Coffee, Hookers & Chaos: High Sierra Rescues to Sin City Shenanigans

Broadcasting from 4,200 feet in Oregon’s high desert, Sam Wilson—the voice of Chi-Town with the reddest beard around—kicks off with a caffeine-fueled ode to French press vs. AeroPress vs. cowboy coffee, introduces Cobra the shop cat in his “tactical vest,” then barrels into a wild news run: a Boy Scout troop stumbling on and saving a lost 78-year-old hiker in the Sierra Nevada, Florida’s move to scrap vaccine mandates, a deadly Lisbon funicular derailment, Long Island cops shooting a BB-gun-wielding man after a grim vow to his mother, and a brutal Las Vegas hotel-room robbery by an alleged sex worker. Between headlines, Sam riffs on the unforgiving swing of high-desert temps and why Oregon does pizza dirty—before signing off with a no-nonsense reminder: prepare now, because if you don’t make it out alive, you don’t make it out at all.