Whew! Glad that’s over.

I did morning drive radio for 5 years in Boston, and for another almost a year in San Diego. (Best time I ever had getting fired was from that San Diego job. The station flipped to a sports-talk format before the first year of being news/talk station was up and let me go, but I had a contract and they had to pay me for the next year. I was barely 30, single and making 15-hundred dollars a week - good money in 1989 - and living in a condo mere steps from the OB Pier. Broke my heart when those checks finally stopped and I had to become a productive member of society again).

This week started with my doing a 9 AM - Noon show in Washington DC (6-9 our time) and 4-days filling-in on the Armstrong & Getty radio & TV network (with KFBK afternoon co-anchor Jay Allen). Before mid-week it all came back to me…. As much fun as those shows are to do, NO human-being should have to face an alarm clock at 3:30 AM. That is also one of the two major reasons why I do not fish. The second is that I might actually catch one and have to deal with it. Not having to kill my own food is one of the chief reasons I am in radio.

Congratulations are coming in from all directions today… not for me, for Casey the Pound Dog. My wife’s baby has been nominated for an ASPCA “Humanitarian of the Year” award. We’ll ignore for the moment the fact that she (Casey) is not a human (although, try to tell that to Holly). The nomination is for her role in thwarting Arnold’s attempt last year to weaken the Hayden Law (a body of state law that protects stray and abandoned animals) and for her role as a pound dog in encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters. Honest to God, this dog knew this morning where to look for the camera and to be as cute as humanly.... er, dogly possible - straight into the lens and even kissed daddy right on cue.

And a final note: Air anti-America has proven valuable in one respect. Christine Craft is not your cookie-cutter liberal. One of the very few on the left who have earned my respect because she actually thinks through her positions and is capable of defending them (as wrong as they are) rather than just spouting off pamphlet slogans and talking points. That and her stepping up to the plate to care for her father. The traditional liberal position would be to pawn him off on you and me. She is hot on the Widow Matsui’s case and has been reporting on the huge money pouring into the widow’s campaign coffers from out of state interests, and the tiny amount trickling in from her own (Matsui’s) “constituents” proving what we all know…. the Widow Matsui is a left-wing version of carpet-bagging Dan Lungren and, like him has been hand-selected by outsiders to represent their interests against ours.

Now that my stint on Ch 58 is over, it’s back to my own show (after another week off for down time with the family), weeknights from 7 – 10 PM on KFBK (1530 AM) and Fox Network News. Look for me on Fox News Channel this Sunday at 11:10 AM....and when I get back for a major announcement about a blomb-shell show schueduled for Wednesday March 9th at 7 PM.


Listen to KFBK weeknights from 7-10 PM for details on how you may join in me banging pots and pans for immigration reform in the very belly of the beast, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. this April 23-28!

Mark Williams
Weeknights 7 - 10 PM
News/Talk 1530 KFBK AM