WEBVTT - Marines Fire Live Artillery Over I-5 | Why Does Everyone Hate the Valley in L.A? 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.800 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:16.880 six FORTYFI. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:16.120 AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Monday morning, 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.639 October twentieth. Hey, and we had a great time last 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.720 Friday with Ask Handle Anything, some great questions, and we 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.720 do that at a thirty every Friday, and I get 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.040 all kinds of personal questions because people ask me all 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.680 kinds of personal questions about other hosts and about me. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.879 So we started Ask Handle Anything where I answer these 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.879 humiliating to me questions every Friday. But we need you 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.520 to ask the questions. So here's how it's done. 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Yeah, you know, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.959 I'm going to bring that up with my shrink this 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.640 week for sure. Okay, why don't we move on? Fair enough? 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.800 Interesting story about this live fire exercise that happened at 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.640 Camp Pendleton over the weekend celebrating two hundred and fifty 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.120 years of the US Marine Corps, and that included a 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.280 live simulation of a beach assault by sea and air. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:40.959 I don't know if you've ever seen one of those 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.040 driving down the Five on Pendleton. I've seen them twice, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.880 where the assault vehicles, the helicopters, the amphibious, the zodiacs 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:50.919 come aboard the ships. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.280 I mean, it's wonderful to see. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.080 This is when you realize this is America killing people 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.600 at his best. Just it's fantastic, and we have to 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.240 have a defence. So there's no issue there. So here's 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:09.400 what happened. The plan involved Marines firing high explosive rounds 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.320 over the freeway. Now, federal officials said it's going to 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.160 be done with all safety precautions in place, and no 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:21.639 public highways would be closed. California official says, live rounds 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.519 over Interstate five, we don't think so. So on Friday night, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.680 the Marines did a test run without notifying the state 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:35.200 and fire artillery rounds over I five. So early Saturday morning, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.919 Gavin Newsom announces the closure of Interstate five, a seventeen 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.360 mile stretch north of San Clemente, south of San Clementy, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.480 north of otion Side. About fifteen thousand people attended the event, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.400 including a speech by the Vice President. And so, now 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.040 was there damage done? You bet the fear that one 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.280 of these shelves would hit a car or people there, Well, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.120 it panned out. A cruiser park on an on ramp 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.520 on five was hit by falling shrapnel after an artillery 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:13.920 shell exploded early right over the freeway. And first of all, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.400 and I'll tell you about that, because it was a 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.000 scratch on the car, And so a very big deal 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.320 was made about that. A report was circulated that the 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.359 White House intended to shut down five because they planned 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:31.200 to shoot missiles from Navy warships onto Camp Pendleton. Camp 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.520 Pendleton is enormous and along the beach where they do 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.960 these amphibious landings. Literally the five is a few hundred 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:44.440 yards from that beach and great fun. So Wednesday night, 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.280 the Marine Corps posts a statement on X it's going 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.520 to hold a live fire demonstration on Saturday, and there 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.600 will be no closures, no public highways or transportation routes. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.680 All training events will occur on approved. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:03.560 Training ranges read the five Freeway and with established safety protocols. Now, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.520 the Marine Corps said, we're not going to fire anything 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.320 from Navy ship to shore. It's only the firing of 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:15.680 high explosive rounds from howitzers artillery shells into designated ranges. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.040 Fair enough, Okay, Now howitzer has a range of fifteen 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.880 to twenty five miles. This is what the Ukraine is using, 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.440 or Ukraine is using for the most part to fight Russia. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.000 Our arms. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.760 So that afternoon, the federal government directed the cancellation of 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.560 Amtrak and Metrolink service. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.599 Oooh, does that tell you something? I sure told news 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.120 some something. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:48.720 So officials observed State officials that shells were launched over 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.880 Interstate five from the beach. So howitzers are set up 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.120 off of ships and then they're landed, they go over 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.680 the five into the range and then there's a huge 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.599 acreage there. The state also received a request from event 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:08.559 organizers and said that electronic bulletin boards along Interstate five 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.400 people should be worn and they were live weapons. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.040 Over over the what is it. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.880 Live weapons over freeway was the exact Wordage Border patrols 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.360 at California Highway Patrol said, we didn't know about this. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:30.040 So Newsom's office and Coltrans they closed the five Freeway. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.960 Now the closure was very brief, but at jam freeways, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.440 stretching travel time between LA to San Diego an hour longer. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.360 Instead of two hours, it was three hours. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.919 And the White House criticized Newsom for closing the five Freeway. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.280 And I want to make a point whenever the federal 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.839 government does anything in terms of holding up traffic, it 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:52.839 is a disaster. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:53.960 It is a shanda. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.240 There is very little worse in terms of traffic than 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.040 the vice president the president per twoicularly, president flies in 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.479 to usually if the Air Force won the Imperial Terminal, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:10.239 the Southwest, the most southern part of Lax Air Force 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.240 one comes in there. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.559 The entire west side is shut down. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.360 I don't know if you've ever been around when the 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.919 president or any major event happens. This is when we 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:27.320 should secede as a government California, and we should not 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.800 let the Feds come in. But anyway, so it turned 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.440 out to be a real mix up between the state 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.920 and the Feds, fifteen thousand people, a lot of raw, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.600 raw military exercises. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.880 And a shell exploding over the five Freeway which caused 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.000 virtually no damage. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.920 A big story was the protest, the no Kings protest, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.560 which true, I don't know, maybe seven million people, right 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.839 is the number that's being thrown at us. Don't know 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.560 the figure yet, hasn't really been confirmed one way or 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.560 the other. But I was there and if you go 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.000 to our Instagram page at Bill Handle Show, you will 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.720 see me there on the corner with Lindsay and a 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.760 huge sigh, well big protest sign, and my sign was 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.240 freedom of the press. Everybody else was sort of no 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:22.400 Kings and very clever stuff that was done. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:23.840 And it was a party atmosphere. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:28.000 People were worrying costumes, there was It was just a 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:32.200 fun atmosphere, even though it was a very political statement, 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.559 it was just kind of neat And so of course 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.760 I was immediately attacked by people on Instagram, and I 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.600 was also given kudos for being there at the protests. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.720 So why was I there having never ever been to 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.240 a protest and I probably would never would. Well, my 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:57.400 issue was freedom of the press, my personal issue, because 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.960 you know, I'm part of the press. We theoretically are 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.680 part of the press, but we're involved in the news 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.720 business here, and I kind of like the ability to 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.200 say whatever the hell I want to say. And to 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.680 the credit of management, I Heeart and the people before 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.720 that owned the station group that was Cox. Never once 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.720 in the history of the broad my broadcasting in radio, 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.840 have I ever been told what to say and what 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:30.239 not to say. However, I have a lot of issue 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.480 with President Trump, as you know. I give him credit 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.000 where credit is due, and he deserves credit in many ways, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.319 but I'm not particularly thrilled with the way he's running 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:43.520 the presidency, the retribution against his perceived and real enemies, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:48.120 but using the Department of Justice, using the FBI to 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:54.480 attack his quote enemies cities in which are Democrat cities 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.240 in which she views the mayor of those cities as enemies. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.520 The army goes in and the National Guard goes in. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.880 I want you to note that there is not one 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.640 Republican led city in the United States that has a 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:12.679 problem with crime, not one. It's the democratic led city. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.559 So it's I mean, it's political. I mean it's crazy stuff. Now, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.040 is that dangerous stuff? 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.079 Yeah? It is. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.600 But for me, the freedom of the press is the 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:31.320 toughest one to just stomach. I have a real hard 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.640 time when you have a White House that goes to networks, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.080 radio and TV stations and say, if you don't toe 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.559 the line, if you don't agree not to attack us, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.440 or if you say a B or C, I'm gonna 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.840 shut you down. And the FEDS have the ability because 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.760 the Feds, the government controls the airwaves through the FCC. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.640 Can the White House just shut down a network like 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:11.199 Brendan Carr, the head of the SEC, has threatened. Yeah, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.680 it's amazing the power the federal government has. And it's 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.679 amazing the power this president has. And he's stretching the 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:21.840 envelope I've said, and it's amazing the latitude that Congress 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.480 is giving him. As Johnson said, Mike Johnson, our job 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.199 here in Congress is to further. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.480 The agenda of the president. That's it, Bill. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:35.800 Yeah, they can't shut down a cable station. No, they 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.640 can't shut down cable They. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.240 Shut down a network. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.319 They could only shut down the local entities that. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:42.280 They can show. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.559 But they can shut down a network by shutting down 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.400 the airwaves from that network. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.880 So everybody would have to switch to cable. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.120 The entire industry would have to switch to cable, and 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.600 the airwaves would just be done. For example, let's say 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:03.120 that iHeart has eight hundred radio stations and someone there 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.520 because of high profile. I mean, you know, I'm way 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.360 under the radar. But if I were a national figure, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.440 I think I'd be looking iHeart would be looking at 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.120 some issues. Look what happened to ABC. Look what happened 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:15.880 to Jimmy Kimmel. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:17.400 Look what happened. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.160 Look what happened Well after a few days, but that 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:21.319 was the threat, see. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.559 The problem after a few days. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.480 But here's what Brendan Carr said, the head of the 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.200 SCC says, this is just the. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.480 Start we are going to now. Can you imagine? 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.160 That's why I stood with Jimmy Kimmel. But I understand 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.760 went off the air had lost all of our signals. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.880 You could still listen to us in iHeart Radio on 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.400 the app anywhere in the United States. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.679 Okay, so let's say this. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.880 Now, you have Congress passing a law that says we 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.440 will control cable. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.040 Can that be done? 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.520 Yes, Congress would vote that in because the. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.760 President called for hypotheticals. Yeah, well that's how MU hypothetic. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.480 Look at the power of the president has Look what 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:07.800 happened in Texas where they redistricted, where they changed the 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.800 districting and added five basically added five Republican seats. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:13.800 You know who said that. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.239 The President told the legislature, this is what I want. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:18.640 You to do. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:26.040 And now we're having an extremely expensive ballot for November 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:32.480 coming up that going against the Constitution of the California 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:38.000 to overturn what people have already voted afore. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.320 So right, but we do that all the time. We 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.760 do that all the time. You know, the Constitution California 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.040 is five hundred pages. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.000 We tights do it. They're both discussing, and they both 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.320 their side to win at all costs. I am not 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:50.280 arguing that. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:55.520 All I'm saying is the President called for Texas to 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.120 do this. Texas would not have done this without the 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.520 President saying do this. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:07.200 The President can tell me that because it was because it. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.440 Was done on I was done on the urging actually 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.520 the demand of the president. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.920 So maybe it was, But how can you say that 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.959 it wouldn't have been done without I don't think it. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.880 Would have been done first time. I don't think it 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.880 would have did it for the day I don't think it. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.400 I don't think it would have been done. But that's 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.080 not the point here. You and I can argue this 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.560 all day long. The point is can the president shut 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:28.679 down networks? 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.760 Yes? I did? 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.400 Well, what is the deal in terms of freedom of 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.280 the press? How about the lawsuits? 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.120 I have a real problem with the President suing CBS 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.320 because during a sixty minute speech they made Kamala Harris 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.280 look good and. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:54.160 Somehow that attacks America. CBS caved, caved and gave him 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.160 sixteen million dollars, where every constitutional expert said, are you 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.199 crazy a lawsuit based on that? How about against Paramount? 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:08.200 How about against ABC? It's a real problem. How about 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.760 Pete Hegseth telling the Pentagon Press Corps, you print what 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.640 I tell you to print, or I'm yanking your conventionals 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.560 from the Pentagon. By the way, all the majors walked out, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.880 even not only Fox but Newsmax told them to go 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.440 pound sand turned in their credentials and walked out. There 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.920 is a genuine attack on the media, There's no question 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:32.400 about it. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.320 And that part is scary for me. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.760 I have a tough time with I mean, there's a 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.000 lot of stuff that's scary anyway, you know how I feel, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.400 and I've made it very clear I have a problem 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:47.560 with the way, for example, the illegal undocumented people who 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.840 are picked up. Christinoum just said again press conference this morning, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.080 we're only going after the worst of the worst, the 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.160 worst that work at car washes, the worst that work 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.400 in the feet, those are the worst of the worst. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.800 And they keep on doing that. There's video of hundreds 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.520 of people being picked up. They're the worst of the worst. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.440 I mean, come on, guys, really, So in my case, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.040 I was up there, and I want to make a 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:20.480 point about the political fallout on this one. These demonstrations 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.120 were very fun. I mean they had a point, there's 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.280 no question. But there was a lot of frivolity there. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.840 There was a lot of just chanting, and the signs 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.840 were hilarious, and there were costumes and I looked around 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.840 and there's a picture of me next to some people 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:37.960 in shark outfits. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.040 They just fun stuff. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.760 And here's where I think the Republicans, even the President, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.040 blew it. And that is to say this is not 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.280 representative America. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:47.080 Of course it is. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.560 You know, just like people who tell me President Trump 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.280 is not my president, Yes he is. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.320 What are you talking about. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.160 You may not like it, you may disagree, but of 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.640 course he's your president. The man not only when the 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.080 electoral college, which I have issues with, but. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.320 He won the popular vote. How could he not be 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:07.120 your president. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.840 The point is that either side they hate each other 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.400 so much. The President said there were very few people 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.640 there to see the pictures and they're not representative America. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.760 And these were all placards, and you've got. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.160 Mike Johnson saying this was hate America and the word 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.600 trader was being thrown about. I mean, you know, we're 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.640 not Can we not demonstrate if we are against the 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:40.040 administration without the administration saying you are a bunch of traders? 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.080 Have we reached that point? Yes we have. We've reached 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.160 that point. And it's very scary stuff. And I was 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.880 there for a couple of hours in Dana Point and 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.400 there were I think six people that were pro Trump 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.240 that we're going down. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.960 We're all on three corners and were driving up and down. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.800 And so one guy with his pickup truck had the 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.840 big truck Trump twenty twenty flag in an American flag, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.720 and then there was one guy with a Confederate flag 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.480 and as he was. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.480 Going no one bowed him. No one bowed. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.920 They were all waving and saying we love you too. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.240 I mean it was terrific, It really was. Some people 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.240 were driving by and they were putting thumbs down, and 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.040 then you had hundreds of people going thumbs up. Have 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:35.400 a good day. It was not only was it peaceful, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.720 it was fun. And this is, as Neil pointed out, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:45.120 this is America at its greatest, genuine protests. There were 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.639 police there, not an insane amount of police there, but 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.800 there were police, and people were honking the horns as 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.040 everybody passed on the three corners, hanking horns and putting 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.320 their thumbs in the air and waving. And in the 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.520 middle of it, there was in some kind of emergency 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:06.680 were a fire truck and an ambulance had there were blaring, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.359 uh the the sirens and their horns, and everybody thought 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:15.360 they were screaming in favor of the protests. We even 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.720 have the fire department uh is honking their horns. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.040 And their sirens. Yeay yay. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.000 And I had to point out to a couple of people, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.160 you know, it's probably an emergency. I don't think they're 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.600 making a political statement, just saying I. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.080 Will tell you the Internet and protests show you that 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.199 some of the best writers on the planet are just 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.080 average people. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.159 The oh. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.119 Yeah, I saw someone in a woman in an Indiana 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.520 Jones costume that said I hate Nazis on her sign. 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.639 Yeah, some signs said no on the turd Reich. Uh. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:00.320 There were just fun fun stuff that's had to do 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.840 is put a picture up there. So anyway, the protests 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.840 were there, and what makes them again, what makes America 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.360 great is I. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.880 Was attacked, vilified. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.200 By KFI listeners and at the same time, good for you, Bill, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.280 good for you, and it was it was kind of neat, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.240 except those people that were attacking me. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:19.959 You're fired. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.959 You cannot listen to this radio station anymore. The San 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.359 Frano Valley, I've lived in the valley most of my life. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.240 Bourbank Studios we're in the San Frano Valley. San Frano 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.560 Valley is a storied area, just so many films, because 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.359 so many studios are here, movie after movie and TV 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:38.720 show after TV show. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.040 I mean, you know about Valley Girls. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.040 There is not a film out there named Peoria Girls. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:50.800 It just doesn't exist. And so the valley is sort 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.479 of this city within a city. I mean, it has 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.240 a couple of million people in it, so it's still 0:19:55.280 --> 0:20:00.120 a major city, and it just has this reputation of 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.600 being sort of less than it's the outskirts. It has 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.679 a horrible reputation, Oh, you live in the valley. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:09.480 Yeah, we live in. 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:14.840 The valley and it's tubular. Man, It's just a place 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:19.920 on its own. Derided for years because post World War Two, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.920 the valley was the poster child of servicemen coming in 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.920 because as they were shipped overseas, they came to Los 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.439 Angeles the valley you could buy property for next to nothing, 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.439 and it just became You had the many mini malls, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.960 you had the sprawling area with the large parking lots, 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.800 and it became its own country. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:43.920 If you will. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:49.239 My parents bought their first house in the valley. It 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.360 was in North Hollywood and this was the late fifties, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.479 and I'll never forget they paid nineteen five hundred dollars 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:59.119 for the house, which at that time, I mean, it 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.119 was still, you know, for a house, but it was 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.320 so far cheaper than any place else and so I 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.520 don't understand it. Well, you have Van Eys Boulevard right 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.120 going down the middle of the valley where people used 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.520 to cruise. Uh, and that became movie after movie that 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:20.000 became the cruising scene of southern California where people were, Okay, 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.680 I'll never forget that. I used to cruise down there, 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.960 and it was it was the guys in the guys 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.920 in the convertibles, and I would go down there and 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.960 do what guys did, I go, baby, baby, bit baby, 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.560 let's get together their baby baby. And it didn't work. 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.000 None of that worked. It was not impressive that that 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.879 sounds pretty good to me. Yeah, no, it was great, 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.720 but it was just the valley such today it's nothing 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:48.360 like it was. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:49.520 But and it. 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.800 Became for some reason this horrible reputations that the pace 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.119 you don't want to go to less than people on 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:56.119 the West Side. 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.600 They don't go to the valley. It's another country for them. 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.399 Even though it's an eight mile ride up over the 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:04.640 hill or five miles. 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.040 It's another country. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:06.760 Uh. 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.880 It's literally like going to a third world country. 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:15.160 But wasn't it like the epitome of suburban life. Yeah, 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.480 it was like all the malls, all of it. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.800 It was the cram all of it, all of it. 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.840 It should it should be not only recognized for what 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:28.800 it did, but should be celebrated valley girls. 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.359 It's it's good. It's a good thing. I grew up there. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.239 Of course, I got out of there as quickly as 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:34.600 I could. 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:39.480 But I love the valley. Okay, that's it. I just 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:41.160 wanted to share that story. I wanted to share. 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.720 You just wanted to dark you on. Hey, the valley 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.480