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Weatherman Fritz Coleman on El Niño, Comedy, and Aliens: Storms Ahead, Jokes Incoming · Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show

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  Welcome to Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer show.
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  I'm Ted Bonnitt.
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  And I'm Phil Proctor.
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  Nice to see you.
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  Nice to be seen.
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  I've been up in Canada recently, up in Nova Scotia.
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  And you didn't stay?
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  I tried.
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  Did you find yourself apologizing to everybody when you were up there?
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  Not really.
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  They were more sympathetic to us.
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  Good.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, that's the voice of five time Emmy award winning stand up comedian and NBC weathercaster Fritz Coleman.
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  Ladies and gentlemen.
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  I'm sorry I stuck my face in.
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  Did the Emmys come for the stand up comedy or the weather forecast?
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  I got got four Emmys for comedy specials that I did on Channel 4.
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  Oh, wow.
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  And, and then I got some for just hosting the weather.
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  Why?
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  You get an award for being inaccurate about the weather four or five days a week.
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  But weather in LA traditionally has been comedic.
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  Yes, yes.
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  That was the only reason I got hired.
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  That was the only reason I got hired.
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  They needed somebody to be the palate cleanser between the tragedy and the sports.
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  Yeah, I think we talked about this.
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  I've read about the demographics of what used to be the local newshour and how they wanted to appeal to every demographic.
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  And the weather forecasters were the ones that appealed to the older ladies that didn't want intense news.
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  So they used to hire in New York Storm Fields because they had that cute sort of grandson look.
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  His name was Storm Fields.
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  Storm Fields, that's right.
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  He came from the same weather forecaster factory as Dallas Rains.
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  I mean, where did these guys get their names?
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  People say that can't be his name.
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  I said it is.
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  And his son who was a weathercaster in San Diego is named Austin Raines.
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  Ooh.
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  When I saw Dallas Rains, he talks about surfing.
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  He looks like central casting California, but he's actually, he's from Atlanta.
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  He worked at CNN before he started a Channel seven and one of the nicest people in our business.
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  And good too.
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  He's excellent.
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  Yeah, he's an actual meteorologist and I look up to those guys.
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  How did you get into meteorology?
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  I never got into meteorology.
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  I got into presenting the weather facts as I.
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  Because I was working at the Comedy store.
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  And in 1980 or 1982, my friend that worked at NBC brought his boss, who was the news director of the station Channel 4 at the time now to see your show.
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  And I had talked on stage about having done the weather working for Armed Forces Network when I was in the Navy.
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  There you go.
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  But not knowing anything about it.
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  But that didn't seem to bother the Defense Department that I didn't know anything about weather.
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  And they said, just be up there, don't go longer than two and a half minutes.
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  Make sure that your shoes are adequately shined.
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  And when I point to you, start talking.
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  And I had a couple of anecdotes about that.
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  This is a true story.
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  And actual meteorologists hate this story, but it's a true story.
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  Good.
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  After the show was over, I went backstage to meet this man and he said, this is a really odd question, but do you have any desire to come to Channel four and do some vacation relief and weekend weather
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  casting for me?
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  I have a Maine weatherman who hasn't had a vacation in a year.
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  I need some fill in help.
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  Would you be interest?
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  And I was making $25 a night at the Comedy Store and I almost passed out.
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  I said, you did hear me say on stage that I don't know anything about weather.
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  He said, perfect, there's no weather in California.
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  This will be great.
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  Yeah.
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  So I auditioned and I got the weekend fill in utility player for two years.
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  Then my predecessor left and I was bumped upstairs and I retired two weeks shy of my 40th anniversary.
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  Wow.
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  Honest to God, what a run.
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  I always say it's the greatest stroke of show business luck since that was discovered at Schwab's Pharmacy on Sunset.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you have a green screen at home?
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  Just to make you feel comfortable.
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  But during the pandemic I was supposed to retire and then the pandemic started and my boss came to me and said, I know you're supposed to leave, but would you hang around for an extra couple of weeks?
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  Because we're going to have a period of time when we're going to do broadcasts from home.
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  We're going to put a remote camera at your house.
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  And so I didn't have a green screen, but I did do the weather in my pajama bottoms.
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  And nobody saw that.
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  But I've just been the beneficiary of an astonish amount of good luck in my life.
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  Yes, you sure have.
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  Yes.
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  California dream.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  It's not so recreational these days, the weather in California as around the world.
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  Well, I would not be hired because if you are on the air now, you have to have the AMS seal the American Meteorological Society, meaning you have a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences.
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  And I was the worst math and physics student when I was in high school.
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  I got it because, as you mentioned, it was a light moment in the news.
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  Yeah.
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  And even the evening news was familial.
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  It's the morning newscast is now where we'll get to the news in a minute.
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  But, hey, what'd you do this week?
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  That's right.
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  It was more friendly.
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  Yes.
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  And now it's tough.
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  Plus there's more competition.
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  When I started, there was 2, 7 and 4, and now they have 5, 9, and 11 that are doing news all hours of the day.
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  And so it's much more competitive.
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  And Fritz, honestly, you wouldn't fill out a dress like those.
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  You don't know that.
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  I haven't seen your legs.
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  You're wearing long pants.
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  You don't know that.
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  Hey, nice ass.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Hey, who do you think you are, the President?
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  Maybe Trump would have a word about me.
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  Oh, my God.
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  While we're on weather, I have been studying the weather recently.
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  Yeah.
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  Because I am fascinated by the weather.
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  And now that there's weather here, Daniel Swain, who is a climate scientist at ucla, he does a podcast called Weather West.
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  And for anyone who wants to understand the big picture of the weather, you explained to me when you were here before that it is actually complex here.
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  There's five distinct weather systems, nine microclimates.
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  Nine microclimates.
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  Plus, weather acts differently on land than it does on water.
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  So we watch these storms coming in off the North Pacific and we think they're going to react this way when they get to the topography of Southern California.
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  And when they get here, they do something completely different.
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  And now it's coming from the south.
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  Yeah.
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  This whole Kelvin wave was extraordinary.
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  I mean, today's the big day, supposedly.
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  Is this the big Kelvin day?
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  The Kelvin wave has passed, evidently.
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  Yeah.
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  For those who don't know what the Kelvin wave is, it's a very warm body of water heading east, hits the west coast of Peru and doesn't really have anywhere to go.
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  So it kind of backwashes up the coast, but at about walking speed, about six miles an hour, and eventually makes itself up the Baja and into California and comes here.
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  And it's an underwater wave.
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  You don't see it.
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  It just gently raises the water because thermodynamically warmer water takes more space.
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  That's right.
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  They had, what, eight foot king tide?
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  Yeah, yesterday.
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  And the interesting thing about El Nino is how it got its name.
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  You're talking about Peru.
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  Hundreds of years ago, like in the 1600s, a Peruvian fisherman began to notice that every seven years or so, which tends to be the cycle of an El Nino, there would be a bounty of fish that didn't usually
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  come that far north and it usually happened around Christmas.
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  So they called it El Nino, which was called the Christmas Child.
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  And so they saw it as a bounty, a gift they didn't worry about.
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  It was a gift from Neptune, eh?
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  Yes, exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  I always wondered why the baby, because.
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  Of this intensity of warm water, being exasperated by climate change.
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  And the lunar cycle is gonna amp up for king tides.
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  It's the holidays in January and February when it's really gonna be gnarly because the water will be warmer.
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  It's 9 degrees above normal now.
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  Good time to go swimming.
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  They're worried about the plankton not surviving the heat, which would really upset the food chain.
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  But the king tides, plus the warm water, and if we have any storms, they're think, thinking that we're going to lose a bunch of peers again.
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  What happens in an El Nino in Southern.
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  It affects various parts of the country in different ways.
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  Some people are drier than normal, some people are colder than normal, Some people are wetter than normal.
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  In Southern California, our effect is very wet winters.
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  We can get two and three times the average amount of winter.
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  And the reason for that is, you said this before, the warmer the water, the warmer the air is above it, and warmer air holds more moisture.
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  So when we have these storms, they get crazy.
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  And now you, you have atmospheric rivers where it's just this constant deluge from the north.
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  Most of our storms come from the Pacific Northwest and in the Gulf of Alaska and then work their way southeast and they do these hookups.
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  They used to call them a Pineapple Express because they would be a plume of moisture from Hawaii up to Southern California.
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  Now they call it this atmospheric river, which is this huge river of moisture coming from 2000 miles to the west.
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  Such a great name for a song, isn't it?
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  I cried an atmospheric river over you.
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  Exactly.
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  Now, I will say this as a qualifier.
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  In the past, our El Nino forecasts have not been 100% correct.
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  But most of the climatologists, including Swain and some of the guys from jpl, who are the guys we used to pay attention to when I was working and the National Weather Service in Oxnard, are fairly convinced that this
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  is gonna be a super El Nino, meaning persistent, long lasting storms with a lot of rain.
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  And why it's of particular importance now is we've had this awful burn season and Palisades doesn't need to have big stuff washing in off the water and lots of rain.
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  So the four corners have been just completely swamped.
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  Sea levels have risen a foot over the last 125 years.
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  So everything's compounding a little bit.
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  I call it the Blade Runner effect.
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  Remember, it was always raining in LA doing it.
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  There may be more moisture in the atmosphere because of what you just explained with the heat, but it's going to come down in rain rather than snow.
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  The snow traditionally has.
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  Has stored the water until the summertime.
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  If that doesn't happen, they're talking about having to build high altitude reservoirs to just store the runoff up there and then bring it down, like you would say.
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  I heard that.
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  But that's amazing water.
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  There are people that.
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  People that study climate science feel that water is going to become an issue like oil.
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  If we continue with the droughts, we're going to have to negotiate our part of the Colorado river, which is already getting thin because people farther upstream are going to get it.
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  And if the droughts continue, Northern and Central California Sierra, as you say, won't get the snow, which is where we get most of our runoff.
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  And we continue with the ongoing problem in Southern California of having a less than adequate water collection system after storms in the southern part of the state.
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  They've been working on that too.
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  They've been building a lot of underground collection in la so it doesn't just all wash out to sea.
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  Ridiculous.
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  But you know what?
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  We don't really have anything to worry about because the Trump administration is so on climate change particularly.
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  Yeah.
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  It's nice.
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  Tell us about your show.
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  I.
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  Okay.
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  Been on for four years.
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  Did you tell me we're starting the fourth year?
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  It's a show called Unassisted Living and it is at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood.
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  Beautiful venue.
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  And it's a show for people of a certain age.
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  I've heard of them.
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  If you're carrying a Medicare card in your wallet at this moment and you need to come and see this show, it will help you.
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  Do you need it to get in?
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  No.
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  Oh, good.
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  But is there a copay?
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  We should have a copay.
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  That's funny.
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  But there are no politics and you're both people who understand the value of an audience.
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  I think lately people are so thankful to just be taken out of their heads for an hour and a half and not reminded of how awful things are on the outside.
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  And I think our show's really having a value that way.
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  We don't do any politics.
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  Yeah.
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  Movies during the Great Depression.
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  No, exactly.
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  It really is.
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  It's important.
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  It's healthy to be able to have a good laugh.
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  I worry with streaming and how and the technology that we've advanced to with 70 inch pixel televisions and everything, if live performance is on the wane.
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  I sure hope not because just the community effect of getting out there and being elbow to elbow with your neighbors and finding out what you have in common with them is so important.
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  Yeah.
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  I found the same thing with the movie experience now because fewer and fewer people are going to theaters to see movies and it really feels weird to be sitting in a cavernous, beautiful theater environment watching a film and
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  there's maybe eight people in the house.
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  That's weird.
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  But I used to go out of my way to go to midday matinees specifically to enjoy a screening room experience.
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  Without a lot of people.
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  Yeah, yeah, we scored.
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  Having attended one of your shows, you do it every year.
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  And Wendy Liebman, who's on the show again, was a standout standup and she was terrific.
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  And she was on our show.
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  You can hear all of our shows by the way, @SexyBoomershow.com you can find Wendy's interview.
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  And we opened the show with Lawrence Zuber, who is a world renowned fingerstyle guitar player and who from 1978 to 1981 was the lead guitarist for Paul McCartney and Wings.
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  Wow.
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  And he has lots of solo projects and he opens the show and people.
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  He's so gifted and we're so honored to have him.
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  And then Wendy's been with me since the beginning and we have a great show.
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  It's a great hour and a half.
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  Hour and 45 minute show.
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  Three o' clock on Sunday afternoon.
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  The next show is Sunday after Thanksgiving, the 28th, at three in the afternoon.
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  We have it early because people our age like to be home by dark.
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  And remember to set your clock back.
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  Is it that week?
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  No, it's.
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  That's coming up the first.
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  In case you're wondering, we're talking to Fritz Coleman.
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  The show is called Unassisted Living.
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  Unassisted Living.
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  Where is it playing?
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  It's playing at the El Portale theater.
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  Oh, in North Hollywood?
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  In North Hollywood at Lankershim and Weddington.
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  Hey, I just heard all this.
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  I guess I don't have Alzheimer's.
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  What?
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  We're in the.
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  We're in what's called the Marilyn Monroe Forum, which is the smaller venue, the 100 seat venue.
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  Very nice, very named for that because right across the parking lot is Lankersham elementary school, where in 1937 and 1938, Marilyn Monroe under the name of Norma Jean Baker was a student there.
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  And they called her Norma Jean, the Jumping Bean because she was a track star.
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  And then she got a little bit older and went to the movies there and had her first date there with Mitch McConnell.
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  Can you believe that?
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  No, I'm just kidding.
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  But she had her first date there, and so there's.
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  The place is rich with theater, rich with history.
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  So that's why I love it.
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  Wow.
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  Time to get there and have a good time.
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  It's a fun afternoon.
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  It's funny because I don't.
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  It works.
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  Sure does.
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  So how are you feeling, Fritz?
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  Do you feel optimistic about things?
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  I feel cautiously optimistic about things.
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  I've learned not to trust the polls because of the disaster with.
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  Yeah, I wouldn't trust the Russians.
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  That's my accurate 100%.
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  They're saying that the polls have been accurate, which I don't understand because they've been wildly off.
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  Polls were usually conducted by telephoning and getting somebody on the phone and having a genuine conversation and getting a full read on them.
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  That's right.
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  People don't use the phone anymore.
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  It's electronic.
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  So it's electronic.
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  And that's really.
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  You know.
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  And there's a whole social pressure and depending on where you answer these queries about saying what you think they want to hear or what you think your neighbors want to hear and being afraid to say what you truthfully
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  think about Trump or other things.
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  Things.
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  Because you don't want to be judged for it and start a big fight in your family.
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  So the question is, how truthful are people's responses to these things?
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  Which is true.
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  I hope so.
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  I think I'm praying that the judicial system and its weakened state is going to protect us from whatever he's going to pull the day after.
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  If it's a.
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  That's the danger zone is November 4th through January 3rd.
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  Let's be honest.
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  The guy got away with an insurrection and he became president again.
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  Unbelievable.
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  Vote.
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  I hope the youngins come out and vote.
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  Like, look at what your brethren did in all these other countries.
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  It was youth vote.
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  Exactly.
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  Yeah.
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  And vote blue if it so moves you.
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  Vote any way you want.
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  Just vote.
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  That's right.
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  I think if there's enough of a sweep, it will dampen any abilities to do it, to screw it up, to.
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  Pull some technical thing on the pure entertainment value aspect of it.
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  He is really starting to slip.
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  It's like going to see grandpa at the home and Grandpa's boundaries are stretched as far as his ears.
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  But he's the president of the free world.
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  It's extraordinary.
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  The once free world.
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  He's gonna be such a massive anchor that he's gonna take Musk down.
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  Yeah, very true.
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  Along with the Republican Party.
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  Now I know that he's gonna pardon all these people.
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  They said he's gonna pardon anybody that's been within 250ft of the White House.
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  But.
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  And I heard last night that the way they can circumvent that problem of all the people who are responsible for bad stuff.
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  Stuff to be pardoned is that they can make it a state case somehow because that the pardons don't play out in the States.
• 17:21
  Nobody's really talking about how the Musk movie vanished last week.
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  Did you notice that?
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  I think he probably.
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  I thought about that.
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  It disappeared.
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  Disappeared.
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  I think he probably bought it out.
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  I wanted to see it.
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  And I looked for a Showtime on Friday.
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  And AMC still had it wide because it had only been out for a week wide in the theaters.
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  It was playing at several AMC theaters, but when you went to buy the ticket, sorry, no Showtime's available.
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  And then two hours later, it vanished from the website.
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  From my experience in marketing motion pictures through the studio system, you had commitments to theaters, and I think they had commitments through the weekend.
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  And it got pulled by the distributor because it vanished across the board.
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  Money talk.
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  He wrote a big fat check to the distributors and that was it.
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  Bleecker street is the name of the distributor.
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  This happened on Friday.
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  On Wednesday of last week, a billionaire bought Bleecker Street.
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  One of the founders of ebay.
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  Wow.
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  But he leans left.
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  He's a Democratic supporter.
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  So he may or may not have had anything to do with it.
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  But it was highly unusual that it just vanished.
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  And whether Bleecker street faced a sea of lawyers with unlimited resources or they just folded because the oligarchs shut down the publicity.
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  Larry Ellison controls TikTok and he was mentioned in a poor light.
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  So TikTok wouldn't take the advertising.
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  That's very meta.
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  Didn't take the advertising.
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  Of course, Musk didn't allow it on the X platform.
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  So the primary methods to promote the film were eliminated.
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  So it did terribly in the theaters.
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  They've moved up the Video on Demand.
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  They weren't gonna move to Video on Demand till the end of November because they had the theatrical run.
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  But now they're saying that they're gonna start debuting the Video on Demand early next month.
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  Are you talking about the Elon Musk movie?
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  The Musk movie.
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  But I think the objective here was to get it out of the theaters.
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  And out of people's sight until after election day.
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  I think that's what it was all about.
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  Still gonna be bad for him, but it's not gonna necessarily turn votes against him.
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  You're probably right.
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  Speculation.
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  But when you have oligarchs controlling what's left of the mediascape.
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  I'm so against all these recent mergers, the Warner Brothers discovery thing and all of the Skydance stuff.
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  I'm just against that completely.
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  First of all, it's putting a strain on our.
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  On the entertainment business in Los Angeles.
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  Thousands of.
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  And thousands of people in administration at these two studios that are now going to be rendered obsolete.
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  I don't know where they think the economy is going to manage this.
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  It's such an interesting new world.
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  It's so radically changing.
• 19:48
  I think we were talking before we went on the air about the struggles of Netflix, which is hard to believe, but it might be that they have to combine some of these streamers.
• 20:00
  Streamers have to buy one another out and get two or three streamers that will survive.
• 20:05
  Maybe Amazon Prime, Netflix and Paramount or whatever.
• 20:10
  They were gonna buy Warner Brothers, and months later, they're laying off thousands of people.
• 20:16
  Who knows?
• 20:17
  Yeah, I resent the fact that I pay $15 to see a movie and I have to have 15 minutes of commercials before a movie in a movie theater.
• 20:25
  I resent even more that they've just very slowly and below the table transferred the whole business model of broadcast television to streaming.
• 20:35
  Now you have spots all over the place in streaming after you've paid for their service.
• 20:40
  Their monthly.
• 20:41
  I do a lot of driving throughout America and we listen to a feed of CNN or a feed of MSN.
• 20:49
  The commercial breaks have gotten their 5 minute commercial breaks and maybe 90 seconds.
• 20:55
  Of news like late night movies used to be.
• 20:58
  Remember that?
• 20:58
  Yes.
• 20:59
  They'd give you 10 minutes and then they'd start giving you like two minutes.
• 21:01
  And the ad breaks were longer than the content.
• 21:04
  It's corporate radio.
• 21:05
  Yeah.
• 21:06
  And it drains your energy.
• 21:08
  Plus, it doesn't seem like good business to me because it gives people a chance to tune out.
• 21:13
  Yeah.
• 21:13
  And we're old.
• 21:14
  Right.
• 21:14
  So we're outraged by this.
• 21:15
  Because I'm in my second childhood, I'll say.
• 21:19
  But when I go to a movie now, I get in there and go, huh, Nobody's here.
• 21:24
  The reason nobody's here is because the kids come in a half an hour after showtime because they know that's their reality and they skip it all.
• 21:32
  And I have been able to bypass commercials completely by just using YouTube Premium for 16 bucks a month.
• 21:39
  And that's what my children.
• 21:41
  That's what they're doing.
• 21:42
  That's where they can get all of their programming.
• 21:44
  There's plenty of it.
• 21:45
  I get on a plane and watch the movies on the plane.
• 21:48
  And you know my favorite movie so far?
• 21:51
  Driving, flying across the country, the Sheep Detectives.
• 21:54
  That was so cute.
• 21:55
  Wasn't that adorable?
• 21:57
  Yes.
• 21:57
  It's probably one of the sweetest, most lovely movies I've ever seen.
• 22:01
  Couldn't recommend it anymore.
• 22:03
  And I also, I got to see Hadestown, a beautiful film made from the.
• 22:08
  That's still on Broadway, isn't it?
• 22:09
  Yeah.
• 22:10
  Fantastic story.
• 22:11
  Is it good?
• 22:12
  Oh, I loved it.
• 22:13
  I don't know anything.
• 22:13
  Very operatic and dense and yet oddly humorous retelling of the Euripides and Orpheus story.
• 22:22
  I saw a movie that I think is going to end up being one of the most important movies of the year called Social Reckoning, written by Aaron Sorkin.
• 22:31
  And it's the follow up to Social, Whatever and.
• 22:36
  And the guy, Jeremy Strong, who was in succession, plays Mark Zuckerberg so beautifully, and comedian Bill Burr, who's a very wonderful.
• 22:48
  He's wonderful and he's in there and he's an astonishingly good actor.
• 22:53
  And the thing is, it points to the hierarchy in the tech world.
• 22:59
  And because they broached the subject about what about kids.
• 23:02
  And kids are killing one another and they're doing that and they're doing self harm and there's digital bullying and everything.
• 23:10
  And they all point to Zuckerberg as being the guy that will not bend, doesn't care about the national implications, the global implications of it.
• 23:23
  It's all about money and what he puts under the umbrella, the First Amendment, which is garbage.
• 23:29
  So I think it's a very important film.
• 23:31
  I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it.
• 23:33
  Maybe they haven't seen it yet.
• 23:34
  There should be new award ceremonies like Sociopath of the Year.
• 23:39
  Can you imagine how tight the race would be if they were just going with tech pros?
• 23:44
  Drunk of the year.
• 23:45
  There's a tight.
• 23:46
  Who is the worst?
• 23:47
  I think Zuckerberg.
• 23:48
  Musk is in a class of his own.
• 23:50
  But Sergey Brin, you see these guys who are leaving the state because they don't want to pay tax, which the kind of tax we're talking about is chump change for them.
• 23:59
  Trump change.
• 24:00
  Trump change, that's worthless.
• 24:02
  Yeah, but we'd all like a Trump change, wouldn't we?
• 24:05
  Yeah.
• 24:05
  Musk has put something like $442 million into the midterms which is even more than has ever been spread on a presidential cycle.
• 24:15
  That's wrong.
• 24:16
  I heard Scott Galloway talk about this.
• 24:18
  Put it into numeric perspective.
• 24:20
  He's a trillionaire.
• 24:22
  Puts in $440 million into this cycle.
• 24:26
  If you were just a millionaire.
• 24:27
  Just a millionaire, that would amount to $442.
• 24:33
  Wow.
• 24:33
  That's how much a trillion is.
• 24:35
  So for him to put half a billion dollars into the midterms is if somebody with a million dollar house spent $440 on.
• 24:43
  And the thing is, he has all of these deals because of his Space X and everything.
• 24:48
  All of this stuff.
• 24:49
  There's a quid pro quo involved in this somehow.
• 24:53
  And that's why I think it's just so wrong.
• 24:56
  Even though he's donating all this money to specific candidates and everything, eventually they may end up in Congress and Congress has to vote on these appropriations.
• 25:05
  So he's not doing something for nothing.
• 25:07
  Congressman.
• 25:08
  Trading stock, not a great look.
• 25:10
  And dead man walking.
• 25:12
  McConnell, he's been a public quote unquote servant.
• 25:16
  And he has increased his wealth by $35 million.
• 25:20
  And he's in the state with the biggest bourbon industry in the world.
• 25:23
  I'm sure there's a little sliding under the table with all that.
• 25:26
  Speaking of bourbon, what do you think's gonna happen to Hegseth?
• 25:30
  What do you think?
• 25:32
  Some people think he'll be the first to be fired after the midterms.
• 25:35
  Yeah.
• 25:36
  And God, all the military careers he's ruined.
• 25:40
  Top brass that have been in there for 40 years.
• 25:43
  Okay.
• 25:43
  I do have one shining upside to all of this.
• 25:46
  You better deliver it quick.
• 25:48
  Disclosure, all right.
• 25:49
  UFO disclosure.
• 25:51
  Yeah.
• 25:51
  That is happening.
• 25:53
  I'll give it to Trump under his administration, whether or not he had anything to do with it.
• 25:58
  These legacy UFO cover up programs that have been going on since Roswell, basically since the first nuclear explosion is when the modern UFO movement happened.
• 26:08
  It's an interesting collision of time.
• 26:11
  And the first tests were in New Mexico.
• 26:13
  Whatever is controlling UFOs has always been interested in nuclear energy.
• 26:17
  There's a history of site over nuclear power plants.
• 26:20
  I interviewed Colonel Salas, who was a commander of a missile wing of ICBMs.
• 26:25
  And he was downstairs by the missiles one night when he got a call from the surface saying, sir, there's a giant UFO coming over the fence.
• 26:35
  And he thought he was being punked.
• 26:36
  And they called back and said someone got injured because they freaked out and tried to climb a fence.
• 26:41
  As the second call came in, Salas said, all of a sudden, right in front of us, the missile was being disarmed.
• 26:46
  And he said, you have to understand the levels of security to get to the firing mechanism and the control mechanisms in the tip of these missiles.
• 26:54
  You have to go through six major firewalls.
• 26:56
  You just can't get to it.
• 26:58
  I thought you said you had something uplifting to think about.
• 27:00
  Uplifted by the five saucers.
• 27:02
  I went down a rabbit hole.
• 27:03
  No.
• 27:04
  The modern UFO movement has coincided with the modern nuclear age.
• 27:10
  Ever since then, there's been suspected huge research programs that have been top secret.
• 27:14
  Even the President can't get to it.
• 27:16
  And over the last couple of years, there's been enormous disclosure, mostly because technology in the jets now, the sensor technology, is so good that it's defines them and they can't deny it anymore.
• 27:28
  It becomes a safety issue.
• 27:29
  And that's why it became public, because the pilots were afraid for their lives.
• 27:32
  Did you see disclosure day?
• 27:34
  I did.
• 27:35
  There's a new book out by Jay Stratton, who was running the biggest program since Project Blue Book, and it's absolutely riveting.
• 27:43
  And what's happening is there is real disclosure occurring, and that is something that's coming out of the Trump administration.
• 27:49
  So I'll give them that.
• 27:51
  And by disclosure, you mean people that have information, that are not afraid to release it now to present it to the general public.
• 27:57
  A guy like Jay Stratton, who ran the program for the Office of National Intelligence, would never be allowed to speak out about this stuff.
• 28:04
  You would just be under threat of losing your pension, suicide, any number of things.
• 28:09
  But they're being cleared to talk about this stuff in ways in which I've never seen.
• 28:14
  And the optimism I'm trying to articulate here is that I think that as a species, we're on the precipice of some really remarkable shifts, not only in awareness of life and consciousness and intelligence, that we're not the top
• 28:29
  dogs necessarily, but also the telescopes that are going up right now, the James Webb the telescope and the new and the name depths are the lady, and it has much greater resolution.
• 28:42
  The space station, all of the space activities around the Earth show us that we are all one.
• 28:50
  And yet the UFO revelations tell us we are not alone.
• 28:55
  Yeah, I talked to about half a dozen of the guys who walked on the moon and they came back changed.
• 29:00
  The bottom line for space travelers has been, what are we doing to ourselves?
• 29:05
  We're just this little globe in the middle of nothingness.
• 29:09
  Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man on the moon, said to me, he's what's this about?
• 29:12
  It's like the first thing we do as a species of literally leaping off our home world for the first time.
• 29:17
  The first thing we do is point weapons back at ourself.
• 29:20
  Yeah.
• 29:21
  Is disclosure a reality in other countries, like the Russians?
• 29:25
  Are they doing the same thing?
• 29:26
  Oh, yeah.
• 29:26
  There's various degrees of openness.
• 29:29
  Belgium has been very open publicly.
• 29:31
  In South America, countries are very open.
• 29:34
  The US Is not so much, but it's changing.
• 29:36
  And I think it's kind of being forced on the powers that be because it's becoming so evident thanks to technology.
• 29:43
  I think we're on the precipice of something that's really going to change everything.
• 29:47
  I think that's our best hope right now.
• 29:49
  Yeah.
• 29:49
  And if you want to feel some of that energy, you can go to Fritz's show.
• 29:53
  Fritz's show.
• 29:54
  I solve all the global problems, and I love the clear thinking people.
• 29:59
  I love to have.
• 30:01
  If they listen to this show, they have big brains.
• 30:04
  They should name your show Smart men of a certain age.
• 30:08
  Oh, that's as opposed to Sexy boomers, or whatever you call yourself.
• 30:12
  Yeah, but if we do that, see, we chose sexy boomers.
• 30:15
  My darling late wife, Melinda Peterson helped us find that because we know that people who are looking for the sex hub will stumble across our show.
• 30:23
  It's true.
• 30:24
  I remember the conversations like, what are we going to call this, Phil?
• 30:28
  We have to have boomers in it.
• 30:30
  And then I said, sex cells.
• 30:31
  So that's when Melinda said sexy boomer.
• 30:34
  And we thought, what could be a better oxymoron?
• 30:37
  I'm not really a boomer.
• 30:39
  I only play one on the radio.
• 30:40
  I'm a bomber.
• 30:42
  I was born in 1940.
• 30:44
  Oh, okay.
• 30:45
  So you're the pre boomer era.
• 30:46
  Yeah, I'm the bomber era.
• 30:47
  I bow in your direction.
• 30:50
  Thank you.
• 30:50
  Gosh, guys, we're, like, almost out of time here.
• 30:53
  Here.
• 30:53
  This is Fritz.
• 30:54
  I love coming over here.
• 30:55
  Happy to see Phil looking so good.
• 30:57
  Oh, thanks.
• 30:58
  And you?
• 30:58
  How do I look?
• 30:59
  Do I look good?
• 31:00
  You look very good.
• 31:01
  Sunny as always, trim and handsome as ever.
• 31:05
  And he brings his own green screen.
• 31:07
  And you don't have that damn cloud over your head anymore.
• 31:10
  Thank God that's over with.
• 31:11
  Fritz Coleman.
• 31:12
  Thank you.
• 31:13
  My friend, the weatherman.
• 31:14
  Extraordinary.
• 31:15
  Fritz.
• 31:15
  You still do some standup around town?
• 31:17
  Yes.
• 31:17
  I don't work in the clubs that often because I feel like I'm a chaperone when I go to the club.
• 31:22
  But I do dinner dates, and I'm.
• 31:25
  I did Laguna woods, which is this beautiful retirement community in Orange County.
• 31:29
  Oh, nice.
• 31:30
  It's like a 70,000 person community.
• 31:32
  And I, I just opened for Jay Leno down there.
• 31:35
  Wow.
• 31:35
  And we had a fantastic time.
• 31:37
  Oh, that's.
• 31:38
  And those are my people.
• 31:40
  How can they find out?
• 31:40
  Do you have a website?
• 31:41
  Yes.
• 31:42
  Fritzcolemancomedy.com.
• 31:44
  Okay.
• 31:44
  If you want take tickets to the El Portal shows, which will continue into the first of the year, go to el portaltheater.com as well.
• 31:53
  Okay.
• 31:53
  If I could just mention this last thing.
• 31:55
  On November 28, which is the Saturday, it's the day before my Sunday show, but the Saturday after Thanksgiving, they're having a bengala to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the El Portal, which is this legendary theater, started as in
• 32:10
  1920, is a vaudeville house.
• 32:12
  Then it became a silent film venue, then it became a movie palace.
• 32:16
  And it's rich with wonderful history.
• 32:18
  We're such a beautiful venue.
• 32:20
  We're going to have Broadway stars and everything and have Great, great.
• 32:23
  This is again, your show is unassisted living and it's at the El Portel theater and it's running every, every.
• 32:30
  We usually do it the last Sunday of every month.
• 32:33
  Thank you, guys.
• 32:34
  Thank you.
• 32:34
  It's always wonderful to see great conversations.
• 32:37
  You can hear all of our shows@SexyBoomershow.com and your favorite podcast platform.
• 32:44
  Thanks so much for listening.
• 32:46
  Vote.
• 32:47
  Vote.
• 32:47
  Yep.
• 32:48
  We need a change.