UP!: The Balloon Bride Who Almost Flew Away, WAIT, WHAT!? OBAMA!!! & No FBI at the Polls

The New WSMG WEBSITE We have a New Website!!! Duchess Top Host Let's Help the Duchess blow the Lemon-aid stand and get famous on IHEART RADIO Colokum Craft Coffee USE THE PROMO CODE "WSMG15" FOR 15% OFF YOUR COFFEE PURCHASE Boomer Bunker Dischord Become a Bunker Dweller 67 UP! NATIONAL DAY: National Candy Corn Day — honoring the most polarizing candy in America. Nobody ranks it first, but somehow it keeps winning on the recount. (Also today: Mischief Night, Frankenstein Friday and Haunted Refrigerator Night — go check that Tupperware in the back.) BIRTHDAY: Henry Winkler (born 1945) turns 81. The Fonz is still working — he says he’ll “never retire unless I have to” and has a new “Detective Duck” kids’ book out Nov. 3. Still cool. Still jumping sharks. Ayyy! THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1938 — Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast “The War of the Worlds” on CBS Radio, a Halloween show done as fake “breaking news” about Martians landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Some listeners thought it was real and jammed the phone lines — though historians say the “mass panic” was mostly hyped by newspapers. The original fake news. ------ 1. UP! (NEW YORK POST) A bride posing with a giant bouquet of beige balloons beside the Bosphorus in Istanbul on Oct. 26 got caught in a gust of wind that dragged her toward the seawall and nearly lifted her off her feet. A photographer grabbed her before she hit a building, and she finished the shoot. Commenters compared it to Pixar’s “Up.” ------ 2. WAIT, WHAT!? OBAMA!!! (FOX NEWS) Fox News confirmed the probe into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother began under Obama’s FBI and DHS in 2016. The New York Times says investigators found some evidence of fraud but closed it over the statute of limitations. Trump revived the case and agents raided Omar’s D.C. home Oct. 12. Obama calls it political targeting; Omar calls it a conspiracy theory. ------ 3. PLAYING CHICKEN (GROUND NEWS) After an NAACP lawsuit over voter intimidation, the Justice Department told a federal court that FBI and ICE agents won’t serve as midterm poll monitors. Monitors from the Bureau of Prisons, ATF and DEA, plus one CBP employee, will be unarmed and only observe and take notes. Trump, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and FBI Director Kash Patel have not ruled out a federal presence. ------ SHOW CREDITS: Thank you to my co-host and audio producer: John Jamingo Boomer Bunker My other co-hosts: Ken Madden and Boomer Bob The cast of characters: The Duchess of New Jersey Sam (Cody's mom) Cody</e