Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 364 - Barney Brenner, Dan Shearer, Lupe Diaz

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Christopher DeSimone** (0:15)
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.

**Christopher DeSimone** (0:35)
Hey now, you're on the Live The Dream Media Network. Christopher DeSimone, Ms. Shea, is running the show today in the Magic Box, and it's Wednesday, and so this is gonna be, this is really big Wednesday. So Bruce and Eb have John Post, Chris King coming up on Inside Track. Before that, me and Barrett Brenner are going to have a wonderful show with Dan Shearer, the world's leading cult reporter now, and Lupe Diaz, legislator from Benson, Barney Brenner, good morning.

**Barney Brenner** (1:10)
Good morning, Chris.

**Christopher DeSimone** (1:11)
How you doing, my friend?

**Barney Brenner** (1:12)
Very well.

**Christopher DeSimone** (1:13)
It's good to see Barney is holding up the sport jacket level of whatever the hell we're doing around here.

**Barney Brenner** (1:20)
Well, look at Captain Bob Wells, and Ted Maxwell, they're always in a suit and tie.

**Christopher DeSimone** (1:27)
Well, Ted, he's Mr. GQ man. He's the flying GQ man, as we like to say.

**Barney Brenner** (1:33)
The show for years keeps rising to new levels.

**Christopher DeSimone** (1:38)
Yeah. Yesterday's show, Hig Dog, is always great, but when we had Captain Wells and Hassam and Pramita on yesterday, that was like the Super Bowl of Iranian talk.

**Barney Brenner** (1:50)
That's great.
The show reaches international levels, international quality. I used to say that you conducted a national level talk show.

**Christopher DeSimone** (2:02)
I agree with you, Barney Brenner. Who want to argue with Barney?

**Barney Brenner** (2:06)
True, but it's international level. This platform is amazing.

**Christopher DeSimone** (2:14)
Yeah.

**Barney Brenner** (2:15)
It's unlimited.

**Christopher DeSimone** (2:16)
It is, it is. Good morning to Mother Mucker, Jim White, Bill Beard, John Holden. Mother Mucker said, hashtag Dan Day. Yeah, get your bingo cards out.
You never know what's going to come out of that guy's pie hole today.
Good morning to Cowboy Tilly, is there? Sign wave is Thursday evening, Tangerine and First on the Safeway shopping corner there. Park at Safeway and safely walk up to the corner area. Then 830, I don't know if we're back at First and Oracle on Saturday. There's another one on Saturday morning. I do need people, please, I do need to cover shifts at all eight polling places in Oro Valley. So you'll sit, hopefully we'll get you some shade, and you're going to smile, wave and have a nice sign. If you want a t-shirt, we can give you a t-shirt. Just give them that one last reminder to vote for a wonderful young man in Oro Valley named Christy Simone.

**Barney Brenner** (3:07)
You're going for a shutout here.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:10)
In which way?

**Barney Brenner** (3:11)
In the election. You want 100 percent of the vote.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:14)
Again, all I can do, as you get into this last two weeks, everyone asks you, how's it going? How do you think it's going? How's it playing out? I don't know.
All I can do is press every lever proficiently as possible.

**Barney Brenner** (3:29)
You haven't done any high dollar polling.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:34)
People have asked me, is there polling in this? No.

**Barney Brenner** (3:38)
It's not a super high dollar race, although it's surprising how much it's public record. Tell them how much you've raised in this race.

**Christopher DeSimone** (3:49)
Um, actually, we're putting the finishes title. We're going to have to submit by today. So we're submitting today. I have to look at that. Let me take a look before I want to know. I know what I did the first quarter, but I haven't really. I don't sit there and add it up as a. I just know what I'm dealing with at the time, but I have no shame in telling you it's going to be out there anyway. Let's see, happy Prague Rock Hump Day from Patrick. Thank you. Rex Crisher is as faithful as the sunrise. Thanks for being there. Well, I appreciate that. That's very poetic.
I think one of the nicer things someone's ever said about doing the show was during the COVID madness that they would say, this is their little bastion of sanity.

**Barney Brenner** (4:36)
Although the studio at the time was not.

**Christopher DeSimone** (4:39)
But I got to give the old folks at the old station credit. They let me come in and do it.