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Speaker 1: single day on your favorite podcast platform. So, can somebody
Speaker 1: explain this to me? How does everything about the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl keep getting bigger and more grand and more elaborate
Speaker 1: while the halftime show goes backwards? I mean, truly, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sit here and play music critic all day.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that things sucked. No, this is about the phenomena,
Speaker 1: the dynamics. How do you get an event that truly
Speaker 1: just gets more elaborate. It looked when you saw the
Speaker 1: teams enter yesterday, it looked like they were coming in
Speaker 1: through the pearly gates, right. I mean now it's not
Speaker 1: even just a tunnel. You've got all of these different effects, etc.
Speaker 1: So why is the halftime show going backwards? Whatever happened
Speaker 1: to the days of Bruno Mars and Prints and Janet
Speaker 1: Jackson and the Stones? Whatever happened to those days? I'd
Speaker 1: truly love to get your take on it. If you
Speaker 1: want to talk about the halftime show. I'm happy to,
Speaker 1: I mean, I work for you. But the question is,
Speaker 1: is there anybody in America who disagrees unless their initials
Speaker 1: are KL. Yeah, that thing was. I can't imagine it
Speaker 1: being more boring. It didn't upset me at all other
Speaker 1: than the waste of time and opportunity. But if you've
Speaker 1: got thoughts on why that's happening with the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear them, because it just seems absolutely crazy,
Speaker 1: absolutely crazy that they would do that, and that they
Speaker 1: because I mean, come on, think about it. It's been
Speaker 1: part of our culture. The super Bowl halftime show. Americans
Speaker 1: have a right to expect something really big and grand
Speaker 1: and not just something just sort of routine and route
Speaker 1: and boring like that yesterday. And did the guy I mean,
Speaker 1: he was actually telling people to turn off their TVs?
Speaker 2: Right, grand father?
Speaker 3: Looks up the highest met per Bowl made, Petty, how
Speaker 3: you fully?
Speaker 4: I was telling you walk into a leave with Hey,
Speaker 4: you can pay.
Speaker 2: It, but somebody gotta do it.
Speaker 5: Oh my gotta.
Speaker 3: Turn his TV. Yoff, turn the TV.
Speaker 6: Y'all.
Speaker 2: Y'all even here say yoak, he didn't do in the
Speaker 2: show turn his TV off?
Speaker 1: Turn his And he's telling you to turn the TV off.
Speaker 1: I mean, even he knew how bad it was. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm just real curious as to why the NFL would
Speaker 1: be doing that because I guarantee you they lost fewers
Speaker 1: at halftime, right because the game wasn't that good. So okay,
Speaker 1: you say you hang around for the halftime show and
Speaker 1: then it's that bad.
Speaker 2: Has there ever been a worse one? Not even close?
Speaker 2: Not even close.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna grade him even the worst ones before,
Speaker 1: what would you say Ryan's the worst one before this one.
Speaker 7: That's a great question, maybe for the listeners out there,
Speaker 7: but this it did. It definitely didn't appeal to me.
Speaker 7: I'm trying not to sound like an old man, but
Speaker 7: I can't say I disagree with you.
Speaker 2: You did nothing to do with you.
Speaker 5: Listen.
Speaker 2: You know me.
Speaker 1: You know I'm not twenty one, but I'm the coolest
Speaker 1: guy in town. I'm a cutting edge. You want to
Speaker 1: talk to me about pop culture?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: No, No, had nothing to do with chronological age. It
Speaker 1: just had to do with whether you wanted to be entertained.
Speaker 7: Did you take his advice and turn your TV off?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Because listen, and I was so proud of myself.
Speaker 1: My goal yesterday, and this just defies any type of
Speaker 1: chronological age thing. My goal yesterday would just sit through
Speaker 1: the whole thing from three forty five until the postgame
Speaker 1: ceremony without getting up once.
Speaker 2: And I think I got up.
Speaker 1: Once, but just to go get a burger or something,
Speaker 1: and it was for like thirty seconds. So I saw
Speaker 1: it all, and that's why I look forward to playing
Speaker 1: some of the commercials, et cetera. But this halftime show
Speaker 1: things baffles me because again, one of the things the
Speaker 1: NFL's done great job of is just making that bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger and bigger. Like my ninety three year old
Speaker 1: uncle Catholic priest still does three messes a week. He
Speaker 1: was at the first Super Bowl right, paid like seven
Speaker 1: bucks for it whatever I think it was in LA.
Speaker 2: But the NFL has done a great job.
Speaker 1: Every year it gets bigger and better while the halftime
Speaker 1: show shrinks.
Speaker 2: Why is that? Would love your thought on as well.
Speaker 1: As has there ever been a halftime show anywhere close
Speaker 1: to this?
Speaker 2: Bad dan?
Speaker 1: First off, who watches the halftime show anymore? Says a Texter?
Speaker 1: And then I think they're about to chastise me, and
Speaker 1: the computer decided to see esta.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who watches the halftime show anymore? But are you
Speaker 1: aware that Hamas has withdrawn from the ceasefire deal saying
Speaker 1: Israel violated it? Yes, I am, And clearly Hamas violated
Speaker 1: it the abuse of the hostages, the people they kidnapped,
Speaker 1: and then the very abusive and traumatic way they turned
Speaker 1: them over. Obviously Moss has violated it in multiple ways.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll be talking about that during the show today.
Speaker 1: You can be sure, you can be sure that the blame.
Speaker 2: Lies with Hamas and not Israel. So we'll get into
Speaker 2: that dan. Kansas City didn't.
Speaker 1: Lose, they just got a little bit behind. And you know,
Speaker 1: one guy, and listen, I don't bet big. I'm really
Speaker 1: really good at sports betting, but I don't bet big.
Speaker 1: I never want to have to worry about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so even though even though I had a few
Speaker 1: bucks on Kansas City, I've got a ton of relatives
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. I always want them in Kansas I
Speaker 1: always want them to be happy. So I wanted, you know,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to win. I know that's not popular around here,
Speaker 1: but but I had to feel good for Tom Brady, right,
Speaker 1: because all this talk about how if Mahomes wins is
Speaker 1: third in a row, he's going to surpass pretty Hey,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have been true and be there's no more
Speaker 1: talk about that. And what's disgusting is this lower court
Speaker 1: judges are stopping President Trump's power. Ridiculous, thank you text
Speaker 1: or believe me. I've prepared hard for that and we'll
Speaker 1: get into that with you today. And what we're talking about, obviously,
Speaker 1: is it's on multiple fronts right now, not all. I
Speaker 1: mean President Trump signed a lot of executive orders which
Speaker 1: have not been stayed by any federal courts around the country.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The big focus right now, and I understand why because
Speaker 1: I think the Court will be reversed on this is
Speaker 1: you had this court at one in the morning on Saturday,
Speaker 1: if I remember the chronology correctly, which then enjoins meaning
Speaker 1: stopped temporarily President Trump, through Elon Moskin Doze from doing
Speaker 1: a bunch of what they were doing at Treasury. And
Speaker 1: that was a one am order on Saturday, without the
Speaker 1: chance for a hearing from the Trump team. So it
Speaker 1: was an emergency order, which you know courts can do
Speaker 1: right under certain circumstances.
Speaker 2: And then the Trump team back and filed.
Speaker 1: I thought of extraordinarily well done response pretty quickly, and
Speaker 1: I read that today as well, so we'll.
Speaker 2: Get into that.
Speaker 1: I think that's the most serious of the legal issues
Speaker 1: pending right now in the sense that I think the court,
Speaker 1: in my opinion in the case, overreached. I think the
Speaker 1: Court may have overreached because you may have had the
Speaker 1: Democrats misrepresenting what was actually occurring. But I am extraordinarily
Speaker 1: confident that at this point, either the Democrats who brought
Speaker 1: the action that the Court signed off on will back
Speaker 1: off a lot of it and by agreement that order
Speaker 1: the court that injunction will be revised, or the Court
Speaker 1: will revise it, or the US Supreme Court will step
Speaker 1: in quickly. I think that order was way, way, way
Speaker 1: too broad and far reaching that was entered again without
Speaker 1: a hearing because it was on an emergency basis at
Speaker 1: one am on Saturday. And then you've got some other
Speaker 1: court actions out there that that again what I discussed
Speaker 1: in the beginning, the Trump team is so smart, so sophisticated,
Speaker 1: so well planned at this point that the Trump team
Speaker 1: fully understood that some of these executive orders such as
Speaker 1: on birthright, citizenship, etc. Were going to get stayed by
Speaker 1: a federal court somewhere, and the Trump team wanted that
Speaker 1: so it could get to this US Supreme Court quicker
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. That's part of their overall strategy.
Speaker 1: The Trump team never assumed that all of these were
Speaker 1: just going to fly through. I think they believe in
Speaker 1: each and every one of them, and they should from
Speaker 1: the ones I've seen. But yeah, they've expected this, and
Speaker 1: then they just want to streamline it, hopefully to the
Speaker 1: US Supreme Court, because, as I'm sure you know, let's
Speaker 1: say that you have a federal court at district court
Speaker 1: judge level. Let's say out in Seattle that enjoins puts
Speaker 1: on hold a Trump executive order. Well, at that point
Speaker 1: you're not guaranteed as straight trip to the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's not what usually happens. What usually happens
Speaker 1: is it will go to a federal Court of Appeals
Speaker 1: in that area.
Speaker 2: So when you and that would be Ninth Circuit.
Speaker 1: So when you hear we're in the Tenth Circuit in Colorado,
Speaker 1: you're in the Ninth Circuit. Say if you have a
Speaker 1: California case, and then it may go from there to
Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: Certain actions the Supreme.
Speaker 1: Court can put on a faster track, and I would
Speaker 1: expect you'd see a very very fast track on this
Speaker 1: action taken in New York on early Saturday morning. Very
Speaker 1: fast track on that, I would expect. So yeah, well
Speaker 1: we'll get into that in more detail. Dan Strike three,
Speaker 1: see you notre dame Chiefs. You need to stop sports predictions.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I would be I would
Speaker 1: be beyond surprise if there was anybody on Denver Radio
Speaker 1: who had anywhere close to my batting average on sports predictions.
Speaker 2: I cannot imagine anybody being anywhere.
Speaker 1: Near as successful at this over as long a period
Speaker 1: of time. Does that mean I'm going to get everyone right? No,
Speaker 1: everything's the human endeavor plus that.
Speaker 2: Would make it boring.
Speaker 1: But the one thing you have to ask yourself, what
Speaker 1: do you think the chances are that when I do
Speaker 1: get it wrong, I get it wrong on purpose just
Speaker 1: so it stays interesting.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that.
Speaker 1: One of the few times Fox showed President Trump that
Speaker 1: was during the national anthem up in the booth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: crowd went crazy. Beautiful to see. Also when he was
Speaker 1: down on the field before the game.
Speaker 2: To me, just bizarre and outrageous.
Speaker 1: They didn't show him more during the game, but hey,
Speaker 1: yeah eight five y five was there A five A
Speaker 1: two five five text d A N five seven seven
Speaker 1: three nine. Now conversely, opposite end of the Richter scale one,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift not as well received.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the great joys yesterday is
Speaker 1: I watched the whole game with our amazing daughter Caroline.
Speaker 1: And we've been going to Taylor Swift concerts together since
Speaker 1: my daughter was very very young, since she was nine,
Speaker 1: and since I think about the time Taylor Swift started
Speaker 1: doing you know, like Arena's and it was just so
Speaker 1: weird to see her boot. James Carlin said, why are
Speaker 1: they doing that? And I said, well, because it's an
Speaker 1: NFC stadium. But I think it's really because she went
Speaker 1: after Trump.
Speaker 7: I think part of it is that there's some benda.
Speaker 7: Graham Kamala Harris overlap here, there's some of that. Zach Seegers,
Speaker 7: who helps produce my show most days before years here
Speaker 7: in Denver, said that he had read reports that the
Speaker 7: breakdown of fans in the stadium was about eighty twenty
Speaker 7: favorite Philly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Philly fans.
Speaker 7: Are booing her because of Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs
Speaker 7: that part, But there might have been Republican Eagles fans
Speaker 7: there that were booing twice as loudly.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the point is there were lots of
Speaker 1: reasons to bore right, so it's hard to sort it out.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Lynn in Denver. You're on the Dan
Speaker 2: Kapla show.
Speaker 1: Welcome boy. Some mean tweets today, We are grateful for those.
Speaker 1: Welcome Lynn.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 8: That kind of fun subject I wouldn't want.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was right that they booed her.
Speaker 8: I mean that's that wasn't necessary. But what I called
Speaker 8: about was that I called you several years ago about
Speaker 8: a halftime show that I thought was horrible. And I
Speaker 8: think that this wasn't great this one. I did turn
Speaker 8: it off in the beginning. I liked this one, but
Speaker 8: then it got interesting and I just turned the channel
Speaker 8: until it was over. But the one that I called
Speaker 8: about that was really bad years ago was The Who.
Speaker 8: And I'd seen them in high school during the sixties
Speaker 8: at a concert, and then when they played at the
Speaker 8: Super Bowl. I called, and I said they were.
Speaker 3: Great until they started singing, because they were so terrible.
Speaker 1: And you can be old.
Speaker 3: And be really good like throwing stones, but.
Speaker 8: The Who is terrible. And I'd say that that was
Speaker 8: probably the worst one I've seen.
Speaker 2: Well, but can I challenge that? Can I challenge that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sure, because okay, you got the Who up there, and
Speaker 1: now that you mentioned I remember adia they couldn't sing anymore,
Speaker 1: but they were still the Who. So at least the
Speaker 1: halftime show had some weight, right, because it's one of
Speaker 1: the great rock bands of all time. And it was
Speaker 1: interesting because Okay, they can't sing anymore, so that was
Speaker 1: interesting too. This guy yesterday who is not at all
Speaker 1: a household name in America, And the super Bowl is
Speaker 1: supposed to be a big unifying thing for America, which
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we'll all agree on the music, but it
Speaker 1: should be an act that most people know, right, at
Speaker 1: least the Who most people know.
Speaker 8: Oh, I agree completely, And there are some and there's
Speaker 8: rap music that I do like, even at my age.
Speaker 8: There's people are surprised that I like Gangster's Paradise and
Speaker 8: I like Eminem when he doesn't have dirty If they
Speaker 8: bleep out the dirty words.
Speaker 4: But I just I found this.
Speaker 8: Uninteresting, and yes, it just seems strange and it doesn't
Speaker 8: seem like it fit. I mean a little bit of it,
Speaker 8: but it just didn't cover what I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm with you on that that it wasn't the best.
Speaker 2: It was kind of beneath the Super Bowl, right, I mean, you.
Speaker 1: Should have a bigger act at this It was like
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 2: Remember they had who was it Kracklin Crows or something?
Speaker 2: Who was it? At fifty? It was some washed up
Speaker 2: old group counting, But then.
Speaker 1: Then beyond fortunately Beyonce popped in. But the main act
Speaker 1: was going to be I can't remember the name of
Speaker 1: the group, but way past its prime. But then fortunately
Speaker 1: Beyonce popped in and did her thing. Though I remember
Speaker 1: something controversial Coldplay? Yeah, Coldplay, and I mean yours passed
Speaker 1: their prime and then Beyonce did something controversial I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but we would have been better off yesterday was something controversial,
Speaker 1: because at least it would have been interesting.
Speaker 2: This was like karaoke.
Speaker 3: I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Lynn, appreciate the call. She maybe the
Speaker 1: last person today to agree with me on anything. Texter Dan,
Speaker 1: Actually I should thank you. I made money all three
Speaker 1: times betting the opposite of you yeah uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: and then laughing emojis, And I am glad to hear
Speaker 1: that that you bet off, because I always tell people
Speaker 1: when I make my sports predictions, please don't bet with me.
Speaker 1: I'd feel so bad if you lost your money. Even
Speaker 1: though a really eerie amount of the time, I am correct.
Speaker 1: Dan about the same chance as Taylor Swift not getting
Speaker 1: booed by the Philadelphia Eagle fans at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I guess Eagles fans do boot just about everything, but
Speaker 1: not President Trump. President Trump very very warmly received.
Speaker 2: As he should have been.
Speaker 4: Fuss.
Speaker 2: Why do you think Fox didn't show him more often?
Speaker 1: That's bizarre to have president there for the first time
Speaker 1: in American history and they don't show him more often.
Speaker 2: Whether they showed him once elicited the.
Speaker 7: Chair from the Superdome crowd there, it was pretty universal,
Speaker 7: but they Yeah, had it been on ABC, CBS, NBC,
Speaker 7: you think they would have shown him at all.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking maybe now.
Speaker 1: He's got them so spooked, we're going to be playing
Speaker 1: this CBS the sound of this CBS poll. If he'd
Speaker 1: been on CBS right now with the threat of suing them.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have seen the game.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's Trump, you know, eating a ham sandwich. Here's
Speaker 1: Trump doing this, don't you think, Ryan? Here's a Texter?
Speaker 1: Dan f the NFL A Football focusm FU for talking
Speaker 1: about it. I'm sorry you're only allowed two f's on
Speaker 1: this show, Dan. The worst was Michael jackson halftime show
Speaker 1: when he was gyrating while a crowd of young children
Speaker 1: surrounded the stage, shocking. This was before all the pedophile
Speaker 1: charges came out. Do you remember that show, Michael Jackson?
Speaker 7: I thought it was excellent as far as a musical performance.
Speaker 7: Post he was always the king of pop for a
Speaker 7: very good reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, I'm fifty seven. Wanted to watch ever tell
Speaker 1: you my Michael Jackson story?
Speaker 2: One of these? You got his hat? What are the odds?
Speaker 2: That's amazing? He throws his hat out to the crowd
Speaker 2: at McNichols. What are the odds?
Speaker 7: I can't you gotta admit you're kind of like Forrest Gump.
Speaker 7: You play pinball with the who you get Michael Jackson's hat?
Speaker 2: And I didn't know who they were. I actually said
Speaker 2: to Roger Daltrey, who are you?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't say that way because I
Speaker 2: didn't know. I Hey, who are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, I'm fifty and it's the only reason he
Speaker 1: wanted to play with me. Yeah, I was the only
Speaker 1: person there. I didn't know who he was spawning over. Yeah, yeah, Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm fifty seven years old, and you know, he's just
Speaker 1: some guy. I couldn't understand that well, but seemed like
Speaker 1: a nice guy. And I played a good game of pinball,
Speaker 1: especially on a Tommy pinball machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're gonna shift gears for a quick second. Kim
Speaker 1: Cordova coming up. Really happy to have her with us
Speaker 1: talk about the King Supers strike, so major union leader
Speaker 1: in fact, she is UFCW Local seven president. Kim Cordova
Speaker 1: joins us after the break on the dan Kaplace Show.
Speaker 7: You're listening to the dan Kaplas Show podcast. I'm ecstatic
Speaker 7: that the Eagles want Are you kidding?
Speaker 2: I can tell, I can tell that's a great thing.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's go to the vip line and welcome UFCW
Speaker 1: Local seven President Kim Cordova to the Dankapla Show to
Speaker 1: talk about the strike against certain King Supers in the
Speaker 1: Metro area.
Speaker 2: Kim welcome to the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 4: Hi Dan, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2: Well, appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: And starting point is can you tell folks at this
Speaker 1: point how many King superstores now are involved.
Speaker 2: In the strike?
Speaker 4: Seventy nine? So all of the stores are on the
Speaker 4: front Range Denver, Colorado, the metropolitan metropolitan area, Boulder, Parker, Broomfield,
Speaker 4: and Pueblo.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And is it all of the stores in that area?
Speaker 1: Are there some exceptions.
Speaker 4: All of the stores north of one hundred and twentieth
Speaker 4: our non union Those stores are not reppers, but for
Speaker 4: all of those other areas they are union represented stores.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: And at this point are people honoring the striker or
Speaker 1: what percentage would you say or honoring the strike?
Speaker 2: How much is business.
Speaker 1: Down would you estimate at the King supers where the
Speaker 1: strike's active.
Speaker 4: I think that the business is down significant. And we
Speaker 4: see that we represent the stores at Safeway. We know
Speaker 4: Safeway's business is probably at about one hundred percent. I
Speaker 4: had a guests and I'm watching the parking lots. They're overflowing,
Speaker 4: and I think in the around the there's a lot
Speaker 4: of competition in this market and so there's a lot
Speaker 4: of other places for the consumer to shop, and we
Speaker 4: think they are picking up a lot of the business.
Speaker 2: What is the strike about.
Speaker 4: So we've been negotiating with Kroger King super City Market
Speaker 4: since October and the company's engaged in on their labor practices.
Speaker 4: We've been trying to rea contracts. We're bargaining and negotiating
Speaker 4: for sixteen contracts for all Kroger stores that are unionized
Speaker 4: across the state of Colorado. There's sixteen contracts across the state.
Speaker 4: So as we've been negotiating, the company has been engaged
Speaker 4: and unlawful. They're called ulps or unlawful behavior. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: somebody's walking into they've been engaged. They've been engaged in
Speaker 4: unlawful behavior. And we filed charges with the National Labor
Speaker 4: Relations FORD. So our strike, we have a two weeks
Speaker 4: strike now could be extended to even other stores to
Speaker 4: The strike is against the charges with the government that
Speaker 4: we have because the company is violating the law and
Speaker 4: it prohibits us from negotiating successor agreements.
Speaker 1: Now, is money at the heart of this or is
Speaker 1: it other considerations beyond the alleged violations of the law.
Speaker 2: Is there a money issue at the.
Speaker 8: Core of all this not well.
Speaker 4: There is to the extent that the company has put
Speaker 4: submitted what's called a LAS best and final offer, which
Speaker 4: we believe is an unlawful offer. But they are trying
Speaker 4: to move eight million dollars of money from our retiree
Speaker 4: health fund to pay for wage increases, and so our side,
Speaker 4: we have not put a proposal for wages on our
Speaker 4: big thing that our members want to address is staffing
Speaker 4: we've seen since the pandemic. Then you know, we have
Speaker 4: striking twenty twenty two, and then the attempted merger with Albertsons,
Speaker 4: the company has reduced staffing significantly. So it's an hour issue,
Speaker 4: it's it's the price of grocery. We're actually asking the
Speaker 4: companies to invest in lower grocery prices, and instead they
Speaker 4: took after the merger failed. A lot of this is
Speaker 4: residue from the failed attempt to merge with Albertsons. And
Speaker 4: you know, Kroger was going to buy Albertson's for twenty
Speaker 4: four billion dollars. That mergers failed, but they send over
Speaker 4: a billion dollars in legal fees and other fees to
Speaker 4: try to you know, get to seek the approval. But
Speaker 4: now they're being ensued by Albertson's and all of this
Speaker 4: you know, mess between you know, this attempt to merge
Speaker 4: has caused you know, we've seen executives make the decision
Speaker 4: to increase the price of grocery at the same time
Speaker 4: they've been reducing staffing in the storages, not just here
Speaker 4: in Colorado but across the country. And it's really everybody
Speaker 4: has paid for that, you know, attempt to merge between
Speaker 4: the customers and the workers. And so you know, we
Speaker 4: are trying to fix this chronic staffing issue. You actually
Speaker 4: had done a show and talked to our workers last
Speaker 4: year who were fired over security issues the King's Five
Speaker 4: and that's part of this fight too, and it's a
Speaker 4: staffing issue. We're asking for guards. We're seeing so much
Speaker 4: stuff in these stores. There's a lot of crime, whether
Speaker 4: it's inside or out sites that take place in these
Speaker 4: public stores here, and they refuse to invest in proper staffing,
Speaker 4: which we think if there's more people in the store,
Speaker 4: it's safer for not only the workers to work there,
Speaker 4: but to shop there. And so staffing and safety are
Speaker 4: the top priorities in this contract right now. And of
Speaker 4: course workers, you know, we have not the union has
Speaker 4: not put a wage proposal because the staffing issue is real,
Speaker 4: like the Witching five folks, I mean, our members are
Speaker 4: constantly having to make excuses and apologize for the high
Speaker 4: price of groceries. There's a big deal with staffing, has
Speaker 4: a lot to do with price integrity in the stores.
Speaker 4: There's simply not enough staff to change in that, you know,
Speaker 4: the tags on the shelves or in the system to
Speaker 4: match the price of groceries and what they're advertised versus
Speaker 4: what goes through the register. And that's causing a lot
Speaker 4: of safety issues in our store as well. And we're
Speaker 4: our members are our shoppers. They spend all their checks
Speaker 4: right back into these stores. And you know, we want
Speaker 4: the company to invest in lower prices and more staff
Speaker 4: and safer workplace shape a safer shopping experience for the customer.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Kim Cordova, our guest president of UFCW Local seven. Kim,
Speaker 1: when and how do you think this will all end?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I sent a letter to the company
Speaker 4: today again, if they resolve the unfair labor practices, we
Speaker 4: want to go back to the table. But they there's
Speaker 4: critical information they have to provide us around staffing and
Speaker 4: they are refusing. The company does not want to give
Speaker 4: up any control of hours or staffing in those stores,
Speaker 4: even though customers see and experience what we're fighting over
Speaker 4: long lines, empty shelves, higher prices. There's departments that are
Speaker 4: closed early, and there's not a worker shortage or a
Speaker 4: supply shortage in the country. The pandemic was one issue.
Speaker 4: All they've done is ride on that success. We're raising grocery,
Speaker 4: the prices of grocery, reducing staff, and it's been profitable
Speaker 4: for these employers, but for the workers and the customers
Speaker 4: not so much. It hasn't been a good deal for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems to me this has got to get
Speaker 1: worked out and quickly. And the reason I say that
Speaker 1: is that it strikes me the King Supers just going
Speaker 1: to King Super shopping at King Supers is a big
Speaker 1: part of the fabric of Colorado and that people universally
Speaker 1: like their King Supers employees. And so I've got to
Speaker 1: believe there's so much support out there for King Supers
Speaker 1: employees that this will get worked out. So appreciate you
Speaker 1: being with us. I'm going to continue to honor the
Speaker 1: strike myself. So if you looked at the snack I
Speaker 1: have with me right now, Kim. It looks pretty awful
Speaker 1: because normally I go to King Supers I get my
Speaker 1: certain kind of peanut butter. So yesterday I had to
Speaker 1: instacart some substitute from some other grocery store. And honestly,
Speaker 1: it looks like somebody got sick on the desk here.
Speaker 1: But I will continue to honor the strike and hopefully
Speaker 1: it all works out.
Speaker 4: Well, Well, we appreciate your support. You know, we also
Speaker 4: represent Safeway workers, and you know we're hoping that King Soupers.
Speaker 4: You know, you know we can negotiate a contract that
Speaker 4: works best for the workers and the consumer.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 4: Today, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Good you take care, Thank you, and please, I hope
Speaker 1: nobody takes my support of the strike as something anti
Speaker 1: King Soupers.
Speaker 2: I love King Soupers.
Speaker 1: I love shopping there, and over the years, I think
Speaker 1: it's maintained a high level of quality. I love going
Speaker 1: into King Supers everywhere. So I'm not anti Kroger anti
Speaker 1: King Supers, quite the opposite, very positive about that. I'm
Speaker 1: just pro worker and I've always loved the people who
Speaker 1: work at all the different King soupers and just figure
Speaker 1: they should get taken care of. So anyway, if you've
Speaker 1: got a different point of view, we will certainly send
Speaker 1: the Perverse built limo for you. Eight five zero five
Speaker 1: eight two five five. Here's the game plan. We've been
Speaker 1: talking mainly about a lot of different things. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about the Super Bowl halftime show and the bigger question,
Speaker 1: because everybody knows it was terrible, the bigger question is
Speaker 1: why why are the halftime shows getting worse at an
Speaker 1: event that they pour a ton of money into making.
Speaker 2: Better in every other way every year? Right?
Speaker 1: So why are they letting the halftime shows get worse?
Speaker 1: Has there ever been a worse halftime show? Bringing you
Speaker 1: some fun sound from the you know, super Bowl, we'll
Speaker 1: get into some of the commercials. I thought there were
Speaker 1: some really good commercials. Why didn't they show President Trump
Speaker 1: more often? First sitting president to be there? And every
Speaker 1: time they showed him he got cheered wildly. Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: got boots. So we'll continue to play that and more,
Speaker 1: and then we will get into some of the really
Speaker 1: serious stuff of the day.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kaplas Show. And now back to
Speaker 2: the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5: Podcast.
Speaker 1: Have you thought about what happens if the administration defies
Speaker 1: these rulings, then.
Speaker 6: What I'd offer three points on it are likely to
Speaker 6: come in that scenario. First, any official who thinks it's
Speaker 6: a good idea to disregard what a court orders might
Speaker 6: look at the story of Rudy Giuliani, who has lost
Speaker 6: his law license, has lost all his possessions, and whose
Speaker 6: actions that sacrificed his integrity came at now great personal cost.
Speaker 6: It will not be costless for people who decide to
Speaker 6: disregard the rule of law.
Speaker 1: Well, Phil Wiser, then shouldn't you be very concerned with
Speaker 1: elected officials who defy federal immigration law. Shouldn't you be
Speaker 1: lecturing Mike Johnston and lecturing all your Democrat cronies who
Speaker 1: prints around bragging about sanctuary city? And yeah, it seems
Speaker 1: to me you've got other concerns right now, my friend,
Speaker 1: Now listen that this whole big lie that jd Vance
Speaker 1: tweeted out, something that would even imply that Trump was
Speaker 1: going to violate court orders is ludicrous. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is like, you know, I won't say it's quite like
Speaker 1: the coup attempt two point zero, but jd Vance said
Speaker 1: nothing of the sort. Trump has done nothing of the sort.
Speaker 1: This is desperate Democrats at this point trying to find
Speaker 1: something to latch onto that will stop their slide into oblivion.
Speaker 1: Actually it's kind of a free fall into oblivion right now.
Speaker 1: What were they in the last Quinnipieck poll thirty one
Speaker 1: percent proofal in America And I don't know where those
Speaker 1: thirty one percent come from. Eight y five for zero
Speaker 1: five eight two five to five. Jdvance is threatening nothing
Speaker 1: of the sort. And what's happening is in a way
Speaker 1: a very positive thing for America. The Democrats are losing
Speaker 1: their minds. It's a it's a very obvious communal nervous
Speaker 1: breakdown on their part in front of the public. And
Speaker 1: that is so important, so important long term, because you've
Speaker 1: still got so many people who vote Democrat out of
Speaker 1: habit and they have no idea the party is this
Speaker 1: whack right now. But now the whackery is hard to
Speaker 1: ignore and avoid, and that that's a good thing. That's
Speaker 1: a good thing because a lot fewer people be voting
Speaker 1: for them in the future. Hopefully here in Colorado too,
Speaker 1: Dan f the Union, what's all this.
Speaker 2: F word stuff? Today?
Speaker 1: I know we've got to elevate the discourse here f
Speaker 1: the unions. Unions equal higher prices and more dollars to
Speaker 1: the Communist Party aka Democrats, sincerely, Abe, Well, thanks for
Speaker 1: this sincerely. First of all, listen, unions are like people.
Speaker 1: Unions are like companies. Unions are like anything else in life.
Speaker 1: There are some good ones, there are some great ones,
Speaker 1: there are some okay ones, there are some bad ones.
Speaker 1: So a statement that broad, I think is just not
Speaker 1: credible on its face. When I talk about all I'm
Speaker 1: talking about here, I'm not talking about some big global
Speaker 1: philosophical thing. I'm just talking about I got a lot
Speaker 1: of experience going to King Supers. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of experience interacting with those people. I've been involved in
Speaker 1: some major litigation against major grocery store chain. I know
Speaker 1: something about that industry. I haven't sued Kroger, by the way,
Speaker 1: not in some big corporate deal. I've sued him in
Speaker 1: some serious injury cases, but not some big corporate deal.
Speaker 2: So all I'm saying is I like going to King Supers.
Speaker 1: I really like the workers, and I think that the
Speaker 1: workers should get taken care of. If I've seen no
Speaker 1: evidence whatsoever that if the workers get what they want,
Speaker 1: that somehow Kroger won't be able to still make billions
Speaker 1: and billions of dollars every year.
Speaker 2: And I want them to prosper.
Speaker 1: That they provide a very valuable service to our community
Speaker 1: and I've always enjoyed going into their stores.
Speaker 2: I want them to prosper.
Speaker 1: But key to prospering is having a happy, healthy workforce.
Speaker 1: And from everything I've heard, I just think I want
Speaker 1: to support the workers here. If you have some good
Speaker 1: reason not to love to have that conversation. Let's go
Speaker 1: to beautiful Problo, Colorado talk to Patrick Defund. The Police
Speaker 1: was his T shirt. It was absolutely brilliant. Patrick, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. I thought, after that T shirt, you
Speaker 1: must be calling us from your private jet.
Speaker 5: Hello, den boy. I wish not much of a marketer,
Speaker 5: but you know, I even gave a lot of them away,
Speaker 5: but I was happy to do it. I donated funds
Speaker 5: to Heidi's campaign. That's wonderful of them anyway.
Speaker 2: So you're marketing your way to have it.
Speaker 5: But hey, I was more on your Who's story. I've
Speaker 5: been wanting to talk to you since I heard some
Speaker 5: of your first comments. My first experience with the WHO
Speaker 5: was nineteen seventy one at the Denver Coliseum on the
Speaker 5: second night it was a Saturday Sunday show. I had
Speaker 5: a ticket. I saw the Who with all the original members,
Speaker 5: and all I got to say is that lady called
Speaker 5: in earlier. I wish he could have seen that show
Speaker 5: or any of the other numerous ones that I saw,
Speaker 5: like A Mile High and Boulder. But at the original
Speaker 5: show that I saw them at, we were able to
Speaker 5: sneak behind some people after the show and get in
Speaker 5: backstage and I got to meet every member. That's great
Speaker 5: done in twistle.
Speaker 2: That's a great story.
Speaker 5: I bought a guitar that shortly after that, like a
Speaker 5: week or two afterwards, and a funny story. I was
Speaker 5: just trying to learn to play it, and my mom
Speaker 5: was a real jokester, and after about a week she
Speaker 5: said I got a suggestion. I said, what's that? She said,
Speaker 5: why don't you just smash it like he does?
Speaker 2: Thank you, mom, Patrick, appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure I probably would have received a suggestion
Speaker 1: like that if I had a guitar. No, my mom
Speaker 1: was totally supportive of everything musical. But thank you Patrick
Speaker 1: for that call. Texter Dan, how does she referring to
Speaker 1: the union president who joined us. Expect higher wages and
Speaker 1: more staff, but you mentioned lower prices. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way when King Sooper's profit margins are so low.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Texter, great text. Yes, the profit margins are
Speaker 1: very low, and I don't claim to be a grocery
Speaker 1: industry expert. The profit margins are very low, but they
Speaker 1: do a very, very high volume. And that's why, if
Speaker 1: the last numbers I saw were accurate, Kroger I think
Speaker 1: had net profits last.
Speaker 2: Year of three or four billion. And listen, I want
Speaker 2: them to prosper. They provide a great service.
Speaker 1: I want them to be able to afford to keep
Speaker 1: doing it, be motivated to keep doing it, do it
Speaker 1: at a high level. But yeah, even though the margins
Speaker 1: are low, when you operate on a volume like that,
Speaker 1: you can still make billions a year.
Speaker 2: Let's just take care of the workers. You're on the
Speaker 2: den Kapla show.