Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 360 - David Schweikert, Kendra Riley artwork

Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 360 - David Schweikert, Kendra Riley

Live The Dream Media

July 9, 2026

US Congressman Rep. David Schweikert followed by Kendra Riley, a mother and leading patient advocate talking about a right to try legislation.  Stories today:  It's not Platner's fault?  Mitch McConnell: Weekend at Mitch's? Only on the Live the Dream Media Network!
Speakers: Shay, Christopher DeSimone, Scott Tilley, Sean McCluskey, Kendra Riley, John Officer, David Schweikert
**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
You're listening to Wake Up with Christopher DeSimone on the Live The Dream Media Network, Southern Arizona's premier live talk and online radio.

**Shay** (0:22)
Oh, hello there.

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:24)
You are on Live the Dream Media. It is a huge Thursday.

**Shay** (0:31)
You, youge.

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:34)
It's one of those shows, today's on Live the Dream, you're gonna be so sick of me before it's over. The, we have big wake up today, Schweikert plus Kendra Riley, she's a mom and a health advocate. Talking, something that she's working on with our friends at Goldwater about the right to try in relation to if you have a loved one or yourself, and there's nothing that approved by the FDA or whoever, a treatment that would be beneficial to something that could kill you, kind of making that available to folks. So that's happening in the third hour. Then Ron Arenas, Southwest Flavor, co-host is the wonderful Scott Tilly, Spooches Buddy. Scott, I do have to, I gotta get that video to Shay, I forgot to do it of, is it the guy setting up the television? Oh, where's Tilly?
Let's see, oh, there it is.
Hold on, I gotta get this over to Shay.
No, we're not doing that. Share, share people. Share, damn it. DeSimone, okay. So, Scott Tilley co-hosting, Luke Arenas, the ops manager and son of Ron will be on, and then Mayor John Post from Marana will be on with the boys. Then, I'll be back. As Schwarzenegger once said on, We're Talking Sports with Will Pena and Ron. They wanted to, they want me to give you everyone an update about what's going down on the World Cup. And you know, it's so funny, as you know, I detest AI.
Especially AI illustrations. And so it's funny, Daryl Mallet, who came on talking movies yesterday, did an AI of me, like some sort of superhero thing, said city town council, blah, blah. Shay, if you could put up this nightmare fuel when you get a shot, that would be great. So Will, God bless him, did an AI of me, him and Ron. I'm the FIFA insider. And.
This was me. So I love my boys, Will and Ron, but Shay, am I being too rough on it? Does that even look like, I mean, it kind of looks like me, but it's... Shay, one of the nicest people out there, just said, that's pretty bad.
You guys could just use his picture of me.
And of course, he almost got the name right, but that part doesn't bother me. So, thank you, ma'am. I appreciate that. Patrick, happy Prog Rock UK Thursday. Are you talking about our Wet and Brewford Holdsworth Jobson UK? Because if you are, I was listening to it last night. I'm going to let you know that first. Well, I have a UK collection playlist on Spotify, so the three albums that they did are on there. So, happy UK to you, my friend. Rest in Peace, Bonnie Tyler, age 75 Total Eclipse of the Heart. I can't even sing the song, or David will get threatening letters from Warner Brothers.
Bill, it's all those soft focus picks of you out there that skewed the, yes, all my glamour shots. Rest in Peace, Bonnie Tyler. Total Eclipse of the Heart. I Need a Hero, Hold Enough for a Hero. And I guess there had to come to a point where she smoked a lot of cigarettes. I don't know when she stopped, but I think it's part of her raspiness. She always, her and Nina Blackwood always, you know, that always sounded like they, their voices, they smoked about four packs a day. She's also, that's right, she was Welsh. Hold on. Bonnie Tyler, actually, her real name was Gaynor Sullivan Welsh. Let's see, she came to Prominence World Star at the Night, lost in France and more than a lover. Oh, it's a heartache. I forgot about that. Then Total Eclipse of the Heart. Holding out for a hero.
Anyway, she always seemed like kind of a good character. So anyway, rest in peace, our friend. And let's see, what is she?
Oh, she lived in Portugal. She went to treat a perforated intestine, and then was placed in a induced coma. Wow. I was literally just talking to a friend of mine about, you know, the best place if you want to die is go to a hospital. I think that happened to our friend Bonnie Tyler. Well, rest in peace, my friend. Rest in peace. Here's our rundown of stories. I want to get to the, we're going to talk about the GOP's self-inflicted midterm crisis. I'm going to torture you with a part of the Graham Platner suspending operations.

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