Oct. 29, 2026

Weatherman Fritz Coleman on El Niño, Comedy, and Aliens: Storms Ahead, Jokes Incoming

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

The storm is coming. So is the punchline.

Emmy winning weatherman and standup comic Fritz Coleman is back, and the forecast is wet. A Kelvin wave and a likely strong El Niño could mean heavy winter storms, king tides, and real trouble for the coast. We also get into burn scars that can’t handle a downpour, rising seas, and a state whose water storage and infrastructure are already straining.

Then it gets weirder. Fritz walks us through a career spent making the weather funny, and why the standards for on-air meteorologists keep changing. We follow the news business as it shrinks, merges, and lays people off. We talk about billionaires and tech giants steering the culture, politics and elections, and the sudden surge in UFO disclosure. And we make the case for live performance, because shared rooms and real laughter are getting harder to find.

See Fritz live in his show Unassisted Living at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. It runs monthly, with a special program around Thanksgiving. Tickets and details at Fritzcolemancomedy.com and elportaltheater.com.

Sharp insights, big laughs, and a little hope for humanity. Sexy Boomer style.

Takeaways:

  • How El Niño and Kelvin waves can bring heavy rain and higher king tides.
  • Warmer ocean water increases atmospheric moisture and fuels longer, stronger atmospheric rivers into California.
  • The acute danger of post-fire erosion and flooding when intense storms hit burned hillsides in Southern California.
  • The live show Unassisted Living at the El Portal Theater, aimed at older audiences and running on Sundays.
  • How Fritz becaome a beloved TV weatherman on LA's Channel 4 without formal meteorology training.
  • Media consolidation, streaming economics, and how concentrated power can suppress film distribution and public information.

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Chapters

00:00 - Untitled

00:02 - Meet the Hosts

00:18 - Introducing Fritz Coleman — Five‑time Emmy Winner (Comedian & Weatherman)

11:04 - Unassisted Living — Fritz Coleman's Live Show at the El Portal

17:21 - The Vanishing Musk Movie

25:43 - UFO Disclosure: The Nuclear Connection and Emerging Revelations

Transcript
Ted Bonnitt

Welcome to Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer show.I'm Ted Bonnitt.

Phil Proctor

And I'm Phil Proctor.

Ted Bonnitt

Nice to see you.

Phil Proctor

Nice to be seen.I've been up in Canada recently, up in Nova Scotia.

Ted Bonnitt

And you didn't stay?

Phil Proctor

I tried.

Fritz Coleman

Did you find yourself apologizing to everybody when you were up there?

Phil Proctor

Not really.They were more sympathetic to us.

Fritz Coleman

Good.

Ted Bonnitt

Ladies and gentlemen, that's the voice of five time Emmy award winning stand up comedian and NBC weathercaster Fritz Coleman.Ladies and gentlemen.

Fritz Coleman

I'm sorry I stuck my face in.

Ted Bonnitt

Did the Emmys come for the stand up comedy or the weather forecast?

Fritz Coleman

I got got four Emmys for comedy specials that I did on Channel 4.

Ted Bonnitt

Oh, wow.

Fritz Coleman

And, and then I got some for just hosting the weather.Why?You get an award for being inaccurate about the weather four or five days a week.

Ted Bonnitt

But weather in LA traditionally has been comedic.

Fritz Coleman

Yes, yes.That was the only reason I got hired.That was the only reason I got hired.They needed somebody to be the palate cleanser between the tragedy and the sports.

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah, I think we talked about this.I've read about the demographics of what used to be the local newshour and how they wanted to appeal to every demographic.And the weather forecasters were the ones that appealed to the older ladies that didn't want intense news.So they used to hire in New York Storm Fields because they had that cute sort of grandson look.

Phil Proctor

His name was Storm Fields.

Ted Bonnitt

Storm Fields, that's right.He came from the same weather forecaster factory as Dallas Rains.I mean, where did these guys get their names?

Fritz Coleman

People say that can't be his name.I said it is.And his son who was a weathercaster in San Diego is named Austin Raines.

Phil Proctor

Ooh.

Ted Bonnitt

When I saw Dallas Rains, he talks about surfing.He looks like central casting California, but he's actually, he's from Atlanta.

Fritz Coleman

He worked at CNN before he started a Channel seven and one of the nicest people in our business.

Ted Bonnitt

And good too.

Fritz Coleman

He's excellent.Yeah, he's an actual meteorologist and I look up to those guys.

Phil Proctor

How did you get into meteorology?

Fritz Coleman

I never got into meteorology.I got into presenting the weather facts as I.Because I was working at the Comedy store.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.And I had talked on stage about having done the weather working for Armed Forces Network when I was in the Navy.

Phil Proctor

There you go.

Fritz Coleman

But not knowing anything about it.But that didn't seem to bother the Defense Department that I didn't know anything about weather.And they said, just be up there, don't go longer than two and a half minutes.Make sure that your shoes are adequately shined.And when I point to you, start talking.And I had a couple of anecdotes about that.This is a true story.And actual meteorologists hate this story, but it's a true story.

Phil Proctor

Good.

Fritz Coleman

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 casting for me?I have a Maine weatherman who hasn't had a vacation in a year.I need some fill in help.Would you be interest?And I was making $25 a night at the Comedy Store and I almost passed out.I said, you did hear me say on stage that I don't know anything about weather.He said, perfect, there's no weather in California.This will be great.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.

Fritz Coleman

So I auditioned and I got the weekend fill in utility player for two years.Then my predecessor left and I was bumped upstairs and I retired two weeks shy of my 40th anniversary.

Ted Bonnitt

Wow.

Fritz Coleman

Honest to God, what a run.I always say it's the greatest stroke of show business luck since that was discovered at Schwab's Pharmacy on Sunset.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

Do you have a green screen at home?Just to make you feel comfortable.

Fritz Coleman

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?Because we're going to have a period of time when we're going to do broadcasts from home.We're going to put a remote camera at your house.And so I didn't have a green screen, but I did do the weather in my pajama bottoms.And nobody saw that.But I've just been the beneficiary of an astonish amount of good luck in my life.

Phil Proctor

Yes, you sure have.

Ted Bonnitt

Yes.California dream.

Fritz Coleman

Really?

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah.It's not so recreational these days, the weather in California as around the world.

Fritz Coleman

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.And I was the worst math and physics student when I was in high school.I got it because, as you mentioned, it was a light moment in the news.Yeah.And even the evening news was familial.It's the morning newscast is now where we'll get to the news in a minute.But, hey, what'd you do this week?

Phil Proctor

That's right.

Fritz Coleman

It was more friendly.Yes.And now it's tough.Plus there's more competition.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.And so it's much more competitive.

Ted Bonnitt

And Fritz, honestly, you wouldn't fill out a dress like those.

Fritz Coleman

You don't know that.

Phil Proctor

I haven't seen your legs.You're wearing long pants.

Fritz Coleman

You don't know that.

Phil Proctor

Hey, nice ass.

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah.

Fritz Coleman

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

Hey, who do you think you are, the President?

Fritz Coleman

Maybe Trump would have a word about me.Oh, my God.

Ted Bonnitt

While we're on weather, I have been studying the weather recently.

Fritz Coleman

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

Because I am fascinated by the weather.And now that there's weather here, Daniel Swain, who is a climate scientist at ucla, he does a podcast called Weather West.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.There's five distinct weather systems, nine microclimates.Nine microclimates.

Fritz Coleman

Plus, weather acts differently on land than it does on water.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.And when they get here, they do something completely different.

Ted Bonnitt

And now it's coming from the south.

Fritz Coleman

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

This whole Kelvin wave was extraordinary.I mean, today's the big day, supposedly.

Phil Proctor

Is this the big Kelvin day?

Ted Bonnitt

The Kelvin wave has passed, evidently.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

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.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.

Phil Proctor

And it's an underwater wave.You don't see it.

Ted Bonnitt

It just gently raises the water because thermodynamically warmer water takes more space.

Phil Proctor

That's right.They had, what, eight foot king tide?Yeah, yesterday.

Fritz Coleman

And the interesting thing about El Nino is how it got its name.You're talking about Peru.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 come that far north and it usually happened around Christmas.So they called it El Nino, which was called the Christmas Child.And so they saw it as a bounty, a gift they didn't worry about.

Phil Proctor

It was a gift from Neptune, eh?

Fritz Coleman

Yes, exactly.Exactly.

Phil Proctor

I always wondered why the baby, because.

Ted Bonnitt

Of this intensity of warm water, being exasperated by climate change.And the lunar cycle is gonna amp up for king tides.It's the holidays in January and February when it's really gonna be gnarly because the water will be warmer.It's 9 degrees above normal now.Good time to go swimming.They're worried about the plankton not surviving the heat, which would really upset the food chain.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.

Fritz Coleman

What happens in an El Nino in Southern.It affects various parts of the country in different ways.Some people are drier than normal, some people are colder than normal, Some people are wetter than normal.In Southern California, our effect is very wet winters.We can get two and three times the average amount of winter.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.So when we have these storms, they get crazy.And now you, you have atmospheric rivers where it's just this constant deluge from the north.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.They used to call them a Pineapple Express because they would be a plume of moisture from Hawaii up to Southern California.Now they call it this atmospheric river, which is this huge river of moisture coming from 2000 miles to the west.

Phil Proctor

Such a great name for a song, isn't it?I cried an atmospheric river over you.

Fritz Coleman

Exactly.Now, I will say this as a qualifier.In the past, our El Nino forecasts have not been 100% correct.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 is gonna be a super El Nino, meaning persistent, long lasting storms with a lot of rain.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.

Ted Bonnitt

So the four corners have been just completely swamped.Sea levels have risen a foot over the last 125 years.So everything's compounding a little bit.I call it the Blade Runner effect.Remember, it was always raining in LA doing it.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.The snow traditionally has.Has stored the water until the summertime.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.

Fritz Coleman

I heard that.But that's amazing water.There are people that.People that study climate science feel that water is going to become an issue like oil.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.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.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.

Ted Bonnitt

They've been working on that too.They've been building a lot of underground collection in la so it doesn't just all wash out to sea.

Phil Proctor

Ridiculous.

Ted Bonnitt

But you know what?We don't really have anything to worry about because the Trump administration is so on climate change particularly.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

It's nice.

Phil Proctor

Tell us about your show.

Fritz Coleman

I.

Ted Bonnitt

Okay.

Phil Proctor

Been on for four years.

Fritz Coleman

Did you tell me we're starting the fourth year?It's a show called Unassisted Living and it is at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood.Beautiful venue.And it's a show for people of a certain age.

Phil Proctor

I've heard of them.

Fritz Coleman

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.

Phil Proctor

Do you need it to get in?No.Oh, good.

Ted Bonnitt

But is there a copay?

Fritz Coleman

We should have a copay.That's funny.But there are no politics and you're both people who understand the value of an audience.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.And I think our show's really having a value that way.We don't do any politics.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.Movies during the Great Depression.

Fritz Coleman

No, exactly.

Phil Proctor

It really is.It's important.It's healthy to be able to have a good laugh.

Fritz Coleman

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.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.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.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 there's maybe eight people in the house.That's weird.

Ted Bonnitt

But I used to go out of my way to go to midday matinees specifically to enjoy a screening room experience.

Phil Proctor

Without a lot of people.

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah, yeah, we scored.Having attended one of your shows, you do it every year.And Wendy Liebman, who's on the show again, was a standout standup and she was terrific.And she was on our show.You can hear all of our shows by the way, @SexyBoomershow.com you can find Wendy's interview.

Fritz Coleman

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.

Phil Proctor

Wow.

Fritz Coleman

And he has lots of solo projects and he opens the show and people.He's so gifted and we're so honored to have him.And then Wendy's been with me since the beginning and we have a great show.It's a great hour and a half.Hour and 45 minute show.Three o' clock on Sunday afternoon.The next show is Sunday after Thanksgiving, the 28th, at three in the afternoon.We have it early because people our age like to be home by dark.

Phil Proctor

And remember to set your clock back.

Fritz Coleman

Is it that week?

Phil Proctor

No, it's.That's coming up the first.

Ted Bonnitt

In case you're wondering, we're talking to Fritz Coleman.The show is called Unassisted Living.Unassisted Living.Where is it playing?

Fritz Coleman

It's playing at the El Portale theater.

Ted Bonnitt

Oh, in North Hollywood?

Fritz Coleman

In North Hollywood at Lankershim and Weddington.

Phil Proctor

Hey, I just heard all this.I guess I don't have Alzheimer's.

Ted Bonnitt

What?

Fritz Coleman

We're in the.We're in what's called the Marilyn Monroe Forum, which is the smaller venue, the 100 seat venue.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.And they called her Norma Jean, the Jumping Bean because she was a track star.And then she got a little bit older and went to the movies there and had her first date there with Mitch McConnell.Can you believe that?No, I'm just kidding.But she had her first date there, and so there's.The place is rich with theater, rich with history.So that's why I love it.

Ted Bonnitt

Wow.

Fritz Coleman

Time to get there and have a good time.

Ted Bonnitt

It's a fun afternoon.

Phil Proctor

It's funny because I don't.

Fritz Coleman

It works.Sure does.

Ted Bonnitt

So how are you feeling, Fritz?Do you feel optimistic about things?

Fritz Coleman

I feel cautiously optimistic about things.I've learned not to trust the polls because of the disaster with.

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah, I wouldn't trust the Russians.

Fritz Coleman

That's my accurate 100%.

Ted Bonnitt

They're saying that the polls have been accurate, which I don't understand because they've been wildly off.Polls were usually conducted by telephoning and getting somebody on the phone and having a genuine conversation and getting a full read on them.

Phil Proctor

That's right.

Ted Bonnitt

People don't use the phone anymore.

Phil Proctor

It's electronic.

Ted Bonnitt

So it's electronic.And that's really.You know.

Fritz Coleman

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 think about Trump or other things.Things.Because you don't want to be judged for it and start a big fight in your family.So the question is, how truthful are people's responses to these things?Which is true.I hope so.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.If it's a.

Ted Bonnitt

That's the danger zone is November 4th through January 3rd.Let's be honest.The guy got away with an insurrection and he became president again.

Phil Proctor

Unbelievable.Vote.

Ted Bonnitt

I hope the youngins come out and vote.Like, look at what your brethren did in all these other countries.It was youth vote.

Fritz Coleman

Exactly.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.And vote blue if it so moves you.

Ted Bonnitt

Vote any way you want.Just vote.

Fritz Coleman

That's right.I think if there's enough of a sweep, it will dampen any abilities to do it, to screw it up, to.

Ted Bonnitt

Pull some technical thing on the pure entertainment value aspect of it.He is really starting to slip.It's like going to see grandpa at the home and Grandpa's boundaries are stretched as far as his ears.But he's the president of the free world.It's extraordinary.

Phil Proctor

The once free world.

Ted Bonnitt

He's gonna be such a massive anchor that he's gonna take Musk down.

Fritz Coleman

Yeah, very true.

Ted Bonnitt

Along with the Republican Party.

Fritz Coleman

Now I know that he's gonna pardon all these people.They said he's gonna pardon anybody that's been within 250ft of the White House.But.And I heard last night that the way they can circumvent that problem of all the people who are responsible for bad stuff.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.

Ted Bonnitt

Nobody's really talking about how the Musk movie vanished last week.Did you notice that?

Fritz Coleman

I think he probably.I thought about that.It disappeared.Disappeared.I think he probably bought it out.

Ted Bonnitt

I wanted to see it.And I looked for a Showtime on Friday.And AMC still had it wide because it had only been out for a week wide in the theaters.It was playing at several AMC theaters, but when you went to buy the ticket, sorry, no Showtime's available.And then two hours later, it vanished from the website.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.And it got pulled by the distributor because it vanished across the board.

Fritz Coleman

Money talk.He wrote a big fat check to the distributors and that was it.

Ted Bonnitt

Bleecker street is the name of the distributor.This happened on Friday.On Wednesday of last week, a billionaire bought Bleecker Street.One of the founders of ebay.

Fritz Coleman

Wow.

Ted Bonnitt

But he leans left.He's a Democratic supporter.So he may or may not have had anything to do with it.But it was highly unusual that it just vanished.And whether Bleecker street faced a sea of lawyers with unlimited resources or they just folded because the oligarchs shut down the publicity.Larry Ellison controls TikTok and he was mentioned in a poor light.So TikTok wouldn't take the advertising.

Fritz Coleman

That's very meta.

Ted Bonnitt

Didn't take the advertising.Of course, Musk didn't allow it on the X platform.So the primary methods to promote the film were eliminated.So it did terribly in the theaters.They've moved up the Video on Demand.They weren't gonna move to Video on Demand till the end of November because they had the theatrical run.But now they're saying that they're gonna start debuting the Video on Demand early next month.

Fritz Coleman

Are you talking about the Elon Musk movie?

Ted Bonnitt

The Musk movie.But I think the objective here was to get it out of the theaters.And out of people's sight until after election day.I think that's what it was all about.Still gonna be bad for him, but it's not gonna necessarily turn votes against him.

Fritz Coleman

You're probably right.

Ted Bonnitt

Speculation.But when you have oligarchs controlling what's left of the mediascape.

Fritz Coleman

I'm so against all these recent mergers, the Warner Brothers discovery thing and all of the Skydance stuff.I'm just against that completely.First of all, it's putting a strain on our.On the entertainment business in Los Angeles.

Ted Bonnitt

Thousands of.And thousands of people in administration at these two studios that are now going to be rendered obsolete.I don't know where they think the economy is going to manage this.It's such an interesting new world.It's so radically changing.

Fritz Coleman

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.Streamers have to buy one another out and get two or three streamers that will survive.Maybe Amazon Prime, Netflix and Paramount or whatever.

Ted Bonnitt

They were gonna buy Warner Brothers, and months later, they're laying off thousands of people.Who knows?

Fritz Coleman

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.I resent even more that they've just very slowly and below the table transferred the whole business model of broadcast television to streaming.Now you have spots all over the place in streaming after you've paid for their service.Their monthly.

Phil Proctor

I do a lot of driving throughout America and we listen to a feed of CNN or a feed of MSN.The commercial breaks have gotten their 5 minute commercial breaks and maybe 90 seconds.

Ted Bonnitt

Of news like late night movies used to be.Remember that?Yes.They'd give you 10 minutes and then they'd start giving you like two minutes.And the ad breaks were longer than the content.

Phil Proctor

It's corporate radio.

Fritz Coleman

Yeah.

Phil Proctor

And it drains your energy.

Fritz Coleman

Plus, it doesn't seem like good business to me because it gives people a chance to tune out.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

And we're old.Right.So we're outraged by this.

Phil Proctor

Because I'm in my second childhood, I'll say.

Ted Bonnitt

But when I go to a movie now, I get in there and go, huh, Nobody's here.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.And I have been able to bypass commercials completely by just using YouTube Premium for 16 bucks a month.

Fritz Coleman

And that's what my children.

Ted Bonnitt

That's what they're doing.

Fritz Coleman

That's where they can get all of their programming.

Ted Bonnitt

There's plenty of it.

Phil Proctor

I get on a plane and watch the movies on the plane.And you know my favorite movie so far?Driving, flying across the country, the Sheep Detectives.

Fritz Coleman

That was so cute.

Phil Proctor

Wasn't that adorable?

Fritz Coleman

Yes.

Phil Proctor

It's probably one of the sweetest, most lovely movies I've ever seen.Couldn't recommend it anymore.And I also, I got to see Hadestown, a beautiful film made from the.

Fritz Coleman

That's still on Broadway, isn't it?Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

Fantastic story.

Fritz Coleman

Is it good?

Phil Proctor

Oh, I loved it.

Fritz Coleman

I don't know anything.

Phil Proctor

Very operatic and dense and yet oddly humorous retelling of the Euripides and Orpheus story.

Fritz Coleman

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.And it's the follow up to Social, Whatever and.And the guy, Jeremy Strong, who was in succession, plays Mark Zuckerberg so beautifully, and comedian Bill Burr, who's a very wonderful.He's wonderful and he's in there and he's an astonishingly good actor.And the thing is, it points to the hierarchy in the tech world.And because they broached the subject about what about kids.And kids are killing one another and they're doing that and they're doing self harm and there's digital bullying and everything.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.It's all about money and what he puts under the umbrella, the First Amendment, which is garbage.So I think it's a very important film.I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it.Maybe they haven't seen it yet.

Ted Bonnitt

There should be new award ceremonies like Sociopath of the Year.Can you imagine how tight the race would be if they were just going with tech pros?

Phil Proctor

Drunk of the year.There's a tight.

Ted Bonnitt

Who is the worst?I think Zuckerberg.Musk is in a class of his own.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.

Phil Proctor

Trump change.

Ted Bonnitt

Trump change, that's worthless.

Phil Proctor

Yeah, but we'd all like a Trump change, wouldn't we?

Fritz Coleman

Yeah.

Ted Bonnitt

Musk has put something like $442 million into the midterms which is even more than has ever been spread on a presidential cycle.

Fritz Coleman

That's wrong.

Ted Bonnitt

I heard Scott Galloway talk about this.Put it into numeric perspective.He's a trillionaire.Puts in $440 million into this cycle.If you were just a millionaire.Just a millionaire, that would amount to $442.

Fritz Coleman

Wow.

Ted Bonnitt

That's how much a trillion is.So for him to put half a billion dollars into the midterms is if somebody with a million dollar house spent $440 on.

Fritz Coleman

And the thing is, he has all of these deals because of his Space X and everything.All of this stuff.There's a quid pro quo involved in this somehow.And that's why I think it's just so wrong.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.So he's not doing something for nothing.

Ted Bonnitt

Congressman.Trading stock, not a great look.And dead man walking.McConnell, he's been a public quote unquote servant.And he has increased his wealth by $35 million.

Fritz Coleman

And he's in the state with the biggest bourbon industry in the world.I'm sure there's a little sliding under the table with all that.

Ted Bonnitt

Speaking of bourbon, what do you think's gonna happen to Hegseth?What do you think?

Fritz Coleman

Some people think he'll be the first to be fired after the midterms.

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah.

Fritz Coleman

And God, all the military careers he's ruined.Top brass that have been in there for 40 years.

Ted Bonnitt

Okay.I do have one shining upside to all of this.

Fritz Coleman

You better deliver it quick.

Ted Bonnitt

Disclosure, all right.UFO disclosure.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.That is happening.

Ted Bonnitt

I'll give it to Trump under his administration, whether or not he had anything to do with it.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.It's an interesting collision of time.

Fritz Coleman

And the first tests were in New Mexico.

Ted Bonnitt

Whatever is controlling UFOs has always been interested in nuclear energy.There's a history of site over nuclear power plants.I interviewed Colonel Salas, who was a commander of a missile wing of ICBMs.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.And he thought he was being punked.And they called back and said someone got injured because they freaked out and tried to climb a fence.As the second call came in, Salas said, all of a sudden, right in front of us, the missile was being disarmed.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.You have to go through six major firewalls.You just can't get to it.

Fritz Coleman

I thought you said you had something uplifting to think about.

Phil Proctor

Uplifted by the five saucers.

Ted Bonnitt

I went down a rabbit hole.

Fritz Coleman

No.

Ted Bonnitt

The modern UFO movement has coincided with the modern nuclear age.Ever since then, there's been suspected huge research programs that have been top secret.Even the President can't get to it.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.It becomes a safety issue.And that's why it became public, because the pilots were afraid for their lives.

Fritz Coleman

Did you see disclosure day?

Ted Bonnitt

I did.There's a new book out by Jay Stratton, who was running the biggest program since Project Blue Book, and it's absolutely riveting.And what's happening is there is real disclosure occurring, and that is something that's coming out of the Trump administration.So I'll give them that.

Fritz Coleman

And by disclosure, you mean people that have information, that are not afraid to release it now to present it to the general public.

Ted Bonnitt

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.You would just be under threat of losing your pension, suicide, any number of things.But they're being cleared to talk about this stuff in ways in which I've never seen.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 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.

Phil Proctor

The space station, all of the space activities around the Earth show us that we are all one.And yet the UFO revelations tell us we are not alone.

Ted Bonnitt

Yeah, I talked to about half a dozen of the guys who walked on the moon and they came back changed.The bottom line for space travelers has been, what are we doing to ourselves?We're just this little globe in the middle of nothingness.Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man on the moon, said to me, he's what's this about?It's like the first thing we do as a species of literally leaping off our home world for the first time.The first thing we do is point weapons back at ourself.

Fritz Coleman

Yeah.Is disclosure a reality in other countries, like the Russians?Are they doing the same thing?

Ted Bonnitt

Oh, yeah.There's various degrees of openness.Belgium has been very open publicly.In South America, countries are very open.The US Is not so much, but it's changing.And I think it's kind of being forced on the powers that be because it's becoming so evident thanks to technology.I think we're on the precipice of something that's really going to change everything.I think that's our best hope right now.

Phil Proctor

Yeah.And if you want to feel some of that energy, you can go to Fritz's show.Fritz's show.

Fritz Coleman

I solve all the global problems, and I love the clear thinking people.I love to have.If they listen to this show, they have big brains.They should name your show Smart men of a certain age.Oh, that's as opposed to Sexy boomers, or whatever you call yourself.

Phil Proctor

Yeah, but if we do that, see, we chose sexy boomers.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.

Ted Bonnitt

It's true.I remember the conversations like, what are we going to call this, Phil?We have to have boomers in it.And then I said, sex cells.So that's when Melinda said sexy boomer.And we thought, what could be a better oxymoron?

Phil Proctor

I'm not really a boomer.I only play one on the radio.I'm a bomber.I was born in 1940.

Fritz Coleman

Oh, okay.So you're the pre boomer era.

Phil Proctor

Yeah, I'm the bomber era.

Fritz Coleman

I bow in your direction.

Phil Proctor

Thank you.

Ted Bonnitt

Gosh, guys, we're, like, almost out of time here.Here.

Fritz Coleman

This is Fritz.I love coming over here.Happy to see Phil looking so good.

Phil Proctor

Oh, thanks.And you?

Fritz Coleman

How do I look?Do I look good?

Phil Proctor

You look very good.

Ted Bonnitt

Sunny as always, trim and handsome as ever.And he brings his own green screen.

Phil Proctor

And you don't have that damn cloud over your head anymore.

Fritz Coleman

Thank God that's over with.

Ted Bonnitt

Fritz Coleman.

Fritz Coleman

Thank you.

Ted Bonnitt

My friend, the weatherman.Extraordinary.

Phil Proctor

Fritz.You still do some standup around town?

Fritz Coleman

Yes.I don't work in the clubs that often because I feel like I'm a chaperone when I go to the club.But I do dinner dates, and I'm.I did Laguna woods, which is this beautiful retirement community in Orange County.

Phil Proctor

Oh, nice.

Fritz Coleman

It's like a 70,000 person community.And I, I just opened for Jay Leno down there.

Phil Proctor

Wow.

Fritz Coleman

And we had a fantastic time.

Phil Proctor

Oh, that's.

Fritz Coleman

And those are my people.

Phil Proctor

How can they find out?Do you have a website?

Fritz Coleman

Yes.Fritzcolemancomedy.com.

Phil Proctor

Okay.

Fritz Coleman

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.

Phil Proctor

Okay.

Fritz Coleman

If I could just mention this last thing.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 1920, is a vaudeville house.Then it became a silent film venue, then it became a movie palace.And it's rich with wonderful history.

Phil Proctor

We're such a beautiful venue.

Fritz Coleman

We're going to have Broadway stars and everything and have Great, great.

Ted Bonnitt

This is again, your show is unassisted living and it's at the El Portel theater and it's running every, every.

Fritz Coleman

We usually do it the last Sunday of every month.Thank you, guys.

Ted Bonnitt

Thank you.It's always wonderful to see great conversations.You can hear all of our shows@SexyBoomershow.com and your favorite podcast platform.Thanks so much for listening.Vote.

Phil Proctor

Vote.Yep.We need a change.