In tonight's studi 12, a local artist whose passion for art resonates from his passion for jazz and love of history, too.

We hear his story, and Frannie Matthews takes us inside the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

From high tec highlights to insights about AI, we also have a new segmen we're introducing you to called 12 questions.

Tonight.

We're switching it up by interviewing career journalists and asking the the questions you want to know.

All that and much more right now on studio 12 from the Five Points Media Center in the heart of Denver, Colorado.

This is studio 12.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Ryan Hare and I'm Bob Kanani.

Welcome to studio 12.

Jazz has long shaped the cultural identity of Denver's Five Points neighborhood, not just through music, but through art, history and community.

Darryl Anderson is a Denver based visual artist whose work draws inspiration from jazz, translating its rhythm and movement into bold, colorful imagery from gallery exhibitions to large scale public art installations at Denver International Airport and RTD stations.

Anderson's work is rooted in his desir to unite the world through art.

Here's more about Darryl in tonight's heart of the West.

Gattaca.

Gattaca.

Don't you know, that, first name is Darryl?

And last name is Anderson.

Okay, yeah, you can integrate some of that in there.

And, now let's go on down to at Blue, high.

I like to be known as an international artist.

I was born a block up the street, from the RA.

Sonia.

So there's such a strong relationship with wonderful things to talk about, about how this whole community has grown.

My work from 40 years of doing this has taken me all over the world.

And for me, that's very, very important because I was born on the five.

I always had a desire in the beginning where I would create art to get away from that dysfunctional environment I was raised in.

So it was a safeguard.

It was a place that I could get, lost in my imagination.

As I got older, I went to, East High School and there was a teacher ther named Dick Art who taught art, and he told me that, you know, one day yo probably could become an artist.

So my time, in the military, when I got drafted, when I was a flight attendant for a while, and quitting that job and doing this full time and ever since then, I followed my dream.

If you don't.

Follow your passion.

You'll regret it for the rest of your life.

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Oh, yeah.

You can do some of that.

To be born and raised here.

And, it's about giving back.

You know, I think it's very important from where I came from, the accomplishments that I've made in my life, tha I share those with my community that, put out there that anything is possible.

I remember, The onion was my studio for a while.

So people would come in to the rice oneand what are you doing in here?

And it was like I would engage the community to make art.

Matter of fact, RTD did mosaics that I had a chance to do and all the handicapped stations.

But the train wasn't here yet, so the, community wasn't too fond of that.

So I switched from where I wa supposed to do the public art, and I brought it to Five Points, and I had everybody at the time in the community helped me make those mosaics.

So all of a sudden the are, you know, were united with community, united with RTD, hence the train runs.

And, and now there's people who take ownership because of that, because of the way I was able to engage.

You know, jazz makes my heart sing.

Danc will take you all over the place and bring you back home, settle you down and chew you up.

My mind is constantly traveling.

The way jazz does.

You can do it, old man.

To me, it's one of the cornerstones of the existence of who I am in this community.

With, the raw Sony and the jazz that happened down here, when the casino cabaret did their thing and brought all these jazz musicians in here a while back, while I still had that, the raw Sony in as a studio.

So, this visual dynamic of putting swirls and movement and strategy is to present for Broadway how jazz is formulated.

So I'm visually trying to show the sound of jazz on a two dimensional surface.

Oh, yeah.

See?

Okay.

Trying to get up for this dance.

We have fascinating people in our community.

One of the gift I've gotten over time is having a relationshi with this wonderful human being who has added so much to my life.

What he has done for our community, what he has done for me, the way his music scenes, not just with the piano, but the way he sings with his giving.

He has affected so many different people in the community of Denver.

He's like a music survivor.

But the roots of that lies into his beautiful memory, where he could quote what he was doing on a certain day, what year, who is with and, what he accomplished.

So that was my delicious relatio Because of the influence that, Pernell had in my life.

So I want to document, Pernell in a in a public setting because there's so many people who knew from now, he's an icon in our community.

He's done so much for so many people, music wise, giving him space and time.

And it was always a pleasure when we would go down five points during the jazz festival, and he would play the Five Points Jazz Festival and just talk about how the whole place has changed.

I can make his image last forever, and hopefully it outlives me.

I needed to make sur that I take care of my community by making something visual that will last and represent who and what our community is about.

So it's just an honor and a privilege to make him live forever.

Having this to happen is going to be exciting and wonderful because you know, when I totally get out of the way, it turns out to be wonderful art and what he's done to show this artwork.

For me, it's pretty awesome because I get to come back to my community and make a difference.

It's a variety of the kind of work that I do because I'm kind of all over the place.

I'm never to succum to one particular form of art.

I do public art, and I d all kind of fascinating things.

And for me, it's about taking a risk to see if I can do it.

And accomplishing it.

That scares me half to death.

And then all of a sudden I mak it happen and it just puts and, the residents of my mind that anything is possible.

Truly incredible work.

And we want to.

Thanks, Daryl again for sharing his story with us to learn more about Daryl and his art.

You can go to Daryl anderson.com.

We're launching a brand new segment tonight called 12 questions.

And the concept is simple.

We ask different people the exact same 12 questions, then pull some of their most interesting, honest, and sometimes surprising answers.

Not every questio makes the cut, but the goal here is to get past the headline and get a deeper understanding of who they really are, and our very first edition, we sat down with three journalists from across the country Tiffany Lou from WFAA in Dallas, Chad Nelson, director of photography at Kare 11 in Minneapolis Saint Paul, and legendary storyteller Boyd Hooper, also from Kare 11.

Same questions.

Three very different perspectives.

Here's 12 questions.

I did not always kno I wanted to go into journalism.

I actually went to business school.

And so I have a business and communications degree, and I went into corporate marketing first.

I just really didn' like sitting behind a desk and, you know reporting to the corporate boss.

I didn't feel like I was making a difference in my tech job.

And so I decided to take a community college class.

I took an intro to broadcasting, class when I was in college.

And, the professor on one of the days had us watch the movie The Paper with Michael Keaton, and I was like, this is a job.

You know, I was 18, 19 years old, whatever I was, and I was like, people get paid to do this.

When I was in high school, I got a job at the little radio station, a little 3000 watt radio station in my hometown that kind of opened the door.

I sometimes think if I hadn't gotten that job at that little radio station, what I might be doing today, I don't know, I, I doubt that I'd be a dairy farmer that I don't think was ever going to be my life, but I don't know if I would have found broadcasting.

But at 16 years old, I kind o figured out what I wanted to do.

And, I've been on that path ever since.

So I decided to take a community college class called live TV broadcasting.

It was so random, and it was like $100.

But that one class changed my life and I totally shifted my career to journalism.

And I think the moment for me was when they hired me as an overnight assignment editor.

And that's the job where you listen to the scanners.

Your shift is like 12 a.m.

to eight a Am.

It's brutal.

And I just loved it.

Like, I immersed myself with scanners all around me.

I was surrounded by producers and anchors, reporters, and I was watching all these different reporters got on assignments.

And I knew tha when I loved the midnight shift, that this was the job that I really wanted to do, and this was the industry that I wanted to be in.

I got a part time photograph job at one of the local stations that was, suggested by one of my professors and, for the weekends, and I just I never looked back at University of Wisconsin River falls, which is the campus in my hometown, and they they had a radio station there, too, which was again, I thought, like going to school there.

And I can even learn to learn more about radio.

And then I wasn't able to find a radio internship my sophomore year, a summer internship.

But I'd sent a few resumes out to television stations, and I got a call from the news director at KSTP TV in in Saint Paul.

I walked into that television newsroom with 100 people in that newsroom, and like that I was done with radio.

It was like going to the circus, like it was.

It was the Academy.

It was the equivalent of, you know, fire breathing women and plate spinners.

It was just so much energy and, and I and, you know, I've been used to sitting in that little booth at, in radio and then I just the collaboration and the energy and the people screaming at each other across the newsroom, I just, I, I, I knew then this is what I wanted to do.

I think information is somethin that is digestible for people, and being a journalist is giving it context.

It's very easy for me to say a bunch of stats, and politicians do this the best, right?

They love to give you a lot of stats this, that, this, that.

But like, the world isn't so black and white with stats.

There's a lot of gray in there.

And I think for journalism, it's a really, it's very different in the sense that you have to let people understan all the nuance of all of that.

And I think as journalists it's important for us to provide that context of like, yes, the statistic may be true but there's a lot more to that.

I think as journalists, we take information in and we see how it impacts the people.

For example, when I'm telling a story about maybe some, I don't know, a social issue, I will find the people that i impacts and why it impacts them.

And our job as journalists is to make the viewers care.

Why is this issue important?

And the only way to do that is to shar a real person story with them.

But of course, in that story we include the information, but we also want to revolve it around the community and why it matters and why we're doing the story in the first place.

I think information is something that already exists.

I think of, information that's already online.

It's already, it's already gathered.

It's in a library.

It's an encyclopedia.

Journalism is something that's out there to be discovered.

I, as a journalist, I'm the gather.

And once I once I gather it and produce it, put it into a story form, then it becomes information.

But it's not information until it's been gathered and processed.

I wish people could see the care that goes into producing this story, and the number of peopl who are involved in the process, the attention to detail, the people who are involved in putting that story together, from the reporters to the assignment managers to the target first, to the producers, to the news directors.

And we have about 100 people in our newsroom.

So there are a lot of people that touch that story along the way who have input, and then, have feedback to share after it airs.

I think people would be pretty please if we pulled back the curtain.

They always say, you know, you don't want to see the sausage being made.

But, you know, in our case, at least in our newsroom, I think people would be pretty okay if they saw the sausage being made.

I wish people knew that.

It's a group decision.

It's not.

Hey, can I pitch you this story and will you feed it to your managers and let's do it?

It's not that easy of a decision to make.

Like as a reporter in a newsroom, I don't necessarily have the power to decide what goes on on our newscast every single day.

And I think, like sometimes it's hard for people to understand like, hey, why was my story cut?

But it's because there was some huge breaking news that day, and so we had to push it further down.

I think a lot of people thin that this job is so glamorous.

People expect m to show up with a photographer.

Hey, where's your photographer?

Oh, I am the photographer here.

And I sometimes feel like feels like they think that they've got the B team with them because I'm by myself shooting a lot of my stuff.

So a lot of times it does feel like I have to prove myself to the people that I'm interviewing.

Oh, I promise, I've been doing this for more than a dozen years now, and, I promise I will do your story justice, but, like why should I have to say that?

So they don't really know that, like, this is how the industry is going, that a lot of people are multimedia journalists and we just do everything.

I would say compassion makes a great journalist.

I think most people who see, a byline in an article or, face on television or whatever it is that they, they think they just, you know, go through and let all this just hate and vitriol or pain and misery or love and joy, like, just bounce right off of them and they go on there.

But most people that I know that are really, really good at their job are very compassionate, because you kind of have to be I mean, you don't want to be part of the story, but you want to understand no matter where somebody is coming from, that you want to understand where they're coming from.

Because if you don't, if you just let it bounce after you say they're wrong or, I know this person is right because I feel the same.

You're not doing a great job, in my opinion.

Empathy, I think.

Yeah, I think, curiosity.

Definitely curiosity.

Seeing somethin that other people might drive by or, might read past in an article, I think a good journalist says, I want to know a little bit more about that.

Something about that doesn't seem right.

Or or mor people need to know about this.

I've got a few questions I want to ask.

I think that I think a natural curiosity, and I mentioned the word empathy.

And I think that comes into pla because to tell someone story, I need to understand their story.

And I think that's that's the empathetic part of it.

I do stories about peopl who are very different from me, but I need to be able to put myself in their shoes.

I need to understand, their situation, their challenges, their, their highs and their lows.

And if I can put myself into their shoes, it makes it easier to write that story then to be more, more accurately write their story.

I always tell people that if you stop caring, you shouldn't be in this industry anymore.

A lot of people ask me, you know how I deal with all of the doom and gloom that I cover on a day to day basis?

And I tell them like, yes, there are moments where I cry with a grieving mom or somebody who lost a child, or all the difficult things that we have to deal with.

But if I get to the point where I'm just jaded by it and that's my time to like, step away from being a journalist, I think that a journalist should have compassion and should really care about the community.

We're not here to be on camera.

We're not here to be on air as broadcast journalist.

We're her to share someone else's story.

And we have the opportunity, an we have the platform to do so.

And so I think we should really like, appreciate that.

So I, I mean, I truly believe that journalists like, should care about every person that they talk to.

And not only that, but like take away and learn from each person that they interview as well.

We'll continue asking the same questions all 12 to people from different walks of life journalists, creatives, leaders and community voices.

And each time we'll bring you a few of the answers that stood out the most.

So look forward to that here on studio 12.

Affordability, artificial intelligence regulations.

There's a lot of ground our Colorado lawmakers will be covering in 2026.

And many of these things actually started as discussions last year.

And like last year, money is still tight when it comes t what programs will get funded.

Kyle Dyer and her team at Colorado Inside Out have a preview of what 2026 will look like under the Gold Dome.

Hi, Vassy and Ryan.

You know, tomorrow, the second regular session of Colorado's 75th Legislative Assembly gets underway at the state Capitol.

Technically, the first session ran from January through May of last year.

Now, regardless of the label, one thing is clear there is a whole lot of work ahead of lawmakers during a tough economic period for our state.

Our insiders weigh in o what awaits Colorado's leaders and ultimatel all of us in the months ahead.

Our state legislators are returning to work at the state Capitol on Wednesday of next week for this year's session.

And given Colorado's financial realities, this is not going to be an easy 120 day session.

Governo Polis has already announced that because the state is expected to bring in $87 million less than projected, Coloradans will not be receiving Tabor refunds this year.

Krista as this session gets underway, what are you looking at the most?

I'm going to miss that 25 bucks.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm bummed.

You know, I appreciate that there is a bipartisan effort to strengthen penalties against child traffickers.

That is one area which I think both parties can come together and say, no, this is not something that if you're if you've done this, you really should not be eligible for parole.

So I think that's one thing I would like to see them do.

The other thing is I think they need to tackle affordable, reliable energy.

I'm very concerned about that.

That 2040 mandate that we're going to be all renewable all the time.

At that point.

We just don't have that the infrastructure in place to make that happen.

Unless we are able to exploit nuclear or even enhanced geothermal projects, i we're able to do those things, we can then eliminate natural gas.

But right now, 70% of Coloradans are relying on it to heat their homes.

It already provides about 40% of our electricity.

We cannot continue to let the PUC crackdown on on natural gas when we rely on it.

I honestly cannot pay more than I'm paying for my power bill and I'm not alone.

And when you were talking about the child trafficking, that was a bipartisan group this week that said we need to crack down this, we need some legislation.

At how long you got.

No.

I mean, I think you're watching a lot of things from th business perspective over there.

But two of them stand out in particular.

One of them is the issue of regulation.

Senate President James Coleman has said he's going to bring a regulatory reform bill this year.

I think everyone is eager to see what that is.

After a study that we had done last year showed that we're the six mos regulated state in the country.

That's not just a business issue.

That, is a cost of living issue is the more you regulate business, the more those costs get passed along.

Everything from energy to the products they sell, I think is going to be key this year to balance regulatory reform versus some of the regulatory bills that we're seeing, things like, the return of a bill that would regulate how your workers can work if it's below 30 degrees or above 80 degrees.

The second thing just happened this week as well.

And that is the unions announced that they're going back again this year, to tr to reform the Labor Peace Act.

This is the Colorado unique law that requires two elections to unionize a workplace and to, get, negotiating fees taken directly out of workers paychecks.

There's no real sign that Polis wouldn't veto it again.

So I'm curious what the end game is here, but that's going to take u a lot of time and interest.

Wow.

Okay.

And I would agree abou not sure what's going to happen on the Labor Peace Act.

And I think it interfaces with this affordability and energy and utilities and how that all plays out between the labor unions, businesses, environmental groups, data centers is also a huge piece of this conversation.

Huge consumers of water and energ and what those impacts are, for ratepayers is incredibly important.

I'm also aware that, we've talked about this on the show historically of the lab issues that we've had in the state of Colorado, and the environmental laboratory is actually in the budget to be upgraded, to meet current standards, some of which the equipment was from the 1990s.

And so I think that's going to lead to better outcomes, hopefully for water quality, among other things.

And then lastly, I attended, town hall with Senator Mollica recently in Thorton, and he's interested in bringing a bill around homeowners insurance.

And I had a conversatio with him about HOA fees as well.

I think the wildfire risk, hailstorms, climate impacts from the environment are driving up rates.

And I can tell you from a person who served in leadership on my HOA historically, I mean, in some years, you might see a doubling over the last few years.

And so this is unaffordable.

You're talking about people on fixed incomes.

How does this get passed on as, you know, assessments through your HOA?

These are all big concerns.

And so I'm really happy they're talking about tackling them at the Capitol this year.

Okay.

And Patty, it's going to be such a wild sessio because you had policy choices last year.

So yeah, he can he can veto whatever he wants like the labor piece Act.

And you would think he would.

But you also have to see can you put an override.

So that's going to be interesting where Polis fits himself, how he sees his legacy, how he pushes.

This last year we've got scarce money, scarce resources.

So I think we'll definitely be looking at the power the PUC has.

And how does how do its rules and regulations contradict each other?

In some cases, we're going to see power bills going up so much and people so concerned about that, whil Xcel continues to ask for more.

So the PUC should be under the microscope.

RTD we're going to see under the microscope again, although allegedl the free ride is a big success and 16th and problems are down on the busses themselves people are still very concerned that our public transi doesn't work the way it should.

And if it doesn't, you've got more cars on the highway and then we still are goin to be expanding highways, maybe.

And those are all huge issue for the legislature this year.

And you mentioned Polis is term limited.

This is his last go around.

Do any of you have any peopl you think have the best chances of making i to Election Day in November for either side of the party?

I'll say this, the news this week, the senator, Mark Baisley, was leading the gubernatorial primary for a Senate run, and that Greg Lopez was leaving GOP gubernatorial primary to run independently.

I think really clears a lane for Barb Kirk Meyer in that primary.

She is they were all sort of pragmatic candidates versu a large swath of conservatives.

I think she is the open, pragmatic lane now.

Okay.

And she is, as fa as I'm concerned, the only one that's really eligible for that position.

She's got decades of experience in government.

She's a moderate.

And then you have all these sort of I'm going to call them also rans, people with no experience, no name recognition and many cases, no money.

I don't know why they're in the race.

I assume it's because they want their 15 minutes.

Or in the case of one guy we just wrote about a nice murder conviction which really means he can't be a Republican candidate, but he's going anyway.

Okay.

And then I would just say on the visor, it seems to m like there's a lane opening up.

If wiser takes the lane to the left of that may make it a more competitive primary.

We already have seen that wiser is doing a lot of work around the state.

He seems to be everywhere.

He's raisin more money than people thought.

And you have this larger national pack situation that's backing, Bennett, and then you have wiser who's trying to take this lane in Colorado.

And so I think if he can differentiate himself, I think this would be a much, more complicated race over the next couple of months than what seems like, might be a sure deal for Bennett at this moment.

Okay.

Primaries in June.

So that was just one of the topics we discussed on the latest episode of Colorado Inside Out.

You can watch the whole show on the PBS, 12 passport app on YouTube.

We have a podcast, and we're already working on this week's show.

So join us this Friday at eight right here on PBS 12.

Tonight, we're honoring a voice that helped shape Colorado radio for decades.

Murphy Houston was inducte into the Colorado Broadcasters Hall of Fame, a recognition of a career that began on a college radio station in Wisconsin and became a lifelong connection with listeners across Colorado.

From cow to cozy and beyond.

Murphy wasn't just a radio host.

He was a trusted companion in people's cars, kitchens, and daily lives.

Murphy retired in 2025, and as you will hear, he credits his success not only to his colleagues and community, but to the family who stood behind him every step of the way.

Here's a look at Murph Houston's Hall of Fame moment.

With my career in radio, had the opportunity to compete against some terrific people over the years.

And many I'm here in this room and, and ultimately had the chance to work with, one of them who we're going to induct here in just a couple of minutes.

He first came into the market in the mid 80s.

Stev Keeney hired him from Milwaukee.

Murphy, Houston and, Murphy had a great career at Kay.

How he jumped over to KUSI for many years.

And then the tail end of my career, I had the chance to work with Murphy for a couple of years at Bonneville.

He's a consummate professional.

I really thought about what are the qualities of being a Hall of Famer, and Murphy checks every one of those qualities off, so I'd like to welcome Murphy, Houston into the Colorado Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

And here's Murphy's video.

Hi, it's Jenny Dee with Cozi one and 1.1.

I had the privilege to work with Murphy Houston, for over seven years.

And he has been a mentor, a friend, one of my favorite humans in the world, and always there for a laugh, a hug, and whatever you need.

I just want you to know how much I love you.

I'm so proud of you.

I am so privileged to have worked with you, and I look forward to a lot more laughs and a lot more fun.

Congratulations, friend!

Hi, I'm Kathy J and Murphy Houston is known me since I was this big.

Seriously, I used to be the Cozy Bear and Murph Houston was on the morning show and he was the best mentor.

He was the best role model.

I couldn't have asked for anybody better to help me understand the industry.

And I've survived in it all these years, and I know it was because of Murphy.

Hey, I'm Melissa Moore.

I was Murphy Houston's very first partner in cozy one on 1.1.

I couldn't have asked for a better partner.

You've been the best partner I've ever had.

You were generous.

You set me up.

You made me shine.

And as a woman in this business, that is huge, to have somebody that respect you and treat you as an equal, but also lets you shine and be yourself.

Murphy, congratulations.

And you're being inducted into the Colorado Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

I told you all that early morning caffeine would pay off one day.

It's such a pleasure being part of your story.

I was so lucky and blessed to be working with you all of these years, like 12 years.

I may not have been your favorite partner, but I was the longest for sure.

And what you do in the community?

Still going strong.

Congratulations and I hope tonight is amazing for you and your family.

Murph, congratulation on being inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame.

You have made and continu to make such an impact on Cosey and in the community.

We are honored and privilege to be celebrating you tonight.

Congratulations.

Hey, Murph.

Bob, I wanted to congratulate you on your induction into the Colorado Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

It's a well-deserved hono as you've had an amazing career.

Congratulations.

I'm happy for you and by the way, next time I'm in town, go to grab that AARP card.

We're going to head to Denny's and get that 50% off senior citizen special.

We deserve it.

Take care.

Murph.

Congratulations.

Thank you, thank you, thank you everybody.

I appreciate it very much.

I'm not going to forget that breakfast, buddy.

And you're buyin.

You know, I got nominated for this.

I was in Wisconsin in Jun playing golf with my brothers.

He calls me.

So I thought this is going to be really good.

Bob call is calling me.

And he said, what are you doing here?

I'm playing golf.

But what do you think?

He said, he started telling me about this Hall of Fame.

I thought he was pulling my leg.

That kid.

And here we are six months later, and it's a real pleasure to be here.

I mean, an honor to be here tonight and be recognized at the Colorado Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

Something I never imagined when I started radio.

1968 University Wisconsin Eau Claire Campus radio.

And I got to thank Dr.. Really quickly.

There was a counselor at that time.

And if anybody is as old as I am and and some some are, some are older, remember the Vietnam War.

And if you went to college, you got a deferment.

So I went to college to be a history teacher and a baseball coach.

I wish I had known, Mr.

Green at that time.

You get to coach baseball wit him.

I wish you had been good.

And, th counselor says, you know, Murph, all these guys here don't want to go to Vietnam.

They want to be a histor teachers and baseball coaches.

But I've heard you on the campus radio station.

You might want to give that a try.

And that was in 1968.

But here we are now.

So you never kno who's going to ring your bell.

And the other helper that I had is right over at this table, a guy by the name of Chuck Buell.

Some of you might remember hi a lot of Denver Kim days here.

Well, when I was growing up in Wisconsin, back in high school, when this all kind of was evolving, he was on WLS in Chicago, and I listened to him every night and I'd go, Guy, that's what it sounds like a lot of fun.

It sounds like the class clown, which I was more time in the principal's office and in the school room, so not shocking at all.

So that's kind of how it started, but I never thought I'd get to this level.

When I retired back in February, somebody asked me, are you going to get some kind of an award to go?

Well, I don't know, I doubt it.

I was thinking maybe the only thing I could get awarded for is since I started radio in 1968, to this day in 2025, I never was fired.

Not once, never fired.

That's worth a medal in itself, but I wouldn't be able to do any of it without my family.

Who's right over here at the Murphy Houston table.

That's quite an honor to my wife.

Carol is here.

My kids, Sam, Carey, Haley, Elizabeth.

I have eight grandchildren.

They're not here.

But one of them is Grayson, one of the oldest.

He's all here, so I'm blessed with that.

And you guys know I've been my anchor.

All these fellows that have been up here can say the same.

Everything you do without a family, you're not going to succeed in this business.

Whether it's early morning shows, late night things, every crazy ratings period.

How about that?

You're sweating that.

What's going to happen?

Radio isn't a 9 to 5 job, as we know.

It's a way of taking over your life.

But you gave me that love.

When I come home shocked or wonderin what was going to happen next.

That honor belongs to my family right here, and I love them dearly.

Plus.

When I came here in 1986 from Milwaukee, Steve Keeney who's sitting over at this table and Doug Erickso came and found me in Milwaukee.

Now, Milwaukee was like my home.

You grow up there.

You know, it's kind of an ego thing.

All your high school buddy Scotty's on the radio.

He's doing TV.

It's just great.

Well, they.

I never been to Denver They brought me out to Denver.

I went home, quit Milwaukee.

We moved right out here.

That's what I thought about this country.

But I also want to thank my coworkers and my Bonneville family who, sitting right over here, Katie Reid and the gang, thank you very much for all your support these last few years.

It's been a pleasure.

I want t thank all the engineers making sure the signals stayed on especially when I was on, home to the producers sale teams, on air partners who made every show fun, unpredictable.

You all inspired me and kept me sharp.

Broadcasting is never a solo act.

Never.

So it's a team sport and I was lucky enough to play with some really great teams, starting with Melissa Moore, who was over here now and still working radio.

I found he wandering eye 25, picking up ten cans and, you know, picking up some.

She sounded pretty good.

I'll give her a chance.

Many might remember Joe Myers or Joe Myers.

She was my second partner.

Cozy.

And then come on, along with Denise Plant's 12 years with that lovely lady, a blessing.

More recently, Jenny Dee, who's, the Morning Show and Posey 101 right now.

Not here.

Kathy James over here.

We had some fun times together.

So Colorad two is giving me the privilege of connecting with listeners in good times.

Tough times.

So importan to be welcomed into their homes, their cars, their lives.

It's been a joy in my career.

And as some of the people said over here, Mark, you said it.

Harry Holt said it.

Giving back to the community is what it's all about.

You got the gift from God.

You can talk to 100,000 people at one time.

You can make a difference in their lives.

Then use it.

Talk to these people, inform these people, have fun with it, people.

And that's what's meant so much to me.

After all, these many, many years of broadcasting, being part of the community is so good.

So tonight I accept this honor with gratitude.

Gratitude for my family, my colleagues, the listeners who let me be part of their stories.

Thank you for giving me the career of a lifetime, and thank you for this incredible recognition.

I appreciate you very much.

Thank you.

Congratulations t Murphy Houston on his induction into the Colorado Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

To see the other inductees.

You can hear their acceptance speeches over on our PBS 12 YouTube channel.

We're taking you now from Colorado to Nevada for the annual Consume Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Our Business of Colorado host Brandi Matthews has spent several days attending the world's premier tech trade show, held every January at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

In this interview with PBS, 1 GM and President Bobby Springer, Franny tells us what she experienced at CBS, and she gives us a preview o the stories she's bringing back.

Take a look.

Hi, everyone, is Bobb Springer from PBS 12 Colorado.

I'm here talking today with Franny Matthews.

Franny, where are you right now?

I am in the middle of Las Vegas, Nevada, and, we are looking around Turin at CBS, which is the consumer Electronics show.

Consumer Electronics Show.

You've been going to this to a number of years.

What is really what is this show about?

Just as a primer here what is the point of this show?

Well, I'll give you a little bit of background.

It started in 1967, and that is a great opportunity for me to do A67 joke.

I apologize for that.

But it's been around for a long time.

It started with VCR and and televisions, and it has grown into this enormous show that is far more than just, consumer.

But it it hits on the consumer really hard.

I mean, we're seeing stuff here about, quantum and certainly a lot of AI.

It's huge.

And, there's, two point 6,000,000ft of exhibition space that doesn't that's not walking space between.

That's actually, companies that are her talking about their innovation.

I'm excited to see it.

And I know you're doing a series of reports for us.

We're going to see a lot of, like, in-depth thing over the next couple of weeks, I think for for a lot of our folks at home.

What are some of the more notable areas you mentioned?

AI, you mentioned mobility.

I think you also mentioned health a little bit.

When you think abou some of your first impressions.

Why don't we take them on at a time?

Let's start with AI.

What what are some of the things you're seeing out there?

Your initial impressions of some of the things that we can expect for AI in the consumer space?

Well, the first thing I'll say about just overarching on the show and having that that history of being here, since 2020 and seeing the progression, and also the background that I've had in my career, I can see the difference between the real deal and slide where and what I it's it's exciting to see that a lot of this is coming to fruition.

And we're actually seeing, AI being implemented in various, capacities.

So, a lot of stuff in mobility for health, for instance.

I, tried on this belt that yo put around your waist and it's, it's belted on your legs and it, it assist you in walking.

So think about what that might mean to an older adult rather than going into a wheelchair or a scooter or maybe, not even needing to have a walk or where you can activate your muscles but you do so with the aid of, an AI driven, piece of equipment around your waist.

Wow.

That's that's incredible.

Was that something that we think about?

How far away is that fro really be coming into our lives?

Is i something that it's going to be, you know, when you start to do this, or are they talking about price points or anything like that?

Yeah.

The price, you know, on all of this as it's an emerging the price is, is a little bit higher but it's not out, out of reach.

And that's, you know, we also I look at whether there's multiple vendors providing if it's just one per one company out there but there are multiple vendors providing what I just described.

So the price points will come down.

But that's another thin that is, kind of an interesting conversation is that, the consumer Electronics show and CTA, the Consumer Technology Association, has been instrumental in getting over the counter hearing aids, being approved for moderate and mild, hearing loss.

So I saw a lot of hearing aids that have a lot of the same technology that are used with, hearing aids, you know, prescription hearing aids.

And for, you know, a fraction of the cost.

You know, we talked about these being I know, a lot of these things.

We just described the, mobility devic as well as the hearing devices are thing we've seen versions of before.

What is the AI component do that really makes them different?

And they kind of advances it.

I think the big thing that I'm seeing here with AI is that it's contextual.

So if you're, hiking up a hill and you're wearing this apparatus to, walk assist, it can tell what the terrain is like.

So it adjusts.

So it's not just, a constant of the it can tell by your muscle and the terrain that you're on.

Wow.

That's that's fascinating.

I look forward to seeing that in practice.

And you said most of these things are not that far away from being, you know, available t the consumer.

Is that correct?

Yeah, yeah.

And there's a lot that are out there.

I saw a lot of health monitoring.

Some of the health monitoring is amazing.

And and, you know, you step on a platform, you put your thumbs on to a bar and it scans you up and down.

This is a company out of France.

And, it will give you your BMI.

And it also gives you where your fat deposit are, does all sorts of things.

So when I'm thinking about going into the doctor and you have a cuff for your blood pressure and you step on a scale that just seems so, rudimentary relative t some of the things I saw today.

Now, in addition to these products, I believe that a number of like, I experts and some industry leaders there, how are that?

Would they address the audience at all?

Do they be taught anything about the AI bubbl that people are concerned about?

So yes, and that was actuall what was so mind blowing to me.

I, I went to the, keynote for the CEO of Nvidia and Nvidia as we all know, is a chip maker, GPUs for, AI.

And really, what's driving the infrastructure for AI?

That type and what I heard from him was that it's not just the chip, it's the architecture.

It's not just the architecture, it's the ecosystem.

And so there, for lack of a better word, eating their own dog food.

And they're using their own technology to develop chips and using AI to develop AI chips.

That's kind of interesting.

But what was really interesting is it's all based on open source.

So we've seen other tech companies, develop ecosystems around them.

But in some respect there's still a lot of control by that organization.

Nvidia is is creatin this petri dish for innovation.

And you may be a very large company playing in that autonomic, vehicles.

And that was fascinatin because what we think about with AI right now, it's it's pretty good.

And there's a very long tail on that last percent, because for an automobile it needs to be great.

Darn near perfect.

And so those wacky, things that you don't think would happen, the automobile needs to respond, which means it needs a lot of data, in order to practice.

So it's really turning developers into trainers, which seems kind of odd, but you're you're the developers are training systems.

But how does that actuall impact the actual human being?

Was there any discussion around that at all?

Well, that's one of the reasons I don't think there's an AI bubble, because the problems that can be solved with this level of AI that we have today have enormous impacts on efficiencies.

And when I think back, you know, over the last couple decades, as technology has advanced, it's done some really great things, bu it's also complicated our lives.

So you think about, let's do let's talk about a doctor.

A docto spend so much time on clerical, things to do that they are getting drawn out of what's really important, which is talking and communicating to the to the patient and also usin their critical thinking skills.

AI is perfectly suited for, taking off a lot of that, you know, just kind of rote, just clerical stuff that is required for keeping good records of an individual's health.

And so that's somethin that I'm really excited about.

A few weeks ago, we did the, the conversation with three of the superintendents for schools that are using AI and what the most fundamental benefit was, what it will do for teachers to really put together plans that meet the needs of the students without this onerous, amount of, of time that they just don't have s they can focus on the classroom.

So that's what, you know, that's going to be what I think is the first phase of really, scaling the implementation of AI is just helping out on those things that take a lot of time, and they're not very fun.

You mentioned the interview with the superintendent, said something that all o our kids can catch on YouTube.

They, you have those, those clips from that extended interview, which is fantastic.

But bringing it back to Colorado, obviously, in the Business of Colorado segments, you've talked to a lot of different businesses.

Recently, I think you were wit Ivan at their new headquarters.

How is some of these, AI developments are going to be impacting some of these businesses you've talked to?

People need to understand this.

This is a, a, tectonic plate shift.

And we've been hearing about AI in the theoretic form for a long time.

I'm seeing rubber hit the road.

And I think what we'r seeing going to see in the next 5 to 7 years is a big shift.

And in the implementation and it being embedded in almost everythin that we interact with and that, you know, I would say don't get overwhelmed by it.

Take a deep breath in and make a concerted effort to understand.

Well, let me ask you this.

Is it all high tech?

I mean, it's consumer electronics is there what's your favorite low tec thing, that you've seen so far?

Well, it's interesting and I, my, my daughter's got me a, a bird feeder that is solar powered, and it has a camera on it, and I've been actually it, it got set up last week, and I am having a blast watching, the birds, come acros that I've seen a ton of those.

Right.

So I, I was in a, a booth yesterday looking at one of those.

And there's a guy right next to him from new Jersey that is, doing the lowest tech of all.

However, he is using 3D printing.

So this is what I bought from him.

So if you can see this, these are 3D printed, little flowers on top that attract, hummingbirds.

And if you sit quietly where your hummingbird feeder was, if you take your hummingbird feeder out and you sit quietly, hummingbirds will come.

Now, I think I would wear glasses if I had a hummingbird coming at me.

That close?

Yeah.

I think it's going to tak some courage to wear that hat.

Both as a fashion choice as well as a, safety choice.

But I look forward to hearing some stories about it.

Thank you for any Matthews travel safe.

And we look forward to seeing your reports.

For more of Franny's stories from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas stay tuned in the coming weeks as we feature them here on studio 12.

Switching now from what's new intact, somethin that's been around for decades.

We're talking about a Colorado business that celebrating 100 years and five generations of family ownership.

Rico Romero takes us inside Denver's own Polidori sausage company, from former small grocery store and butcher shop to America's oldest family owned Italian sausage company, Polidori.

Its history is not only ric in flavor, but in tradition too.

We're at 3800 Dallas Street.

The pottery manufacturing plant holder is the oldest Italian company still family owned and operated in the nation.

Started to make great grandmother out of a small grocery store on 34th and Churchill back in 1925.

This is where she started to worse.

We're still doing it on our our home turf.

We talk about how we're local.

Well, there's three generations in those pictures up there.

I'm a great grandmother, obviously my grandfather and then my father.

So it is a family affair, as the article says there sausage making, a family affair.

We've decided to embrace the year we're 100.

I think it represents a lot of legacy.

Like my brother's side, you know, carrying on our great grandmother's, family heirloom sausage recipe.

And so I think my grandmother with great grandmother would flip out on how enormous we've actually become.

You know, in the last 20 years our great grandmother's family heirloom sausage.

That is our signature item, that we still are some handcraft here today, but that particular flavor profile comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes.

So this is where everything happens.

So it starts here.

Here's a combo 2,000 pounds of pork.

Then it would blend through here you go through the grinder come out as a clean cu as it comes over to our mixer.

Then we will for whatever batch size we're doing, add the spice blend to it.

So right here is our link line.

We have a portion control machine that goes through our linker and then through our cutter that's going through there.

It's cutting each link.

So everything we do here is still hand packed.

We have all of these guys tha will still go through and hand pack every single box that we do through the tape machine, through the metal detector to the pallet straight to the freezer.

We do an extreme amount o products through this small room we can end up doing in one day, 22,000 pounds.

Our vendors are local, so we're, you know, really homegrown.

Anthony started in Denver in 1984, with our founder, Henry Mann.

He was from New York, and he really wanted to brin that great New York style pizza to Denver.

And from there, we just continued to grow, really being known for that New York City slice.

Hey, how's it going?

How are you?

Good.

Can I have two, two size combo?

Sausage.

And how it is a partnership that we just started, pretty recently.

It was an easy choice, though, when we were looking at products.

The thing about making so much of our product in-house any time we bring in something that is not made in-house that's a more complete product.

It's really important to us that they have the same values that we do as a company when it comes to community, when it comes to quality more than anything.

And as soon as we tasted Polidori, we pretty much knew that.

And then once we met Steve and Melody, it became obvious as well that they had the same values as business owners as we do.

And it was sort of a natural partnership.

They've been in Colorado 100 years.

We've been in Colorado for 40 years.

Between us, we have 140 year of doing things the right way.

It's funny, they since they switch to sausages, the power door.

Yeah, I see it everywhere around this community, you know, and being a loca and walking around these places.

So I, you know, I enjoy it.

And I think it was good addition to the Anthony's, repertoire.

The feedback has been extremely positive, both from our guests and also from our team, which was really important.

The people who eat our food more than anybody, or the gu is working in the back right now who take home a pizza pretty much every single day and have to work with the product and cook the product and taste it all the time.

And hearing positive feedbac from our guests was fantastic.

And then hearing positive feedback from our pizza cook who've been back there 20 years, but they still love the product that it's even better now.

That felt really good.

And also.

We make the product the same way.

My great grandmother made it.

Pork, salt and spices.

No additives, no nitrates, nitrites, a very clean product something you can be proud of.

You know, like they started out of a grocery store and my great grandmother passed away in 1982.

My grandfather starte this little business innovation with a food distributor and company.

He didn't feel like retirement was his gig.

He couldn't play golf every day, that kind of thing.

So he started this business, and he started it was as a hobby.

And he started this as a little hobby.

Became, somewhat busy.

So.

And he needed help.

And my father said, you need a job.

Go, go work with your grandpa.

And that's kind of how I got started in the business when I was in college working for him.

And then when I graduated college, he offered me a position to take over.

And about te years later, I bought him out, brought my sister on about a year after that.

And from then on, the business really, really boomed.

I think we're we're truly humbled.

Not a lot of companies make it to 100 years.

You know, when I first joined the company 23 years ago, it seemed lik it was a long way to 100.

And.

Wow, here we are.

To find out more about Polidori sausage, you can check out their website, Polidori sausage.com.

Thank you for joining us for studio 12.

Be sure to catch us here again next Tuesday night at eight.

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I'm Ryan Hair and I'm Bob Conan.

Have a good week.