people were - and it symbolized how totally uncool am radio was. >> radio announcer: the premier of theio is happening now at wor-fm, scott muni, for you. >> peter altschuler: there was no format for fm, so they created it from whole cloth. >> we'll have a lot of the features that you are going to participate with us, in, like selecting all of the new sounds which you like best. you'll hear lots of music. >> miller: you weren't going to hear album cuts on top 40 radio, for the most part. so that was the main difference, is wow, you're gonna hear cuts from albums, albums you haven't heard yet. >> ♪ wild thing i think i love you ♪ ♪ but i want to know for sure ♪ >> scott muni: corporations have to be in control, and they aren't happy unless they give you this, "here's what we're playing." >> altschuler: and they thought that doing their market research and looking at the arbitrons, that they could get higher ratings if they went to a top 40 pre-programmed format. >> murray the k: it's been a very, very groy experience here at wor-fm. tonight will be my last broadcast. >> this is going to

i am from kcbs radio. your moderator. this is part of the good lit series. now it is my pleasure to introduce our special guest today, d and alan zweibel. they need no introduction. dave barry won the pulitzer prize for his insightful and funny commons -- columns in the miami herald, which he wrote for 21 years. is the best-selling author of more than 30 bucks, none of which has won the pulitzer prize. you may remember the tv series "and dave swirled," which was about his life. fortunately for us, his wife is running a lot longer than the tv show. he has written a show with alan zweibel. please welcome dave barry and alan zweibel. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you for the fairly lengthy introduction. those are going to go first. i am dave. first of all, we're thrilled to be here at the commonwealth club. i want to tell you a little bit about myself. i live in miami. i moved there in 1986 from the united states. [laughter] one of the things i always feel like i should do is to defend my city because it had a bad reputation, a bad image. the zogby does thi

you know, i am an old radio broadcaster. disruptions aren't bad, not necessarily. but this one, i think, it has much bigger consequences as people begin to read into it. >> guest: yes, as we progress through the courts and the bureaucracy, others are talking about their signals in response how does that play into this? >> guest: i think that is part of it. someone has to pay the bill. a lot of that been going through the various financial arrangements. among the providers and their tv stations and, you know, all of those very complicated mismatched laws and rules and legacies. if that goes away and someone is taking your product and putting it up on cable for free, big ugly, then all of a sudden you probably have to look at how you change that. that is what chase carey made in his remarks. this is the point i'm making. you have everybody saying, okay, what just happened? what does that mean? does that mean that i get around this and if you are a local broadcast provider, what does that mean for you? i do not think that we know all the implications. it can be a two

i am very open on my radio show as i am here, people know about my life but i don't think there's a close second to is that. i have every dream of picket fence, not necessarily dogs, my wife has wanted dogs, i am currently married to the love of my life and she loved dogs. i like dogs, for the record. don't know. >> host: next call from dennis prager from dennis in st. louis, missouri. >> guest: i you over 50? >> caller: i am over 70. >> guest: there are no young dennises. >> caller: i am also a jewish and interested in your work for a long time not because i agree with you but because i enjoy disagreeing with you. quickly made the of already answered this, from a jewish perspective how do you explain why so many jews support a larger role for the state than you do and why so many jews are more critical of israel than you are and by criticism i don't mean supporting the palestinian cause, and then a comment, i am also a retired teacher and i thought you inflated the power -- not the power of teacher unions over bread and butter issues, but i thought you inflated the influence of teacher u

. >> like, is my hand going to, like, pretend to, like, turn the radio on, or am i just looking down and seeing the note? >> i think you're just looking down... >> okay. >> ...like you're thinking about turning on the radio. you see the note, and now you're not gonna do it. >> all right. >> what do you think? >> it's good. >> all right. >> finally, it was time to start shooting. the first shot was a bit tricky. to be able to see over the car to the message written on the driveway, the cameraman needed to be high up on a ladder. >> what you did the last time was perfect -- the way you clicked and went. >> mm-hmm. >> same thing. can you go a little faster this time -- just a little faster, not too much faster? okay, standing by. >> next. >> now we go outside, and we do the coming around the corner on the family. so, what do you think? >> i like it. >> so, we come down. grandma and grandpa are waving. good! excellent. thank you, folks. >> and the scene after that is the lemonade stand, where we're gonna have two kids. one is gonna be pouring lemonade. and the other is going to be holding

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. >> thank you so much, and i am barbara taylor with k cbs radio and thank you all for joining us. if you have comments come out to one of the mayor's budget town hall meetings or drop him at line at his email mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org. thank you. test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test okay i'd like to call this meeting to order. hello. good afternoon, everyone thank you so much for coming to disaster council but i did want to welcome a few new members we have today. so we have jean who's the gov. of the area red cross. welcome. we have mark who's our brand new city c i o (clapping) >> bob ceo of the chamber of commerce replacing steve not here yet and barbara smith interim for housing authority and bryan. sf card who's here >> mr. mayor would you like to give some remarks. >> good afternoon, everyone last me we marked the 107 everyone turned out well, but we had to move our event. we're all using this celebration to remember ourselves how important it is to be ready for disaster management and i want to thank everyone here and everything you do every single day to make sure

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>> yes, i am such a nerd that i am doing my radio show even though it is memorial day weekend. the buck sexton show on the blaze.com/radio. check it out if you want to hear me cook for three hours while cooking sausages and drinking pbr, bam, make it happen. >> listen up, america. go to red cross .org and they will tell you how to donate $10 via text and to help all of those poor people in oklahoma. do it, america. >> excellent. jedediah? >> the new and improved jedediah jedediah -- jedediah bila.com has launched. get your booty over there. >> gavin anything you want to say? >> earlier in the show the earmuffs were described as good for sound reduction and that was a myth. >> back to you greg. >> nicely done. jedediah, imogon, buck, gavin, that's it for me. i'm greg gutfeld and see you next time. w. caution. tonight: >> today, usama bin laden is dead. there have been no large scale attacks on the united states. and our homeland is more secure. >> bill: president obama trying to reassert his authority in the wake of the scandals. with a major foreign policy address. >> the decis

. >> thank you so much, and i am barbara taylor with k cbs radio and thank you all for joining us. if you have comments come out to one of the mayor's budget town hall meetings or drop him at line at his email mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org. thank you. . >> the project all started from the brain child over here, noelexsavio of the city of san francisco code enforcement department. (applause). >> early 2007 gave me a call, he said, hey, i got this funding for a really cool project, can you help me out, i don't do theater. so we got together, we put together a script and we've been touring every since. we hope it's doing some good. we hope it's changing some lives. i could go on and on and on about this but i'm not. we'll have a little q and a session after this. can you hear me? i'm an actor, i don't need this. we'll answer questions about how it got going and what it's about. the way we start this out at the schools is i come out and introduce myself, introduce the guys a little bit, these are my students at sacramento city college then kick it off, hello, local celebrity, a guy from sacr

i am a radio talk show host ready to take my show to the national syndication. >> and i'm ready to beadio industry probably can handle this guy. it's for stations that go michael savage is too reasonable and modulated. we need someone like that. >> that was also a little echoey, it sounded like he was doing it from his dining room -- >> maybe we could give him some of these things. >> stephanie: right. or maybe he'll end up in a room that already has padding. [ laughter ] >> that would help. >> stephanie: for his protection. >> a rubber spork. >> for his truth and honesty. >> stephanie: right. that took a real man to say that. so that just happened -- and it happened on my show as well. >> it did. >> stephanie: dana in maryland, hi, dana. >> caller: hi, guys good morning. hope everybody had a good weekend. >> stephanie: absolutely. >> caller: i wanted to comment on the rifle thing, and ted nugent has done that on stage before, where he brings out a rival and says about hilary where he would like to stick his gun. and i think it's sick. but the upshot is when she gets into the white ho

. >> thank you so much, and i am barbara taylor with k cbs radio and thank you all for joining us. if you have comments come out to one of the mayor's budget town hall meetings or drop him at line at his email mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org. thank you. everybody, welcome. we have a packed agenda tonight. first we want to thank the southeast community facility commission for opening their doors tonight and their executive director, moses. thank you for opening the doors tonight. we have a very, very tight agenda. the goal here is for the community to be heard. this is not a question and answer time, but the goal is for the community to be heard. when we get to public comment, and you make your statements. remember we want you to be as concise as possible, because the department heads and t here to . without further ado, i want to introduce mayor lee and he will open us up. thank you. good evening everybody. as stated eloquent ly, this is time for all of you in the community particularly focused residents of 10 and 11, to tell us in government what you feel passionate about. i want to thank

. >> thank you so much, and i am barbara taylor with k cbs radio and thank you all for joining us. if you have comments come out to one of the mayor's budget town hall meetings or drop him at line at his email mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org. thank you. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you

. >> thank you so much, and i am barbara taylor with k cbs radio and thank you all for joining us. if you have comments come out to one of the mayor's budget town hall meetings or drop him at line at his email mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org. thank you. welcome, shall, to the uss macon islands. my name is lewis loeven and i'm the executive director of the san francisco fleet week association and what a great fleet week we're going to have for 2012. thank you. this is the second time we've had the uss macon islands and i want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. what a great ship and what a great crew. they turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a conference room and it looks absolutely beautiful. thank you, captain, and your entire crew. i'm going to make this short because we're already running a little bit behind schedule, but san francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous united states military, the coast guard has be

. >> thank you so much, and i am barbara taylor with k cbs radio and thank you all for joining us. if you have comments come out to one of the mayor's budget town hall meetings or drop him at line at his

and i left work and i was driving home and i am listening to him on the radio and i hear him say, tornadoon the ground, it's heading directly toward moore. i am still on the highway at this point. i look out to the west and i can see the tornado coming at us. and -- i just hurried as fast as i could to get home. i grabbed our dogs, i literally threw them in the tornado shelter, closed the door and about 2 minutes later, i heard the tornado overhead. >> then what did you do next? what happened next? >> it was just a loud roaring sound, very similar to what i would describe as a jet engine. then it was very green and it became completely silent. the cell phone towers are down here and you can't get reception. so i couldn't find out anything. i didn't know if we were in the clear. eventually, i got out of the storm shelter and took a look around my neighborhood. right out in front of my house is just a bunch of debris, shingles, insulation, parts of other people's homes, but it didn't look that bad. you turn the corner and the homes are just wiped away, completely obliterated. >> melisa newt

and i left work and i was driving home and i am listening to him on the radio and i hear him say, tornado is on the ground, it's heading directly toward moore. i am still on the highway at this point. i look out to the west and i can see the tornado coming at us. and -- i just hurried as fast as i could to get home. i grabbed our dogs, i literally threw them in the tornado shelter, closed the door and about 2 minutes later, i heard the tornado overhead. >> then what did you do next? what happened next? >> it was just a loud roaring sound, very similar to what i would describe as a jet engine. then it was very green and it became completely silent. the cell phone towers are down here and you can't get reception. so i couldn't find out anything. i didn't know if we were in the clear. eventually, i got out of the storm shelter and took a look around my neighborhood. right out in front of my house is just a bunch of debris, shingles, insulation, parts of other people's homes, but it didn't look that bad. you turn the corner and the homes are just wiped away, completely obliterated. >> melisa

i am hearing on the radio station here from one of the local broadcasts and there are a couple of reporters from local stations who are in the area and talking with people who are still trapped under debris and have -- not to be graphic, but impaled and waiting to be helped. this is the ultimate crisis situation. we are trying to get there right now, but there are a couple of things. for one, there is a tornado dropping in front of me between me and moore. so i am trying to go in that direction, but there is another tornado that is forming here. that is making it difficult. i was in tusk ask you loose saw sh -- dash task loose saw a couple hours after that one and the an of damage it did. all of the trees are scattered all over the road. you walk down a street you recognize it because the road signs and all of the debris goes and you have no idea where a street is any longer. you have no idea any reference point. it makes it difficult for emergency officials to get in there because the roads are not even recognizable. they initially have to get in and get the roads passable so the first res

and i left work and i was driving home and i am listening to him on the radio and i hear him say, tornadohe ground, it's heading directly toward moore. i am still on the highway at this point. i look out to the west and i can see the tornado coming at us. and -- i just hurried as fast as i could to get home. i grabbed our dogs, i literally threw them in the tornado shelter, closed the door and about 2 minutes later, i heard the tornado overhead. >> then what did you do next? what happened next? >> it was just a loud roaring sound, very similar to what i would describe as a jet engine. then it was very green and it became completely silent. the cell phone towers are down here and you can't get reception. so i couldn't find out anything. i didn't know if we were in the clear. eventually, i got out of the storm shelter and took a look around my neighborhood. right out in front of my house is just a bunch of debris, shingles, insulation, parts of other people's homes, but it didn't look that bad. you turn the corner and the homes are just wiped away, completely obliterated. >> melisa newton w

radio program. we have dave barry and alan zweibel peter i am along for the ride. you answered about 10 questions that people have submitted. about the movie, i picture steve carrell as one of the characters. reading it, i was alternating for that character. any idea who willpeckerman? who would you like to? >> brad pitt. >> i knew that was your answer. [laughter] >> thank god it is radio. >> alan is the film guy. >> i just hope this does better than the last time i had a book that was going to be a movie. i am not sure i want to be connected with it an alan zweibel film. a number of years ago, our son adam was about seven years old. he was at that age where at the dinner table, he would look across at me and my wife, and just an expression on his face, you could tell what he was thinking. like, i could do better than these two, you know? so i wrote this little novella, a fable about a 9-year-old boy who declared himself a free agent from his parents. he went all over the world offering his services as a son to the highest bidding mothers and fathers. it did ok. i

as i am thinking of those things and saying code 33 which is i need the radio channel for emergency traffic. i give out my direction of travel, speed and traffic conditions. at the same time a supervisor starts to monitor and says "i am monitoring this pursuit." either the primary unit or the supervisor hearing the pursuit going on based on the information this primary unit is broadcasting will then decide whether this pursuit needs to continue or whether this pursuit needs to be terminated. these things happen very quickly and you travel several blocks while you're trying to make this real time decision. >> thank you. i think that explains a lot. >> yeah, and given that scenario if you could just summarize the main aspects that are going to be different now on a high level -- or maybe that's -- is that simple enough to do? >> the changes really are more to the point where the officer who is in pursuit will still have to follow the same protocols. to that it has not changed. where we have made significant changes is if the suspect vehicle starts to drive towards a pedestrian or a crowd of p

nation which airs on npr.org in its 20 for our streams and also on the npr channel on ex-im sirius radio. i am your moderator for this program this evening. tonight's program is being held in association with the commonwealth club's science technology forum, exploring visions of the future through science and technology. find is on the internet at commonwealthclub.org. or download our iphone and android app. for program and schedule information. now it is my pleasure to introduce today's dissing which guests, viktor mayer-schonberger, professor of internet or government and regulations at oxford university, and kenneth cukier, data editor for the economist. together to britain a new book, "big data: a revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think." i had the distinct pleasure of interviewing the professor earlier today for broadcast to be aired in the coming weeks. and i thought you should know a few other things about these fellows. professor viktor mayer-schonberger has more than one law degree, only one of which is from harvard. is not just a lawyer he's a lawyer lawyer and he

i am heading south on i-35 i am listening to my husband on the radio.ys tornado on the ground heading towards moore. i'm crossing into moore from the oklahoma city limits at this point z looked out to the left i can see the funnel and i can see the tornado coming straight at me. at this point cars were stopping on the highway, underneath overpasses to take cover. and hail is just coming down about the size of the golf balls. it's hard to just get home. but i thought, oh, my god. i'm going to either get hit by this tornado here in my car, or the tornado is going to hit my home where my dogs were. and so i got home. i threw my dogs into the shelter. and got in there in about two minutes later that tornado hit my neighborhood. >> greta: did it hit your house? >> my house has minor damage. so, thankfully, we're okay. our neighbors... just a street later, not -- just gob. homes are gone. >> greta: i understand you just move there'd. >> three months ago. from dallas area. familiar with tornadoes down there as well but i was a news reporter and in dallas, foer

welcome to the "full-court press," it's "the bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. clearly, i am not bill press. i am peter ogburn. i am sitting in for bill press today. thank you for being there follow us on twitter at bp show and like us on facebook at facebook/bill press show. if you smell that, that's freshly grilled carney. jay carney faced, i would say, a moderately upset press corp on friday afternoon. lots of questions about benghazi, lots of questions about the irs. the irs had to admit they were targeting right-wing groups. it might go back as far as 2010. jay carney had to face a lot of questions. they kept pushing the briefing back, back, back on friday. we will talk about tall of that with buzz feed's santor 0 plus prince harry is in america. he visited washington late last week. someone covering that for cq roll call, netta sumnani. she will join us in the second half of the hour. what is our obsession with prince harry. if you want to see everything that drives people crazy about washington, look at the staffers that were hanging over the bal konies with their smar

. >> i was in with radio at kgoa so i am a double loser. >> what about the temperatures in double loser nothing. we will show you what is going on we lose significantly on tuesday so here is a look at live doppler 7 hd you can see how quiet it is picking up the dry air and a lot of clean air, too, right now. as far as our wins, we are calm everywhere until concord and novato, at 3 miles per hour with winds from the south and santa rosa, wind at five miles per hour and fairfield is 12 miles per hour from the northeast. the golden gate bridge shows hazy out there, but that is not "spare the air" day, just high pressure stagnated the air this morning. sunny is the warmest day this week is upon us and breezy tomorrow, and chart drop in temperature that will continue through thursday and we will see a warming trend into the weekend. here is what is going on, this system coming our way does not look impressive and it is not with not a lot of moisture and the high pressure is clockwise flow so it is gaining air from the arctic circle and bringing it behind the front. warm today. the temperatu

-- for example, your radio antennas downtown are shaking waves up and down like a few millions times per second. that's your fm waves. a few thousand times per second, that's your am waves. but if you shook the electrons in your radio antenna up and down like a million, billion cycles per second, honey, the waves that are generated are gonna activate what? begin with ey and get the e on the end of it. eye. your eye, that's right. [laughs] remember we had the tuning forks that time and hit one tuning fork and made the other one ring? well, in your eye, you got tuning forks there too, and guess what frequency they ring at, gang? million, billion cycles per second. million, billion hertz and that's light. and light, when that light comes in your eye, it make--that sight. would you like a profound statement for a party sometime? sure. when you want to say something, and everyone will say, "wow, heavy, man, heavy." [laughs] would you like that? would you like to hear one? yes. here it is. you probably will want to put this in your notes. here it is. light is the only thing one can see. [laughs] ooh. you saw a lot of substance to that, huh? would you like another one? y

radio. so thank you again. i am fernando espuelas and goodnight. [applause] >> my best friend was actually unemployed and knowing through the process of unemployment and everything at the time, so i thought he would be a good subject to follow. so i kind of followed his leg. >> at the time i had an introduction to law course and i was learning there is a double standard for those under 18 of those rare. so i was sorted into children's rights if you will. i realize we don't have a say in the creation of the debt, but we have to pay it off. >> at first for me originally picked our

am not a better person. i spent time with my granddaughter today, i get to do radio and a lot of great people to the right or the left or the middle, they get their voice out there and they tell people a story of their government. so i am very happy. i am not a person that is unhappy or angry and i want to get everybody. as my grandmother always had, sometimes it just takes a while.

. >> long-time kgo radio host gene burns has died. he joined kgo-am in 1995. his talk show was ritual listening for many of his fans and ran 16 years. he also hosted a popular weekend from called "dining around with gene burns." >> somebody of his caliber, his class, his professionalism, there's a total void within the kgo audience. there's nothing that can fill that void. he just -- he was total class. the way he and i always related to each other, he would always be professorial and professional and i would be a wise -- . >> a bay area woman wants the strongest punishment possible for sex sewell assaults in the military. she agreed with the rocks with secretary of defense chuck hagel. hagel said the sexual assaults are a scourge on the military. >> not good enough to trot up to capitol hill when there's a scandal and say we have zero tolerance. we have to prosecute and convict and drum out of the military those who are sexual predators. >> ama: a pentagon survey estimates 26,000 sexual assaults happen in the military just last year. >>> san francisco was one

. >> long-time kgo radio host gene burns has died. he joined kgo-am in 1995. his talk show was ritual listening for many of his fans and ran 16 years. he also hosted a popular weekend from called "dining around with gene burns." >> somebody of his caliber, his class, his professionalism, there's a total void within the kgo audience. there's nothing that can fill that void. he just -- he was total class. the way he and i always related to each other, he would always be professorial and professional and i would be a wise -- . >> a bay area woman wants the strongest punishment possible for sex sewell assaults in the military. she agreed with the rocks with secretary of defense chuck hagel. hagel said the sexual assaults are a scourge on the military. >> not good enough to trot up wn capi when there's a scandal and say we have zero tolerance. we have to prosecute and convict and drum out of the military those who are sexual predators. >> ama: a pentagon survey estimates 26,000 sexual assaults happen in the military just last year. >>> san francisco was one of hund

radio station. >> thanks for having me. i amus about this information about a cell phone, amanda's cell phone being used a short time after she disappeared. what happened? >> well, about a week after she disappeared we were -- police were searching, combing through the area and amanda's mother lieu wanna. it was a man who had amanda they were married now and she would see her soon. within maybe a mile from the see more avenue address. that's the last they heard from amanda. >> did they follow up on a clue from that cell phone? >> i am pretty sure they did, but you would think. i mean it was so close to where these girls were found. they followed up but i don't know if they took it as seriously as they should have if they would have known. >> what about the 2004 sketch? >> the 2004 sketch, now that was a -- someone who said they witnessed gina dejesus getting in a car with someone, and that was the composite sketch that he gave. turned out to look very much like ariel castro. >> i understand last year there was actually a search