Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 450 - Mike Goodwin, Brian Ruffner, David Schweikert

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Hello, hello. You're on Live The Dream Media, Christopher DeSimone. It's Thursday already. Mamma Mia! Thursday already. And we're making it happen coming off a wonderful Veterans Day. We had a great show yesterday and it was a big, big, big Wednesday. Isn't it the 450th episode? Mamma Mia! Woof! Thank you, Barney. Happy 450th. Billy Beard, howdy. Hit the like button. Thanks, buddy. Good morning and cowboy Tilly, good chilly morning at the ranch today. Yeah, my first half a cup of coffee was outside in the backyard today and it was beautifully chilly. We got some rain coming tomorrow and through Saturday. And then I think another one on Tuesday. This is the first segment we're allowed to talk about such stuff. Busy show today, we have Mike Goodwin and Brian Ruffner, Mike I know from the construction business and they're doing some leadership work out there. So we'll talk about construction leadership, things like that. Then seven o'clock, Schweikert from the swamp. And one of our last, one of our, counting down our Schweikert at the Swamp colons. He'll call in after, but Schweikert at the swamp. And then we have Tim Sandefur from Goldwater. He's the vice president of litigation. And they have an event that Goldwater's doing Monday. And it has to do with, kind of like what I'm working on with my 10 Commandments for the Republican Party to start acting like normal people again.

But they're doing it over a whole day conference. I guess they're doing four across the country. So we will catch up with one of our favorite Star Trek nerds and litigators, Tim Sandefur, before we get to Southwest Flavor 8 with Ron Arenas, Tim, sorry, Jeff Saunders, Will Pena and Tyler from the Roadrunners. So Kaczanski is sending me the, thank you, the first quarter report from the Tucson Chamber.

That's even better.

We'll get to that. Thank you, Michael. I appreciate it. But before we get on to the regular stuff we talk about here, and we'll get to Pete Hegseth at the Tomb of the Infiltred Soldier yesterday, getting yelled at, rightfully so. But yesterday, I had the privilege of accompanying the Korean War Vets. And this is a group that through our relationship with Margo, we have taken under the wakey wing, if you will. And you can put your collage up anytime you want before we get to the interview, Shay.

We had, it was a wonderful time. It was having these. I got, so one thing I did learn, you know when 20 years ago, they would say, you know, downtown is really driven by the government workers, right? Well, I'm not talking about Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights are definitely better. Don't get me wrong. But daytime, it's still a government work town. There are, there are no real employees working downtown. Because, you know, we were mustering at TPD headquarters. I got there a little early. I said, Oh, let me have a cup of coffee and maybe find a place for a breakfast burrito. And I'd go to the Monica usually and sit in the courtyard. But they were closed because, you know, Ray Jr. knows no one's walking around during the day on Veterans Day downtown.

So it took me a while, but I found the place and met a friend of mine over there who shall remain unnamed for a quick cup of coffee. We went to the place that took over the little Pocahosa area up there. It was fine. They did a nice job. But downtown, daytime is still government. Nothing different than when Margot was running the shop eons ago. Place was deader than a doornail.

Even later in the day when I got back, deader than a doornail because it's still a government run downtown. But so we met with the boys, we got them into these amazing, Mark Lindemann is the guy with these and his crew that have these historic jeeps that they've restored. We have our guys and there's of course Margot and Gate on the right.

One thing was said, so we went down and we were going along the back end of the TCC by El Minuto there. The city did such a horrible job telling anyone that the route had changed. There were still families waiting there nowhere near the parade for the parade.