October 20, 2025 • 24 mins
(October 20,2025)
How a ‘safe’ plan to fire munitions over the I-5 didn’t go as planned. No kings protests against President Trump took place again over the weekend. Why does everyone hate the valley in L.A.
How a ‘safe’ plan to fire munitions over the I-5 didn’t go as planned. No kings protests against President Trump took place again over the weekend. Why does everyone hate the valley in L.A.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six FORTYFI.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Monday morning,
October twentieth. Hey, and we had a great time last
Friday with Ask Handle Anything, some great questions, and we
do that at a thirty every Friday, and I get
all kinds of personal questions because people ask me all
kinds of personal questions about other hosts and about me.
(00:32):
So we started to ask Handle Anything where I answer
these humiliating to me questions every Friday. But we need
you to ask the questions. So here's how it's done.
During the course of the show during the week from
five to nine am, click on the bill Handle Show
and then click on to Well first iHeartRadio app then
the bill Handle Show. That a microphone in the upper
(00:53):
right hand corner. You click on that and you've got
fifteen seconds, give or take to ask a question. And
the I don't care about your opinion about anything that
doesn't matter to me. But the questions that humiliate me
are a lot of fun boy, Am I self loathing individual?
Don't I? I am soliciting calls and questions that embarrass me.
(01:15):
I'll tell you about you yeah, you know, I'm going
to bring that up with my shrink this week for sure. Okay,
why don't we move on? Fair enough? Interesting story about
this live fire exercise that happened at Camp Pendleton over
the weekend celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the
US Marine Corps, and that included a live simulation of
(01:37):
a beach assault by sea and air. I don't know
if you've ever seen one of those driving down the
Five on Pendleton. I've seen them twice, where the assault vehicles,
the helicopters, the amphibious, the zodiacs come aboard the ships.
I mean, it's wonderful to see. This is when you
realize this is America killing people at his best. Just
(01:59):
it's fantastic, and we have to have a defence. So
there's no issue there. So here's what happened. The plan
involved marines firing high explosive rounds over the freeway. Now,
federal officials said it's going to be done with all
safety precautions in place, and no public highways would be closed.
California official says, live rounds over Interstate five, we don't
(02:24):
think so. So on Friday night, the Marines did a
test run without notifying the state and fire artillery rounds
over five. So early Saturday morning, Gavin Newsom announces the
closure of Interstate five, a seventeen mile stretch north of
San Clemente, south of San Clementy, north of otion Side.
(02:45):
About fifteen thousand people attended the event, including a speech
by the Vice President. And so, now was there damage done?
You bet the fear that one of these shelves would
hit a car or people there, Well, it panned out.
A cruiser parked on an on ramp on five was
(03:05):
hit by falling shrapnel after an artillery shell exploded early
right over the freeway. And first of all, and I'll
tell you about that, because it was a scratch on
the car, And so a very big deal was made
about that. A report was circulated that the White House
intended to shut down five because they planned to shoot
(03:26):
missiles from Navy warships onto Camp Pendleton. Camp Pendleton is enormous,
and along the beach where they do these amphibious landings.
Literally the five is a few hundred yards from that
beach and great fun. So Wednesday night, the Marine Corps
posts a statement on X it's going to hold the
(03:47):
live fire demonstration on Saturday, and there will be no closures,
no public highways or transportation routes. All training events will
occur on approved training ranges read the five Freeway and
with established safety protocols. Now, the Marine Corps said, we're
not going to fire anything from Navy ship to shore.
(04:07):
It's only the firing of high explosive rounds from howitzers
artillery shells into designated ranges. Fair enough, Okay, Now howitzer
has a range of fifteen to twenty five miles. This
is what the Ukraine is using, or Ukraine is using
for the most part to fight Russia. Our arms. So
(04:30):
that afternoon, the federal government directed the cancellation of Amtrak
and Metrolink service. Ooh, does that tell you something? A
sure told news some something. So officials observed. State officials
that shells were launched over Interstate five from the beach.
(04:51):
So howitzers are set up off of ships and then
they're landed, they go over the five into the range
and then there's a huge acreage there. The state also
received a request from event organizers and said that electronic
bulletin boards along Interstate five people should be worn and
they were live weapons. Over over the what is it
(05:15):
live weapons over freeway was the exact Wordage Border patrols
at California Highway Patrol said, we didn't know about this.
So Newsom's office and Caltrans they closed the five Freeway.
Now the closure was very brief, but at jam freeways,
stretching travel time between LA to San Diego an hour longer.
(05:37):
Instead of two hours, it was three hours. And the
White House criticized Newsom for closing the five Freeway. And
I want to make a point whenever the federal government
does anything in terms of holding up traffic, it is
a disaster. It is a shanda. There is very little
worse in terms of traffic than the vice president, the
(05:59):
president for two picularly President flies in to usually if
the Air Force won the Imperial Terminal, the Southwest, the
most southern part of Lax air Force one comes in there.
The entire west side is shut down. I don't know
if you've ever been around when the president or any
major event happens. This is when we should secede as
(06:24):
a government California, and we should not let the Feds
come in. But anyway, so it turned out to be
a real mix up between the state and the FEDS,
fifteen thousand people, a lot of raw, raw military exercises,
and a shell exploding over the five Freeway which caused
virtually no damage. A big story was the protest, the
(06:47):
no Kings protest, which true, I don't know, maybe seven
million people, right is the number that's being thrown at us.
Don't know the figure yet, hasn't really been confirmed one
way or the other. But I was there and if
you go to our Instagram page at bill Handle Show,
(07:08):
you will see me there on the corner with Lindsay
and a huge, well big protest sign, and my sign
was freedom of the press. Everybody else was sort of
no Kings and very clever stuff that was done. And
it was a party atmosphere. People were worrying costumes, there
was It was just a fun atmosphere. Even though it
(07:30):
was a very political statement, it was just kind of
neat And so of course I was immediately attacked by
people on Instagram, and I was also given kudos for
being there at the protests. So why was I there
having never ever been to a protest and I probably
would never would. Well, my issue was freedom of the press,
(07:55):
my personal issue, because you know, I'm part of the press.
We theoretically are part of the press, but we're involved
in the news business here, and I kind of like
the ability to say whatever the hell I want to say.
And to the credit of management, I Heeart and the
people before that owned the station group that was Cox.
Never once in the history of the broad my broadcasting
(08:19):
in radio, have I ever been told what to say
and what not to say. However, I have a lot
of issue with President Trump, as you know. I give
him credit where credit is due, and he deserves credit
in many ways, but I'm not particularly thrilled with the
way he's running the presidency, the retribution against his perceived
(08:42):
and real enemies, but using the Department of Justice, using
the FBI to attack his quote enemies cities in which
are Democrat cities in which she views the mayor of
those cities as enemies. The army goes in and the
National Guard goes in. I want you to know note
(09:03):
that there is not one Republican led city in the
United States that has a problem with crime, not one.
It's the democratic led city. So it's I mean, it's political.
I mean it's crazy stuff. Now, is that dangerous stuff? Yeah?
It is. But for me, the freedom of the press
(09:24):
is the toughest one to just stomach. I have a
real hard time when you have a White House that
goes to networks, radio and TV stations and say, if
you don't toe the line, if you don't agree not
to attack us, or if you say a B or C,
(09:46):
I'm gonna shut you down. And the FEDS have the
ability because the Feds, the government controls the airwaves through
the FCC. Can the White House just shut down a
network like Brendan Carr, the head of the SEC, has threatened. Yeah,
(10:11):
it's amazing the power the federal government has. And it's
amazing the power this president has. And he's stretching the
envelope I've said, and it's amazing the latitude that Congress
is giving him. As Johnson said, Mike Johnson, our job
here in Congress is to further the agenda of the president.
That's it, Bill. Yeah, they can't shut down a cable station. No,
(10:35):
they can't shut down cause they shut down a network.
They could only shut down the local entities that they
can show. But they can shut down a network by
shutting down the airwaves from that network. So everybody would
have to switch to cable. The entire industry would have
to switch to cable, and the airwaves would just be done.
(10:55):
For example, let's say that iHeart has eight hundred radio
stations and someone there because of high profile, I mean,
you know, I'm way under the radar. But if I
were a national figure, I think I'd be looking iHeart
would be looking at some issues. Look what happened to ABC.
Look what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. Look what happened. Look
(11:18):
what happened Well after a few days, but that was
the threat, see the problem after a few days. But
here's what Brendan Carr said, the head of the SCC says,
this is just the start we are going to. Now
can you imagine.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Why I stood with Jimmy Kimmel. But I understand went
off the air and lost all of our signals. You
could still listen to us in iHeartRadio on the app
anywhere in the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Okay, so let's say this. Now you have Congress passing
a law that says we will control cable. Oh can
that be done? Yes, Congress would vote that in because
the President called for hypotheticals. Yeah, well that's so much hypothetic.
Look what the power of the president has. Look what
happened in Texas where they redistricted, where they changed the
(12:07):
districting and added five basically added five Republican seats. You
know who said that. The President told the legislature, this
is what I want you to do. And now we're
having an extremely expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
A ballot for November coming up that going against the
Constitution of the California to overturn what people have already
voted afore so right, But.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
We do that all the time. We do that all
the time. You know, the Constitution California is five hundred pages.
We tights do it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They're both discussing, and they both they're side to win
at all costs.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I am not arguing that. All I'm saying is the
President called for Texas to do this. Texas would not
have done this without the President saying do this. The
President can tell me that because it was because it
was done on I was done on the urging actually
(13:11):
the demand of the president.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So maybe it was, But how can you say that
it wouldn't have been done without.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I don't think it would have been done first time.
I don't think it would did it for the dam
I don't think it. I don't think it would have
been done. But that's not the point here. You and
I can argue this all day long. The point is
can the president shut down networks?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I did? Well, what is the deal in terms of
freedom of the press? How about the lawsuits? I have
a real problem with the President suing CBS because during
a sixty minute speech they made Kamala Harris look good
and somehow that attacks America. CBS caved, caved and gave
(13:54):
him sixteen million dollars, where every constitutional expert said, are
you crazy? A lawsuit based on that? How about against Paramount?
How about against ABC? It's a real problem. How about
Pete Hegseth telling the Pentagon Press Corps you print what
I tell you to print, or I'm yanking your conventionals
(14:16):
from the Pentagon. By the way, all the majors walked out,
even not only Fox but Newsmax told them to go
pound sand turned in their credentials and walked out. There
is a genuine attack on the media, There's no question
about it. And that part is scary for me. I
have a tough time with I mean, there's a lot
(14:36):
of stuff that's scary anyway. You know how I feel,
and I've made it very clear I have a problem
with the way, for example, the illegal undocumented people are
picked up. Christinoum just said again press conference this morning,
we're only going after the worst of the worst, the
worst that work at car washes, the worst that work
(14:59):
in the field. Those are the worst of the worst.
And they keep on doing that. There's video of hundreds
of people being picked up. They're the worst of the worst.
I mean, come on, guys, really, So in my case,
I was up there, and I want to make a
point about the political fallout on this one. These demonstrations
(15:20):
were very fun. I mean they had a point, there's
no question. But there was a lot of frivolity there.
There was a lot of just chanting, and the signs
were hilarious, and there were costumes and I looked around
and there's a picture of me next to some people
in shark outfits. They just fun stuff. And here's where
I think the Republicans, even the President, blew it. And
(15:43):
that is to say this is not representative America. Of
course it is. You know, just like people who tell
me President Trump is not my president, Yes he is.
What are you talking about? You may not like it,
you may disagree, but of course he's your president. The
man not only when the electoral college, which I have
issues with, but he won the popular vote. How could
(16:05):
he not be your president. The point is that either
side they hate each other so much. The President said,
there were very few people there to see the pictures
and they're not representative America. And these were all placards,
and you've got Mike Johnson saying this was hate America,
(16:26):
and the word trader was being thrown about. I mean,
you know, we're not Can we not demonstrate if we
are against the administration without the administration saying you are
a bunch of traders? Have we reached that point? Yes,
we have. We've reached that point. And it's very scary stuff.
(16:47):
And I was there for a couple of hours in
Dana Point and there were I think six people that
were pro Trump that we're going down. We're all on
three corners and were driving up and down. And so
one guy with his pickup truck had the big truck
Trump twenty twenty flag in an American flag, and then
(17:10):
there was one guy with a Confederate flag and as
he was going no one bowed him. No one bowed.
They're all waving and saying we love you too. I mean,
it was terrific. It really was. Some people were driving
by and they were putting thumbs down, and then you
had hundreds of people going thumbs up, have a good day.
(17:32):
It was not only was it peaceful, it was fun.
And this is, as Neil pointed out, this is America
at its greatest, genuine protests. There were police there, not
an insane amount of police there, but there were police,
and people were honking the horns as everybody passed on
(17:53):
the street corners hanking horns and putting their thumbs in
the air and waving. And in the middle of it
there was in some kind of emergency. Were a fire
truck and an ambulance I had there were blaring, uh
the the sirens and their horns, and everybody thought they
were screaming in favor of the protests. We even have
(18:15):
the fire department, uh is honking their horns and their sirens.
Yay yay. And I had to point out to a
couple of people, you know, it's probably an emergency, don't.
I don't think they're making a political statement, just saying I.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Will tell you the Internet and protests show you that
some of the best writers on the planet are just
average people. The oh come on, yeah, I saw someone
in a woman in an Indiana Jones costume that said
I hate Nazis on her sign.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, some signs said no on the turd Reich. Uh.
There were just fun fun stuff that's had to do
is put a picture up there. So anyway, the protests
were there, and what makes them again, what makes America
great is I was attacked vilified by KFI listeners at
the same time. Good for you, Bill, good for you,
(19:14):
and it was it was kind of neat, except those
people that were attacking me. You're fired. You cannot listen
to this radio station anymore. The San Franco Valley, I've
lived in the valley most of my life. Burbank Studios,
we're in the San Frano Valley. San Frano Valley is
a storied area, just so many films because so many
studios are here, movie after movie and TV show after
(19:38):
TV show. I mean, you know about Valley Girls. There
is not a film out there named Peoria Girls. It
just doesn't exist. And so the valley is sort of
this city within a city. I mean, it has a
couple of million people in it, so it's still a
major city, and it just has this reputation of being
(20:01):
sort of less than it's the outskirts. It has a
horrible reputation, Oh, you live in the valley. Yeah, we
live in the valley and it's tubular. Man. It's just
a place on its own. Derided for years because post
World War Two, the valley was the poster child of
(20:23):
servicemen coming in because as they were shipped overseas, they
came to Los Angeles the valley you could buy property
for next to nothing, and it just became You had
the many mini malls, you had the sprawling area with
the large parking lots, and it became its own country,
if you will. My parents bought their first house in
(20:47):
the valley. It was in North Hollywood and this was
the late fifties, and I'll never forget they paid nineteen
five hundred dollars for the house, which at that time,
I mean, it was still you know, for a house,
but it was so far cheaper than any place else
and so I don't understand it. Well, you have Van
Eys Boulevard right going down the middle of the valley
(21:10):
where people used to cruise. Uh, and that became movie
after movie. That became the cruising scene of southern California
where people were, Okay, I'll never forget that. I used
to cruise down there, and it was it was the
guys in the guys in the convertibles, and I would
go down there and do what guys did, I go, baby, baby, baby,
(21:34):
let's get together the baby baby. And it didn't work.
None of that worked. It was not impressive. That sounds
pretty good to me. Yeah, no, it was great, but
it was just the valley such today it's nothing like
it was. But and it became for some reason, this
horrible reputations at the pace you don't want to go
to less than people on the West Side. They don't
(21:56):
go to the valley. It's another country for them, even
though it's an eight mile ride up over the hill
or five miles. It's another country. Uh. It's literally like
going to a third world country.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But wasn't it like the epitome of suburban life.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, it was like all the malls, all of it,
all of it. It was the all of it, all
of it. It should it should be not only recognized
for what it did, but should be celebrated valley girls.
It's it's good. It's a good thing. I grew up there.
Of course, I got out of there as quickly as
I could. But I love the valley. Okay, that's it.
(22:39):
I just wanted to share that story. I wanted to share.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You just wanted to dark you on. Hey, the valley
has some gorgeous areas too, it does, it does?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I mean I lived in the valley. The Persian Palace
was in the valley. I went to a great high school,
Birmingham High, which has changed a little bit. I went
to visit Birmingham High and Van Eysh a few years
later and I went with one of the school teachers
been there forever, and we're walking down the hall and
I keep in mind, for example, our stadium which at
(23:09):
one point was the best stadium in the country for
a high school stadium, with the lights and all that.
And we started and they started raising money. Dick Van
Dyke wrote the first check because his daughter was there.
The people that graduated Birmingham High are incredible, and it
went a little bit downhill. So I went there a
(23:30):
few years ago and met with one of the teachers there.
We're walking down the Hall, and all of a sudden,
on a door down the administration building, I see a
seal for the LAPD on a door, and I said,
what is this. Why would there be a seal on
that door Because this is a substation for the LAPD.
(23:52):
There are two cops assigned permanently to this high school. Oops.
Thinks things have changed. Okay, KF I am six forty.
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Monday morning,
October twentieth. Hey, and we had a great time last
Friday with Ask Handle Anything, some great questions, and we
do that at a thirty every Friday, and I get
all kinds of personal questions because people ask me all
kinds of personal questions about other hosts and about me.
(00:32):
So we started to ask Handle Anything where I answer
these humiliating to me questions every Friday. But we need
you to ask the questions. So here's how it's done.
During the course of the show during the week from
five to nine am, click on the bill Handle Show
and then click on to Well first iHeartRadio app then
the bill Handle Show. That a microphone in the upper
(00:53):
right hand corner. You click on that and you've got
fifteen seconds, give or take to ask a question. And
the I don't care about your opinion about anything that
doesn't matter to me. But the questions that humiliate me
are a lot of fun boy, Am I self loathing individual?
Don't I? I am soliciting calls and questions that embarrass me.
(01:15):
I'll tell you about you yeah, you know, I'm going
to bring that up with my shrink this week for sure. Okay,
why don't we move on? Fair enough? Interesting story about
this live fire exercise that happened at Camp Pendleton over
the weekend celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the
US Marine Corps, and that included a live simulation of
(01:37):
a beach assault by sea and air. I don't know
if you've ever seen one of those driving down the
Five on Pendleton. I've seen them twice, where the assault vehicles,
the helicopters, the amphibious, the zodiacs come aboard the ships.
I mean, it's wonderful to see. This is when you
realize this is America killing people at his best. Just
(01:59):
it's fantastic, and we have to have a defence. So
there's no issue there. So here's what happened. The plan
involved marines firing high explosive rounds over the freeway. Now,
federal officials said it's going to be done with all
safety precautions in place, and no public highways would be closed.
California official says, live rounds over Interstate five, we don't
(02:24):
think so. So on Friday night, the Marines did a
test run without notifying the state and fire artillery rounds
over five. So early Saturday morning, Gavin Newsom announces the
closure of Interstate five, a seventeen mile stretch north of
San Clemente, south of San Clementy, north of otion Side.
(02:45):
About fifteen thousand people attended the event, including a speech
by the Vice President. And so, now was there damage done?
You bet the fear that one of these shelves would
hit a car or people there, Well, it panned out.
A cruiser parked on an on ramp on five was
(03:05):
hit by falling shrapnel after an artillery shell exploded early
right over the freeway. And first of all, and I'll
tell you about that, because it was a scratch on
the car, And so a very big deal was made
about that. A report was circulated that the White House
intended to shut down five because they planned to shoot
(03:26):
missiles from Navy warships onto Camp Pendleton. Camp Pendleton is enormous,
and along the beach where they do these amphibious landings.
Literally the five is a few hundred yards from that
beach and great fun. So Wednesday night, the Marine Corps
posts a statement on X it's going to hold the
(03:47):
live fire demonstration on Saturday, and there will be no closures,
no public highways or transportation routes. All training events will
occur on approved training ranges read the five Freeway and
with established safety protocols. Now, the Marine Corps said, we're
not going to fire anything from Navy ship to shore.
(04:07):
It's only the firing of high explosive rounds from howitzers
artillery shells into designated ranges. Fair enough, Okay, Now howitzer
has a range of fifteen to twenty five miles. This
is what the Ukraine is using, or Ukraine is using
for the most part to fight Russia. Our arms. So
(04:30):
that afternoon, the federal government directed the cancellation of Amtrak
and Metrolink service. Ooh, does that tell you something? A
sure told news some something. So officials observed. State officials
that shells were launched over Interstate five from the beach.
(04:51):
So howitzers are set up off of ships and then
they're landed, they go over the five into the range
and then there's a huge acreage there. The state also
received a request from event organizers and said that electronic
bulletin boards along Interstate five people should be worn and
they were live weapons. Over over the what is it
(05:15):
live weapons over freeway was the exact Wordage Border patrols
at California Highway Patrol said, we didn't know about this.
So Newsom's office and Caltrans they closed the five Freeway.
Now the closure was very brief, but at jam freeways,
stretching travel time between LA to San Diego an hour longer.
(05:37):
Instead of two hours, it was three hours. And the
White House criticized Newsom for closing the five Freeway. And
I want to make a point whenever the federal government
does anything in terms of holding up traffic, it is
a disaster. It is a shanda. There is very little
worse in terms of traffic than the vice president, the
(05:59):
president for two picularly President flies in to usually if
the Air Force won the Imperial Terminal, the Southwest, the
most southern part of Lax air Force one comes in there.
The entire west side is shut down. I don't know
if you've ever been around when the president or any
major event happens. This is when we should secede as
(06:24):
a government California, and we should not let the Feds
come in. But anyway, so it turned out to be
a real mix up between the state and the FEDS,
fifteen thousand people, a lot of raw, raw military exercises,
and a shell exploding over the five Freeway which caused
virtually no damage. A big story was the protest, the
(06:47):
no Kings protest, which true, I don't know, maybe seven
million people, right is the number that's being thrown at us.
Don't know the figure yet, hasn't really been confirmed one
way or the other. But I was there and if
you go to our Instagram page at bill Handle Show,
(07:08):
you will see me there on the corner with Lindsay
and a huge, well big protest sign, and my sign
was freedom of the press. Everybody else was sort of
no Kings and very clever stuff that was done. And
it was a party atmosphere. People were worrying costumes, there
was It was just a fun atmosphere. Even though it
(07:30):
was a very political statement, it was just kind of
neat And so of course I was immediately attacked by
people on Instagram, and I was also given kudos for
being there at the protests. So why was I there
having never ever been to a protest and I probably
would never would. Well, my issue was freedom of the press,
(07:55):
my personal issue, because you know, I'm part of the press.
We theoretically are part of the press, but we're involved
in the news business here, and I kind of like
the ability to say whatever the hell I want to say.
And to the credit of management, I Heeart and the
people before that owned the station group that was Cox.
Never once in the history of the broad my broadcasting
(08:19):
in radio, have I ever been told what to say
and what not to say. However, I have a lot
of issue with President Trump, as you know. I give
him credit where credit is due, and he deserves credit
in many ways, but I'm not particularly thrilled with the
way he's running the presidency, the retribution against his perceived
(08:42):
and real enemies, but using the Department of Justice, using
the FBI to attack his quote enemies cities in which
are Democrat cities in which she views the mayor of
those cities as enemies. The army goes in and the
National Guard goes in. I want you to know note
(09:03):
that there is not one Republican led city in the
United States that has a problem with crime, not one.
It's the democratic led city. So it's I mean, it's political.
I mean it's crazy stuff. Now, is that dangerous stuff? Yeah?
It is. But for me, the freedom of the press
(09:24):
is the toughest one to just stomach. I have a
real hard time when you have a White House that
goes to networks, radio and TV stations and say, if
you don't toe the line, if you don't agree not
to attack us, or if you say a B or C,
(09:46):
I'm gonna shut you down. And the FEDS have the
ability because the Feds, the government controls the airwaves through
the FCC. Can the White House just shut down a
network like Brendan Carr, the head of the SEC, has threatened. Yeah,
(10:11):
it's amazing the power the federal government has. And it's
amazing the power this president has. And he's stretching the
envelope I've said, and it's amazing the latitude that Congress
is giving him. As Johnson said, Mike Johnson, our job
here in Congress is to further the agenda of the president.
That's it, Bill. Yeah, they can't shut down a cable station. No,
(10:35):
they can't shut down cause they shut down a network.
They could only shut down the local entities that they
can show. But they can shut down a network by
shutting down the airwaves from that network. So everybody would
have to switch to cable. The entire industry would have
to switch to cable, and the airwaves would just be done.
(10:55):
For example, let's say that iHeart has eight hundred radio
stations and someone there because of high profile, I mean,
you know, I'm way under the radar. But if I
were a national figure, I think I'd be looking iHeart
would be looking at some issues. Look what happened to ABC.
Look what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. Look what happened. Look
(11:18):
what happened Well after a few days, but that was
the threat, see the problem after a few days. But
here's what Brendan Carr said, the head of the SCC says,
this is just the start we are going to. Now
can you imagine.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Why I stood with Jimmy Kimmel. But I understand went
off the air and lost all of our signals. You
could still listen to us in iHeartRadio on the app
anywhere in the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Okay, so let's say this. Now you have Congress passing
a law that says we will control cable. Oh can
that be done? Yes, Congress would vote that in because
the President called for hypotheticals. Yeah, well that's so much hypothetic.
Look what the power of the president has. Look what
happened in Texas where they redistricted, where they changed the
(12:07):
districting and added five basically added five Republican seats. You
know who said that. The President told the legislature, this
is what I want you to do. And now we're
having an extremely expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
A ballot for November coming up that going against the
Constitution of the California to overturn what people have already
voted afore so right, But.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
We do that all the time. We do that all
the time. You know, the Constitution California is five hundred pages.
We tights do it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They're both discussing, and they both they're side to win
at all costs.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I am not arguing that. All I'm saying is the
President called for Texas to do this. Texas would not
have done this without the President saying do this. The
President can tell me that because it was because it
was done on I was done on the urging actually
(13:11):
the demand of the president.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So maybe it was, But how can you say that
it wouldn't have been done without.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I don't think it would have been done first time.
I don't think it would did it for the dam
I don't think it. I don't think it would have
been done. But that's not the point here. You and
I can argue this all day long. The point is
can the president shut down networks?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I did? Well, what is the deal in terms of
freedom of the press? How about the lawsuits? I have
a real problem with the President suing CBS because during
a sixty minute speech they made Kamala Harris look good
and somehow that attacks America. CBS caved, caved and gave
(13:54):
him sixteen million dollars, where every constitutional expert said, are
you crazy? A lawsuit based on that? How about against Paramount?
How about against ABC? It's a real problem. How about
Pete Hegseth telling the Pentagon Press Corps you print what
I tell you to print, or I'm yanking your conventionals
(14:16):
from the Pentagon. By the way, all the majors walked out,
even not only Fox but Newsmax told them to go
pound sand turned in their credentials and walked out. There
is a genuine attack on the media, There's no question
about it. And that part is scary for me. I
have a tough time with I mean, there's a lot
(14:36):
of stuff that's scary anyway. You know how I feel,
and I've made it very clear I have a problem
with the way, for example, the illegal undocumented people are
picked up. Christinoum just said again press conference this morning,
we're only going after the worst of the worst, the
worst that work at car washes, the worst that work
(14:59):
in the field. Those are the worst of the worst.
And they keep on doing that. There's video of hundreds
of people being picked up. They're the worst of the worst.
I mean, come on, guys, really, So in my case,
I was up there, and I want to make a
point about the political fallout on this one. These demonstrations
(15:20):
were very fun. I mean they had a point, there's
no question. But there was a lot of frivolity there.
There was a lot of just chanting, and the signs
were hilarious, and there were costumes and I looked around
and there's a picture of me next to some people
in shark outfits. They just fun stuff. And here's where
I think the Republicans, even the President, blew it. And
(15:43):
that is to say this is not representative America. Of
course it is. You know, just like people who tell
me President Trump is not my president, Yes he is.
What are you talking about? You may not like it,
you may disagree, but of course he's your president. The
man not only when the electoral college, which I have
issues with, but he won the popular vote. How could
(16:05):
he not be your president. The point is that either
side they hate each other so much. The President said,
there were very few people there to see the pictures
and they're not representative America. And these were all placards,
and you've got Mike Johnson saying this was hate America,
(16:26):
and the word trader was being thrown about. I mean,
you know, we're not Can we not demonstrate if we
are against the administration without the administration saying you are
a bunch of traders? Have we reached that point? Yes,
we have. We've reached that point. And it's very scary stuff.
(16:47):
And I was there for a couple of hours in
Dana Point and there were I think six people that
were pro Trump that we're going down. We're all on
three corners and were driving up and down. And so
one guy with his pickup truck had the big truck
Trump twenty twenty flag in an American flag, and then
(17:10):
there was one guy with a Confederate flag and as
he was going no one bowed him. No one bowed.
They're all waving and saying we love you too. I mean,
it was terrific. It really was. Some people were driving
by and they were putting thumbs down, and then you
had hundreds of people going thumbs up, have a good day.
(17:32):
It was not only was it peaceful, it was fun.
And this is, as Neil pointed out, this is America
at its greatest, genuine protests. There were police there, not
an insane amount of police there, but there were police,
and people were honking the horns as everybody passed on
(17:53):
the street corners hanking horns and putting their thumbs in
the air and waving. And in the middle of it
there was in some kind of emergency. Were a fire
truck and an ambulance I had there were blaring, uh
the the sirens and their horns, and everybody thought they
were screaming in favor of the protests. We even have
(18:15):
the fire department, uh is honking their horns and their sirens.
Yay yay. And I had to point out to a
couple of people, you know, it's probably an emergency, don't.
I don't think they're making a political statement, just saying I.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Will tell you the Internet and protests show you that
some of the best writers on the planet are just
average people. The oh come on, yeah, I saw someone
in a woman in an Indiana Jones costume that said
I hate Nazis on her sign.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, some signs said no on the turd Reich. Uh.
There were just fun fun stuff that's had to do
is put a picture up there. So anyway, the protests
were there, and what makes them again, what makes America
great is I was attacked vilified by KFI listeners at
the same time. Good for you, Bill, good for you,
(19:14):
and it was it was kind of neat, except those
people that were attacking me. You're fired. You cannot listen
to this radio station anymore. The San Franco Valley, I've
lived in the valley most of my life. Burbank Studios,
we're in the San Frano Valley. San Frano Valley is
a storied area, just so many films because so many
studios are here, movie after movie and TV show after
(19:38):
TV show. I mean, you know about Valley Girls. There
is not a film out there named Peoria Girls. It
just doesn't exist. And so the valley is sort of
this city within a city. I mean, it has a
couple of million people in it, so it's still a
major city, and it just has this reputation of being
(20:01):
sort of less than it's the outskirts. It has a
horrible reputation, Oh, you live in the valley. Yeah, we
live in the valley and it's tubular. Man. It's just
a place on its own. Derided for years because post
World War Two, the valley was the poster child of
(20:23):
servicemen coming in because as they were shipped overseas, they
came to Los Angeles the valley you could buy property
for next to nothing, and it just became You had
the many mini malls, you had the sprawling area with
the large parking lots, and it became its own country,
if you will. My parents bought their first house in
(20:47):
the valley. It was in North Hollywood and this was
the late fifties, and I'll never forget they paid nineteen
five hundred dollars for the house, which at that time,
I mean, it was still you know, for a house,
but it was so far cheaper than any place else
and so I don't understand it. Well, you have Van
Eys Boulevard right going down the middle of the valley
(21:10):
where people used to cruise. Uh, and that became movie
after movie. That became the cruising scene of southern California
where people were, Okay, I'll never forget that. I used
to cruise down there, and it was it was the
guys in the guys in the convertibles, and I would
go down there and do what guys did, I go, baby, baby, baby,
(21:34):
let's get together the baby baby. And it didn't work.
None of that worked. It was not impressive. That sounds
pretty good to me. Yeah, no, it was great, but
it was just the valley such today it's nothing like
it was. But and it became for some reason, this
horrible reputations at the pace you don't want to go
to less than people on the West Side. They don't
(21:56):
go to the valley. It's another country for them, even
though it's an eight mile ride up over the hill
or five miles. It's another country. Uh. It's literally like
going to a third world country.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But wasn't it like the epitome of suburban life.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, it was like all the malls, all of it,
all of it. It was the all of it, all
of it. It should it should be not only recognized
for what it did, but should be celebrated valley girls.
It's it's good. It's a good thing. I grew up there.
Of course, I got out of there as quickly as
I could. But I love the valley. Okay, that's it.
(22:39):
I just wanted to share that story. I wanted to share.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You just wanted to dark you on. Hey, the valley
has some gorgeous areas too, it does, it does?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I mean I lived in the valley. The Persian Palace
was in the valley. I went to a great high school,
Birmingham High, which has changed a little bit. I went
to visit Birmingham High and Van Eysh a few years
later and I went with one of the school teachers
been there forever, and we're walking down the hall and
I keep in mind, for example, our stadium which at
(23:09):
one point was the best stadium in the country for
a high school stadium, with the lights and all that.
And we started and they started raising money. Dick Van
Dyke wrote the first check because his daughter was there.
The people that graduated Birmingham High are incredible, and it
went a little bit downhill. So I went there a
(23:30):
few years ago and met with one of the teachers there.
We're walking down the Hall, and all of a sudden,
on a door down the administration building, I see a
seal for the LAPD on a door, and I said,
what is this. Why would there be a seal on
that door Because this is a substation for the LAPD.
(23:52):
There are two cops assigned permanently to this high school. Oops.
Thinks things have changed. Okay, KF I am six forty.
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