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Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 427 - Richard Mack, Dr. Rad

Live The Dream Media

October 13, 2026

Terrific Tuesday on Wake Up Live! Guest today include:  Former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack and Dr. Rad from Sanova Medical Practice talking about a return to a patient centric care.

Speakers Christopher DeSimone, Richard Mack, Kian Rad, Ron Arenas

TopicsSociety & Culture

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.

Christopher DeSimone (0:21)

You're on Live The Dream Media, Christopher DeSimone. You're like, what happened? Well, we did have a power outage last night, in the area, maybe because of the rain last night. So Shay had to do some jury rigging, some reconfiguring, and then we moved over to DeSimone is in Studio B. The barbarians are inside the walls.

So welcome back. Oh, there I am. I haven't, yeah, it looks pretty good. Looks pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. It's a terrific Tuesday. Ron Arenas is coming up with the Flava on Southwest Flavor, and so I make sure I get what he's got on today. Co-host Javier Avalos talking about Halloween, scary movies of our youth, and then Dandy Danmari's KOLD News is coming up with that in the nine o'clock hour. Today, we have at the bottom of the hour, Sheriff Richard Mack from Graham County, former Graham County. Sheriff was, he actually sued the government on a few things. I didn't have a jacket today, but I forgot. It's one of those mornings. I forgot my jacket sitting on the back of a bar stool in my kitchen right now. So I'm just wearing the black shirt, which it's okay, but not okay. But anyway, Richard Mack at the bottom of the hour, he has a new book, and then 10 o'clock, wow, 7 o'clock, we have our new friend, Dr. Rad from Sanova Urgent Care, and he's part of a group of physicians that I've gotten to know who are really struggling to go back to what medicine is supposed to be. So we'll talk about that. So welcome to everyone in the live chats.

As Bill Beard said, I'm blowing everyone's routine this morning. I know, and I'm shrinking the time that we have to talk about weather. Because remember, no matter what happens with power outages or whatever, weather is first segment only. So morning to Pat, Mother Mucker, John.

I like John in the live chat put no stream, no YouTube. Good.

Ruin whole days for people. Well, well, well.

Sunny and 61 in Paso, but thank you, John Holden.

First of all, I just updated my voter guide at dsimonehq.com. Go to the blog page. Our good friend, Carlos Ruiz, former Tanka Verde School Board member, gave me some choices in that race to add if you're in that area. So I am very open to, did I miss anything? Some I missed obvious. For some reason, I didn't put the TUSD picks, which I threw Val and Pilar on there. Amphi School Board, Slater. I mean, this is an actual phrasing on the Voter Guide. Slater is the least worst. Fife and Godleski are no. Tanka Verde, Carlos is saying Thomas Trask and Beth Pedersen vote for both. We'll talk about, you know, on the judges, I'm like, you know, saying no is not bad.

Everyone just kind of rubber stamps that stuff. I did add the city stuff. Slavens like, hey, where's the city stuff? So the TEP is, again, I have $2 million a year for trees. It's a little much for me. I would know on that. And then that's just, again, just the payoff to the Queen Mayor. And then the zoo tax is a no. So go to desimonehq.com/blog, or just go to desimonehq.com and hit blog, and then you'll see it's the first entry. And I posted it up, let's see, I guess it was late Sunday afternoon. And according to my stats, 328 people have availed themselves of the guide. I'm, again, honored by your trust. Also, big week this week on Saturday, live remote. We will be there. We'll be in the Gazebo, I believe, in the middle of the big grass area at the Marana Pumpkin Patch. So, nine to 11 will be there. We'll kick off the show with me and, of course, Mayor John Post, who owns the pumpkin patch. We'll have some fun with John. And then I know John Winchester's gonna stop by, Juan Siscamani and a couple of other surprise guests before it's over at the pumpkin patch. So, please stop by, say hi. The weather is supposed to be spectacular. I mean, the weather, it would definitely rain in this morning. So, I know we got a couple more days of this, but I thought that the high temperature, when I looked at my OV, let's see, I thought it was like 79 or 80 on Saturday, which is just bellissimo. Let's see.

My Oro Valley forecast for Saturday is 74 degrees is the high on Saturday. If it is 74 degrees at the pumpkin patch on Saturday, we are, as we say around here, living the dream. So, we got that going for us. A couple of things I got to get to, and then tomorrow, Libertarians. I'm trying to get everyone back on schedule here a little bit.

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