51:12 At 10 o'clock this morning, I woke up to FCC agent and a US Marshal by the name of Eric was served with some papers saying that they had a warrant for arrest of the property here at 2939 East 14th Street for any radio operations equipment. They took our, first they came in and shut off the power. The programmers that were in the station wouldn't give them entry. They shut off the power at the breaker box gained entry to the station took out all of the equipment they did leave our music because I asked him. They were relatively cordial there is Lloyd Perry of course FCC agent number one another FCC agent that would not give his name
52:02 the US Marshal, 3 APD and a company here to dismantle our tower. They dismantled our tower in about 45 minutes. Took all of our equipment out... Can you show us where that was? Yeah the tower was right here We got footage of that too You can see the base of it right here And then around the back after they yeah that's where she used to be and then around back after they took all the other equipment They found our transmitter buried here deep in this hole. It's about four feet down, I'd say. Lloyd Perry had mud on his face. Good! We had a lot of people show up
52:48 Relatively shortly, we had about 50 people outside here chanting. Our chant was Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech. I know that got to some of the people because Americans as you know love their constitution and when they see that it's not being followed they obviously get upset about it. A lot of people are going to be really sad today and in upcoming weeks on the air for them. There's no place that they can go, there is no electronic soapbox, there is no freedom of speech, no place they can go to communicate with their
53:24 With their community, I don't really understand how they expect us to operate in a democracy when they don't even allow us to communicate with each other. But obviously that's what is happening here in America. They're just taking away your rights right and left. Free Radio Austin has operated since April 18th 1999 We've been a very successful bold micro radio station we had over 110 programmers every week from the right, from the left, from up and down because that's what the freedom of speech is about. It is allowing the freedom to speak for people with whom you disagree We're pretty upset today we're going look over paperwork call a few lawyers there probably not all too much we can do but I'm pretty sure that there will be something broadcasting on 97-1 shortly but we'll see about that it's pretty obvious they want us off the air during the Fortune 500
54:16 They don't want any critical or truthful information getting to the people about how money is basically taking over their lives. So that's what happened here today, it took them a couple hours Our plan worked with the transmitter being buried It gave us some time to contact the media We had everybody here Can you show us? Yeah! We have file footage of all this so we're gonna put it together as a story This is where people were doing their free speech. I don't know if the lighting's good enough in here, yeah fine and as you can see our table is now empty and uh...I guess that's about it actually I have a phone call that I should probably go take.
55:27 Okay, thanks. I just left my You know that when you do a video it actually I make it shoot Yeah Yes, I'm coming by in November. I'll be out there. Yeah, you want to see this lovely paperwork here? Yeah, we talked all the time He shot some of this already This is the warrant for arrest for the property It's funny it's October 3rd which is the same day they shut down They actually have a... These are all the investigation reports His investigation reports from when were broadcasting at Oakland Street House
56:25 He has investigative, he's been watching us for a while dude. This is all the investigation reports right here. So it takes them awhile once one goes up to build up time and investigation? Uh huh. I'm sure you're planning on putting more of right? Oh yeah oh dude we got plans out there ying yang. We're gonna go talk about it at the meeting tonight Why don't you throw like three or four together? I'm trying to find the... Lotsa little ones That what they say the worst One by lotsa little ones connected by phone lines I know I've talked with our engineers about that I'm thinking about if you have three transmitters and three antennas, and they're set up in a triangulated sort of way that when they get...if they're all on the same frequency that they would constantly end up with the center
57:13 as the location for transmission. No, if they were outside of the circle it would just go to the one that was out on the closest... Then you got three to bounce around from but I don't know right now our plan is no i mean definitely you need two with a phone line connection to one when you're doing political programming have all it would cost you was 24 bucks or 30 bucks per phone. You gotta see the hole in the back. They had to dig and get their transmitter, right? We had the underground thing so yeah they I asked them to leave our music okay you gotta turn that camera off first
57:59 He was out here digging with our shovel. I was like, I was pissed he was using our shovel man! Why'd you tell him to get it? You can't use it. I did well they said its part of the radio station Oh bullshit Yeah no...I wanted them make them plug and get their own thing What is that? That's a Lil' Arnie Shovel. That's Jeff Ward's shovel. Jeff Ward's name is in the paperwork too because he received some of those. There are buncha people named in my paperwork honey. We got all kinds of names on that paper work But thats good man. The more people in the paper works Look nuts to the feds that bothered them dude. They were upset by that and that's two beds What does that mean just like bollocks to you? You know what I mean, just nuts to you That's to the fence that was already up there Yeah So they knew when they came in yeah We're gonna plant flowers out here but
58:45 But yeah, that was the hole honey. You should see it you've never seen the pot its a big ole fucking aluminum pot. Did they take that too? Oh yeah he cut it when he cut the line this is the line right here. It's all like frozen full of camera shit So he had to dig down before they cut it. They just got the power of the whole house? They cut the power in the house, okay two girls were in there, they knocked on the door I looked out my window, I was naked in bed looked out my window saw jackets immediately went and locked my back door so I could put some clothes on When I looked out the door to the station was already open. But the girls that were in there, who I haven't yet had a chance to talk to... The girls that were in there obviously had not given them entry They said they have a warrant so the girls didn't get in. How did all of these people get here? They announced FC Caesars are here. Oh dude we got a phone tree a million miles long So it didn't go out over the radio? I don't know if it did or not
59:48 I'm pretty sure it did. That's the first thing they're supposed to do, but they... Yeah, they had to because they cut the power before... They cut the power after coming in here and telling them that they were there then. Then they went and cut the power so i'm sure the girls put it out over the air So that happened, they gained entry How long was the station on? Oh, they took all of their stuff out as quickly as possible dude They didn't want you know, they didn't want stick around Took everything as quickly as possible They didn't, you know they didn't arrest the girls or anything like that of course. That's cute to say I open the door and they serve me papers. They don't usually arrest people they normally just take their equipment around right? Yeah yeah they pretty much figure you know just stop broadcasting. Hey Cree!
1:00:39 I got served papers, came out here and talked to the marshal for a little bit. They directed everybody to the outside of the fucking property they wouldn't give me their names they just took everything out They had a hard time finding where their transmitter was started digging by that time we had 100 people here half of them media Cool! What about radio? Do you have any stations around? Nope no radio stations just TV and newspaper Lots of people. Everybody was standing right here? Some independent, other independent media. Was everybody standing right here? Yeah lots of people were standing... That's where we were doing our chant man! And they can't tell you not to be over there right? Yeah no they couldn't tell us not to be there and he would like dude we're sweating them hard they were sweat and I was kind of trying to tell everybody not to sweat him too hard yeah cuz i'm like you know if I get buzzed isn't it you know I don't want him sweating them too hard but um because they're just doing their jobs They take the pot that was in? Yep everything
1:01:38 I asked him to leave our music. I asked him to leave our music and he said we'll see what we can do, and left all the tapes and CDs and records that's about all they left. Who was that? Yeah no they did. Who was it who wasn't? Uh Lloyd Perry and other agent wouldn't be here. No i'm on about 300 micros at least so we know yeah I know So where do I go to be on your show tonight? uh I'll tell you how to call in okay cool let me start calling yep All right you got two lines so me and poking are both beyond this line We changed our own locks for security purposes. Somebody put out the fucking combination on here like a dumbass. Might get a shot of the Nazi symbol and all that. I'm cold, I want to go back inside. Swing up a big fat Davey