Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 361 - Mark Van Buren & Gregg Behringer artwork

Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 361 - Mark Van Buren & Gregg Behringer

Live The Dream Media

July 10, 2026

t’s Friday! On today's show, Mark Van Buren counts down the Top 10 movies with mind-bending endings that leave you guessing. Plus, Gregg Gehringer joins us to talk all things World Cup and dive into how the media landscape is shifting. Don’t miss it!
Speakers: Christopher DeSimone, Tony, Sean McCluskey, David Samorano, Mark Van Buren, Gregg Gehringer
**Christopher DeSimone** (0:00)
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**Christopher DeSimone** (0:23)
All right, my friends, you're on Live The Dream Media. Christopher DeSimone. Tony's working the box on a Friday. Thanks to Shay for all of her efforts. This week, Mark Van Buren will be on soon. We're gonna start doing top 10 movies that have, that leave you guessing at the end. You're kinda like, you know, it just leaves you thinking, guessing, all that good stuff. So that's gonna be on, I think he's gonna be here, 6.45, sevenish. So we'll do that. Then at the same time, we will have Gregg Gehringer, or as we like to, he's known in other places in the world as Dr. Fleckenstein. He will be here to talk about World Cup, but also, we're gonna talk about the face, the changing face of media. We know that the, that the, I'm talking here. I know I'm gonna get there.
Oh, like I Heart just slaughtered a bunch of their employees and things like that. And there's no better guy to have that conversation with than the great Gregg Gehringer. So he will be here. The next time, last time he was on the show, he was talking from Mexico when we did our World Cup talk. So for all of you who care, France pretty much took care of the folks from Morocco, they're flat, they look like the, don't get me wrong, France is good. France is really, really good. And, but Morocco, that, I don't know if it was France, just knocked them off their pins, don't know what's going on, but it's an interesting little game that, what's today? Today's Spain, Belgium, Spain should win that. They haven't let up a goal the entire season. The game that's really going to be fun is Norway, England tomorrow at 2 o'clock is going to be just amazing. I think that'll be a fun one with the giant Norwegian guy running around. So we're doing that Bob Elliott show at 9 o'clock. Let's get these live chats up. Thanks to, so yesterday, I had a sign wave schedule. We're going to do one tomorrow morning. That's definitely happening. It'll be a little cooler tomorrow, too. But I wanted to do a PM drive time sign wave. And we knew the weather was going to be brutal. And so I kind of waved off a few folks that I knew were coming, including Clarissa and a couple other folks. But then I said I'm going to still be there in case. I still wanted to do it, even if it was just a half hour. And I also wanted to cover, make sure anyone showed up after they heard me shoot my mouth off. But I was still going to do it. And it's the first time you ever see DeSimone on with a hat that's a little wider brim that goes around my entire head. It was the right price. I think it was 15 bucks at Costco a few weeks ago. But our good friend Meg showed up. And so we were a two person show yesterday on the sine wave. And then after about 35 minutes, we're like, all right, we're about to die. We got to go. But I appreciate Meg's efforts and we had fun. We had a great conversation. We had, you know, you always got, how many people honked at you? No one flipped us off, which was good, but a lot of honks yesterday. We appreciate it. I think that was, one guy was yelling at me from his door about he already wrote for, voted for me. I think that was Scott, but it looked like Scott. I'm talking about Leska. I think it's him. But we had some good retail policy.
And then tomorrow at 8.30, first in Oracle on the southwest corner. Please join us. And we want a good crowd for tomorrow. You know, we got another nine days to this election, ten days to this election. So we're going to go strong to the end.
We had a couple of good buddies that you know might live in Oro Valley and say, hey, I like this guy.
See if you can support this young man. It'd be good.
It's so funny, one of the Oro Valley blogs was trying to throw shade on the fact that I boasted that no one's had more public events than me. I'll tell you again, no one's had more public events than me. I've had at least 10 to 15 of these things.
I'm the one who publicly puts on Facebook that anyone can show up. Then I loved this one guy.

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