Wake Up Live W/ BBG & Dan Grossenbach Ep. 356 - Charles Faint, David Schweikert, Mike Willever

**Christopher D. Simone** (0:00)
You're listening to Wake Up with Christopher D. Simone on the Live The Dream Media Network, Southern Arizona's premier live talk and online radio.

**Dan Grossenbach** (0:20)
Good morning, welcome to Wake Up Live and in the Live The Dream Media studios. My name is Dan Grossenbach. I'm here with Ben Buehler-Garcia.
Chris DeSimone is out, hopefully doing something awesome.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (0:34)
Well, I tell you what, in the middle, I ran for office, well, good morning too. Sorry about that. And let's, so, let's get this out of the way right off the bat. So Chris is the pod father.
I'm BBG. If you're gonna continue to do this, Dan, we need to get you some kind of a handle, a moniker or something.

**Dan Grossenbach** (0:51)
Yeah, you know, I don't want to go with my college nickname that we can't repeat, so we gotta think of something good and catchy, right?

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (0:58)
Oh.

**Dan Grossenbach** (0:59)
So maybe there's some creative minds out there who can contribute.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (1:02)
I wanna hear that story on the break.

**Dan Grossenbach** (1:03)
Yeah.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (1:04)
And I ran for city council twice, so I get that Chris needs to take, it's a marathon, man, and I get that Chris needs to take a break, but even cooler is whenever he takes a break, we get the opportunity to come in here and talk on the wakeies, so.

**Dan Grossenbach** (1:19)
Yeah, keep in mind, he's got a day job, too, so he's doing the radio every day. You need a break from your day job, too, but he's got another job, which is probably even more hours and commitment and heart to run for office.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (1:31)
Welcome to Wake Up, Two Sunlight. How's that? We'll do the best we can. It does take two of us to fill in for Chris, so that speaks volumes, right?

**Dan Grossenbach** (1:39)
Yeah, and it's always fun to do this with you. This is our second go at it.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (1:43)
That's right, it is, yeah.

**Dan Grossenbach** (1:45)
And I'm sure our audience knows you, but should we introduce ourselves a little bit? You want to talk about it?

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (1:50)
Go ahead, you're the lead man here.

**Dan Grossenbach** (1:52)
All right, well, I do a little bit of podcasting. I'm on a new podcast called Myth of Education, and that's where we cover some of the controversies in public K through 12 education in that space, and it is endless, Ben. I mean, we've talked about covering national stories like Loudoun County in Virginia or stuff in Chicago Public Schools, where things big pop up, which we do cover, but we don't need to. You don't need to go very far at all to be able to really get at some juicy stuff that's going on in the K through 12 space, because there's just so much. I mean, they're so often just trying to indoctrinate, you know. So we try to pull that out, any corruption and that kind of thing.
The other thing is I've got a big lawsuit. I've been here talking about that.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (2:42)
That's why you're famous, yeah.

**Dan Grossenbach** (2:44)
And it's sad, because I love the U of A, went to the U of A.
I taught there for four years, and then unfortunately, they got rid of me for ideological reasons, and so I'm suing them for that. That made some news, so Chris had me on, we talked about it. And yeah, those are the two big things. I'm also, my day job is as a criminal investigator, so I'm in federal law enforcement. So I specialize in fraud, and specifically elder fraud, trying to keep our elderly folks safe and secure. And I do some media relations for the government in that vein. So that's a little bit about me. So try to come up with the nickname that you can merge all of those things and we got a deal.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (3:22)
How about The Defender?

**Dan Grossenbach** (3:24)
There you go. Dan The Defender.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (3:26)
It works. Chew on it.

**Dan Grossenbach** (3:28)
All right.

**Ben Buehler-Garcia** (3:29)
And I want to apologize to the listeners, watchers, wakeies right now. I'm with everything in bloom. I'm going through allergies. I'm going to sound this morning like I'm going through a second puberty. So please, please bear with me with my talks, hacks and coughs. And I'm BBG. I've got kind of a podcast, I guess.
I mean, it becomes a podcast eventually. But yeah, I'm the host of American Warrior Radio, and we are reaching 145 stations, and we're reaching about a half a million listeners a week. And our mission is to bridge the gap of understanding between the civilian community and our military and first responders by telling their stories.