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.
Links referenced in this episode:
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
Welcome to Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer show.I'm Ted Bonnitt.
Phil ProctorAnd I'm Phil Proctor.
Ted BonnittNice to see you.
Phil ProctorNice to be seen.I've been up in Canada recently, up in Nova Scotia.
Ted BonnittAnd you didn't stay?
Phil ProctorI tried.
Fritz ColemanDid you find yourself apologizing to everybody when you were up there?
Phil ProctorNot really.They were more sympathetic to us.
Fritz ColemanGood.
Ted BonnittLadies and gentlemen, that's the voice of five time Emmy award winning stand up comedian and NBC weathercaster Fritz Coleman.Ladies and gentlemen.
Fritz ColemanI'm sorry I stuck my face in.
Ted BonnittDid the Emmys come for the stand up comedy or the weather forecast?
Fritz ColemanI got got four Emmys for comedy specials that I did on Channel 4.
Ted BonnittOh, wow.
Fritz ColemanAnd, 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 BonnittBut weather in LA traditionally has been comedic.
Fritz ColemanYes, 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 BonnittYeah, 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 ProctorHis name was Storm Fields.
Ted BonnittStorm 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 ColemanPeople 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 ProctorOoh.
Ted BonnittWhen I saw Dallas Rains, he talks about surfing.He looks like central casting California, but he's actually, he's from Atlanta.
Fritz ColemanHe worked at CNN before he started a Channel seven and one of the nicest people in our business.
Ted BonnittAnd good too.
Fritz ColemanHe's excellent.Yeah, he's an actual meteorologist and I look up to those guys.
Phil ProctorHow did you get into meteorology?
Fritz ColemanI 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 ProctorThere you go.
Fritz ColemanBut 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 ProctorGood.
Fritz ColemanAfter 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 ProctorYeah.
Fritz ColemanSo 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 BonnittWow.
Fritz ColemanHonest 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 ProctorYeah.
Ted BonnittDo you have a green screen at home?Just to make you feel comfortable.
Fritz ColemanBut 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 ProctorYes, you sure have.
Ted BonnittYes.California dream.
Fritz ColemanReally?
Ted BonnittYeah.It's not so recreational these days, the weather in California as around the world.
Fritz ColemanWell, 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 ProctorThat's right.
Fritz ColemanIt 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 BonnittAnd Fritz, honestly, you wouldn't fill out a dress like those.
Fritz ColemanYou don't know that.
Phil ProctorI haven't seen your legs.You're wearing long pants.
Fritz ColemanYou don't know that.
Phil ProctorHey, nice ass.
Ted BonnittYeah.
Fritz ColemanYeah.
Ted BonnittHey, who do you think you are, the President?
Fritz ColemanMaybe Trump would have a word about me.Oh, my God.
Ted BonnittWhile we're on weather, I have been studying the weather recently.
Fritz ColemanYeah.
Ted BonnittBecause 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 ColemanPlus, 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 BonnittAnd now it's coming from the south.
Fritz ColemanYeah.
Ted BonnittThis whole Kelvin wave was extraordinary.I mean, today's the big day, supposedly.
Phil ProctorIs this the big Kelvin day?
Ted BonnittThe Kelvin wave has passed, evidently.
Phil ProctorYeah.
Ted BonnittFor 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 ProctorAnd it's an underwater wave.You don't see it.
Ted BonnittIt just gently raises the water because thermodynamically warmer water takes more space.
Phil ProctorThat's right.They had, what, eight foot king tide?Yeah, yesterday.
Fritz ColemanAnd 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 ProctorIt was a gift from Neptune, eh?
Fritz ColemanYes, exactly.Exactly.
Phil ProctorI always wondered why the baby, because.
Ted BonnittOf 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 ColemanWhat 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 ProctorSuch a great name for a song, isn't it?I cried an atmospheric river over you.
Fritz ColemanExactly.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 BonnittSo 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 ColemanI 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 BonnittThey'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 ProctorRidiculous.
Ted BonnittBut you know what?We don't really have anything to worry about because the Trump administration is so on climate change particularly.
Phil ProctorYeah.
Ted BonnittIt's nice.
Phil ProctorTell us about your show.
Fritz ColemanI.
Ted BonnittOkay.
Phil ProctorBeen on for four years.
Fritz ColemanDid 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 ProctorI've heard of them.
Fritz ColemanIf 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 ProctorDo you need it to get in?No.Oh, good.
Ted BonnittBut is there a copay?
Fritz ColemanWe 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 ProctorYeah.Movies during the Great Depression.
Fritz ColemanNo, exactly.
Phil ProctorIt really is.It's important.It's healthy to be able to have a good laugh.
Fritz ColemanI 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 ProctorYeah.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 BonnittBut I used to go out of my way to go to midday matinees specifically to enjoy a screening room experience.
Phil ProctorWithout a lot of people.
Ted BonnittYeah, 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 ColemanAnd 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 ProctorWow.
Fritz ColemanAnd 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 ProctorAnd remember to set your clock back.
Fritz ColemanIs it that week?
Phil ProctorNo, it's.That's coming up the first.
Ted BonnittIn case you're wondering, we're talking to Fritz Coleman.The show is called Unassisted Living.Unassisted Living.Where is it playing?
Fritz ColemanIt's playing at the El Portale theater.
Ted BonnittOh, in North Hollywood?
Fritz ColemanIn North Hollywood at Lankershim and Weddington.
Phil ProctorHey, I just heard all this.I guess I don't have Alzheimer's.
Ted BonnittWhat?
Fritz ColemanWe'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 BonnittWow.
Fritz ColemanTime to get there and have a good time.
Ted BonnittIt's a fun afternoon.
Phil ProctorIt's funny because I don't.
Fritz ColemanIt works.Sure does.
Ted BonnittSo how are you feeling, Fritz?Do you feel optimistic about things?
Fritz ColemanI feel cautiously optimistic about things.I've learned not to trust the polls because of the disaster with.
Ted BonnittYeah, I wouldn't trust the Russians.
Fritz ColemanThat's my accurate 100%.
Ted BonnittThey'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 ProctorThat's right.
Ted BonnittPeople don't use the phone anymore.
Phil ProctorIt's electronic.
Ted BonnittSo it's electronic.And that's really.You know.
Fritz ColemanAnd 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 BonnittThat'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 ProctorUnbelievable.Vote.
Ted BonnittI hope the youngins come out and vote.Like, look at what your brethren did in all these other countries.It was youth vote.
Fritz ColemanExactly.
Phil ProctorYeah.And vote blue if it so moves you.
Ted BonnittVote any way you want.Just vote.
Fritz ColemanThat'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 BonnittPull 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 ProctorThe once free world.
Ted BonnittHe's gonna be such a massive anchor that he's gonna take Musk down.
Fritz ColemanYeah, very true.
Ted BonnittAlong with the Republican Party.
Fritz ColemanNow 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 BonnittNobody's really talking about how the Musk movie vanished last week.Did you notice that?
Fritz ColemanI think he probably.I thought about that.It disappeared.Disappeared.I think he probably bought it out.
Ted BonnittI 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 ColemanMoney talk.He wrote a big fat check to the distributors and that was it.
Ted BonnittBleecker 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 ColemanWow.
Ted BonnittBut 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 ColemanThat's very meta.
Ted BonnittDidn'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 ColemanAre you talking about the Elon Musk movie?
Ted BonnittThe 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 ColemanYou're probably right.
Ted BonnittSpeculation.But when you have oligarchs controlling what's left of the mediascape.
Fritz ColemanI'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 BonnittThousands 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 ColemanI 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 BonnittThey were gonna buy Warner Brothers, and months later, they're laying off thousands of people.Who knows?
Fritz ColemanYeah, 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 ProctorI 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 BonnittOf 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 ProctorIt's corporate radio.
Fritz ColemanYeah.
Phil ProctorAnd it drains your energy.
Fritz ColemanPlus, it doesn't seem like good business to me because it gives people a chance to tune out.
Phil ProctorYeah.
Ted BonnittAnd we're old.Right.So we're outraged by this.
Phil ProctorBecause I'm in my second childhood, I'll say.
Ted BonnittBut 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 ColemanAnd that's what my children.
Ted BonnittThat's what they're doing.
Fritz ColemanThat's where they can get all of their programming.
Ted BonnittThere's plenty of it.
Phil ProctorI 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 ColemanThat was so cute.
Phil ProctorWasn't that adorable?
Fritz ColemanYes.
Phil ProctorIt'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 ColemanThat's still on Broadway, isn't it?Yeah.
Ted BonnittFantastic story.
Fritz ColemanIs it good?
Phil ProctorOh, I loved it.
Fritz ColemanI don't know anything.
Phil ProctorVery operatic and dense and yet oddly humorous retelling of the Euripides and Orpheus story.
Fritz ColemanI 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 BonnittThere 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 ProctorDrunk of the year.There's a tight.
Ted BonnittWho 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 ProctorTrump change.
Ted BonnittTrump change, that's worthless.
Phil ProctorYeah, but we'd all like a Trump change, wouldn't we?
Fritz ColemanYeah.
Ted BonnittMusk has put something like $442 million into the midterms which is even more than has ever been spread on a presidential cycle.
Fritz ColemanThat's wrong.
Ted BonnittI 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 ColemanWow.
Ted BonnittThat'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 ColemanAnd 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 BonnittCongressman.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 ColemanAnd 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 BonnittSpeaking of bourbon, what do you think's gonna happen to Hegseth?What do you think?
Fritz ColemanSome people think he'll be the first to be fired after the midterms.
Ted BonnittYeah.
Fritz ColemanAnd God, all the military careers he's ruined.Top brass that have been in there for 40 years.
Ted BonnittOkay.I do have one shining upside to all of this.
Fritz ColemanYou better deliver it quick.
Ted BonnittDisclosure, all right.UFO disclosure.
Phil ProctorYeah.That is happening.
Ted BonnittI'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 ColemanAnd the first tests were in New Mexico.
Ted BonnittWhatever 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 ColemanI thought you said you had something uplifting to think about.
Phil ProctorUplifted by the five saucers.
Ted BonnittI went down a rabbit hole.
Fritz ColemanNo.
Ted BonnittThe 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 ColemanDid you see disclosure day?
Ted BonnittI 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 ColemanAnd by disclosure, you mean people that have information, that are not afraid to release it now to present it to the general public.
Ted BonnittA 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 ProctorThe 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 BonnittYeah, 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 ColemanYeah.Is disclosure a reality in other countries, like the Russians?Are they doing the same thing?
Ted BonnittOh, 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 ProctorYeah.And if you want to feel some of that energy, you can go to Fritz's show.Fritz's show.
Fritz ColemanI 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 ProctorYeah, 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 BonnittIt'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 ProctorI'm not really a boomer.I only play one on the radio.I'm a bomber.I was born in 1940.
Fritz ColemanOh, okay.So you're the pre boomer era.
Phil ProctorYeah, I'm the bomber era.
Fritz ColemanI bow in your direction.
Phil ProctorThank you.
Ted BonnittGosh, guys, we're, like, almost out of time here.Here.
Fritz ColemanThis is Fritz.I love coming over here.Happy to see Phil looking so good.
Phil ProctorOh, thanks.And you?
Fritz ColemanHow do I look?Do I look good?
Phil ProctorYou look very good.
Ted BonnittSunny as always, trim and handsome as ever.And he brings his own green screen.
Phil ProctorAnd you don't have that damn cloud over your head anymore.
Fritz ColemanThank God that's over with.
Ted BonnittFritz Coleman.
Fritz ColemanThank you.
Ted BonnittMy friend, the weatherman.Extraordinary.
Phil ProctorFritz.You still do some standup around town?
Fritz ColemanYes.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 ProctorOh, nice.
Fritz ColemanIt's like a 70,000 person community.And I, I just opened for Jay Leno down there.
Phil ProctorWow.
Fritz ColemanAnd we had a fantastic time.
Phil ProctorOh, that's.
Fritz ColemanAnd those are my people.
Phil ProctorHow can they find out?Do you have a website?
Fritz ColemanYes.Fritzcolemancomedy.com.
Phil ProctorOkay.
Fritz ColemanIf 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 ProctorOkay.
Fritz ColemanIf 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 ProctorWe're such a beautiful venue.
Fritz ColemanWe're going to have Broadway stars and everything and have Great, great.
Ted BonnittThis is again, your show is unassisted living and it's at the El Portel theater and it's running every, every.
Fritz ColemanWe usually do it the last Sunday of every month.Thank you, guys.
Ted BonnittThank 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 ProctorVote.Yep.We need a change.