the House approved it last night. Colorado's Democratic congressional
members voted against the measure, but six Democrats did cross
party lines in order to vote in favor of it.
The measure funds the USDA and restore snap benefits for
millions of Americans through next September.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Lawmakers are already leaving town again. They're not expected to
do any work.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
For the rest of this week, but they'll be back
next week.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
And there's another caveat to all this.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
There is the possibility of another government shutdown on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
At the end of January, Fox, as Mark Meredith, Democrats
did not get the extension of Obamacare tax credits that
they demanded.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
House Minority Leader Hakeem jeffries.
Speaker 18 (38:07):
If philosophy, my way on the highway, our response get lost.
We're going to continue to fight hard on behalf of
the American people.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Without an extension, millions of Americans will pay more for
health insurance. Republicans promise to address health care policy changes
to bring the costs down. Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert voted
for the funding measure, but she refused President Trump's request
to take her name off a petition to get Congress
to demand the release of the rest of the Jeffrey
Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Why would I put my name on and then not
vory it. I'm a co sponsor of the billing, of course.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
The book, I'll Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will
now hold that vote next week. Several of the emails
released yesterday include numerous mentions of the President. The Denver
City Council Committee wants more information before approving the proposed
women's soccer stadium near I twenty five and Broadway Council
Woman's Era Parodies says she's hesitant to allow the city
to spend fifty minus billion dollars on the land and
(39:01):
improvements in the area unless the mayor and sum At
FC team owners can assure her that they'll get a
return on the investment.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
It's really important to me to understand the poverty tax
numbers and what's producted.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
At this point, I really need math on this, and
I need that economic impact study to be an updated.
The team plays its first game in March at m
Powerfield at Mile High and we'll then move to the
temporary stadium in Rapo County ahead of the opening Bell
doll futures one hundred and three points up, SMP down nineteen.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I should say down.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That is down one hundred and three SMP down nineteen,
nasdack down ninety three. In sports, the Avs aiming for
their fifth straight win tonight when they host Buffalo at
Ball Arena. The Nuggets had their sixth street victory last night,
beating the Clippers on the road one thirty to one sixteen.
They'll face the Timberwolves Saturday night, Fox thirty one pinpoint.
Whether our stretch of seventies. Continues high temperature right around
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seventy two today, dipping down to the mid forties overnight tonight.
Currently we're at fifty in Denver. Our next update in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondak on Kowa. I have to
call my wife or kid and tell them to put
the trash out.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
A quick follow up on some of the numbers Gena
gave you about the pre market indicators here for stocks
looking very very slightly down, not big moves at all.
Here the Dow is up over thirteen hundred points in
the last four days, really incredible number. S and p
(40:24):
up less than ASDAK actually down a bit. You've got
a lot of this rotation going on. But what I
wanted to just say here for a moment is now
that the shutdown is done, the market is going to
get back to looking at thinking about trying to predict, well,
what's really going to happen next, How will the economy be, how.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Will inflation be? Will the FED cut next?
Speaker 8 (40:51):
And these are all questions that if I knew the
answers for sure, I'd be very very rich.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
You don't, nobody does, even the FED probably doesn't know
what they're going to do with their next meeting, which
is not for another month. What I would suggest to you,
if you're someone who's really interested in all this, of course,
keep an eye on the stock market, it's very interesting.
But also watch very very closely the bond market, particularly
the ten year note, which is the most actively traded thing.
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And remember that while the Fed controls short term rates,
they only modestly influence long term rates, which are really
set in the market by people buying and selling bonds
and setting those interest rates primarily based on their view
of the long term path of short term rates, like
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for how long will rates below and also what will
inflation be. So just keep an eye on all that stuff,
because that's what the market's going to be keeping an
eye on that. Money and Markets update brought to you
by blue Hair in Capital. Now speaking of money, and
I think Gina mentioned this earlier. This story comes from
the It's About Time files associated press headline US mint
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Press's final Pennies as production ends after more than two
hundred and thirty years. Wow us ended the US ended
production of the penny yesterday And obviously these were part
of our lives, you know, when I was a kid.
I'm gonna sort of date myself a little bit. But
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when I was a kid, a penny it was not
really like you could buy a lot with a penny,
but you could definitely go into a candy store and
find a piece of candy that you could buy for
one or two pennies. And even a candy bar when
I was a kid might have been twenty cents, right,
something like that. Gina's never seen a twenty cent candy
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bar unless it was in the manager's special beIN at
King Soupers, and probably not even there.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, Manitou Springs still has what they call their penny arcade. Yeah,
nothing's a penny. They have some of the very very
old games that were actually it's still not really a penny.
They were my five cents, you know, little games that
they had. But no, honestly, nothing for a penny.
Speaker 8 (43:08):
I mean for you and and even for me now
these days. I mean, don't you kind of think of
a penny as trash? I don't know, I'm not trying
to insult it.
Speaker 9 (43:18):
Would you would you pick a penny up if you
saw it?
Speaker 6 (43:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah maybe not? Whoa well, if it's on heads right,
see this is what's all over the text line too.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
From talking about this earlier, a whole bunch of people
saying they'd only pick it up if.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
It were on heads only. Good luck.
Speaker 8 (43:33):
Yes, I'm flipping a coin. I almost always call tails
because tails.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Never fails right on the ground, so it's heads. Would
I pick up a penny? I don't know? And this
is ross talking, right. I'm the dude who will go
out of the way to, you.
Speaker 8 (43:52):
Know, save fifteen cents on something at the super I'll go,
I go on the app. I go on my King
Supers app and flip do the digital without fail.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Would I pick up a penny? Maybe not. Now here's
the thing Chad Bauer and I were talking about it earlier.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Of my go to souvenir are the pressed pennies, these
machines you collect there.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah, I have a whole.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Book of them, and so I'm like, well, what happens
to those now? Yes, they do say there's like three
hundred billion pennies that are still in culation, so it's
not like they're going to completely vanish right away. But
I love those machines because I just love just collecting
and having a little memento.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
From each place, but not like all right, you have
some big chotchkey or something book of them, like the
kind of book if you were collecting coins and you'd
put yes, yep, all a little press pennies. How many
do you think you have? H we started it not
that long ago, maybe like five project with your husband.
Speaker 11 (44:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Now here's the thing now, because it feels like we
don't have pennies available as much. I feel like sometimes
I do come across them and go, I don't have
a penny right now.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
I wonder if those machines are going to go away.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, some of them are smart enough now where like
they have the penny in the machine.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yeah, I've ever traveled with your own pennies just to
be able to put them in the machine. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Actually, if we're going on a trip where we would
know there'll be a lot of them, we probably have
like fifty or sixty of them.
Speaker 9 (45:16):
Now, where's the coolest or strangest penny smashed penny you have?
From Wall Drug?
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Waldrug?
Speaker 9 (45:23):
Wall Drug?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
I've never heard of Waldrune. Oh oh wow, don't. We're
not even gonna tell you about it. Speaking of Wall Drug, Yeah, coffee.
So we're getting there. I think, so, yeah, if you've
got to well maybe it was a penny too. I
don't remember, but I know they had your pennies.
Speaker 8 (45:39):
So here, okay, here's how I I'm a little off track.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Here, but here's how I think about change.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
I don't use cash very much anymore, but if I've
got change, I drop it in the little cup holder
in my car and then it accumulates to whatever. And
then so let's say you go and you buy something
that's you know, eighty six cents, and you have eighty
six cents in chain.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
And you just give them the coins. Right, Okay, that
means that thing was free. Oh yeah, that's girl math,
it is. Yeah, that's girl math. Great girl math. Yeah,
what's girl math?
Speaker 8 (46:12):
Mean?
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Girl math is pretty much exactly what you just explained.
Have you heard that term dragons? Sure? Havelf Yeah, girl math.
And so here's the other thing.
Speaker 8 (46:22):
Let's say something costs a dollar seven and you're paying
in cash, and you and you give them a five
dollar bill and you get back three one dollar bills
and ninety three cents in coins because it costs a
dollar seven. Right. That means that thing actually costs two
dollars because those coins are worthless, yeah, right, and the
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other way around if it was if it was a
dollar seven and you had a seven, and then it
only costs a dollar. So that's actually a way to
get to get unbelievably filthy rich is to use coins
right wherever you can, and then everything is on sale
or even free.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah. I agree. That's girl math, Girl math who knew.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Koa news Time seven seventeen put the federal government shut
down over. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessont confident the economic situation
of many Americans will begin to approve. He says the
Trump administration will be making substantial announcements over the next
couple of days on their efforts to bring down prices
on items not normally grown in the.
Speaker 15 (47:25):
US, coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits of
things like that, so that that will bring the prices down.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Speaking on Fox and Friends, Vesont added that President Trump
hopes to increase wages for workers by bringing manufacturing back
to the country. The next time you make a trek
up I seventy on Floyd Hill, you may notice some
pig improvements. Constructions started on the highway back in twenty
twenty three and crews have gotten the eastbound side pretty
much done ahead of schedule. The director of Sea Dots
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Floyd Hill Project, Kirk Kianka, says westbound traffic will also
see some changes.
Speaker 11 (47:59):
You drive the westbound direction, you actually see a fourth
lane traveling eastbound. That's that extended on RAM, that new
connection from US six heading back to the east, so
the trucks can get up to speed up over top
of the hill before that lane drops.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
The goal is to relieve the bottleneck on Floyd Hill
and add a third express lane in the westbound direction.
Three Denver police officers being recognized for going above and
beyond in order to help the public. The Citizens Appreciate
Police organization honored Captain Daniel Moorehead for helping a woman
in distress by buying her a meal and connecting her
with an outreach case coordinator. Officer Robert Anderson helped the
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grandmother who was the victim of fraud, even visiting her
on his own time to make sure she was okay.
An officer Michael Barrios was honored for curing a child
having seizures to an ambulance, helping to get the child
to the hospital more quickly. The Newsgas sponsored by Common
Spirit Health. Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondek on KOA a.
Speaker 8 (48:55):
Couple more things I want to say on this coin story.
So we're not making anymore after yesterday, Actually, you know,
stamped out the final couple pennies. I think they're going
to keep some of them at the US Treasury as
you know history, and then some of the other very
very last pennies to be to be stamped, to be
minted are going to be auctioned off and the rest
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will be out there in the world with the other
unlimited number of pennies that are basically trash.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
But it's going to save the taxpayers.
Speaker 8 (49:24):
According to the US Treasure fifty six million dollars. And
one of the things I wanted to mention on this,
which I think is quite quite fascinating, and I think
this number includes.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
The cost of distribution, not just the cost of the metal.
Speaker 8 (49:39):
But it costs three point seven cents to make a penny,
or maybe to make and get it into circulation. It
doesn't matter whichever it is. It's kind of nuts three
point seven cents to make a penny. And in case
you're wondering about you know what what coin might come next.
In terms of looking at whether it's worth making, a
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nickel costs just under fourteen cents to make now, so
a nickel looks like it might have some trouble too.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Dime is no problem, right.
Speaker 8 (50:09):
A dime costs less than six cents to make, and
a quarter costs between fourteen and fifteen cents to make,
So those are both all right, although you still spend
a lot of money to make them. But a nickel
a nickel, you know, fourteen fourteen cents. The other thing
just is I'm a bit of a nerd. I used
to collect coins. I haven't for a while. But the
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very last coin to be to be canceled by the
United States was the halfpenny, and that was it, like
just before the Civil War, I think eighteen fifties they
discontinued the half cent. So it's been a heck of
a long time since they since they canceled the coin.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
When do you think pennies will be like nonexistent, Like
it will be rare to see a penny because they
say there's like three hundred billions still in circulation. Then
will obviously continue to be But when do you think
down the line, they'll be going, wow, look penny.
Speaker 8 (51:07):
So half sarcasm is like they're trash and people don't
want to deal with them.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
Non sarcasm is.
Speaker 8 (51:15):
That even though they're probably never going to be worth
more than about a penny, you probably will see people
collecting them and they won't spend them, and they'll just
put them in a jar in a drawer somewhere, you know,
either just for reminiscing or thinking that they'll be worth
something one day.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
But if I remember correctly, I haven't looked at this
for a long time, but pennies are not one metal.
Speaker 8 (51:40):
They're two metals at least, and it makes them challenging
to melt down.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
And so it's difficult.
Speaker 8 (51:47):
Even though it costs, like, you know, three point seven
cents to get a penny into circulation, you can't easily
take pennies and do something with them that gets you
three point seven cents per penny.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Seven point five percent zinc, two point five percent copper.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Right, And even though it's unbalanced, what's that? What the
time for you take out your trash ross?
Speaker 8 (52:13):
Oh that's the alarm. That's the alarm. Okay, I'll tell
you what we're gonna do when we come back. I
saw an interesting piece in the Denver Post about Governor
Polus's budget, and of course Colorado's got some budget troubles
because Democrats routinely spend too much money, and Governor Polis
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is trying to figure out how to reduce that budget
and he wants to do a lot of it on
the backs of cutting medicaid spending, which, by the way,
makes sense because medicaid is exploded as a fraction of
state budget, something like a third of the state general
fund spending right now. But surprisingly to me, we had
a Republican who is somewhat likely to be the Republican
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candidate for governor criticizing police for cutting medicaid spending. That's
Bob Kirkmeyer. She's going to join me and Gina to
talk about it right after this. All right, I'm going
to go try to get someone to take my trash out.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
KOA News Time seven thirty. I'm Gina Goddec.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
There will be no day forty four of the federal
government shutdown on this vote. The a's are two hundred
and twenty two. The a's are two oh nine. The
bill has passed. The call in the House. Is the
bill passed largely along party lines.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
President Trump quick design it and to urge lawmakers to
work on preventing future shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
And did the filibuster terminate the filibuster? It'll never happen again.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
But it could happen again in January if Democrats aren't
able to get the healthcare tax of subsidies they've been demanding.
Six Democrats breaking with their party and voting in favor
of the latest funding bill, but Colorado Democrats weren't among them.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
Congresswoman Britney Peterson says the bill does nothing to address
the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, and Jason Crow says Colorado
families deserve better than an alleged promise from Republicans who
have repeated gone back on their word. Republican Congressman Jeff
Heard on what the bill.
Speaker 5 (54:04):
Does most importantly making sure that our men and women
in uniform and are dedicated federal law enforcement officers and
TSA agents and air traffic controllers get paid again. Also
restored funding for critical programs like SNAP.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
Republican Congressman Jeff Cranks says it's a shame Democrats chose
their own partisan games overpaying our troops and the federal workforce.
Speaker 6 (54:25):
Chad Bauer KOA News.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
There's still nearly twelve hundred flight cancelations across the country today,
seventy six of those in Denver, as the FAA is
trying to get air traffic controllers back to work. The
FAA is freezing the flight reductions at six percent, hoping
to get things back to normal by the weekend. Denver's
newest pro sports team, Denver sum at FC, encouraging fans
to help break the NWSL league attendance record when it
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kicks off its inaugural season next spring at empower Field
at Mile High More. Single game tickets will become available today,
but the team may have some trouble getting their new
stadium at I twenty five and Broadway built in time
for the twenty twenty eighth season. A city council committee
says it needs more information about the proposal before it
agrees to chip in fifty million dollars to buy the
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land for the stadium and make improvements to the surrounding
area on Wall Street. Stocks open, lower Dow down one
hundred and twenty nine points, SMP five hundred down thirty three,
nasdack down one hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 3 (55:23):
And in sports, the.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Abs aiming for their fifth straight win tonight when they
host Buffalo at Ball Arena. Then Nuggets clinched their sixth
straight victory last night, beating the Clippers on the road
one thirty two, one sixteen, Fox thirty one pinpoint weather.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Our stretch of seventies continues today.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
High temperature right around seventy three degrees dipping down to
the mid forties overnight tonight. Little cooler by your Saturday,
into the upper sixties. Currently we're at fifty in Denver.
Your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Goddeck on KOA.
Speaker 8 (55:52):
Let's get right to our KOA Commons Spirit Health hotline,
where we are joined by State Senator Republican state Senator
from Welld County, Barb Kirkmeyer, who is seeking the Republican
nomination for governor. And before we just bring Barb into
the conversation, let me just share with you two headlines
that kind of lay out the topic we are going
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to cover with Barb today. The Denver Post says Governor
Jared Polis's proposed Medicaid cuts get cold reception from lawmakers
and the Denver Gazette says Polus's budget proposal faces backlash
over Medicaid, and I was a little bit surprised, although
I think it just meant that there was a lot
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I didn't understand to see a fiscal conservative like Barb
Kirkmeyer aggressively criticizing medicaid spending cuts because the costs of
Medicaid are squeezing so many other things out of the
state budget, and Barb knows more about the state budget
than almost anybody.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
So it just meant to me there's.
Speaker 8 (56:56):
Something I don't understand if a conservative Republican is criticizing
Medie cuts. So, Barb Kirkmeyer, welcome to the show, and
please edumacate me on why a fiscal conservative like you
is opposing medicaid cuts or these specific Medicaid cuts.
Speaker 11 (57:13):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 19 (57:14):
There's a difference between constraining growth and misplacing priorities. And
that's the problem we have with this governor. Every time
he presents a budget. Responsible budgeting means you tighten your
own belt first kind of thing. This government, governor, he's
not necessarily constraining growth where it matters. He's only constraining
growth for families and jeopardizing access to healthcare for everyone,
especially women. He's cutting care for kids with autism and
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new moms. But he's growing government by another two hundred
full time employees, another two hundred employees in a time
when we are in a structural deficit for the fifth year.
So that's not constraining growth. That's shifting it onto the
backs of the most vulnerable. So here's what's happening in
our state. If you rely on Medicaid insurance, if you're
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in a maternal health care desert, if you have a
child with autism, for example, you're taking the cuts. If
you're a bureaucrut, you're going to get a raise. How
does that make sense. That's why I was going after
the governor. This governor used to balance the budget on
the backs of students. Now he's balancing the budget on
the backs of people who rely on Medicaid and jeopardizing
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healthcare for everybody, every Colorado. But I think that's irresponsible.
And let me just tell you why. I say it's
every Colorado, because I know that sounds probably sounds crazy
to folks, and you're probably thinking, what's gotten into Kirkmeyer.
But here's the thing. Our healthcare system right now is
in crisis mode. And if you continually, year over year,
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cut the amount of dollars that you reimburse hospitals, doctors, nurses,
and clinics and everyone else in the healthcare system for
health care services that they provide, they either go out
of business or they stop providing that service.
Speaker 3 (58:55):
And what has happened.
Speaker 19 (58:57):
We have twenty five counties that have made maternal health
care deserts. No maternal health care that is not just
for people on Medicaid, that is for every woman in
that county has no place to go for maternal health care.
Every woman. So I don't know why he's trying to
jeopardize health care for women throughout the state of Colorado,
but that's what he's doing. And it's gotten worse since
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the governor continues to come in with these cuts.
Speaker 14 (59:21):
And it's not just this year.
Speaker 19 (59:23):
Year over year, he has been not funding reimbursements to
providers at even at inflation, and even at inflation, which
means that's a cut they can't afford it. So here's
what's happened. Delta County in the last eight weeks close
their maternal health care in Delta County in Loveland, they
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closed the hospital up there. One of the hospitals up
there closed their emergency care and their impatient services. And
another hospital in Greeley is talking in Greeley now is
talking about closing their maternal health care because they can't
afford it. And it goes back to these cuts to providers.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
And so let me let me.
Speaker 19 (01:00:04):
Jump in here, bar I am here.
Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
All right, let me let me let me jump in.
And I think Gina may have a question for you
in a moment as well, but let me just jump in.
So I'm fully with you that Governor Poulis has grown
government too much.
Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
I think we need to keep that a separate issue.
On the on the Medicaid thing.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
And you know this very very well, as as one
of the smartest, most informed members of the Joint Budget Committee.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
That meant, the cost of.
Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
Medicaid and the share of the total General Fund spending
that is eaten up by Medicaid has just been absolutely exploding.
Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
So let's say I take you at.
Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
Your word that by having reimbursement rates that are not
even keeping up with inflation, effectively, every time a doctor
performs a procedure of some sort has an appointment of
some sort with a with a Medicaid patient patient that
doctor in conince dollars is getting paid less and less
every year and at some point it's unsustainable. So I'm
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with you on all of that, but I would submit
to you that something must be done to restrain the
growth of cost of Medicaid.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
So what is that thing that needs to be done?
Speaker 19 (01:01:19):
And thank you, that's a great question. And we need
to look at the services that we are providing and
who are we providing those two I'm not saying we
shouldn't be making some kind of cuts in this area,
but we need to look at that. So we have
expanded the number of people and different populations that we
provide Medicaid insurance for and right, and then we have
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to pay the providers, so we need to look at that.
There is about forty percent of the population that is
able bodied, that means able to go to work. And
you know, this is one of the discussions that was
coming up at the federal level, is like, is they're
able bodied, shouldn't they be required to go to work
before they can get on Medicaid? Or maybe we should
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limit the amount of Medicaid that they can receive. I
think there are things that like that that we need
to look at the percentage of the federal poverty level
that we are using. We have expanded it. Normally, when
medicaids started, it's at like one hundred and thirty eight
percent of the federal poverty level. Now, I want everybody
to understand the amount of income annually. Income for a
family of four, the federal poverty level is that if
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they're making less than about thirty three thousand dollars a year,
they're considered in poverty. Right, they're less than that federal
poverty level. So, you know, we were supposed to be
providing medicaid for those people who are truly the most
vulnerable among us, truly the most you know, lowest income,
the people who can't afford it, because that's what government
is supposed to be doing. So, you know, I think
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we need to look at where have we expanded both
at the state. I mean, we have gone in and
gone after waiver after waiver to exempt things out, so
increasing our costs in medicaid. And then the other thing
that we have done here in government is we have
increased the cost of doing business. And that's not just
for small businesses or for the agriculture industry or the
energy industry or other industries. That includes doctors' offices and hospitals,
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and we have expanded the cost by regulation and increasing
their costs. So I mean we have to look at
things like that where we should be cutting through some
of this red tape from all this regulation that has
been passed on to every industry, every business in this state.
Those are things we should be looking at as well.
I wasn't saying when I said the governor was being irresponsible.
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I wasn't saying that we shouldn't be making cuts in
the Department of Healthcare Policy and Finance because again, their
administrative cost of grown by eighty four percent over a
six year period, eighty four percent.
Speaker 11 (01:03:45):
And so so I just jump.
Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
I guess we're just in the interesting time.
Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Gine's got a question for you, Yes, Center Kirk, I
just I'm curious when you go back, when you talk
about the maternal health and those who supervise people with autism,
can you paint a picture a little bit about this
budget includes limiting home care giver hours and changing how
much is paid to those people who supervise those with autism.
Does that mean, is there the possibility of people losing
the quality of care they're currently getting if their supervisors
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start being paid less.
Speaker 19 (01:04:18):
Absolutely, that's absolutely what it means. So home health care.
I want you to think about moms and dads out
there who have children with severe disabilities, and then their
children grow up and they become adults, and the people
who are caring for them, so we don't have the
high cost of going into institutions, but the people who
are caring for them are their parents, and their parents
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are aging now.
Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
They and the.
Speaker 19 (01:04:42):
Governor's proposal cuts home health care codes, which cuts their
reimbursement rates and makes it almost nearly impossible for them
to be able.
Speaker 11 (01:04:50):
To provide that care.
Speaker 19 (01:04:51):
What's going to happen next? This is why this budget
is just so shortsighted and what the governor is looking at.
You know, we have to look at the long game here.
We have to look at see with how this is
going to impact all the way through and those parents
that we just talked about that are taking care of
their adult children with severe disabilities versus putting them into
an institution, those Medicaid reimbursement rates have been cut as well.
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Those parents, I received numerous emails. I'm sure everyone on
the Joint Budget Committee has, but it's those parents that
are probably the most scared. It's like, what are we
supposed to do? What are they going to do? And
who's going to care for their child when they're when
you know, these folks are no longer with us, and
there's nobody else around to care for their child.
Speaker 8 (01:05:33):
This issue is definitely not going away. So Barb, we
will we will have you back. And I will just
say to you from my own personal you know, bias
or whatever you want to call it, like I understand
what you're saying here, and this idea of maternal healthcare
deserts and and maybe a pregnant woman, possibly a high
risk pregnancy, having to drive an hour two hours, three
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hours to maybe not three but a couple to get
to a doctor or a hospital is a significant problem.
But I also, or I should say, and I also
am relying on you, as a fiscally conservative Republican to
find a way to do something about healthcare spending in Colorado.
So if you're going to say we can't cut Medicaid
this way, I do. Next time we talk want to
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hear you, you know, with some specifics. We should cut
medicaid this other way, and I'm counting on you for
that because the Democrats are not going to come up
with it. Barb Kirkmeyer, State Senator, Republican candidate for governor
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Thanks for your time, Thank you, and.
Speaker 19 (01:06:33):
I'll be back on and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
You got it, KOA News Time seven forty five, the
longest federal government shutdown in history now over after the
President signed a funding bill passed by Congress. Now House
Speaker Mike Johnson is looking ahead.
Speaker 11 (01:06:48):
I said, as soon as the government was open, we
would turn our attention to healthcare and all the other
issues that are out there.
Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
One of those issues will be a vote to the
House on the release of the folk Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Now that enough members of Congress have signed a petition
to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert actually sponsored the petition.
Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
Speaker 20 (01:07:06):
We did learn that yesterday here at the White House
in the Situation Room, top officials met with Bobert in
an effort to try and get her to remove her
name from this petition, trying to force the full release
of these files.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
But guess what. It didn't work. Her name is still
on that petition.
Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Even if the measure passes, it has to then pass
the Republican controlled Senate, and President Trump's likely to veto
the measure since he has said before he's not tangent
of releasing the full files. A Douglas County teacher facing charges,
including suspicion of sexual assaults on a child.
Speaker 10 (01:07:36):
This allegedly happened back in twenty twenty three that teacher,
Teresa Whalen allegedly began a sexual relationship with a middle
school student who was apparently struggling with mental health issues.
Whalen had been assigned to that student as a support person,
according to the affidavit. Now, the relationship allegedly lasted more
than a year, the student telling police that t would
hang out in her office and send each other explicit photos.
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Then the documents show when the student ended this relationship,
Whalen apparently started showing up at his home and I
please interview. Whalen allegedly confessed to the relationship, saying she
knew what was wrong and she deserved to be in
jail for her action.
Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
That's Fox thirty one's Lisa Desuza and Starbucks celebrating its
annual Red Cup holiday promotion today, but not all stores
will be cheery and bright. One thousand Starbucks employees plan
to strike at stores in more than forty cities over
a labor dispute and contract negotiations. Your next update in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Goddeck on KOA.
Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
I just wanted to share a listener text.
Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
One of my favorite things about doing this show is
that there are literally thousands of people listening who know
way more than I do about any given topic. Right.
I mean, I tend to know a little bit about
a lot of things, but there are people who do
these things, who are in these things for a living,
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and so we get these listener texts and I just
think they're fascinating. And I learned so much from you,
and it really is one of the great parts of
this job. So we were just talking with State Senator
Barb Kirkmeyer, who was talking about what she called maternal
health care deserts. She talked about Delta County closing their
maternal health care and other things like that, and a
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listener just texted in and said, ross Barb is wrong
on some of her statements. This listener says, yes, this
person's in a healthcare recruiting business. Yes, there are women's
services being cut by certain hospitals all around the country.
The main reason is actually supply and demand as much
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as any of this finance stuff, because there are not
enough people having babies anymore, and so the number of
visits to these doctors is down, and they can't afford
to pay their staff because the staff gets paid a
salary regardless of how many people are coming, and you know,
getting invoices and paying bills. So they're closing gyn practices
(01:10:01):
and having general surgeons and general practitioners be the doctors
to see them.
Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
So anyway, that that's very.
Speaker 8 (01:10:12):
On the one hand, it's very in the weeds, but
on the other hand, it's also a really important level
of detail to know if you're going to be somebody
setting policy on this stuff. So I think that very cool,
and I love getting those kinds of texts from listeners
who know more than I do. All Right, so Dragon
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played there that was ac DC money.
Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Talks, right.
Speaker 8 (01:10:36):
See, I might have even gotten that on name that tune,
even though you played a lot longer than what you
would normally get on name that tune and gosh, I'm
doing so well today Dragon, understanding why you're playing the
music that you're playing.
Speaker 9 (01:10:49):
I'm following the show sheet and it looks to be
like you.
Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
You seem to be glimpsing at the show, so I too.
I have two things to say.
Speaker 8 (01:10:57):
One is totally unrelated, but because Squirrel, because I just
wanted you to know, I did get in touch with
my son who hadn't left for school yet and he's
gonna put.
Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
The trash out.
Speaker 8 (01:11:08):
And then the other thing that is more related. And
I'm very, very fearful of this. I wonder if the
presence of Ga Gina is making me slightly more professional
and causing me to look at the show sheet more.
Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
I'm very afraid of that.
Speaker 9 (01:11:25):
I mean, we're four days in and you've been on
top of it every break, so it is scary, all.
Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Right, So let me do this thing the reason Dragon
played this music.
Speaker 8 (01:11:36):
Two separate headlines for you that relate to the same
kind of thing from the Wall Street Journal, using your
credit card at the checkout is set to get a
lot more complicated. And from the Associated Press, why visa
MasterCard legal settlement.
Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Could lead to your rewards card getting declined.
Speaker 8 (01:11:53):
Okay, so I actually talked about this a little bit
a couple of days ago or yesterday, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
I get the day all get confused for me.
Speaker 8 (01:12:02):
But Visa and MasterCard have proposed a settlement with merchants.
This has been going for a year, maybe decades, with
merchants with retailers about how much the stores have to
pay the cards in order to be able to use
the card. It's usually in the area of two to
and a half percent. They're talking about lowering it a
little bit. But here's the key point that you need
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to know about that relates to these headlines. Visa and
MasterCard currently have a rule that they call honor all cards.
And what that means is if a store accepts any
Visa card, they have to accept all Visa cards.
Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Same with MasterCard.
Speaker 8 (01:12:44):
If they accept any MasterCard, they have to accept all
Master cards.
Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
And you might think, well, why is that a thing?
Speaker 8 (01:12:51):
Who cares? Aren't they all the same? And the answer
is no, they are not all the same. Some cards
are kind of the lowest level of cards and maybe
they're no fee, maybe they have a small fee, but
they don't really offer any perks. Then you have another
level of cards where you might earn frequent flyer miles
or get some modest amount of cash back.
Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
And then you have some.
Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
Elite cards and I don't have these, but where the
bonuses you get are enormous, And the thing is those
are much more expensive because the person using the card
is getting back bonuses that are worth and actually some
of the frequent flyer miles could be like this, The
bonuses you're getting back, or the cash back you're getting
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or the other things is so valuable that in order
to process that card and keep that business going, the
fee that the store has to pay Visa or MasterCard
is higher. So what you may end up seeing is
you may end up seeing stores that either will not
accept the cards that have the high rewards because those
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come with the high fees to the store, or the
store is saying, yeah, you can use that card, but
it's going to cost you an extra percent or two percent.
We're going to see how it all plays out, but
you may well end up seeing stores treating different visas
differently from each other. And that would certainly it's something
stores don't want to see, but it may be inevitable.
Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
It's Thursday morning, I'm Gina Goddek. The government shutdown open
for business again.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
It's an honor now to sign this incredible bill and
get our country working again.
Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Thanks as an infant thinking House Republicans for returning to
the capital for the first time in seven weeks in
order to pass the short term spending bill to reopen
the government.
Speaker 21 (01:14:40):
Motion is adopted with the stroke of a pen on
the President's desk. The longest government shutdown ever is now over.
Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
We will never give into extortion, because that's what it was.
Speaker 21 (01:14:50):
The bill funds the government until January, extends funding for
SNAP in the VA until September, restores shutdown firings, and
guarantees for load employees.
Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
Get back pay.
Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
At ABC's Christian Cordero, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the
shutdown cost American taxpayers eleven billion dollars. Now. There are
still nearly twelve hundred flight cancelations across the country today,
seventy six of those in Denver. As the FAA is
trying to get air traffic controllers back to work. The
FAA is freezing the flight reductions at six percent, hoping
(01:15:22):
to get things back to normal by the weekend. A
suspect arrested in September for stalking a TV meteorologist, is
now facing a felony charch.
Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 19 (01:15:31):
He actually followed me home from work, and that's when
things really.
Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Took a turn.
Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Burch joined US earlier in
Colorado's Morning News, shortly after the seventy year old suspect
was taken into custody and was shocked that prosecutors originally
only charged him with a misdemeanor. She tells US this morning,
she's relieved the charges have been upgraded.
Speaker 14 (01:15:49):
I truly didn't think it would have much of much
weight when it came to my case.
Speaker 19 (01:15:54):
I thought my case was kind of done, but my
goal was to make.
Speaker 14 (01:15:57):
It so that other women didn't have to go through
that people to This has happened to men as well.
Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
The suspect is due back in court next week. Jeff
co shares investigators still searching for a suspect involved in
a road rage shooting that left a woman fighting for
her life. This happened Tuesday night on US two eighty
five South near Settlers Drive. A passenger and a black
SUV was shot in the head witnesses say the shooter
was driving a light colored Subaru, and no more penny
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for your thoughts, says the US Mint processed.
Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
It's final one.
Speaker 7 (01:16:26):
The Treasurer says, ending the penny is going to save
the US fifty six million dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
But at what cost?
Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
You won't be able to give your two cents no
good luck because you won't find one on the ground.
What will you throw in a wishing well? The government
is not making more, but you can still use the
ones you have, most likely in a jar in your kitchen.
I'm pre tennis.
Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
There are approximately three hundred billion pennies still in circulation.
On Wall Street, stocks fall as the Dow pulls back
from its record high. Dow down one hundred and thirty
four points, SMP down forty three, Nasdaq down two hundred.
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And fifty six.
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In sports, the Avs aiming for their fifth Street win
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one pinpoint. Whether our stretch of seventies continues like a
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Currently we're at fifty degrees in Denver. Our next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondek on Koway.
Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
I'm Ross.
Speaker 8 (01:17:29):
We're going to have an important Colorado Rockies related press
conference running here on KOA at ten thirty and here
to give us the details of who it's about, what
it's about. What we need to know is the intrepid
Chad Bauer.
Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
What do we got.
Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
Yeah, they're going to introduce the new President of Baseball Operations.
The hiring was a few weeks ago, Paul de Podesta.
And this guy had a long record in baseball. He
started out very young. He remember the movie and the
book Moneyball. Yeah, of course, yeah, he caught Michael Lewis book.
Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
He was a part of that.
Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
And then in the movie Jonah Hill played a character
based on him. It wasn't named after him because he
didn't want his name us, but that was that. He
was the Dodgers GM in his early thirties and then
for the last ten years or so he has been
the chief strategy officer for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL,
and he's now making his return to baseball after all
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those years.
Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Chad, I've never seen Moneyball, but it does have a
ninety four percent on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe I should
check it out.
Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
It's a great baseball movie.
Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Tell us a little bit about the I think it's
fascinating going from baseball to football back to baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Is this a common thing that we've seen, not at all.
Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
No, But he played football in college, so we had
a football backgrounds, and he liked football, and he decided
he wanted to make a change. And now the Cleveland
Brown's not a great organization and he was part of
the front office that made one of the worst trades
in NFL history for Deshaun Watson, gave him one of
the worst contracts in NFL history, five years, two hundred
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thirty million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
He's barely played.
Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
They've basically moved on.
Speaker 8 (01:19:09):
Yeah, so that's Do you have a sense as to
why the Rockies think this is the guy to help
them fix their woes.
Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
Well, he's got a lot of experience in various organizations,
and he says he likes a challenge, and this is
definitely going to be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
A team that's lost one hundred games three seasons in
a row, it's going to be a challenge to get
free agents here because you're going to either have to
find somebody that had a down year or somebody or
overpay somebody to come here.
Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
This ten to thirty press conference, do you think it's
going to be like, yes, Rockies fans are hearing what
they need to hear, or is it going to be
pretty overarching just high happy to be here moment?
Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Yeah, to be big an introduction into obviously depends on
one what questions he's asked, I know from other interviews,
because they've had the GM meetings this week and he's
been doing a few interviews already. He says his main
goal is to build an organizational culture. You know that
you know in the front office. That's something that like
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something that you do in the lowest of minor leagues.
That's going to be the same process all the way
to the majors. We're not going to have this picture
focused on throwing breaking balls in double A. But all
of a sudden he gets to the majors and he's
throwing fastballs and getting lit up.
Speaker 6 (01:20:20):
So they're going to try to make a cohesive.
Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
Organizational culture both on the field off the field, and
you know, and try to build things from there.
Speaker 8 (01:20:28):
All right, Rockies fans ten thirty right here on Kowa,
you'll hear that press conference introducing Paul de Podesta.
Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Thank you, Chad yep, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (01:20:36):
All right.
Speaker 8 (01:20:36):
I want to spend a little time now, maybe next
segment as well, just to make sure I cover it adequately.
A couple of things going on in DC, And oddly enough,
the end of the government shutdown is not the biggest story.
Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
It's fine. We knew it was coming.
Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
The market has been up huge in anticipation of that,
down very very slightly today, not a big move today,
So we knew that was coming. And maybe the most
interesting part or the government shut down at this point, well,
I'd say two things. What's going to be the ongoing
impact on air travel and how soon will they be
able to fix that up? Right now, the FAA is
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keeping the flight cuts at the forty biggest airports at
six percent, but so.
Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
That's one thing, and then the other thing coming.
Speaker 8 (01:21:16):
Out of it, where you know, I would say it's
very clear that Democrats lost this battle in the sense
that they kept the government closed for forty three days
and didn't get anything that they want, anything important, at
least that they wanted right. They wanted an extension of
particular temporary Obamacare subsidies, and all they got was a
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commitment from the head of the Senate to have a
vote on it. They don't even have a commitment from
the Speaker of the House to even allow a vote
on it in the House. So in terms of the battle,
the Democrats definitely lost, no matter what they want to
say about it. In fact, if you could put my
audio up please, Dragon, a CNN reporter asked Colorado senator,
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former governor, former mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper, was it worth.
Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
It shut down?
Speaker 11 (01:22:08):
Worth it?
Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
Yeah? I think so. I hate it, but yeah, it
was worth it. Definitely.
Speaker 18 (01:22:13):
We got people to pay attention to the fact that
this is a traumatic, in many cases, life or death
situation for people all over this country.
Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
So this is the way the Democrats are framing it now.
Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
And this is why I say the Democrats lost the battle,
But they definitely haven't lost the war, because in it
I don't think Looper is right that it was worth it.
I mean, that was a lot of pain for a
lot of people, but they did get the discussion turned
and focused on healthcare and the price of health insurance
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and what I just want to I want to spend
another minute on this, because the Democrats are going to
make sure that health insurance premiums are the top issue
if they have anything to say about it. They're going
to make it the top issue in the twenty twenty
six elections, in maybe the twenty twenty eight elections as well.
Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
And it is a pain point for a lot.
Speaker 8 (01:23:04):
Of people, just the same way that inflation was a
huge pain point for people in the Biden administration, which
allowed Trump to get reelected after losing in twenty twenty
he got reelected in twenty twenty four primarily because of inflation,
also partly because of immigration, and so far on the
quote unquote affordability side, it's not working out very well
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for Donald Trump. It's kind of a separate issue. Well,
actually I shouldn't say that it's not a separate issue.
These are again now going to be the two things
that Democrats run on. And you know what, it's odd
to think that Democrats are going to run on affordability.
But Trump campaigned on affordability, and not only has he
not made it better, he's arguably made it worse with
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his tariffs. And a lot of people understand that. And
I'll tell you what, if a Republican is vulnerable on
economic issues, then that or if Republicans general, because Trump
won't be running himself for re election, but he may
be supporting other candidates and he will kind of implicitly
be on the ballot. This is always the case in
midterm elections. If Republicans are vulnerable on economic issues, then
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they are seriously vulnerable because that's normally where the public
looks to them to do a better job than Democrats.
The other thing, though, going back to what I was
talking about healthcare, here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Obamacare is terrible.
Speaker 8 (01:24:28):
Obamacare is responsible for huge increases in the cost of
health care. But Republicans have never come up with a
credible alternative that they have explained to the public. They
have been very bad at messaging, not that they really
have much to message anyway, but they're figuring it out now.
(01:24:51):
And here's a headline at Politico House GOP Committee leaders
to hold healthcare brainstorming sessions, and they better do this right.
They better do this because to the extent that Republicans
are on the back foot playing defense going into the
midterms on affordability and on healthcare, they're going to have
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a huge problem. And Republicans better come up with a plan.
Much like when Gina and I were talking with Senator
Barb Kirkmeyer and she's complaining about Medicaid spending, I ended
the interview by saying to her, I understand what you're
objecting here to, but you're supposed to be a fiscally
conservative Republican. So the next time we talk to you,
I expect you to be able to tell me how
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you are willing to cut Medicaid rather than just complaining
about these particular cuts. And Republicans at the federal level
are going to have the same problem. When we come back,
I want to talk more about the Epstein stuff, but
right now, let's check in with Gena and see what's
going on in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
AOA News Time eight fourteen, a former owner of a
Parker gym will be sentenced today after he was found
guilty of sexually assaulting two teen athletes. Prosecutors save fifty
one year old Aaron Thomas Currado abused the teens between
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty two at the Strength and.
Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Christ Jim and other locations.
Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
The case began when his ex wife discovered troubling notes
and messages he sent to the victims and notified authorities.
Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Speaker Mike Johnson's is a bill compelling.
Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
The DOJ to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files,
will receive a vote on the House floor next week.
Speaker 16 (01:26:23):
With the discharge petition now reaching the two hundred and
eighteen signatures needed, Johnson is required to put the bill
on the floor soon, although he suggested he would not
use some of the extra time that he was allowed.
Democrat Congresswoman at Alita Grihalma became the two hundred and
eighteenth signature on the discharge petition shortly after she was
sworn in Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
I'm Mark Mayfield, Sybil Rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson
hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency.
Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
For more than a decade.
Speaker 17 (01:26:48):
Reverend Jackson has been battling a neurodegenerative disease called progressive
supra nuclear palsy. The eighty four year old was originally
treated for Parkinson's, but last April his PSP condition was confirmed.
Arvan Jackson kicked off his iconic career more than sixteen
years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
That's Foxes Anita Blanton.
Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Boeing's latest contract offer for striking employees in the Saint
Louis area goes to a boat today. Union leaders are
reportedly recommending members approve the proposal, which doubles an upfront
bonus to six hundred six thousand dollars. More than three
thousand Boeing Defense workers have been on strike since early August,
and the conditions weren't as ideal as Tuesday nights, but
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Colorado residents are still getting a small glimpse of the
northern lights.
Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
There's still a chance.
Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
They could be seen tonight, but not as likely as
the past couple of nights. Check Noah's Space Weather Prediction
Center website for the conditions.
Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
You're up to date. The next update coming up in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondeck on Koway.
Speaker 8 (01:27:43):
This is Russkominski on the news with Gina Gondeck. Gina's
over there to my right front of the window. Actually,
you might, you know if you're looking, you might see
the back of your head. You're not looking, you won't.
Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
Hi, Gena Hi. I want to talk a little bit
about this whole Epsteine thing.
Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
It's super interesting, the politics of this Epstein thing super interesting.
So the Democrats yesterday released some stuff and I think
it was I mean, obviously this is all politics, right,
So this stuff is done in a way that's designed
to hurt Donald Trump, and it's it's you know, politics,
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ain't bean bag, that's just what's going on here. And
one of the emails they put out was between Jeffrey
Epstein and Galene Maxwell, and it talked about how Donald
Trump had spent hours at his house. And then in
the version that the Democrats released, they edited out they
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redacted the name of the person that Trump was talking to,
but it was Virginia Giuffrey, who is one of Epstein's
victims who committed suicide earlier this year and then after that,
like less than a month ago, had a book public
called Nobody's Girl.
Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
But she's passed away now.
Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
And the Democrats released this thing, and it was a
little bit odd in a way that they edited out
or they redacted the name of that of that girl
that Trump was talking to at Epstein's house, because because
Virginia Giuffrey has already said repeatedly that Trump never did
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anything on tour with her or even flirted with her verbally.
And I'm not looking at that email, but it says
something like Trump spent hours with Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
And his name hasn't come up. Now when he put
when they edited out.
Speaker 8 (01:29:45):
The word the name Virginia and just redacted and just
put the word victim over it, they're sort of implying
it could be someone else and not Virginia Giufrey, because
Virginia Giuffrey has already been public about this.
Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
And then when they do like that, they change what
I think is the message.
Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
Oh, it says that it says, you know, who's the
dog that the dog that didn't bark is Donald Trump,
or the story that didn't bark is Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
But what they're trying to imply is that, oh, yeah,
Trump spent.
Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
A bunch of time with one of these girls, and
yet his name hasn't come out, and it probably should have.
Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
That's what the Democrats are trying to.
Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
Make you think that the that Trump did something wrong.
The Democrats are trying to make you think that there's
some hidden information that you don't know when you should
be very suspicious. But really, what they're saying I think.
I think what they're saying is the fact that Trump
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spent lots of time or I shouldn't say lots of time.
They said he was in the room for some number
of hours over whatever period of time with Virginia Giuffrey,
and Trump's name never came out as somebody who.
Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
Did anything wrong.
Speaker 8 (01:31:01):
I think the dog that didn't bark, I think what
they're saying by that, what they mean by that is
that kind of like there's no smoke in therefore there's
no fire, like if Trump had done something, that dog
would have barked. In any case, Democrats are overjoyed about
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some of these emails. I think they're misinterpreting them intentionally
because that's politics. Meanwhile, in order to try to swamp that,
Republicans put out over twenty thousand more documents yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
Now back on the politics of it.
Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
You heard Gina report that Lauren Bobert was brought into
a meeting by the White House. They went apparently to
the Situation Room, and Lauren Bobert was talked to by Cash, Bettel,
and I don't know who else at the highest levels
of the Obama I'm sorry, the Trump Justice Department and
FBI and whoever else, and try to talk her out
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of supporting the discharge petition that she had already put
her name on. But she didn't back off, and neither
did Nancy Mace, who they tried to get to right away.
And so the vote on releasing all this stuff is
going to be next week. It's going to be next week.
And as I said earlier in the show, so I'll
just do this briefly. I suspect that the outcome of
that vote is that you are going to have I'd
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say at least fifty and one hundred wouldn't surprise me
Republicans voting to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Whatever those even are.
Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
Now here's a point that I just want to it's
a secondary effect of all this. Trump keeps saying that
there's nothing to see there, and actually, if you look
at some of Epstein's emails, it sounds more like Epstein
was suggesting that he had some kind of dirt on
Trump on business deals, not on.
Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Stuff with girls.
Speaker 8 (01:32:58):
I think everybody in the world understands that Trump is
a shady businessman. I'm not saying criminal, but you know,
certainly would get close to that line.
Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
And it sounded like Epstein was.
Speaker 8 (01:33:12):
Talking with this author, talking with his friends didn't like
Trump very much, saying, you know, we could probably do
something to hurt this guy. But does anybody actually care
about Trump and business deals? And will we find out
any details anyway since Epstein is dead?
Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (01:33:27):
But Trump has been saying this is all a hoax
and the only Republicans who would go along with it
are bad or stupid.
Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
But what's he going to do when fifty or one.
Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Hundred or one hundred and fifty of them go along
with it?
Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
And what I think we're going to need to keep
an eye on going forward is.
Speaker 8 (01:33:44):
Is Trump's grip on the Republican Party weakening a little bit?
And I think the answer is yes, he is still dominant.
He's dominant, He's powerful in the Republican Party. But I
think his grip is loosening, and I think this is
something he's going to be very concerned about.
Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Good Thursday morning, I'm Gina Gndak.
Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Federal employees getting back to work today now that the
House voted to reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
And President Trump signed off on the measure last night.
Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
We went through this short term disaster with the Democrats
because they voted would be good politically.
Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
But House Minority Leader Hookim Jeffries says, even though they
didn't get the healthcare tax subsidies they demanded, it was
the right thing to do.
Speaker 18 (01:34:25):
See the Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care
ract tax credits this year, or the American people will
throw Republicans out of their jobs next year.
Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
The measure doesn't solve all the airline troubles right away,
but it does look to pay air traffic controllers and
bring most of them back to work. Six Democrats crossed
party lines, but Colorado Democrats did not.
Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
As expected, Republicans are all for it.
Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
Just after the vote, Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd posted a
video on social media.
Speaker 5 (01:34:56):
Crowd along with my fellow Republicans and to the handful
of Democrats to have reopened the government, restoring funding for
critical programs at families across the district in our country
rely on.
Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Democratic Congressman Jason Crow says, it's not a bill that
works for Colorado. It does nothing to address the rising
cost of health care, and it will leave hundreds of
thousands of Colorado's at risk of seeing their premiums double.
Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
Chad Bauer KOA.
Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
News Denver prosecutors have decided to file felony charges against
the man accused of stalking Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Burst.
Speaker 14 (01:35:29):
It's really for me in my case, but it's also
I hope some relief that going forward, the Denver DA's office,
as well as other GA offices around the state, take
stocking more seriously.
Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
Kylie joined us earlier on Colorado's Morning News and says
she spent the past year looking over her shoulder and
living in fear. After the seventy year old suspect began
following her. She received a restraining order and was surprised
that he was only charged with misdemeanor stalking.
Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
She's now released the charge has been upgraded.
Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
You only have a few days to get current tags
in your car before Denver police start a campaign cracking
down on expired plates.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Denver PLEI Chief Ron Thomas, it was more important.
Speaker 15 (01:36:07):
Than the number of citations that we write or the
number of people that go and actually register their vehicles.
Speaker 1 (01:36:12):
Newly purchased vehicles must be registered in person at DMV offices,
while registration renewals can be done online or at a
kiosk on Wall Street. Stocks down slightly, DOW down one
hundred and eight at last check, SMP down forty NASDAK
down two hundred and fifty points. In sports, the Avs
hosting the Buffalo Sabers at Ballerina tonight, and the Nuggets
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are celebrating their sixth straight win last night, beating the
La Clippers on the road one thirty to one, sixteen,
Nikolayokich boasting his fourth career fifty point game. They have
a few days off now before facing the Timberwolves Saturday night,
Fox thirty one pinpoint. Whether our stretch of seventy degree
temperatures continues today with a high in the low seventies,
(01:36:54):
dipping down into the mid forties overnight tonight, back into
the seventies tomorrow, upper sixties by seven. Currently we're at
fifty three in Denver. Your next update in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gia Gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
This is Ross Kaminski on the news with me and
with Gina Gondeck, and a lot of stuff to do
still I'm gonna do a couple of smaller stories here,
and a couple of things I've had for a day
or two that I've wanted to get to. Actually, this
one is a new Ish story from yesterday, just a
quick sports thing. Rob Gronkowski, right. Gronk the New England
Patriots tight end for many years. He won three Super
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Bowls with the Patriots, and then he followed Tom Brady
to Tampa Bay and won another Super Bowl there, And
of course you always.
Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
Think about him as a Patriot, even.
Speaker 8 (01:37:40):
Though same way with Tom Brady, right, even though he
played at Tampa Bay for a bid. And you got
to say, it's a pretty remarkable thing for those two
guys to go to another team and win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
It's pretty nuts. It says a lot about their talent.
Speaker 8 (01:37:53):
But in any case, the last team he played with
was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he wanted to officially
retire as a New England Patriot, so yesterday he signed
a one day contract with the New England Patriots and
that means he will be able to retire officially as
a member of the New England Patriots after his eleven
(01:38:15):
year career.
Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
He said I'm a patriot for life.
Speaker 8 (01:38:18):
My career started here and one hundred percent needed to
end here, and I don't think I need to add
a lot more to that, but I just wanted to
share it with you because I kind of dig it,
all right. You know, I'm an econ nerd, and from
time to time I'll bring you just big picture stuff
that might help folks think about public policy and government
and business and stuff like that going forward. And there
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was a piece over at Reason magazine entitled California's fast
food minimum wage hike is killing jobs. And part of
the reason I wanted to mention this to you, I
don't care that much about California, but Denver is doing
very serious, very similar stuff to this, and Colorado generally,
with the people who are in charge of these things
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in the state legislature and the governor's mansion right now,
are mostly on board with this of these kinds of
fairly aggressive increases to the minimum wage. And Denver City
Council actually had an opportunity to do something to alleviate
this problem when it came to restaurants in particular, they
and they basically didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
So let me just share this with you because there's
a lot of lessons here.
Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
In twenty twenty three, California adopted a law that raised
the minimum wage to twenty dollars per hour.
Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
I think that's just for fast food workers.
Speaker 8 (01:39:37):
But they also created this group, this commission that they
called the Fast Food Council, and that group has the
power to increase the minimum wage for fast food workers
every year if they want to.
Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
Can you imagine that? Now? Twenty bucks is a nice
round number.
Speaker 8 (01:39:57):
That's probably why the legislators picked it, although it's unclear
why they stopped there after all, As this writer says
it a reason. If you're going to create prosperity by command,
why not shoot for the moon and make all the
Golden States fry cooks millionaires. But it's just as well
they didn't go further, because that hike just to twenty
dollars per hour is killing jobs as it is so.
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On April first of last year, California raised their minimum
wage from sixteen bucks to twenty bucks for fast food
workers employed at chains that have more than sixty restaurants
sixty locations nationwide. Right, it's all the big or even
medium size fast food chains, right, It's not sixty locations
in California. If you have sixty locations in total around
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the country, then you're a minimum wage for your California
locations went up to twenty dollars an hour. So now
you've got some people writing in economic research NBER National
Bureau of Economic Research. They've got this working paper that
they're writing, and they say, our median estimate suggests that
California has lost about eighteen thousand jobs that could have
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been retained if.
Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
That law had not been passed.
Speaker 8 (01:41:08):
In other words, if that minimum wage for those workers
hadn't gone from sixteen.
Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Dollars an hour to twenty. They calculate that, and I'm
quoting here.
Speaker 8 (01:41:16):
Employment in California's fast food sector declined by two point
seven percent between September of twenty twenty three and September.
Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
Of twenty twenty four. And I think this next point.
Speaker 8 (01:41:27):
Is key because you want to make sure like if
you hit a recession, they're and people are losing jobs everywhere,
and you're losing jobs in your state too.
Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
Then you can't say you're.
Speaker 8 (01:41:37):
Losing jobs in your state because there's something your state
legislator did. You need to have a control, You need
to see what's going on in other places. So the
fast food sector employment in California declined by two point
seven percent relative too fast food employment in the rest
of the country. And before that, since Californians love their
fast food, the rate of the level of employment in
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fast food was actually rising faster in California than in
other places. And this gets a little bit nerdy here,
but I'll quote from the article. Allowing for that and
for changes in the overall labor market, these economists estimate
the real decline in California's fast food employment at three
point six percent, and then that's where they get eighteen
(01:42:21):
thousand lost jobs. And other economists, other groups have done
similar studies and they all come up with some number
of lost jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
The lowest estimate. Oh, actually no, this isn't.
Speaker 8 (01:42:33):
Even fair because this doesn't cover that whole time period, right,
But the lowest estimate in one of these studies is
forty four hundred jobs. But then there's a around eleven thousand,
and then another one around sixteen thousand, and this one
around eighteen thousand. So not only do you have that
this higher minimum wage is killing jobs. And let me,
you know, let me go off on a little tangent
(01:42:54):
here we live in this world now where we are
seeing humanoid robots. We had a guest on the show
who who is in management and a company that is
creating humanoid robots that can replace people in factories, that
can replace soldiers on the battlefield.
Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
So if you can.
Speaker 8 (01:43:18):
Create a robot, and Gina had the story the other
day and we talked about it on the show. A
robot you can buy for just twenty thousand dollars or
rent for five hundred dollars a month that'll come to
your house and clean your house or fold your laundry
or whatever you can. If there's a robot that does that,
then how freaking easy do you think it is to
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make a robot? And I'm sure they exist already to
flip a burger and dunk fries into hot oil and
whatever else you do at fast food jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
And I'm not, you know, demeaning fast food jobs. What
I'm saying is.
Speaker 8 (01:43:55):
It's got to be very easy by now to replace
those people with robots.
Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
And so at that point, for.
Speaker 8 (01:44:02):
The business owner, it just becomes about cost and maybe
at X dollars per hour, it's better to have a person,
and maybe you'd like to have a person.
Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
Maybe you're a kind hearted.
Speaker 8 (01:44:12):
Business owner and you really want to give that young
person or that person who doesn't have very much of
an education and doesn't have tremendous other job prospects. You
want to give them an opportunity to earn money, to
gain experience. Maybe you get a better job after that.
And there are I know, I know there are people
on the left who think that every business owner is heartless,
but that's not true. So maybe you've got business owner
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like that really wants to help people. And maybe there's
another thing. Maybe maybe you've got a business owner who
thinks that it's better for the business.
Speaker 6 (01:44:41):
To do that.
Speaker 8 (01:44:43):
So you're going to cause people to lose jobs to employment.
But the one other thing I want to say very
quickly on this that these economists have found is that
there have been massive increase in the price of fast
food in California that they attribute compared to the price
of fast food in other places, that they attribute to
this minimum wage going up. So it is bad news
all around except for the people who are getting the
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higher wage but haven't lost their jobs yet.
Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
And I emphasize yet koa News.
Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
Time eight forty nine even With the government reopening today,
it could take a while for air travel to get
back to a normal Airlines are still operating under the
mandate that they cut six percent of all flights, but
that number will not increase to the ten percent as
originally scheduled. The next time you make a trek up
I seventy on Floyd Hill, you may notice some big improvements.
Construction started on the highway back in twenty twenty three,
(01:45:35):
and crews have gotten the eastbound side pretty much done
ahead of schedule. The goal is to relieve the bottle
in that gone Floyd Hill and add a third express
lane in the westbound direction. Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb
and his wife, former state Representative Wilma web calling on
Colorado's to put politics aside and help local federal employees
trying to recover from the shutdown.
Speaker 7 (01:45:55):
We have some fifty four thousand people that are here
in Colorado, at our federal employees.
Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
We think it's important to take care of those people
that take care of us.
Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
The webs launched an initiative and to go fundme page
stories money for federal employees maybe behind on mortgages or
other bills, or need help with food during the holidays,
and the Salvation Army needs volunteers this holiday season to
ring the bell during their Red Kettle campaign.
Speaker 7 (01:46:20):
All fun support local services providing food, shelter and substance
abuse treatment. Last year, the campaign raised nearly one hundred
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Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
I'm pre tennis your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina goddek on Kowa.
Speaker 8 (01:46:38):
Maybe a little hard to tell from that, Gina, do
you know no, No, that was ACDC.
Speaker 3 (01:46:44):
It's a long way to the top.
Speaker 8 (01:46:46):
And of course the lyrics, it's a long way to
the top if you want a rock and roll. But
my Australian wife, because that's an Australian band, said when
they were growing up listening to this stuff, they would
change the lyrics too.
Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
It's a long way to the shop if you want
a sausage.
Speaker 8 (01:47:00):
And so whenever I hear that song, that's what I
sing now the reason I played that for you and
you probably haven't heard that song sounding just like that
as in something that happened Gush which yesterday yesterday in
the Great Melbourne Bagpipe Bash.
Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
Let's see how many we're talking about here.
Speaker 8 (01:47:21):
Three hundred and seventy four people playing bagpipes squeeze through
the crowd to the stage area in Melbourne's Federation Square.
Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
On Swanston Street, if you want to know, and set.
Speaker 8 (01:47:35):
The record a new record for I guess the most
bagpipes playing a song. So that's pretty cool. And yeah,
I'm an ACDC fan. I don't know, you know, I
got one minute here. Let's do this thing that we're
going to talk about the other day, but this was
your thing, so ACDC is coming.
Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
Yeah, and I'm not sure if I want to see
July twenty eighth next year in power Field.
Speaker 8 (01:47:57):
Oh, in power Field. Wow, that's that's interesting. I mean,
and we got about thirty seconds here. But the question
that you were asking was, you know, do you want
to go see really old bands if you might feel
just sort of sad about it after you're done, like
it's not what you're what you're used to. It's a
tough one with these guys, especially because I saw them
five or six years ago. It's not like I saw
(01:48:18):
him thirty years ago and would love to see him
one more time.
Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
And I've never seen them, so I'm like all right,
do I just want to say I've seen them, but
they're not really in their prime anymore, so I don't know.
Speaker 8 (01:48:28):
I'd say yes if you've never seen them, Okay, I
would think so Dragon, you've got an opinion.
Speaker 9 (01:48:32):
I would rather not because I've seen some of the
tiktoks and social media.
Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Yeah, all right, if it gets to really that bad,
then then maybe not. Then maybe not. All right, you
know what, We're gonna leave it there.
Speaker 8 (01:48:46):
The other guy's coming here in a couple of minutes
or no, and whenever he gets here, have a wonderful
rest of your Thursday.
Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
It is my favorite day of the week. By Gina
See Tomorrow
Koa News time six o'clock. I'm gna condek. The government
is open for business again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's an honor now to sign this incredible bill and
get our country working again.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Thank you Brenthian Trump Banking House Republicans for returning to
the Capitol for the first time in seven weeks in
order to pass the short term spending bill to reopen
the government now. The measure does not address expiring Obamacare
tax credits, so most Democrats voted against it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That includes those representing our states.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Congresswoman Britney Petterson says the bill does nothing to address
the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, and Jason Crow says Colorado
families deserve better than an alleged promise from Republicans who
have repeatedly gone back on their word. Republican Congressman Jeff
Heard on what the bill does.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Most importantly making sure that our men and women in
uniform and are dedicated federal LA enforcement officers and TSA
agents and air traffic controllers get paid again. Also restored
funding for critical programs like SNAP.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Republican Congressman Jeff Crank says it's a shame Democrats chose
their own partisan games overpaying our troops and the federal workforce.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Chad Bauer KOA News.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
There's still nearly twelve hundred flight cancelations across the country today,
seventy six of those in Denver, as the FAA is
trying to get air traffic controllers.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Back to work.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Now, the FAA is freezing the flight reductions at six percent,
hoping things will get back to normal by the weekend.
House Speaker Mike Johnson promising to address the issue of
health care subsidies again next week and to hold a
vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
The White House sum in Colorado Congressman.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Lauren Bobert yesterday asking her to remove her name from
a petition to force a vote. She refused, but says
she still stands behind the president.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No, I don't feel marginalized at all. President Trump is
an amazing man. I stand by him.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
I stand by his administration and everything that he is
doing to fix the mess on.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
The Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The White House accuses House Democrats of selectively releasing the
emails from Epstein, many of them containing references to President Trump.
This emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that
President Trump did nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Jeffrey Epstein was a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Member at mar A Lago until President Trump kicked him
out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
He was a creep.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. President Trump has repeatedly
called efforts to release all the files a witch hunt.
Denver's newest pro sports team encouraging fans to help break
the new NWSL league attendance record when it kicks off
its inaugural season next spring at a power field at
Mile High.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
When I think about this building, when I think about empower.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
Field at Mile High, it's a symbol where dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That's team owner rop Cohen.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Denver Summit FC is selling single game tickets today. The
team may have some trouble though, getting their new stadium
at I twenty five and Broadway built in time for
the twenty twenty eight season. A city council committee says
it needs more information about the proposal before it agrees
to chip in fifty million dollars to buy the land
for the stadium and make improvements to the surrounding area.
(02:59):
Stock Future slightly down this morning on Wall Street and Sports.
The Avs aiming for their fifth straight win tonight, as
they're hosting Buffalo at Ball Arena. The Nuggets now there's
sixth Street victory beating the La Clippers on the road
one thirty to one sixteen. They'll be facing the Timber
Timberwolves coming up Saturday night, Fox thirty one.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Pinpoint.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Whether our stretch of seventies continues. High temperture right around
seventy three degrees this afternoon, dipping down to the forties
overnight tonight, back into the seventies tomorrow. Currently we're at
forty seven in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'm Gina Contek on Kowa Thursday. It's my favorite day
of the week.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Gina and I were just talking about how little there
there is in the way of local news. You know,
we're your local news station, but everything's just so national
right now. The you know, front page of the newspapers,
national stories. It's just h That's so today we're gonna
have a lot of national stuff to talk about, and
and lots and lots of news. You've heard many stories
(03:57):
from from Geno over the last hour, and we're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Talk about quite a few of them.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
I would just like to say and I'm saying this
primarily to producer Dragon, but since we're all friends, I'm
gonna mention it. I'm a little off kilter this morning
because Dragon.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I forgot to put my trash out.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
Oh dear God, I didn't write it in an email.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
I didn't, and you didn't remind me. It's your fault. No,
so it's your fault, just like it would if it's
my fault. If the Broncos don't win, it's your fault
that my trash isn't out.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I do have a question on this trash situation.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is it like your trash is overflowing in your next
couple of days are just gonna be an absolute mess
if you don't take your trash out.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
In reality, no, okay, but psychologically for my wife, yes, ah,
got it. My wife gets the equivalent of terrible psychological
constipation if the trash does not go out, and it's
really bad, it's right, it's really Do you understand that
makes sense?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah? Yep, Okay, Let's let's do.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Some things, and oh, Dragon, can you at least do
your job and remind me, like maybe seven thirty to
call someone at my house and telling them to put
the trash out. Sure, yeah, set an alarm. That would
be kind of funny. Actually, you really, you really should
even like on the air going into that break.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Just remind me on the air, like okay, okay, So
let's do it. We got a lot of news to
talk about today.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
So first it would feel like bigger news than it is,
but there's so much other stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Still.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
We need to mention the end of the government shutdown.
The House passed the bill last night. President Trump signed
it later last night. The government shutdown is officially over.
There will still be some residual impacts on air travel,
and we'll talk about that a little more, and we'll
also see how it plays out. You heard Gina mention
that the FAA had said they were going to stop
(05:53):
ramping up, but are not yet ramping down the percentage
of flights that they are requiring to be canceled at
the forty biggest airports as the number of air traffic
controllers coming to work starts to ramp up again. The
air traffic controllers are supposed to get seventy percent of
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the back pay they are due within forty eight hours
and the rest within a week. I don't know why
it works out that way. I'm just telling you what
they said. I did also note that Gina posted a
question on Koa's Twitter or x which is x dot
com slash Koa Colorado, and the poll question was how
(06:35):
much does your day to day life change with the
government shutdown over? And it's not a massive number of votes,
but basically ninety percent of people said it won't change
my life at all, which is a very interesting thing,
and I think that's part of how this played.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Out the way it did.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, when I was looking at it, I had a
feeling that would be a majority what people would say too.
But like my sister's husband, for example, is a government employee,
and he's like.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Man because he's actually somewhat enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now they are very financially able to do that, and
it's not the same for air traffic controllers and people
like that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He was like, I've kind of enjoyed by time.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Just so it'll be interesting to see how, just like work,
progress continues, just like it did when people worked from
home for a little bit and then we're told to
come back to the office or are you going to
see people maybe a little less motivated to keep up
the work.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, and for sure that'll be a problem for management,
like how do you how do you make these people want?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Now?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Air traffic controllers better not there do their job, you
know half you know what it's this is not like
a radio show where you can, you know, be semi
professional and still be sitting behind the microphone. At KOA,
they have much much higher standards for air traffic control
than they have for me. And so anyway, so I'm
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not at all surprised that not at all was the
main answer for Gina's pole question, but I was a
little surprised that it was ninety percent. That's a very
high number. So the other thing, and I'm going to
talk about both of these things repeatedly throughout the show.
But the Jeffrey Epstein thing is getting more and more
interesting politically, and I.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Want to talk about a few things here.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
I'm not going to get all of this in that
I need to talk about, so I'm going to do
it multiple times over the course of this show. But
there was a new member of Congress elected in Arizona.
Her name is Adelita Grihalva, and she was elected to
Congress after her father, whose first name escapes me. Same
last name. I believe he died and she ran for
(08:45):
that seat. She won that seat. She was elected fifty
days ago. The Speaker of the House did not swear
her in as they were first he was busy, and
then we hit the government shutdown and he said he
not going to swear in until the government is open again,
and then he did once the government was open. But
the key thing is that they were one vote short
(09:10):
on that so called discharge petition that would force a
House vote on the release of the so called Epstein files.
As soon as she was sworn in, she signed that
petition and that forced the vote. Now one interest to
there's actually a lot of interesting things.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The Speaker of the House could.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Have delayed that vote, not forever, right, there's an expedited
procedure when it comes to a discharge petition, But that
vote probably could have been delayed until after Thanksgiving, you know,
maybe at the latest. Instead it's going to be next week,
which is a very interesting thing. And to me, it
feels like they just want to rip off the band
aid and get it over with.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's how it feels to me. Now.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
The other thing, and again, you heard this in the news,
and you heard Gina play an audio clip of Congresswoman
Lauren Bobert and I talked about this briefly on the
show yesterday. I said, the only way that they're going
to be able to block the discharge petition is if
they could peel off one of the Republicans who is
(10:18):
on it, and I didn't think it was very likely,
but they gave it the old college try.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
They apparently called.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
But maybe didn't connect with Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who has
become more Boberty than Bobert herself in recent months, but
apparently with Lauren Bobert. Not only did she meet with them,
the reporting is they took her to the White House
situation room and sat her down with the head of
the FBI and some other DOJ big shots. I don't
(10:45):
recall from the reporting if Pam Bondy was there, but anyway,
they really put the full court press on Lauren Bobert,
and she did not cave in and did not remove
her name from the discharge petition, and so when Adelie
de gret La signed it, that was it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
They had enough and that starts the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
So again, many aspects of this to talk about, but
I'm going to focus on the politics for a second.
So when you think about the vote that's going to
come up, there's two ways that could play out, and
one is much more likely than the other.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'll give you the less likely way first.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
The less likely way that vote plays out is that
all of the Republicans who refused to sign the discharge petition,
which is almost all I think it was four Republicans
maybe who signed it, that all of them who didn't
sign it stay a no vote, and one of them
who did sign it becomes a no vote and the
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thing fails as right by one vote in the House.
That's not likely, after all, if you were someone who
was going to be peeled away from it, you would
have been peeled away at the stage of the discharge petition, which.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is a much less public thing.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Once you get to an actual vote, and you're already
on record, as you know, wanting this stuff out, and
now people know you signed the discharge petition. If you flip,
then you're gonna look terrible, really really terrible. So the
more likely outcome is not only that the vote to
release the Epstein files passes, but that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It passes with everybody who voted.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
For the discharge petition and another twenty five fifty seventy
five even one hundred Republican votes. And where this is
going to get interesting and we'll talk about it later
in the show, is what does this mean, if anything,
for the relationship between Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress.
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All Right, a lot going on in the world. Let's
check in with Gina and see what else she's got
for us.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
JOA News Time six fourteen.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
A Douglas County teacher facing charges, including suspicion of sexual
assault on a child.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
This allegedly happened back in twenty twenty three that teacher,
Teresa Whalen allegedly began a sexual relationship with a middle
school student who was apparently struggling with mental health issues.
Whalen had been assigned to that student as a support person,
according to the affidavit. Now, the relationship allegedly lasted more
than a year, the student telling police that she would
hang out in her office and send each other explicit photos.
(13:27):
Then core documents show when the student ended this relationship,
Whalen apparently started showing up at his home.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
In a police interview, Whalen.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
Allegedly confessed to the relationship, saying she knew what was
wrong and she deserved to be in jail for her actions.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's Fox thirty one's Lisa Desu's a part of the
huge construction project on the I seventy corridor through Clear
Creek County, completed ahead of schedule. C dot's Floyd Hill
project director Kirk Kianka says they've done a lot of
work on the east bound lanes.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Well.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
We started construction in Jly of twenty twenty three, and
in the last two and a half years we've made
significant that's everything from a quarter to midway down Floyd
Here all the way back to the east to County
Road sixty five.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He says the east side to the midsection of Floyd
Hill is ready for drivers. Once the project is completed
on both sides, it should help ease some of the
congestion we see during the ski season. Starbucks celebrating its
annual Red Cup Day holiday promotion today, but not all
stores will be cherry and bright. One thousand Starbucks employees
are planning to strike its stores in more than forty
(14:26):
cities over a labor dispute and contract negotiations.
Speaker 12 (14:30):
A statement from the Workers Group says the Seattle based
company has refused to offer new proposals on staffing and pay.
While CEO Brian Nicol takes home a reported ninety five
million dollars in compensation, Starbucks insists that it treats it's
burreased as well, that average pay and benefits amounts to
more than thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
At ABC's Jim Ryan and the US Mint struck its
final penny yesterday. President Trump previously announced plans to retire
the coin, citing production cost as a primary reason.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina on KOA.
There's I think I would have gotten it before that.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Right, It's just a camera click, but it's very distinctive
freeze frame first, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I thought there was a little like a shutter of
a camera.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Let's see here, hang on, no, see, yeah, you're right,
and then it's right, and then the camera is right
after that.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, got it?
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Okay, that would have been easy even for me. Even
Gina would have gotten that one. Probably if the song,
oh yeah, yeah, do you know the song?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I don't think I'm gonna be good at name that
tune because I know songs, but I don't know the
names of them.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
That's okay. We're gonna be terrible at the songs that
you pick. Okay, great, because you.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Know all the new music and we know the old music,
and I'm bad at the game.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Anyway, you can get a Rod's quarter point just for
having heard the song.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, song, got it? Okay.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
So there's there's been some controversy, as I'm sure you've
you've heard, and a couple of stories in the Denver
metro area around these flock cameras, and it's a big
thing in Denver itself where the city council wanted to
cancel the contract, but.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
The mayor said, no, We're going to go ahead with it.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
And these are the cameras that capture license plates primarily,
although I'm guessing they can be used for other things.
But the way we think about them is they capture
license plate data and then I guess what they do
is they look at the number, correlate it with some
kind of database, and report to law enforcement. Hey, this
(16:23):
there's a warrant out or all points bulletin out or
whatever you call it for this vehicle and it just
showed up here. And then the other possible use, of course,
is maybe there's a crime committed and they think they
have a license plate, maybe they have a partial license plate.
Someone said, oh, yeah, it was a blue forward with
a license plate that started, you know, a seven to three,
(16:44):
and then they can search this database for a seven
to three and then see if it's a blue forward
and then they can try to figure out where the
car went. In any case, there's been some fear or
consternation or something among some folks about how the data
it will otherwise be used, such as might the federal
government get access to the data and use it for
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deportation purposes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And then, of course the story that Gena and I both.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Talked about yesterday regarding Columbine Valley where this police officer
falsely accused a woman of committing a crime based on
quote unquote evidence from those cameras, and I guess in
a way it was evidence, but it was just a
little bit of evidence.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It wasn't anywhere near conclusive evidence.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
It showed that this lady was near the area that
the crime was committed around the time that the crime
was committed. That hardly seems like enough for the coup
to go to the woman's door and say I know
with one hundred percent certainty that you did this, when
in fact she didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But anyway, that's also flocked cameras.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
And I wanted to bring this to you because I
saw a really interesting news story yesterday about a lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
In Washington State. Now, since it's in Washington State, it
does not.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Apply necessarily here in Colorado, but it does give some
guidance as to what might happen if this kind of
lawsuit came to Colorado. And I'm going to kind of
summarize here, but there was a plaintiff who maybe he
was accused, I'm assuming he was accused of something, and
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he was a defendant in a case, and he made
a public records request to the police department in Snowhomish.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
This is an awesome name, Snowhomish, Washington.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
And the police department said, and I'll just tell you
what the police department said back to him, and this
is this year. They said, a search of our electronic
databases and paper records was performed. There were no responsive
records found in the police department's jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
We are not okay, what's the bicyclely? What the guy
asking for was all of.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
The flock camera pictures and data logs for one particular
hour on one particular day. So that must have been
like where I'm surmising the time frame where he was
accused of committing a crime and they say they have
him on camera, right, So he asked for all of
that for one hour on one day, and the police
department said, the police department is not the holder of
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the records you're seeking. You may be able to request
them at flocksafety dot com. The police department believes this
fulfills your records request. So this went to the judge,
and the judge gave a ruling that I think is
going to have a lot of folks, especially folks in
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more left leaning places, folks who already have significant privacy
concerns that kind of thing. I think this is going
to have folks like on the Denver City Council very concerned.
And here's what the judge says. The flock images generated
by the flock cameras are public records under the Washington
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State Public Records Act. The flock images are not exempt
from disclosure wow the agency, meaning the police department, does
not have to possess that record. For that record to
be subject to the Public Records Act. In other words,
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the cops can't just say, oh, we don't have it,
maybe Flock has it. Therefore, you can try to get
it from them and try to use that as as
a way to say you can't get it under a
public records request and rather try to turn it into
some kind of difficult way to get data out of
a private company.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Instead.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
What the judge is saying is these are public records
no matter who possesses them. And the reason is is
not just that, oh, it's a camera that's out in public.
That is not the determinative thing. The determinative thing is
that these camera images and i'll just quote from the
judge are created and used to further a governmental purpose.
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The images created by the cameras were paid for by
these cities and were generated for the benefit of these cities.
And so therefore her ruling is that whether the police
department has them or Flock hasm, this guy who wants
the images must be given them. And that will be
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very interesting to see what happens when somebody who doesn't
like the Flock camera system will see that and bring
that same kind of public records request to Denver and
will end up with the same kind of lawsuit, and
we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
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Speaker 3 (21:54):
Federal employees getting back to.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Work today now that the House is voted to reopen
the government and President try signed off on the measure.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
For the past forty three days, Democrats in Congress shut
down the government of the United States and an attempt
to extort American taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Now, the measure doesn't solve all the airline troubles right away,
but it does pay air traffic controllers and should bring
most of them back to work.
Speaker 13 (22:17):
Six House Democrats joining nearly every Republicans that pass it.
The bill has passed, but many Democrats still furious that
deal cut by eight Senate Democrats does nothing to address
the expiring Obamacare subsidies that the party spent forty three
days fighting for.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
At ABC's Rachel Scott, Colorado, Democrats did not cross party
lines to vote for the bill, but as expected, Republicans
are all for it.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Just after the vote, Republican Congressman Jeff Herd posted a
video on social media.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Crowd along with my fellow Republicans and to the handful
of Democrats to have reopened the government, restoring funding for
critical programs at families across the district in our country
rely on.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Democratic Congressman Jason Crow says, it's not a bill that
works for Colorado. It does nothing to address the rising
cost of healthcare, and it will leave hundreds of thousands
of Colorado's at risk of seeing their premiums double.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Chad Bower koa news.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Denver prosecutors deciding to file felony charges against the man
accused of stalking Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Burst.
Speaker 14 (23:18):
It's really for me in my case, but it's also
I hope some really's got going forward. The Denver DA's office,
as well as other DA offices around the state, take
stocking more seriously.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Kylie joined us earlier in Colorado's Morning News and says
she spent the past.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Year looking over her shoulder and living in fear. After
the seventy year old suspect began following her. She received
a restraining order and was surprised that he was only
charged with misdemeanor stalking. She's now relieved that charge has
been upgraded and you only have a few days to
get current tags on your car before Denver police start
a campaign cracking down on expired plates.
Speaker 15 (23:53):
It was more important than the number of citations that
we write or the number of people that go and actually.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Register their vehicle.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Newly purchased vehicles must be registered in person at DMV offices,
while registration renewals can be done online or at was
one of their kiosks. Stock Futures down slightly down, Future
down fifty two points, SMP down nine, Nasdaq down thirty four.
In sports, the Abs host the Buffalo Sabers at ball
Aerina tonight. The Nuggets celebrating their sixth straight win last night,
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beating the Clippers on the road one thirty to one sixteen.
They have a few days off before facing the Minnesota
Timberwolves Saturday night, Fox thirty one. Pinpoint whether our stretch
of seventies continues. High temperature right around seventy three degrees
this afternoon, dipping into the mid forties overnight. Looks like
we'll cool down a little bit for the weekend. Currently
forty six in Denver. Our next update in fifteen minutes.
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I'm Gina gundeck im Kowa.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
I didn't even know if you realized it was dual person.
I know the one, but I'm not sure I could
know the other.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
So the one is what we just talked about with
the flock cameras, okay, and the other is what Gina
and I are going to talk about right now. Her
very interesting interview with Fox thirty one's Kylie Burst about
this stalker who was watching her so well well played,
even if accidentally.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I'll take it as a win.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Yeah, Gina, before we sort of talk, you know about
it in a big way, can you just tell folks
a little about that interview in case they didn't hear
it when you did the interview forty minutes ago, was
Kylie Burst?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
What's it about? We'll get it posted on our website
for sure if you want to hear all of it.
We talked with her about a.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Month ago when she went public on her social media
talking about this stalker situation that she's been dealing with
for years. She said that she had to move as
a result of it. One time this guy followed her
home and it's just been a situation where he actually
believes she is his wife and it's been a situation
where she is he's gotten her personal phone.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Number, and it's been on and on and again.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
But then at one point all came to a lull,
and she said, there were several months where I didn't
hear from him, and then it came back up.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
That's when he followed her to her house. She called
nine one one.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
They responded and filed these charges, which ended up only
being filed.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
As misdemeanor charges.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Their claim was because there was a gap in between
those stalking reports that three months or however money months.
She said that they can't say that it is continued stalking.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It's been going on for years.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
When the Denver Post had an incredible article written about
explaining that just because there was that gap doesn't mean
it stopped.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
He likely was doing it and she wasn't.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Noticing, and that's usually something they do as a fear
tactic in order to try to get them to feel
a little more comfortable and maybe just.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Not be looking behind their back as often. So she
went public with this.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
She is a pretty decent following on her social media
and obviously as a Fox thirty one meteorologist, and she said,
I am just so frustrated and the fact that the
denver DA only misdemeanor charges and this should really be
felony stalking and I'm fighting this and I feel bad
for anybody else who has been in similar situations, and
it just blew up on social media, so many people
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talking about similar occurrences, so many people saying.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That the denver DA has to do something.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Different, and just I think I want to say that
maybe that post is the reason why they reevaluated the situation,
because I'm feeling a lot of other people have been
in similar situations, got the misdemeanor charges and they just
that was it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But now because she has such a.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
High profile following and this, I mean, she was on
international news like she was covering it all over the
play she was on news Nation everywhere and just explaining
that I just want.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
To see something change, something needs to change.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And sure enough, the latest update is that the denver
DA is filing felony stalking charges against this individual.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And we were able to kind of catch up with
her today and talk about how it's a.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Relief because she hopes that maybe this can be a
good stepping stone for future people that are dealing with
similar situations.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right, So that'll be up. Where will people be able
to hear that? Faywaycolorado dot Com, go to the Colorado
Morning News tap. Shannon will be getting it up in
just an hour here.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
So well, let's leave his personal life out of this.
So you didn't no, no, uh, I'm just gonna breeze
that right on by that We're just.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Gonna keep going.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Yeah, So, Geine, I'm gonna ask you this is more
of a personal but not sort of non specific question.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I think these stalker issues are that.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
It makes sense that they cause more fear in women
than men because your average man, well it depends who's
doing the stalking, but your average guy is probably certainly
not gonna be too afraid of a woman stalking, and
not a little afraid of a guy stalking. But for
a woman to have a guy stalking her seems very
frightening for a whole range of reasons and just and
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I'm wondering how you know, you as a women in
the media, you know, what does that how does that
story make you feel?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's it's definitely very very tough to hear because when
you think of the situations that she's been in, of
literally the man following her home, getting her number, constant calls.
You talk about, you know, gender roles of how it
you know, determines how this works. Okay, Yes, men generally
have more power to them. It is a little more
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concerns about what they can do physically. But also on
the female side of it, I mean they can just
go on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
All these male.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Celebrities are always talking about, you know, female fans that
are so obsessive that it.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Becomes, you know, a disturbance in that situation too.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Sure, but it's been something that obviously anybody in the
media is concerned about. We keep things close to us
of when it comes to privacy, but also.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's not private.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Our jobs are not private by any means, and so
it's like you have to decide and draw a line
of how much you want to share how much you don't.
And obviously, when her face is on TV constantly.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's a lot harder to have that privacy because you
go out and about and people know exactly who you are.
I went into radio for a reason.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I enjoyed being behind the scenes and situations like that.
But it's scary, I mean, it's a very scary situation,
and I feel so bad for her because it's been
something she's been dealing with for so long and finally
said I'm going to do something about it, and then
felt even more beaten down that the justice wasn't.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
What she was looking.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I was surprised how long this story went on without
something being done. And I do think there's long been
issues with the Denver DA. I think it's the new
DA now, but that office with prosecuting crimes, not just
this kind of crime. They need to figure some things out.
Thank you, Gina. It's a really important and interesting story.
Let me just do a very very quick sports story
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with you here. I'm gonna do this literally in one minute.
But we talked week and a half ago whenever this
news broke about these two Cleveland guardians pictures who seem
to have gotten involved with fixing particular bets, not so
much fixing games, but fixing bets on individual pitches where
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it seems look it's not proven yet, but it seems
like what they did was they coordinated with gamblers, and
the gamblers would bet that the player would throw a
ball on such and such a pitch rather than a strike.
And of course it's a lot easier to guarantee that
you'll throw a ball. You just throw one and basically
hits the dirt before the plate. And there were some
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there was some odd betting, And it looks like they've
got these guys, so we'll see. In any case, what
I wanted to tell you about is that Major League
Baseball now has told all of the sports betting operators
who are at least authorized by MLB to have MLB
bets two different things regarding pitch betting. One is no
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bet on a pitch can be more than two hundred dollars,
and the other is no bet on a pitch can
be included in a parlay, because parlays tend to not
just add odds, but almost multiply them. So if you
were to put, let's say, a bet on this pitch
and then a bet on another pitch the odds, if
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you get them both right, you would win a lot
more than if you bet them separately and got them both.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
So now you won't be able to do that.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
It's gonna put a lot of it's gonna make it
a lot more difficult to profit by trying to rig
bets on pitches.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Koa News Time six forty eight, a former owner of
a Parker Jim, will be sentenced today after he was found.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Guilty of sexually assaulting two teen athletes.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Prosecutors say fifty one year old Aaron Thomas Currado abused
the teens between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty two at
the Strength and Christ Jim and other locations. The case
began when his ex wife discovered troubling notes and messages
he sent to the victims and notified authorities. President Trump
seeking a pardon for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netniaho, who
is currently standing trial in his country for bribery, fraud,
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and breach of trust.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Trump's letter to.
Speaker 16 (33:06):
The President of Israel expressed that he respects the independence
of the Israeli justice system and his requirements. Let's said
the case against Netnyah, who is a political unjustified prosecution.
The office of Israeli President Isaac Hertzog announced it had
received the letter from President Trump, while also noting pardon
requests must be carried out through established procedures.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I'm mark Neyphew.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
An iconic civil rights leader, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, is
hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency.
Speaker 17 (33:31):
For more than a decade, Reverend Jackson has been battling
a neurodegenerative disease called progressive supra nuclear palsy. The eighty
four year old was originally treated for Parkinson's, but last
April his PSP condition was confirmed. Reverend Jackson kicked off
his iconic career more than sixty years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Foxes Anita Blanton and the conditions weren't as ideal as
Tuesday nights, but Colorado residents are still getting a glimpse
of the northern lights. There's still a chance they could
be seen tonight, but it's not as likely as the
past two nights.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He could.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Noah's Space Weather Prediction Center website for the weather conditions,
Your next update in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I'm gina go on deck on KOA kind of.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Like Hosier, but my wife really really loves him. And
we saw him at Red Rocks and he was he
was He was pretty good. Have you have you seen
Hosier a couple of times? It seems like someone you
would dig. Yeah, at Red Rocks.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Not at Red Rocks. I've seen him at a couple festivals.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh oh wait, yeah wait, I was at the Red
Rock show.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, all right, huh. I forgot about that. Honestly
at this point.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I've seen a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
There's very few artists I have haven't seen nowadays.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, so I can sometimes forget where I saw them,
But every Hosier show I have seen, I very much
have a joined.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Okay, just one question before we get to the church thing.
Are you similar to my wife in the sense of
somewhat drooling over Hosier?
Speaker 15 (34:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
He is a cutie pie.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
I like.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I like when he I like when he talks with
his little accents.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Where's he from the Irish? I don't remember where he's from. Yeah,
maybe Irish. Anyway, my wife thinks he's hot.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
But he's Irish. Yeah, all right, Andrew John Hosier Earn.
So that really is part of his name? Yeah, I
guess so. I actually just learned that too. Yeah all right,
it's not his birthday today, like we learned with Neil Young.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Just yes, now you give Dragon ideas, all right, let
me just do this church thing. There's a reason that
Dragon played that song is kind of a funny thing.
And we live in the age of there's an app
for that. Actually, I haven't heard anybody say that in
a long time, maybe because it's just so obvious. Now
there's an app for absolutely everything. But this is from Axios.
(35:46):
Meet Chat bought Jesus. Churches tap AI to save souls
and time. I think it's pretty clever. A new digital
awakening is unfolding in churches, where pastors and prayer apps
are turning to AI to reach worshipers, personalized sermons and
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power chatbots that resemble God. Now I'm not sure how
they would not. Maybe they asked chat GPT, what's God like?
But it is a little that wording is a little
odd resemble God.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
AI is helping some churches stay relevant in the face
of shrinking staff, empty pews, and growing online audiences, but
the practice raises new questions about who or what is
guiding the flock.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
New AI powered apps allow.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
You to quote text with Jesus or talk to the Bible,
giving the impression you're communicating with a deity or an angel.
Other apps can create personalized prayers, let you confess your sins,
or offer religious advice on life's decisions. Robert Jones, CEO
of the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, sarcastically asks.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
What could go wrong? All right, so let me just
on this by you as a listener.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Question text us at five six, six nine zero, and
I basically have two questions for you. Do you have
any experience with these religious kind of apps? And if so,
tell us a little bit about it and generally just
based on what I told you just then, what do
you think about it?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
KOA news time seven o'clock. I'm Gina Goddek.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
After a record forty three days, the government shutdown is over.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
It's an honor now.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
To sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
President's Bob putting in signature on the funding bill right
after the House approved it last night. Colorado's Democratic congressional
members voted against the measure, but six Democrats did cross
party lines in order to vote in favor of it.
The measure funds the USDA and restore snap benefits for
millions of Americans through next September.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Lawmakers are already leaving town again. They're not expected to
do any work.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
For the rest of this week, but they'll be back
next week.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
And there's another caveat to all this.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
There is the possibility of another government shutdown on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
At the end of January, Fox, as Mark Meredith, Democrats
did not get the extension of Obamacare tax credits that
they demanded.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
House Minority Leader Hakeem jeffries.
Speaker 18 (38:07):
If philosophy, my way on the highway, our response get lost.
We're going to continue to fight hard on behalf of
the American people.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Without an extension, millions of Americans will pay more for
health insurance. Republicans promise to address health care policy changes
to bring the costs down. Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert voted
for the funding measure, but she refused President Trump's request
to take her name off a petition to get Congress
to demand the release of the rest of the Jeffrey
Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Why would I put my name on and then not
vory it. I'm a co sponsor of the billing, of course.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
The book, I'll Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will
now hold that vote next week. Several of the emails
released yesterday include numerous mentions of the President. The Denver
City Council Committee wants more information before approving the proposed
women's soccer stadium near I twenty five and Broadway Council
Woman's Era Parodies says she's hesitant to allow the city
to spend fifty minus billion dollars on the land and
(39:01):
improvements in the area unless the mayor and sum At
FC team owners can assure her that they'll get a
return on the investment.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
It's really important to me to understand the poverty tax
numbers and what's producted.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
At this point, I really need math on this, and
I need that economic impact study to be an updated.
The team plays its first game in March at m
Powerfield at Mile High and we'll then move to the
temporary stadium in Rapo County ahead of the opening Bell
doll futures one hundred and three points up, SMP down nineteen.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I should say down.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That is down one hundred and three SMP down nineteen,
nasdack down ninety three. In sports, the Avs aiming for
their fifth straight win tonight when they host Buffalo at
Ball Arena. The Nuggets had their sixth street victory last night,
beating the Clippers on the road one thirty to one sixteen.
They'll face the Timberwolves Saturday night, Fox thirty one pinpoint.
Whether our stretch of seventies. Continues high temperature right around
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seventy two today, dipping down to the mid forties overnight tonight.
Currently we're at fifty in Denver. Our next update in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondak on Kowa. I have to
call my wife or kid and tell them to put
the trash out.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
A quick follow up on some of the numbers Gena
gave you about the pre market indicators here for stocks
looking very very slightly down, not big moves at all.
Here the Dow is up over thirteen hundred points in
the last four days, really incredible number. S and p
(40:24):
up less than ASDAK actually down a bit. You've got
a lot of this rotation going on. But what I
wanted to just say here for a moment is now
that the shutdown is done, the market is going to
get back to looking at thinking about trying to predict, well,
what's really going to happen next, How will the economy be, how.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Will inflation be? Will the FED cut next?
Speaker 8 (40:51):
And these are all questions that if I knew the
answers for sure, I'd be very very rich.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
You don't, nobody does, even the FED probably doesn't know
what they're going to do with their next meeting, which
is not for another month. What I would suggest to you,
if you're someone who's really interested in all this, of course,
keep an eye on the stock market, it's very interesting.
But also watch very very closely the bond market, particularly
the ten year note, which is the most actively traded thing.
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And remember that while the Fed controls short term rates,
they only modestly influence long term rates, which are really
set in the market by people buying and selling bonds
and setting those interest rates primarily based on their view
of the long term path of short term rates, like
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for how long will rates below and also what will
inflation be. So just keep an eye on all that stuff,
because that's what the market's going to be keeping an
eye on that. Money and Markets update brought to you
by blue Hair in Capital. Now speaking of money, and
I think Gina mentioned this earlier. This story comes from
the It's About Time files associated press headline US mint
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Press's final Pennies as production ends after more than two
hundred and thirty years. Wow us ended the US ended
production of the penny yesterday And obviously these were part
of our lives, you know, when I was a kid.
I'm gonna sort of date myself a little bit. But
(42:26):
when I was a kid, a penny it was not
really like you could buy a lot with a penny,
but you could definitely go into a candy store and
find a piece of candy that you could buy for
one or two pennies. And even a candy bar when
I was a kid might have been twenty cents, right,
something like that. Gina's never seen a twenty cent candy
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bar unless it was in the manager's special beIN at
King Soupers, and probably not even there.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, Manitou Springs still has what they call their penny arcade. Yeah,
nothing's a penny. They have some of the very very
old games that were actually it's still not really a penny.
They were my five cents, you know, little games that
they had. But no, honestly, nothing for a penny.
Speaker 8 (43:08):
I mean for you and and even for me now
these days. I mean, don't you kind of think of
a penny as trash? I don't know, I'm not trying
to insult it.
Speaker 9 (43:18):
Would you would you pick a penny up if you
saw it?
Speaker 6 (43:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah maybe not? Whoa well, if it's on heads right,
see this is what's all over the text line too.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
From talking about this earlier, a whole bunch of people
saying they'd only pick it up if.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
It were on heads only. Good luck.
Speaker 8 (43:33):
Yes, I'm flipping a coin. I almost always call tails
because tails.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Never fails right on the ground, so it's heads. Would
I pick up a penny? I don't know? And this
is ross talking, right. I'm the dude who will go
out of the way to, you.
Speaker 8 (43:52):
Know, save fifteen cents on something at the super I'll go,
I go on the app. I go on my King
Supers app and flip do the digital without fail.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Would I pick up a penny? Maybe not. Now here's
the thing Chad Bauer and I were talking about it earlier.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Of my go to souvenir are the pressed pennies, these
machines you collect there.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah, I have a whole.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Book of them, and so I'm like, well, what happens
to those now? Yes, they do say there's like three
hundred billion pennies that are still in culation, so it's
not like they're going to completely vanish right away. But
I love those machines because I just love just collecting
and having a little memento.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
From each place, but not like all right, you have
some big chotchkey or something book of them, like the
kind of book if you were collecting coins and you'd
put yes, yep, all a little press pennies. How many
do you think you have? H we started it not
that long ago, maybe like five project with your husband.
Speaker 11 (44:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Now here's the thing now, because it feels like we
don't have pennies available as much. I feel like sometimes
I do come across them and go, I don't have
a penny right now.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
I wonder if those machines are going to go away.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, some of them are smart enough now where like
they have the penny in the machine.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yeah, I've ever traveled with your own pennies just to
be able to put them in the machine. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Actually, if we're going on a trip where we would
know there'll be a lot of them, we probably have
like fifty or sixty of them.
Speaker 9 (45:16):
Now, where's the coolest or strangest penny smashed penny you have?
From Wall Drug?
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Waldrug?
Speaker 9 (45:23):
Wall Drug?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
I've never heard of Waldrune. Oh oh wow, don't. We're
not even gonna tell you about it. Speaking of Wall Drug, Yeah, coffee.
So we're getting there. I think, so, yeah, if you've
got to well maybe it was a penny too. I
don't remember, but I know they had your pennies.
Speaker 8 (45:39):
So here, okay, here's how I I'm a little off track.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Here, but here's how I think about change.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
I don't use cash very much anymore, but if I've
got change, I drop it in the little cup holder
in my car and then it accumulates to whatever. And
then so let's say you go and you buy something
that's you know, eighty six cents, and you have eighty
six cents in chain.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
And you just give them the coins. Right, Okay, that
means that thing was free. Oh yeah, that's girl math,
it is. Yeah, that's girl math. Great girl math. Yeah,
what's girl math?
Speaker 8 (46:12):
Mean?
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Girl math is pretty much exactly what you just explained.
Have you heard that term dragons? Sure? Havelf Yeah, girl math.
And so here's the other thing.
Speaker 8 (46:22):
Let's say something costs a dollar seven and you're paying
in cash, and you and you give them a five
dollar bill and you get back three one dollar bills
and ninety three cents in coins because it costs a
dollar seven. Right. That means that thing actually costs two
dollars because those coins are worthless, yeah, right, and the
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other way around if it was if it was a
dollar seven and you had a seven, and then it
only costs a dollar. So that's actually a way to
get to get unbelievably filthy rich is to use coins
right wherever you can, and then everything is on sale
or even free.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah. I agree. That's girl math, Girl math who knew.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Koa news Time seven seventeen put the federal government shut
down over. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessont confident the economic situation
of many Americans will begin to approve. He says the
Trump administration will be making substantial announcements over the next
couple of days on their efforts to bring down prices
on items not normally grown in the.
Speaker 15 (47:25):
US, coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits of
things like that, so that that will bring the prices down.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Speaking on Fox and Friends, Vesont added that President Trump
hopes to increase wages for workers by bringing manufacturing back
to the country. The next time you make a trek
up I seventy on Floyd Hill, you may notice some
pig improvements. Constructions started on the highway back in twenty
twenty three and crews have gotten the eastbound side pretty
much done ahead of schedule. The director of Sea Dots
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Floyd Hill Project, Kirk Kianka, says westbound traffic will also
see some changes.
Speaker 11 (47:59):
You drive the westbound direction, you actually see a fourth
lane traveling eastbound. That's that extended on RAM, that new
connection from US six heading back to the east, so
the trucks can get up to speed up over top
of the hill before that lane drops.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
The goal is to relieve the bottleneck on Floyd Hill
and add a third express lane in the westbound direction.
Three Denver police officers being recognized for going above and
beyond in order to help the public. The Citizens Appreciate
Police organization honored Captain Daniel Moorehead for helping a woman
in distress by buying her a meal and connecting her
with an outreach case coordinator. Officer Robert Anderson helped the
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grandmother who was the victim of fraud, even visiting her
on his own time to make sure she was okay.
An officer Michael Barrios was honored for curing a child
having seizures to an ambulance, helping to get the child
to the hospital more quickly. The Newsgas sponsored by Common
Spirit Health. Your next update coming up in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gina gondek on KOA a.
Speaker 8 (48:55):
Couple more things I want to say on this coin story.
So we're not making anymore after yesterday, Actually, you know,
stamped out the final couple pennies. I think they're going
to keep some of them at the US Treasury as
you know history, and then some of the other very
very last pennies to be to be stamped, to be
minted are going to be auctioned off and the rest
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will be out there in the world with the other
unlimited number of pennies that are basically trash.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
But it's going to save the taxpayers.
Speaker 8 (49:24):
According to the US Treasure fifty six million dollars. And
one of the things I wanted to mention on this,
which I think is quite quite fascinating, and I think
this number includes.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
The cost of distribution, not just the cost of the metal.
Speaker 8 (49:39):
But it costs three point seven cents to make a penny,
or maybe to make and get it into circulation. It
doesn't matter whichever it is. It's kind of nuts three
point seven cents to make a penny. And in case
you're wondering about you know what what coin might come next.
In terms of looking at whether it's worth making, a
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nickel costs just under fourteen cents to make now, so
a nickel looks like it might have some trouble too.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Dime is no problem, right.
Speaker 8 (50:09):
A dime costs less than six cents to make, and
a quarter costs between fourteen and fifteen cents to make,
So those are both all right, although you still spend
a lot of money to make them. But a nickel
a nickel, you know, fourteen fourteen cents. The other thing
just is I'm a bit of a nerd. I used
to collect coins. I haven't for a while. But the
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very last coin to be to be canceled by the
United States was the halfpenny, and that was it, like
just before the Civil War, I think eighteen fifties they
discontinued the half cent. So it's been a heck of
a long time since they since they canceled the coin.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
When do you think pennies will be like nonexistent, Like
it will be rare to see a penny because they
say there's like three hundred billions still in circulation. Then
will obviously continue to be But when do you think
down the line, they'll be going, wow, look penny.
Speaker 8 (51:07):
So half sarcasm is like they're trash and people don't
want to deal with them.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
Non sarcasm is.
Speaker 8 (51:15):
That even though they're probably never going to be worth
more than about a penny, you probably will see people
collecting them and they won't spend them, and they'll just
put them in a jar in a drawer somewhere, you know,
either just for reminiscing or thinking that they'll be worth
something one day.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
But if I remember correctly, I haven't looked at this
for a long time, but pennies are not one metal.
Speaker 8 (51:40):
They're two metals at least, and it makes them challenging
to melt down.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
And so it's difficult.
Speaker 8 (51:47):
Even though it costs, like, you know, three point seven
cents to get a penny into circulation, you can't easily
take pennies and do something with them that gets you
three point seven cents per penny.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Seven point five percent zinc, two point five percent copper.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Right, And even though it's unbalanced, what's that? What the
time for you take out your trash ross?
Speaker 8 (52:13):
Oh that's the alarm. That's the alarm. Okay, I'll tell
you what we're gonna do when we come back. I
saw an interesting piece in the Denver Post about Governor
Polus's budget, and of course Colorado's got some budget troubles
because Democrats routinely spend too much money, and Governor Polis
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is trying to figure out how to reduce that budget
and he wants to do a lot of it on
the backs of cutting medicaid spending, which, by the way,
makes sense because medicaid is exploded as a fraction of
state budget, something like a third of the state general
fund spending right now. But surprisingly to me, we had
a Republican who is somewhat likely to be the Republican
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candidate for governor criticizing police for cutting medicaid spending. That's
Bob Kirkmeyer. She's going to join me and Gina to
talk about it right after this. All right, I'm going
to go try to get someone to take my trash out.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
KOA News Time seven thirty. I'm Gina Goddec.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
There will be no day forty four of the federal
government shutdown on this vote. The a's are two hundred
and twenty two. The a's are two oh nine. The
bill has passed. The call in the House. Is the
bill passed largely along party lines.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
President Trump quick design it and to urge lawmakers to
work on preventing future shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
And did the filibuster terminate the filibuster? It'll never happen again.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
But it could happen again in January if Democrats aren't
able to get the healthcare tax of subsidies they've been demanding.
Six Democrats breaking with their party and voting in favor
of the latest funding bill, but Colorado Democrats weren't among them.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
Congresswoman Britney Peterson says the bill does nothing to address
the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, and Jason Crow says Colorado
families deserve better than an alleged promise from Republicans who
have repeated gone back on their word. Republican Congressman Jeff
Heard on what the bill.
Speaker 5 (54:04):
Does most importantly making sure that our men and women
in uniform and are dedicated federal law enforcement officers and
TSA agents and air traffic controllers get paid again. Also
restored funding for critical programs like SNAP.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
Republican Congressman Jeff Cranks says it's a shame Democrats chose
their own partisan games overpaying our troops and the federal workforce.
Speaker 6 (54:25):
Chad Bauer KOA News.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
There's still nearly twelve hundred flight cancelations across the country today,
seventy six of those in Denver, as the FAA is
trying to get air traffic controllers back to work. The
FAA is freezing the flight reductions at six percent, hoping
to get things back to normal by the weekend. Denver's
newest pro sports team, Denver sum at FC, encouraging fans
to help break the NWSL league attendance record when it
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kicks off its inaugural season next spring at empower Field
at Mile High More. Single game tickets will become available today,
but the team may have some trouble getting their new
stadium at I twenty five and Broadway built in time
for the twenty twenty eighth season. A city council committee
says it needs more information about the proposal before it
agrees to chip in fifty million dollars to buy the
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land for the stadium and make improvements to the surrounding
area on Wall Street. Stocks open, lower Dow down one
hundred and twenty nine points, SMP five hundred down thirty three,
nasdack down one hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 3 (55:23):
And in sports, the.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Abs aiming for their fifth straight win tonight when they
host Buffalo at Ball Arena. Then Nuggets clinched their sixth
straight victory last night, beating the Clippers on the road
one thirty two, one sixteen, Fox thirty one pinpoint weather.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Our stretch of seventies continues today.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
High temperature right around seventy three degrees dipping down to
the mid forties overnight tonight. Little cooler by your Saturday,
into the upper sixties. Currently we're at fifty in Denver.
Your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Goddeck on KOA.
Speaker 8 (55:52):
Let's get right to our KOA Commons Spirit Health hotline,
where we are joined by State Senator Republican state Senator
from Welld County, Barb Kirkmeyer, who is seeking the Republican
nomination for governor. And before we just bring Barb into
the conversation, let me just share with you two headlines
that kind of lay out the topic we are going
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to cover with Barb today. The Denver Post says Governor
Jared Polis's proposed Medicaid cuts get cold reception from lawmakers
and the Denver Gazette says Polus's budget proposal faces backlash
over Medicaid, and I was a little bit surprised, although
I think it just meant that there was a lot
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I didn't understand to see a fiscal conservative like Barb
Kirkmeyer aggressively criticizing medicaid spending cuts because the costs of
Medicaid are squeezing so many other things out of the
state budget, and Barb knows more about the state budget
than almost anybody.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
So it just meant to me there's.
Speaker 8 (56:56):
Something I don't understand if a conservative Republican is criticizing
Medie cuts. So, Barb Kirkmeyer, welcome to the show, and
please edumacate me on why a fiscal conservative like you
is opposing medicaid cuts or these specific Medicaid cuts.
Speaker 11 (57:13):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 19 (57:14):
There's a difference between constraining growth and misplacing priorities. And
that's the problem we have with this governor. Every time
he presents a budget. Responsible budgeting means you tighten your
own belt first kind of thing. This government, governor, he's
not necessarily constraining growth where it matters. He's only constraining
growth for families and jeopardizing access to healthcare for everyone,
especially women. He's cutting care for kids with autism and
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new moms. But he's growing government by another two hundred
full time employees, another two hundred employees in a time
when we are in a structural deficit for the fifth year.
So that's not constraining growth. That's shifting it onto the
backs of the most vulnerable. So here's what's happening in
our state. If you rely on Medicaid insurance, if you're
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in a maternal health care desert, if you have a
child with autism, for example, you're taking the cuts. If
you're a bureaucrut, you're going to get a raise. How
does that make sense. That's why I was going after
the governor. This governor used to balance the budget on
the backs of students. Now he's balancing the budget on
the backs of people who rely on Medicaid and jeopardizing
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healthcare for everybody, every Colorado. But I think that's irresponsible.
And let me just tell you why. I say it's
every Colorado, because I know that sounds probably sounds crazy
to folks, and you're probably thinking, what's gotten into Kirkmeyer.
But here's the thing. Our healthcare system right now is
in crisis mode. And if you continually, year over year,
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cut the amount of dollars that you reimburse hospitals, doctors, nurses,
and clinics and everyone else in the healthcare system for
health care services that they provide, they either go out
of business or they stop providing that service.
Speaker 3 (58:55):
And what has happened.
Speaker 19 (58:57):
We have twenty five counties that have made maternal health
care deserts. No maternal health care that is not just
for people on Medicaid, that is for every woman in
that county has no place to go for maternal health care.
Every woman. So I don't know why he's trying to
jeopardize health care for women throughout the state of Colorado,
but that's what he's doing. And it's gotten worse since
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the governor continues to come in with these cuts.
Speaker 14 (59:21):
And it's not just this year.
Speaker 19 (59:23):
Year over year, he has been not funding reimbursements to
providers at even at inflation, and even at inflation, which
means that's a cut they can't afford it. So here's
what's happened. Delta County in the last eight weeks close
their maternal health care in Delta County in Loveland, they
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closed the hospital up there. One of the hospitals up
there closed their emergency care and their impatient services. And
another hospital in Greeley is talking in Greeley now is
talking about closing their maternal health care because they can't
afford it. And it goes back to these cuts to providers.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
And so let me let me.
Speaker 19 (01:00:04):
Jump in here, bar I am here.
Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
All right, let me let me let me jump in.
And I think Gina may have a question for you
in a moment as well, but let me just jump in.
So I'm fully with you that Governor Poulis has grown
government too much.
Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
I think we need to keep that a separate issue.
On the on the Medicaid thing.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
And you know this very very well, as as one
of the smartest, most informed members of the Joint Budget Committee.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
That meant, the cost of.
Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
Medicaid and the share of the total General Fund spending
that is eaten up by Medicaid has just been absolutely exploding.
Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
So let's say I take you at.
Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
Your word that by having reimbursement rates that are not
even keeping up with inflation, effectively, every time a doctor
performs a procedure of some sort has an appointment of
some sort with a with a Medicaid patient patient that
doctor in conince dollars is getting paid less and less
every year and at some point it's unsustainable. So I'm
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with you on all of that, but I would submit
to you that something must be done to restrain the
growth of cost of Medicaid.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
So what is that thing that needs to be done?
Speaker 19 (01:01:19):
And thank you, that's a great question. And we need
to look at the services that we are providing and
who are we providing those two I'm not saying we
shouldn't be making some kind of cuts in this area,
but we need to look at that. So we have
expanded the number of people and different populations that we
provide Medicaid insurance for and right, and then we have
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to pay the providers, so we need to look at that.
There is about forty percent of the population that is
able bodied, that means able to go to work. And
you know, this is one of the discussions that was
coming up at the federal level, is like, is they're
able bodied, shouldn't they be required to go to work
before they can get on Medicaid? Or maybe we should
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limit the amount of Medicaid that they can receive. I
think there are things that like that that we need
to look at the percentage of the federal poverty level
that we are using. We have expanded it. Normally, when
medicaids started, it's at like one hundred and thirty eight
percent of the federal poverty level. Now, I want everybody
to understand the amount of income annually. Income for a
family of four, the federal poverty level is that if
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they're making less than about thirty three thousand dollars a year,
they're considered in poverty. Right, they're less than that federal
poverty level. So, you know, we were supposed to be
providing medicaid for those people who are truly the most
vulnerable among us, truly the most you know, lowest income,
the people who can't afford it, because that's what government
is supposed to be doing. So, you know, I think
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we need to look at where have we expanded both
at the state. I mean, we have gone in and
gone after waiver after waiver to exempt things out, so
increasing our costs in medicaid. And then the other thing
that we have done here in government is we have
increased the cost of doing business. And that's not just
for small businesses or for the agriculture industry or the
energy industry or other industries. That includes doctors' offices and hospitals,
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and we have expanded the cost by regulation and increasing
their costs. So I mean we have to look at
things like that where we should be cutting through some
of this red tape from all this regulation that has
been passed on to every industry, every business in this state.
Those are things we should be looking at as well.
I wasn't saying when I said the governor was being irresponsible.
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I wasn't saying that we shouldn't be making cuts in
the Department of Healthcare Policy and Finance because again, their
administrative cost of grown by eighty four percent over a
six year period, eighty four percent.
Speaker 11 (01:03:45):
And so so I just jump.
Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
I guess we're just in the interesting time.
Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Gine's got a question for you, Yes, Center Kirk, I
just I'm curious when you go back, when you talk
about the maternal health and those who supervise people with autism,
can you paint a picture a little bit about this
budget includes limiting home care giver hours and changing how
much is paid to those people who supervise those with autism.
Does that mean, is there the possibility of people losing
the quality of care they're currently getting if their supervisors
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start being paid less.
Speaker 19 (01:04:18):
Absolutely, that's absolutely what it means. So home health care.
I want you to think about moms and dads out
there who have children with severe disabilities, and then their
children grow up and they become adults, and the people
who are caring for them, so we don't have the
high cost of going into institutions, but the people who
are caring for them are their parents, and their parents
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are aging now.
Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
They and the.
Speaker 19 (01:04:42):
Governor's proposal cuts home health care codes, which cuts their
reimbursement rates and makes it almost nearly impossible for them
to be able.
Speaker 11 (01:04:50):
To provide that care.
Speaker 19 (01:04:51):
What's going to happen next? This is why this budget
is just so shortsighted and what the governor is looking at.
You know, we have to look at the long game here.
We have to look at see with how this is
going to impact all the way through and those parents
that we just talked about that are taking care of
their adult children with severe disabilities versus putting them into
an institution, those Medicaid reimbursement rates have been cut as well.
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Those parents, I received numerous emails. I'm sure everyone on
the Joint Budget Committee has, but it's those parents that
are probably the most scared. It's like, what are we
supposed to do? What are they going to do? And
who's going to care for their child when they're when
you know, these folks are no longer with us, and
there's nobody else around to care for their child.
Speaker 8 (01:05:33):
This issue is definitely not going away. So Barb, we
will we will have you back. And I will just
say to you from my own personal you know, bias
or whatever you want to call it, like I understand
what you're saying here, and this idea of maternal healthcare
deserts and and maybe a pregnant woman, possibly a high
risk pregnancy, having to drive an hour two hours, three
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hours to maybe not three but a couple to get
to a doctor or a hospital is a significant problem.
But I also, or I should say, and I also
am relying on you, as a fiscally conservative Republican to
find a way to do something about healthcare spending in Colorado.
So if you're going to say we can't cut Medicaid
this way, I do. Next time we talk want to
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hear you, you know, with some specifics. We should cut
medicaid this other way, and I'm counting on you for
that because the Democrats are not going to come up
with it. Barb Kirkmeyer, State Senator, Republican candidate for governor
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Thanks for your time, Thank you, and.
Speaker 19 (01:06:33):
I'll be back on and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
You got it, KOA News Time seven forty five, the
longest federal government shutdown in history now over after the
President signed a funding bill passed by Congress. Now House
Speaker Mike Johnson is looking ahead.
Speaker 11 (01:06:48):
I said, as soon as the government was open, we
would turn our attention to healthcare and all the other
issues that are out there.
Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
One of those issues will be a vote to the
House on the release of the folk Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Now that enough members of Congress have signed a petition
to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert actually sponsored the petition.
Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
Speaker 20 (01:07:06):
We did learn that yesterday here at the White House
in the Situation Room, top officials met with Bobert in
an effort to try and get her to remove her
name from this petition, trying to force the full release
of these files.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
But guess what. It didn't work. Her name is still
on that petition.
Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Even if the measure passes, it has to then pass
the Republican controlled Senate, and President Trump's likely to veto
the measure since he has said before he's not tangent
of releasing the full files. A Douglas County teacher facing charges,
including suspicion of sexual assaults on a child.
Speaker 10 (01:07:36):
This allegedly happened back in twenty twenty three that teacher,
Teresa Whalen allegedly began a sexual relationship with a middle
school student who was apparently struggling with mental health issues.
Whalen had been assigned to that student as a support person,
according to the affidavit. Now, the relationship allegedly lasted more
than a year, the student telling police that t would
hang out in her office and send each other explicit photos.
(01:07:59):
Then the documents show when the student ended this relationship,
Whalen apparently started showing up at his home and I
please interview. Whalen allegedly confessed to the relationship, saying she
knew what was wrong and she deserved to be in
jail for her action.
Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
That's Fox thirty one's Lisa Desuza and Starbucks celebrating its
annual Red Cup holiday promotion today, but not all stores
will be cheery and bright. One thousand Starbucks employees plan
to strike at stores in more than forty cities over
a labor dispute and contract negotiations. Your next update in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Goddeck on KOA.
Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
I just wanted to share a listener text.
Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
One of my favorite things about doing this show is
that there are literally thousands of people listening who know
way more than I do about any given topic. Right.
I mean, I tend to know a little bit about
a lot of things, but there are people who do
these things, who are in these things for a living,
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and so we get these listener texts and I just
think they're fascinating. And I learned so much from you,
and it really is one of the great parts of
this job. So we were just talking with State Senator
Barb Kirkmeyer, who was talking about what she called maternal
health care deserts. She talked about Delta County closing their
maternal health care and other things like that, and a
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listener just texted in and said, ross Barb is wrong
on some of her statements. This listener says, yes, this
person's in a healthcare recruiting business. Yes, there are women's
services being cut by certain hospitals all around the country.
The main reason is actually supply and demand as much
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as any of this finance stuff, because there are not
enough people having babies anymore, and so the number of
visits to these doctors is down, and they can't afford
to pay their staff because the staff gets paid a
salary regardless of how many people are coming, and you know,
getting invoices and paying bills. So they're closing gyn practices
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and having general surgeons and general practitioners be the doctors
to see them.
Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
So anyway, that that's very.
Speaker 8 (01:10:12):
On the one hand, it's very in the weeds, but
on the other hand, it's also a really important level
of detail to know if you're going to be somebody
setting policy on this stuff. So I think that very cool,
and I love getting those kinds of texts from listeners
who know more than I do. All Right, so Dragon
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played there that was ac DC money.
Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Talks, right.
Speaker 8 (01:10:36):
See, I might have even gotten that on name that tune,
even though you played a lot longer than what you
would normally get on name that tune and gosh, I'm
doing so well today Dragon, understanding why you're playing the
music that you're playing.
Speaker 9 (01:10:49):
I'm following the show sheet and it looks to be
like you.
Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
You seem to be glimpsing at the show, so I too.
I have two things to say.
Speaker 8 (01:10:57):
One is totally unrelated, but because Squirrel, because I just
wanted you to know, I did get in touch with
my son who hadn't left for school yet and he's
gonna put.
Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
The trash out.
Speaker 8 (01:11:08):
And then the other thing that is more related. And
I'm very, very fearful of this. I wonder if the
presence of Ga Gina is making me slightly more professional
and causing me to look at the show sheet more.
Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
I'm very afraid of that.
Speaker 9 (01:11:25):
I mean, we're four days in and you've been on
top of it every break, so it is scary, all.
Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Right, So let me do this thing the reason Dragon
played this music.
Speaker 8 (01:11:36):
Two separate headlines for you that relate to the same
kind of thing from the Wall Street Journal, using your
credit card at the checkout is set to get a
lot more complicated. And from the Associated Press, why visa
MasterCard legal settlement.
Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Could lead to your rewards card getting declined.
Speaker 8 (01:11:53):
Okay, so I actually talked about this a little bit
a couple of days ago or yesterday, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
I get the day all get confused for me.
Speaker 8 (01:12:02):
But Visa and MasterCard have proposed a settlement with merchants.
This has been going for a year, maybe decades, with
merchants with retailers about how much the stores have to
pay the cards in order to be able to use
the card. It's usually in the area of two to
and a half percent. They're talking about lowering it a
little bit. But here's the key point that you need
(01:12:25):
to know about that relates to these headlines. Visa and
MasterCard currently have a rule that they call honor all cards.
And what that means is if a store accepts any
Visa card, they have to accept all Visa cards.
Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Same with MasterCard.
Speaker 8 (01:12:44):
If they accept any MasterCard, they have to accept all
Master cards.
Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
And you might think, well, why is that a thing?
Speaker 8 (01:12:51):
Who cares? Aren't they all the same? And the answer
is no, they are not all the same. Some cards
are kind of the lowest level of cards and maybe
they're no fee, maybe they have a small fee, but
they don't really offer any perks. Then you have another
level of cards where you might earn frequent flyer miles
or get some modest amount of cash back.
Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
And then you have some.
Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
Elite cards and I don't have these, but where the
bonuses you get are enormous, And the thing is those
are much more expensive because the person using the card
is getting back bonuses that are worth and actually some
of the frequent flyer miles could be like this, The
bonuses you're getting back, or the cash back you're getting
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or the other things is so valuable that in order
to process that card and keep that business going, the
fee that the store has to pay Visa or MasterCard
is higher. So what you may end up seeing is
you may end up seeing stores that either will not
accept the cards that have the high rewards because those
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come with the high fees to the store, or the
store is saying, yeah, you can use that card, but
it's going to cost you an extra percent or two percent.
We're going to see how it all plays out, but
you may well end up seeing stores treating different visas
differently from each other. And that would certainly it's something
stores don't want to see, but it may be inevitable.
Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
It's Thursday morning, I'm Gina Goddek. The government shutdown open
for business again.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
It's an honor now to sign this incredible bill and
get our country working again.
Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Thanks as an infant thinking House Republicans for returning to
the capital for the first time in seven weeks in
order to pass the short term spending bill to reopen
the government.
Speaker 21 (01:14:40):
Motion is adopted with the stroke of a pen on
the President's desk. The longest government shutdown ever is now over.
Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
We will never give into extortion, because that's what it was.
Speaker 21 (01:14:50):
The bill funds the government until January, extends funding for
SNAP in the VA until September, restores shutdown firings, and
guarantees for load employees.
Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
Get back pay.
Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
At ABC's Christian Cordero, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the
shutdown cost American taxpayers eleven billion dollars. Now. There are
still nearly twelve hundred flight cancelations across the country today,
seventy six of those in Denver. As the FAA is
trying to get air traffic controllers back to work. The
FAA is freezing the flight reductions at six percent, hoping
(01:15:22):
to get things back to normal by the weekend. A
suspect arrested in September for stalking a TV meteorologist, is
now facing a felony charch.
Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 19 (01:15:31):
He actually followed me home from work, and that's when
things really.
Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Took a turn.
Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Burch joined US earlier in
Colorado's Morning News, shortly after the seventy year old suspect
was taken into custody and was shocked that prosecutors originally
only charged him with a misdemeanor. She tells US this morning,
she's relieved the charges have been upgraded.
Speaker 14 (01:15:49):
I truly didn't think it would have much of much
weight when it came to my case.
Speaker 19 (01:15:54):
I thought my case was kind of done, but my
goal was to make.
Speaker 14 (01:15:57):
It so that other women didn't have to go through
that people to This has happened to men as well.
Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
The suspect is due back in court next week. Jeff
co shares investigators still searching for a suspect involved in
a road rage shooting that left a woman fighting for
her life. This happened Tuesday night on US two eighty
five South near Settlers Drive. A passenger and a black
SUV was shot in the head witnesses say the shooter
was driving a light colored Subaru, and no more penny
(01:16:22):
for your thoughts, says the US Mint processed.
Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
It's final one.
Speaker 7 (01:16:26):
The Treasurer says, ending the penny is going to save
the US fifty six million dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
But at what cost?
Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
You won't be able to give your two cents no
good luck because you won't find one on the ground.
What will you throw in a wishing well? The government
is not making more, but you can still use the
ones you have, most likely in a jar in your kitchen.
I'm pre tennis.
Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
There are approximately three hundred billion pennies still in circulation.
On Wall Street, stocks fall as the Dow pulls back
from its record high. Dow down one hundred and thirty
four points, SMP down forty three, Nasdaq down two hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
And fifty six.
Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Business and money updates spot ansored by Blue Heron Capital LC.
In sports, the Avs aiming for their fifth Street win
tonight when they host Buffalo at Ball Arena. The Nuggets
clinching their sixth Street victory last night, beating the Clippers
on the road one thirty to one, sixteen Fox thirty
one pinpoint. Whether our stretch of seventies continues like a
broken record, dipping down into the mid forty forties overnight tonight.
(01:17:22):
Currently we're at fifty degrees in Denver. Our next update
in fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondek on Koway.
Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
I'm Ross.
Speaker 8 (01:17:29):
We're going to have an important Colorado Rockies related press
conference running here on KOA at ten thirty and here
to give us the details of who it's about, what
it's about. What we need to know is the intrepid
Chad Bauer.
Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
What do we got.
Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
Yeah, they're going to introduce the new President of Baseball Operations.
The hiring was a few weeks ago, Paul de Podesta.
And this guy had a long record in baseball. He
started out very young. He remember the movie and the
book Moneyball. Yeah, of course, yeah, he caught Michael Lewis book.
Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
He was a part of that.
Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
And then in the movie Jonah Hill played a character
based on him. It wasn't named after him because he
didn't want his name us, but that was that. He
was the Dodgers GM in his early thirties and then
for the last ten years or so he has been
the chief strategy officer for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL,
and he's now making his return to baseball after all
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those years.
Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Chad, I've never seen Moneyball, but it does have a
ninety four percent on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe I should
check it out.
Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
It's a great baseball movie.
Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Tell us a little bit about the I think it's
fascinating going from baseball to football back to baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Is this a common thing that we've seen, not at all.
Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
No, But he played football in college, so we had
a football backgrounds, and he liked football, and he decided
he wanted to make a change. And now the Cleveland
Brown's not a great organization and he was part of
the front office that made one of the worst trades
in NFL history for Deshaun Watson, gave him one of
the worst contracts in NFL history, five years, two hundred
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thirty million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
He's barely played.
Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
They've basically moved on.
Speaker 8 (01:19:09):
Yeah, so that's Do you have a sense as to
why the Rockies think this is the guy to help
them fix their woes.
Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
Well, he's got a lot of experience in various organizations,
and he says he likes a challenge, and this is
definitely going to be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
A team that's lost one hundred games three seasons in
a row, it's going to be a challenge to get
free agents here because you're going to either have to
find somebody that had a down year or somebody or
overpay somebody to come here.
Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
This ten to thirty press conference, do you think it's
going to be like, yes, Rockies fans are hearing what
they need to hear, or is it going to be
pretty overarching just high happy to be here moment?
Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Yeah, to be big an introduction into obviously depends on
one what questions he's asked, I know from other interviews,
because they've had the GM meetings this week and he's
been doing a few interviews already. He says his main
goal is to build an organizational culture. You know that
you know in the front office. That's something that like
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something that you do in the lowest of minor leagues.
That's going to be the same process all the way
to the majors. We're not going to have this picture
focused on throwing breaking balls in double A. But all
of a sudden he gets to the majors and he's
throwing fastballs and getting lit up.
Speaker 6 (01:20:20):
So they're going to try to make a cohesive.
Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
Organizational culture both on the field off the field, and
you know, and try to build things from there.
Speaker 8 (01:20:28):
All right, Rockies fans ten thirty right here on Kowa,
you'll hear that press conference introducing Paul de Podesta.
Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Thank you, Chad yep, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (01:20:36):
All right.
Speaker 8 (01:20:36):
I want to spend a little time now, maybe next
segment as well, just to make sure I cover it adequately.
A couple of things going on in DC, And oddly enough,
the end of the government shutdown is not the biggest story.
Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
It's fine. We knew it was coming.
Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
The market has been up huge in anticipation of that,
down very very slightly today, not a big move today,
So we knew that was coming. And maybe the most
interesting part or the government shut down at this point, well,
I'd say two things. What's going to be the ongoing
impact on air travel and how soon will they be
able to fix that up? Right now, the FAA is
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keeping the flight cuts at the forty biggest airports at
six percent, but so.
Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
That's one thing, and then the other thing coming.
Speaker 8 (01:21:16):
Out of it, where you know, I would say it's
very clear that Democrats lost this battle in the sense
that they kept the government closed for forty three days
and didn't get anything that they want, anything important, at
least that they wanted right. They wanted an extension of
particular temporary Obamacare subsidies, and all they got was a
(01:21:39):
commitment from the head of the Senate to have a
vote on it. They don't even have a commitment from
the Speaker of the House to even allow a vote
on it in the House. So in terms of the battle,
the Democrats definitely lost, no matter what they want to
say about it. In fact, if you could put my
audio up please, Dragon, a CNN reporter asked Colorado senator,
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former governor, former mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper, was it worth.
Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
It shut down?
Speaker 11 (01:22:08):
Worth it?
Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
Yeah? I think so. I hate it, but yeah, it
was worth it. Definitely.
Speaker 18 (01:22:13):
We got people to pay attention to the fact that
this is a traumatic, in many cases, life or death
situation for people all over this country.
Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
So this is the way the Democrats are framing it now.
Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
And this is why I say the Democrats lost the battle,
But they definitely haven't lost the war, because in it
I don't think Looper is right that it was worth it.
I mean, that was a lot of pain for a
lot of people, but they did get the discussion turned
and focused on healthcare and the price of health insurance
(01:22:44):
and what I just want to I want to spend
another minute on this, because the Democrats are going to
make sure that health insurance premiums are the top issue
if they have anything to say about it. They're going
to make it the top issue in the twenty twenty
six elections, in maybe the twenty twenty eight elections as well.
Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
And it is a pain point for a lot.
Speaker 8 (01:23:04):
Of people, just the same way that inflation was a
huge pain point for people in the Biden administration, which
allowed Trump to get reelected after losing in twenty twenty
he got reelected in twenty twenty four primarily because of inflation,
also partly because of immigration, and so far on the
quote unquote affordability side, it's not working out very well
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for Donald Trump. It's kind of a separate issue. Well,
actually I shouldn't say that it's not a separate issue.
These are again now going to be the two things
that Democrats run on. And you know what, it's odd
to think that Democrats are going to run on affordability.
But Trump campaigned on affordability, and not only has he
not made it better, he's arguably made it worse with
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his tariffs. And a lot of people understand that. And
I'll tell you what, if a Republican is vulnerable on
economic issues, then that or if Republicans general, because Trump
won't be running himself for re election, but he may
be supporting other candidates and he will kind of implicitly
be on the ballot. This is always the case in
midterm elections. If Republicans are vulnerable on economic issues, then
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they are seriously vulnerable because that's normally where the public
looks to them to do a better job than Democrats.
The other thing, though, going back to what I was
talking about healthcare, here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Obamacare is terrible.
Speaker 8 (01:24:28):
Obamacare is responsible for huge increases in the cost of
health care. But Republicans have never come up with a
credible alternative that they have explained to the public. They
have been very bad at messaging, not that they really
have much to message anyway, but they're figuring it out now.
(01:24:51):
And here's a headline at Politico House GOP Committee leaders
to hold healthcare brainstorming sessions, and they better do this right.
They better do this because to the extent that Republicans
are on the back foot playing defense going into the
midterms on affordability and on healthcare, they're going to have
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a huge problem. And Republicans better come up with a plan.
Much like when Gina and I were talking with Senator
Barb Kirkmeyer and she's complaining about Medicaid spending, I ended
the interview by saying to her, I understand what you're
objecting here to, but you're supposed to be a fiscally
conservative Republican. So the next time we talk to you,
I expect you to be able to tell me how
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you are willing to cut Medicaid rather than just complaining
about these particular cuts. And Republicans at the federal level
are going to have the same problem. When we come back,
I want to talk more about the Epstein stuff, but
right now, let's check in with Gena and see what's
going on in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
AOA News Time eight fourteen, a former owner of a
Parker gym will be sentenced today after he was found
guilty of sexually assaulting two teen athletes. Prosecutors save fifty
one year old Aaron Thomas Currado abused the teens between
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty two at the Strength and.
Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Christ Jim and other locations.
Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
The case began when his ex wife discovered troubling notes
and messages he sent to the victims and notified authorities.
Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Speaker Mike Johnson's is a bill compelling.
Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
The DOJ to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files,
will receive a vote on the House floor next week.
Speaker 16 (01:26:23):
With the discharge petition now reaching the two hundred and
eighteen signatures needed, Johnson is required to put the bill
on the floor soon, although he suggested he would not
use some of the extra time that he was allowed.
Democrat Congresswoman at Alita Grihalma became the two hundred and
eighteenth signature on the discharge petition shortly after she was
sworn in Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
I'm Mark Mayfield, Sybil Rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson
hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency.
Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
For more than a decade.
Speaker 17 (01:26:48):
Reverend Jackson has been battling a neurodegenerative disease called progressive
supra nuclear palsy. The eighty four year old was originally
treated for Parkinson's, but last April his PSP condition was confirmed.
Arvan Jackson kicked off his iconic career more than sixteen
years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
That's Foxes Anita Blanton.
Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Boeing's latest contract offer for striking employees in the Saint
Louis area goes to a boat today. Union leaders are
reportedly recommending members approve the proposal, which doubles an upfront
bonus to six hundred six thousand dollars. More than three
thousand Boeing Defense workers have been on strike since early August,
and the conditions weren't as ideal as Tuesday nights, but
(01:27:25):
Colorado residents are still getting a small glimpse of the
northern lights.
Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
There's still a chance.
Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
They could be seen tonight, but not as likely as
the past couple of nights. Check Noah's Space Weather Prediction
Center website for the conditions.
Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
You're up to date. The next update coming up in
fifteen minutes. I'm Gina Gondeck on Koway.
Speaker 8 (01:27:43):
This is Russkominski on the news with Gina Gondeck. Gina's
over there to my right front of the window. Actually,
you might, you know if you're looking, you might see
the back of your head. You're not looking, you won't.
Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
Hi, Gena Hi. I want to talk a little bit
about this whole Epsteine thing.
Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
It's super interesting, the politics of this Epstein thing super interesting.
So the Democrats yesterday released some stuff and I think
it was I mean, obviously this is all politics, right,
So this stuff is done in a way that's designed
to hurt Donald Trump, and it's it's you know, politics,
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ain't bean bag, that's just what's going on here. And
one of the emails they put out was between Jeffrey
Epstein and Galene Maxwell, and it talked about how Donald
Trump had spent hours at his house. And then in
the version that the Democrats released, they edited out they
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redacted the name of the person that Trump was talking to,
but it was Virginia Giuffrey, who is one of Epstein's
victims who committed suicide earlier this year and then after that,
like less than a month ago, had a book public
called Nobody's Girl.
Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
But she's passed away now.
Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
And the Democrats released this thing, and it was a
little bit odd in a way that they edited out
or they redacted the name of that of that girl
that Trump was talking to at Epstein's house, because because
Virginia Giuffrey has already said repeatedly that Trump never did
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anything on tour with her or even flirted with her verbally.
And I'm not looking at that email, but it says
something like Trump spent hours with Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
And his name hasn't come up. Now when he put
when they edited out.
Speaker 8 (01:29:45):
The word the name Virginia and just redacted and just
put the word victim over it, they're sort of implying
it could be someone else and not Virginia Giufrey, because
Virginia Giuffrey has already been public about this.
Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
And then when they do like that, they change what
I think is the message.
Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
Oh, it says that it says, you know, who's the
dog that the dog that didn't bark is Donald Trump,
or the story that didn't bark is Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
But what they're trying to imply is that, oh, yeah,
Trump spent.
Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
A bunch of time with one of these girls, and
yet his name hasn't come out, and it probably should have.
Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
That's what the Democrats are trying to.
Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
Make you think that the that Trump did something wrong.
The Democrats are trying to make you think that there's
some hidden information that you don't know when you should
be very suspicious. But really, what they're saying I think.
I think what they're saying is the fact that Trump
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spent lots of time or I shouldn't say lots of time.
They said he was in the room for some number
of hours over whatever period of time with Virginia Giuffrey,
and Trump's name never came out as somebody who.
Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
Did anything wrong.
Speaker 8 (01:31:01):
I think the dog that didn't bark, I think what
they're saying by that, what they mean by that is
that kind of like there's no smoke in therefore there's
no fire, like if Trump had done something, that dog
would have barked. In any case, Democrats are overjoyed about
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some of these emails. I think they're misinterpreting them intentionally
because that's politics. Meanwhile, in order to try to swamp that,
Republicans put out over twenty thousand more documents yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
Now back on the politics of it.
Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
You heard Gina report that Lauren Bobert was brought into
a meeting by the White House. They went apparently to
the Situation Room, and Lauren Bobert was talked to by Cash, Bettel,
and I don't know who else at the highest levels
of the Obama I'm sorry, the Trump Justice Department and
FBI and whoever else, and try to talk her out
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of supporting the discharge petition that she had already put
her name on. But she didn't back off, and neither
did Nancy Mace, who they tried to get to right away.
And so the vote on releasing all this stuff is
going to be next week. It's going to be next week.
And as I said earlier in the show, so I'll
just do this briefly. I suspect that the outcome of
that vote is that you are going to have I'd
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say at least fifty and one hundred wouldn't surprise me
Republicans voting to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Whatever those even are.
Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
Now here's a point that I just want to it's
a secondary effect of all this. Trump keeps saying that
there's nothing to see there, and actually, if you look
at some of Epstein's emails, it sounds more like Epstein
was suggesting that he had some kind of dirt on
Trump on business deals, not on.
Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Stuff with girls.
Speaker 8 (01:32:58):
I think everybody in the world understands that Trump is
a shady businessman. I'm not saying criminal, but you know,
certainly would get close to that line.
Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
And it sounded like Epstein was.
Speaker 8 (01:33:12):
Talking with this author, talking with his friends didn't like
Trump very much, saying, you know, we could probably do
something to hurt this guy. But does anybody actually care
about Trump and business deals? And will we find out
any details anyway since Epstein is dead?
Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (01:33:27):
But Trump has been saying this is all a hoax
and the only Republicans who would go along with it
are bad or stupid.
Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
But what's he going to do when fifty or one.
Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Hundred or one hundred and fifty of them go along
with it?
Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
And what I think we're going to need to keep
an eye on going forward is.
Speaker 8 (01:33:44):
Is Trump's grip on the Republican Party weakening a little bit?
And I think the answer is yes, he is still dominant.
He's dominant, He's powerful in the Republican Party. But I
think his grip is loosening, and I think this is
something he's going to be very concerned about.
Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Good Thursday morning, I'm Gina Gndak.
Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Federal employees getting back to work today now that the
House voted to reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
And President Trump signed off on the measure last night.
Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
We went through this short term disaster with the Democrats
because they voted would be good politically.
Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
But House Minority Leader Hookim Jeffries says, even though they
didn't get the healthcare tax subsidies they demanded, it was
the right thing to do.
Speaker 18 (01:34:25):
See the Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care
ract tax credits this year, or the American people will
throw Republicans out of their jobs next year.
Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
The measure doesn't solve all the airline troubles right away,
but it does look to pay air traffic controllers and
bring most of them back to work. Six Democrats crossed
party lines, but Colorado Democrats did not.
Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
As expected, Republicans are all for it.
Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
Just after the vote, Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd posted a
video on social media.
Speaker 5 (01:34:56):
Crowd along with my fellow Republicans and to the handful
of Democrats to have reopened the government, restoring funding for
critical programs at families across the district in our country
rely on.
Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Democratic Congressman Jason Crow says, it's not a bill that
works for Colorado. It does nothing to address the rising
cost of health care, and it will leave hundreds of
thousands of Colorado's at risk of seeing their premiums double.
Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
Chad Bauer KOA.
Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
News Denver prosecutors have decided to file felony charges against
the man accused of stalking Fox thirty one meteorologist Kylie Burst.
Speaker 14 (01:35:29):
It's really for me in my case, but it's also
I hope some relief that going forward, the Denver DA's office,
as well as other GA offices around the state, take
stocking more seriously.
Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
Kylie joined us earlier on Colorado's Morning News and says
she spent the past year looking over her shoulder and
living in fear. After the seventy year old suspect began
following her. She received a restraining order and was surprised
that he was only charged with misdemeanor stalking.
Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
She's now released the charge has been upgraded.
Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
You only have a few days to get current tags
in your car before Denver police start a campaign cracking
down on expired plates.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Denver PLEI Chief Ron Thomas, it was more important.
Speaker 15 (01:36:07):
Than the number of citations that we write or the
number of people that go and actually register their vehicles.
Speaker 1 (01:36:12):
Newly purchased vehicles must be registered in person at DMV offices,
while registration renewals can be done online or at a
kiosk on Wall Street. Stocks down slightly, DOW down one
hundred and eight at last check, SMP down forty NASDAK
down two hundred and fifty points. In sports, the Avs
hosting the Buffalo Sabers at Ballerina tonight, and the Nuggets
(01:36:34):
are celebrating their sixth straight win last night, beating the
La Clippers on the road one thirty to one, sixteen,
Nikolayokich boasting his fourth career fifty point game. They have
a few days off now before facing the Timberwolves Saturday night,
Fox thirty one pinpoint. Whether our stretch of seventy degree
temperatures continues today with a high in the low seventies,
(01:36:54):
dipping down into the mid forties overnight tonight, back into
the seventies tomorrow, upper sixties by seven. Currently we're at
fifty three in Denver. Your next update in fifteen minutes.
I'm Gia Gondeck on Kowa.
Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
This is Ross Kaminski on the news with me and
with Gina Gondeck, and a lot of stuff to do
still I'm gonna do a couple of smaller stories here,
and a couple of things I've had for a day
or two that I've wanted to get to. Actually, this
one is a new Ish story from yesterday, just a
quick sports thing. Rob Gronkowski, right. Gronk the New England
Patriots tight end for many years. He won three Super
(01:37:31):
Bowls with the Patriots, and then he followed Tom Brady
to Tampa Bay and won another Super Bowl there, And
of course you always.
Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
Think about him as a Patriot, even.
Speaker 8 (01:37:40):
Though same way with Tom Brady, right, even though he
played at Tampa Bay for a bid. And you got
to say, it's a pretty remarkable thing for those two
guys to go to another team and win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
It's pretty nuts. It says a lot about their talent.
Speaker 8 (01:37:53):
But in any case, the last team he played with
was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he wanted to officially
retire as a New England Patriot, so yesterday he signed
a one day contract with the New England Patriots and
that means he will be able to retire officially as
a member of the New England Patriots after his eleven
(01:38:15):
year career.
Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
He said I'm a patriot for life.
Speaker 8 (01:38:18):
My career started here and one hundred percent needed to
end here, and I don't think I need to add
a lot more to that, but I just wanted to
share it with you because I kind of dig it,
all right. You know, I'm an econ nerd, and from
time to time I'll bring you just big picture stuff
that might help folks think about public policy and government
and business and stuff like that going forward. And there
(01:38:42):
was a piece over at Reason magazine entitled California's fast
food minimum wage hike is killing jobs. And part of
the reason I wanted to mention this to you, I
don't care that much about California, but Denver is doing
very serious, very similar stuff to this, and Colorado generally,
with the people who are in charge of these things
(01:39:03):
in the state legislature and the governor's mansion right now,
are mostly on board with this of these kinds of
fairly aggressive increases to the minimum wage. And Denver City
Council actually had an opportunity to do something to alleviate
this problem when it came to restaurants in particular, they
and they basically didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
So let me just share this with you because there's
a lot of lessons here.
Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
In twenty twenty three, California adopted a law that raised
the minimum wage to twenty dollars per hour.
Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
I think that's just for fast food workers.
Speaker 8 (01:39:37):
But they also created this group, this commission that they
called the Fast Food Council, and that group has the
power to increase the minimum wage for fast food workers
every year if they want to.
Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
Can you imagine that? Now? Twenty bucks is a nice
round number.
Speaker 8 (01:39:57):
That's probably why the legislators picked it, although it's unclear
why they stopped there after all, As this writer says
it a reason. If you're going to create prosperity by command,
why not shoot for the moon and make all the
Golden States fry cooks millionaires. But it's just as well
they didn't go further, because that hike just to twenty
dollars per hour is killing jobs as it is so.
(01:40:18):
On April first of last year, California raised their minimum
wage from sixteen bucks to twenty bucks for fast food
workers employed at chains that have more than sixty restaurants
sixty locations nationwide. Right, it's all the big or even
medium size fast food chains, right, It's not sixty locations
in California. If you have sixty locations in total around
(01:40:40):
the country, then you're a minimum wage for your California
locations went up to twenty dollars an hour. So now
you've got some people writing in economic research NBER National
Bureau of Economic Research. They've got this working paper that
they're writing, and they say, our median estimate suggests that
California has lost about eighteen thousand jobs that could have
(01:41:04):
been retained if.
Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
That law had not been passed.
Speaker 8 (01:41:08):
In other words, if that minimum wage for those workers
hadn't gone from sixteen.
Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Dollars an hour to twenty. They calculate that, and I'm
quoting here.
Speaker 8 (01:41:16):
Employment in California's fast food sector declined by two point
seven percent between September of twenty twenty three and September.
Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
Of twenty twenty four. And I think this next point.
Speaker 8 (01:41:27):
Is key because you want to make sure like if
you hit a recession, they're and people are losing jobs everywhere,
and you're losing jobs in your state too.
Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
Then you can't say you're.
Speaker 8 (01:41:37):
Losing jobs in your state because there's something your state
legislator did. You need to have a control, You need
to see what's going on in other places. So the
fast food sector employment in California declined by two point
seven percent relative too fast food employment in the rest
of the country. And before that, since Californians love their
fast food, the rate of the level of employment in
(01:42:00):
fast food was actually rising faster in California than in
other places. And this gets a little bit nerdy here,
but I'll quote from the article. Allowing for that and
for changes in the overall labor market, these economists estimate
the real decline in California's fast food employment at three
point six percent, and then that's where they get eighteen
(01:42:21):
thousand lost jobs. And other economists, other groups have done
similar studies and they all come up with some number
of lost jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
The lowest estimate. Oh, actually no, this isn't.
Speaker 8 (01:42:33):
Even fair because this doesn't cover that whole time period, right,
But the lowest estimate in one of these studies is
forty four hundred jobs. But then there's a around eleven thousand,
and then another one around sixteen thousand, and this one
around eighteen thousand. So not only do you have that
this higher minimum wage is killing jobs. And let me,
you know, let me go off on a little tangent
(01:42:54):
here we live in this world now where we are
seeing humanoid robots. We had a guest on the show
who who is in management and a company that is
creating humanoid robots that can replace people in factories, that
can replace soldiers on the battlefield.
Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
So if you can.
Speaker 8 (01:43:18):
Create a robot, and Gina had the story the other
day and we talked about it on the show. A
robot you can buy for just twenty thousand dollars or
rent for five hundred dollars a month that'll come to
your house and clean your house or fold your laundry
or whatever you can. If there's a robot that does that,
then how freaking easy do you think it is to
(01:43:39):
make a robot? And I'm sure they exist already to
flip a burger and dunk fries into hot oil and
whatever else you do at fast food jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
And I'm not, you know, demeaning fast food jobs. What
I'm saying is.
Speaker 8 (01:43:55):
It's got to be very easy by now to replace
those people with robots.
Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
And so at that point, for.
Speaker 8 (01:44:02):
The business owner, it just becomes about cost and maybe
at X dollars per hour, it's better to have a person,
and maybe you'd like to have a person.
Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
Maybe you're a kind hearted.
Speaker 8 (01:44:12):
Business owner and you really want to give that young
person or that person who doesn't have very much of
an education and doesn't have tremendous other job prospects. You
want to give them an opportunity to earn money, to
gain experience. Maybe you get a better job after that.
And there are I know, I know there are people
on the left who think that every business owner is heartless,
but that's not true. So maybe you've got business owner
(01:44:33):
like that really wants to help people. And maybe there's
another thing. Maybe maybe you've got a business owner who
thinks that it's better for the business.
Speaker 6 (01:44:41):
To do that.
Speaker 8 (01:44:43):
So you're going to cause people to lose jobs to employment.
But the one other thing I want to say very
quickly on this that these economists have found is that
there have been massive increase in the price of fast
food in California that they attribute compared to the price
of fast food in other places, that they attribute to
this minimum wage going up. So it is bad news
all around except for the people who are getting the
(01:45:05):
higher wage but haven't lost their jobs yet.
Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
And I emphasize yet koa News.
Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
Time eight forty nine even With the government reopening today,
it could take a while for air travel to get
back to a normal Airlines are still operating under the
mandate that they cut six percent of all flights, but
that number will not increase to the ten percent as
originally scheduled. The next time you make a trek up
I seventy on Floyd Hill, you may notice some big improvements.
Construction started on the highway back in twenty twenty three,
(01:45:35):
and crews have gotten the eastbound side pretty much done
ahead of schedule. The goal is to relieve the bottle
in that gone Floyd Hill and add a third express
lane in the westbound direction. Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb
and his wife, former state Representative Wilma web calling on
Colorado's to put politics aside and help local federal employees
trying to recover from the shutdown.
Speaker 7 (01:45:55):
We have some fifty four thousand people that are here
in Colorado, at our federal employees.
Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
We think it's important to take care of those people
that take care of us.
Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
The webs launched an initiative and to go fundme page
stories money for federal employees maybe behind on mortgages or
other bills, or need help with food during the holidays,
and the Salvation Army needs volunteers this holiday season to
ring the bell during their Red Kettle campaign.
Speaker 7 (01:46:20):
All fun support local services providing food, shelter and substance
abuse treatment. Last year, the campaign raised nearly one hundred
million dollars. Registration is open coast to coast at register
to ring dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
I'm pre tennis your next update in fifteen minutes. I'm
Gina goddek on Kowa.
Speaker 8 (01:46:38):
Maybe a little hard to tell from that, Gina, do
you know no, No, that was ACDC.
Speaker 3 (01:46:44):
It's a long way to the top.
Speaker 8 (01:46:46):
And of course the lyrics, it's a long way to
the top if you want a rock and roll. But
my Australian wife, because that's an Australian band, said when
they were growing up listening to this stuff, they would
change the lyrics too.
Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
It's a long way to the shop if you want
a sausage.
Speaker 8 (01:47:00):
And so whenever I hear that song, that's what I
sing now the reason I played that for you and
you probably haven't heard that song sounding just like that
as in something that happened Gush which yesterday yesterday in
the Great Melbourne Bagpipe Bash.
Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
Let's see how many we're talking about here.
Speaker 8 (01:47:21):
Three hundred and seventy four people playing bagpipes squeeze through
the crowd to the stage area in Melbourne's Federation Square.
Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
On Swanston Street, if you want to know, and set.
Speaker 8 (01:47:35):
The record a new record for I guess the most
bagpipes playing a song. So that's pretty cool. And yeah,
I'm an ACDC fan. I don't know, you know, I
got one minute here. Let's do this thing that we're
going to talk about the other day, but this was
your thing, so ACDC is coming.
Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
Yeah, and I'm not sure if I want to see
July twenty eighth next year in power Field.
Speaker 8 (01:47:57):
Oh, in power Field. Wow, that's that's interesting. I mean,
and we got about thirty seconds here. But the question
that you were asking was, you know, do you want
to go see really old bands if you might feel
just sort of sad about it after you're done, like
it's not what you're what you're used to. It's a
tough one with these guys, especially because I saw them
five or six years ago. It's not like I saw
(01:48:18):
him thirty years ago and would love to see him
one more time.
Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
And I've never seen them, so I'm like all right,
do I just want to say I've seen them, but
they're not really in their prime anymore, so I don't know.
Speaker 8 (01:48:28):
I'd say yes if you've never seen them, Okay, I
would think so Dragon, you've got an opinion.
Speaker 9 (01:48:32):
I would rather not because I've seen some of the
tiktoks and social media.
Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Yeah, all right, if it gets to really that bad,
then then maybe not. Then maybe not. All right, you
know what, We're gonna leave it there.
Speaker 8 (01:48:46):
The other guy's coming here in a couple of minutes
or no, and whenever he gets here, have a wonderful
rest of your Thursday.
Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
It is my favorite day of the week. By Gina
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