KSEV Mornings · October 6, 2026 · Hour 1
Three errors in the first inning, a groom who forgot his bride’s name, and a billion dollars that mostly never became solar panels.
Wayne Dolcefino had a dentist appointment the day before and texted that it didn’t go well, so Craig Coglianese had the first hour to himself. Craig said he figures Wayne is fine, just dealing with the next-day pain, and announced on the air that Wayne is welcome to do a 20-minute fly-by any morning he likes. Producer Russell and Craig have all the buttons to press.
A Yankees fan in Houston
Craig opened with the topic he knew Houston would enjoy: the New York Yankees losing. He blamed three first-inning errors, not the Rays’ hitters, for rattling the young starter, and said Jazz Chisholm suddenly looked like a man who forgot how to throw to first base. He still believes the Yankees can come back from 0-2, as they have before, with Max Fried and Gerrit Cole lined up. His bigger complaint is the playoff format: too spread out for TV money, with byes he doesn’t think baseball should have, and days off that let a wild card team pitch its best arms twice.
Russell, the program director, thinks the Rays will sweep. Craig took it graciously. “Fine. That’s fine. I’m sure people will be happy about that.” The two agreed the Dodgers-Braves winner may take it all, and Craig admitted he hates the Dodgers for buying the best players, exactly as his Yankees once did. They also agreed the Texans’ 0-4 start is not all on C.J..
“We are the force”
Then Craig turned to Hasan Piker, the California Twitch streamer he described as an influential voice on the left. Piker said that after James Talarico wins, “we got to hold him to account,” and remind him “we are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power.” Craig translated: the Democratic Socialists of America believe they are the reason Talarico could win Texas. He said this is the stuff they should be hiding, and instead they say it on camera.
He followed with a montage of older Talarico clips, on undocumented students, abortion, and his claim that modern science recognizes far more than two biological sexes. Craig said one of two things has to be true: Talarico was saying things he didn’t believe to win over the far left, or he is now hiding what he believes to win over the middle. He thinks it’s the latter. To anyone who says the show talks about Talarico a lot, his answer: he barely deserves to be elected senator from California.
A hijacking that blipped
Craig played Bill Maher wondering why the attempted hijacking of a flight full of Israelis from the United Arab Emirates vanished from the news so quickly. A pilot was stabbed by a jihadist co-pilot, and the passengers took over and landed safely. Maher asked whether some would have celebrated if the plane had crashed. Craig said that isn’t a dirty question at all. He thinks a lot of that anger is really people angry about something else in their lives, and he spent time on how a generation raised on viral fame can come to blame everyone but themselves when the likes don’t come.
Rapid fire
For a palate cleanser, Craig played the Australian groom who said the wrong name at the altar, his bride’s sister’s, then took a “take B” and got married anyway. Craig said if he ever called his wife by either sister’s name, he would sleep outside for maybe a month.
He also played Grammy best new artist winner Olivia Dean next to Bill Withers and let listeners judge. Then he overshared: in high school he wrote a poem about a girl, and it worked. Later he sang his lyrics over his friends’ guitar playing, and he is almost certain every song was really a Rolling Stones song.
A billion dollars, $72 million in solar panels
The serious part of the hour: Steve Hilton described using AI tools to audit a California program that put about $100 million a year since 2015 into solar panels for low-income apartment buildings. Of roughly $1 billion, he said, only $72 million could be traced to actual solar installations, and most of the rest went to nonprofits doing what he called voter registration and ballot harvesting. “It’s building the political machine.”
Craig added Scott Jennings saying California’s ballot harvesting system “ought to be punted into the sun,” and recalled conversations in Chicago about canvassers working retirement homes, which he said is legal there. His summary of the solar pitch: how dare you not want cheap energy for low-income apartments, and then almost none of the money goes to that.
Show me the loophole
He closed with a Fox News interview in which a Democrat running in Michigan, who said he wants to get money out of politics, was asked about appearing with the Soros family and about $30 million from a Chuck Schumer-backed PAC. Craig’s theory of how talking points get written on the left: “Tell me the loophole first.” He tied it back to Piker and to the mob guy rule that some people expect a favor returned, and soon.
Also in this hour
- Craig and his wife heard what sounded like three explosions on Houston’s southwest side around nine o’clock and are still waiting for anyone to explain them.
- Craig, who also goes by Craig Collins when filling in on national shows, has officially decided to answer to both names.
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