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Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 410 - Mark Van Buren, Ron Arenas

Live The Dream Media

September 18, 2026

Friday is here! We will first reflect on the legacy of AZ Senator Jon Kyl, who passed away yesterday. Then, Mark Van Buren, Ron Arenas and I will count down the Top 10 Burt Reynolds movies!

Speakers Christopher DeSimone, David Schweikert, Ron Arenas, Sean McCluskey, Mark Van Buren

TopicsSociety & Culture

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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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 (0:34)

All right, my friends, it is a Friday.

We're out of Friday. And you're on Live The Dream, Wake Up Live with Christopher DeSimone. Looks like we might dry out a little. I'm okay with a little dry out this weekend. It's gonna get too hot. I almost, we almost, my car almost hit, we were right at 70 for most of the car ride in, but I had my windows open, which was nice. So that's kind of good for the soul. We're getting there. We're creeping towards fall a little bit. So fun show today. We have Ron and Mark will be here. Mark's gonna be counting down top 10 Burt Reynolds movies. Maybe we'll run down a little high school football with Ron while he's here. And then we'll do some quick news. I'm maybe gonna get a call in from David. I told him, cause he was like, remember they got dismissed yesterday after seven days of work. And everyone's like, oh my God, they're coming back. They should be in... What are they gonna do? What is Congress gonna do? What am I missing? Tell me more. This is also this problem called the US. Senate. So let me know what you're doing. Tell me more, Congress. What are you gonna do?

I gotta get Tilly in next week, cause we're getting close to Fall Fest at Track Ranch. So Cowboy Tilly, let's talk later today. And let me know if I can come out and see you sometime today also at the new ranch. So just text me, okay? Mr. Scott, that would be great. Big Dave, Cowboy Tilly, Pat, Mona, Holden. Happy birthday to Hassam Rahimi and his birthdays tomorrow. Look at that kind of research. It's also my buddy Kevin's birthday, and Kevin's part of my D&D group. Kevin is my first kindergarten friend. We've known each other for 49 years. Forty-thick, eight years, something like that. And I can still remember the shirt he was wearing. It was like this red shirt with a floral pattern, long sleeve. And I remember my dad took me to kindergarten that day, and he said, Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm going to be your friend. That's the first thing I said.

He said to me. And so ever since, that would be amazing. Shay, David's going to call in about in five minutes or so. Okay.

So Kevin, happy birthday, my friend. We still see each other on a semi-regular basis. He lives on the East Coast. Our buddy that I knew from college, that's part of our D&B group. Last time I saw Kevin, we were all partying it up in St. George, Utah, for a wedding last October. That was a hell of a weekend. We did the most fun you can do in a town like St. George. They don't party too much in St. George.

Let's see. Good morning to all from Jimmy White's, John Holden, remote, oh that's right, and still in Espanola, Robert Watson, good morning. Hope we all have a good weekend. Chris King, Jamie Davenport, Blue Cord. Hey, I need people to help me tomorrow. I'm going to be knocking on doors for LD17, so reach out to me, chris.ltdmedia.net, direct message me. Probably, we'll do a couple of hours starting at 9, 10 in the morning and we'll have you out by lunch. And we'll have targeted lists. We're not just wandering around. But I need help tomorrow, so reach out to me, chris.ltdmedia.net. You know how to get a hold of me. I'm going to be hitting you later today, so Moose Rocko, help the volunteers, help self save LD17. This one's serious, actually. So, stories I won't get to possibly, Lone Holdout Juror and Lindsay Clancy, murder trial, release a statement.

The teachers unions oppose, you got to love this, oppose the, the locking in the 60% of the money going in the in, in classroom spending. And it's still, they're part of the problem, we've never gotten to a point in time of, how do we define what spending is in the classroom? This has been a moving target for decades, and it lets both sides of the argument do their thing. So, I like this one, Monica Garcia, searching for solutions, why Tucson has no crosstown freeway?

Why did we put a ballpark at Ajo and Country Club?

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