Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 408 - Ted Maxwell

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Hello, hello, hello. Big Wednesdays here already. Big, big Wednesday. Bruce is off this week. He is observing the High Holy Days. And so sitting in for the full hour with Deb is a little wallflower of peace and happiness named Frank Antonori. So should be very, very happy and rocking on Bruce Ash's inside track. Mother Mucker, good morning. Pat Hirsch, Neil, good morning. Jim, all the wakeies. Jim is at Charo Steak, got the Charo Burger. Charo Burger with chorizo is my new one. Or the ultimate hack is if you get the chorizo stuffed mushrooms as a appetizer, save one, chop it up a little bit, and throw that on top of the burger when it gets there. Winner. Mother Mucker, looking forward to prop talk. Good morning to you all. Now, Ted will be here in the next 20 something minutes, and we're gonna give you the best proposition talk ever. We'll go through the ones that the legislature has referred to, a ballot vote. At the same time, we will be going through the Pima County Expenditure Limit Adjustment we have raising. We'll go through Pima College and JTED. We'll go through... We got stuff to do. Oh, Pima College, JTED, Pima County, Amphi. I see that Save Our Schools Arizona, who hates ESAs, wants you to vote on the JTED bond, which never makes me feel good.

We got so much to do on this. And I'll tell you, man, the easy vote system, the easy campaign finance portal at Pima County, is horse crap. Horse crap. The search function doesn't work. It is classic Pima County. It is not easy at all. It is, they should call it obfuscate information, is what I would call it. So, we got that going for us. John Holden and Possum Buck. Possum Butt. Granada, Spain today. Who knew he was gonna be in, I didn't know you guys were in Granada. I'm glad to see your, glad to see Holden's flip phone works in Granada, Spain. It's awesome. Very, very cool. Let's see.

What else do we got? Before we get to propositions.

Quick run, let's do a quick run down of stuff real quick. We have, let's see, we got propositions. Catherine Weasel, I shared the stats and at the at the cathedral about today. So what she's talking about, and what we'll bring them back up again, right, is how much money they're asking for you guys for all these different bonds, starting with TUSD a couple of years ago, through a proposed, what I'm hearing, $800 million bond from Pima County next year. You're talking about having some of the worst electeds in history, JTEDs being the better of them.

You're going to extract $2.5 billion bucks out of the private sector to give to some very large fools.

But I'm sure what they'll tell all their followers is that if you vote for this, Trump will hate it and then they'll vote for it. So a couple of stories that are cooking, it keeps getting weirder and weirder in the Middle East. The Iran-backed Houthis attempt to strike on Islam's holiest city of Mecca. Who knew?

Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launched an attack on Mecca and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

It's going to get wild. It says, Saudi Arabia has downed a suicide drone over Mecca's airspace. Well, suicide only if there's a human being in the drone, it's a suicide, but they don't put a human being on those drones. So, let's just call it a homicidal.

Homicidal will be fine. So, we'll get there. Friday, Mark is doing top 10 Burt Reynolds movies. I got to see if I can get my mustache out, as we like to say. Had a good business lunch up at It's Greek to Me. Caitlin and Dave did a wonderful job, and then went over to see Dave and the crew, Sabrina and Chris over at Bagels and Brews, and they were rocking. They were rocking. I was there 12, 12.45-ish, and they had a nice crowd. You got to check it out. Dave's Coffee is awesome. He is the roast and he is the roast master. And Don Getta's James Beard award-winning Barrio Bread Bagels are the featured bagel. And there were just a lot of people who were happy that area had a really nice coffee shop. So I've had the breakfast burrito. It's very good. The winning move is they make a homemade, like their flavored spreads for the bagels they're doing in-house. So I know they're working on a strawberry puree one. What was the other one that Chris was telling me about? But they have a jalapeno one. And the jalapeno, ask for a schmear, as we say back in the old country, of the jalapeno cream cheese on the breakfast burrito tortilla before they put it together. That's a wiener. It's a wiener. And now they're starting to bake off fresh-baked cookies. So they got it all. Great bagels, great coffee, and now chocolate chip cookies blasting through the place, baked on on-premise. So they're a credit to the Catalina community, as we like to say. I'm a little worried about the Casa Bavaria place up there, because they've really reduced, I don't know if they're gonna be there much longer. If someone wants a really large restaurant space in Catalina, it might be coming up. But it looks like they really reduced their hours. And then, this is what I don't get. They're closed, they put a sign on the door, we're closed from September 20th through October 24th. You're a German restaurant that sells beer. This is, as I said yesterday, this is like owning a Christmas ornament store, and you're closed November and December. So pray for the owners of Casa Bavaria. They're literally closing during Oktoberfest. Oh, and six NFL weekends, and six college football weekends. So, at least they're going out in style. I like that. Now, here's an interesting thing back to what's going on in Iran, and Donald Trump just stretching this thing out, right?