KFI AM 640 On Sept. 11 (Full broadcast)

[@trylikeafool]

The craziest thing about this broadcast is they’re talking about Japanese kamikaze pilots dying for the glory of the emperor literally as the planes were being flown into the towers - kamikaze style. Talk about unintentional foreshadowing.

[@13MAM13]

Subconscious projection

[@EnglishInfidel]

​@@13MAM13Coincidences happen. All the time.

[@13MAM13]

@@EnglishInfidel A lot of coincodences have been attributed to this event. Anything people cannot explain away just gets written off as coincidence. I think that's lazy

[@EnglishInfidel]

@@13MAM13In my experience, what's far more common is things being explained but people choosing to ignore or outright deny them.

[@13MAM13]

@@EnglishInfidel Depends on who is explaining it. Government, media, church, and academia, I would never trust. Talk about proven liars with their own agendas.

[@RadioParanormaliumPL]

1:01:26 Live coverage starts here 1:06:00 Second plane hits WTC South Tower 2:02:02 South Tower collapses 2:28:50 North Tower collapses

[@Vaginaninja]

You forgot 2:14:10 the chocolate mousse

[@narukunn5152]

1:01:30 Coverage starts.

[@12chapin]

1:10 actually

[@Perktube1]

Thanks both.

[@fall4111]

Thank u 😎

[@paigeleigh2554]

Thank you!

[@jessewilliams8655]

Thanks bro

[@pinedelgado4743]

At 2:28:52--it's pure hell over the KFI airwaves when the Second WTC Tower collapsed. Such horror in Bill Handel's voice.

[@imanh5859]

“We’re not just idiots. We’re idiots with microphones.” lmao the promo at 1:06:48 sounds like it came from Grand Theft Auto

[@robsash8991]

Nope...they're idiots.

[@Henry_Fung]

April Winchell at work.

[@Godzillafan1980]

America hates me so this was just hilarious

[@jamesheath7601]

lol it does

[@jeffreymccormick3578]

That’s what I was thinking!

[@CrownCityLife]

When he said “is this a special date? September 11th?” Sounds so weird hearing that now because the day is so remembered now.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

That was the date of the attacks against the WTCs and the Pentagon

[@CrownCityLife]

@@deoglemnaco7025 Yes, I think that’s pretty well known.

[@CrownCityLife]

@@deoglemnaco7025 You misunderstood my post. Sorry you didn’t understand what I was saying.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

@@CrownCityLife no need to be rude because you’re a female on the internet

[@CrownCityLife]

@@deoglemnaco7025 Hahaha! OK, sorry I didn’t realize this was a trolling situation. 😅 Have a good evening.

[@lotharvonrichthofen4474]

At about the 51:00-52:00 minute mark, Rich Marotta actually asks a question pertaining to the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of WWII…this was several minutes before the Twin Towers were hit by modern day Kamikazes…incredible coincidence

[@richdars2515]

On station 1010 WINS they at the same time that day were talking about terrorists and hijackings before first plane hit.

[@plushiez_show8827]

Timeline: 1:06:00 South Tower Hit 2:01:48 South Tower Collapse (Although there seems to be no reaction due to a witness report playing) 2:28:52 North Tower Collapse (Commercials are cut with their reaction)

[@MrDuds1984]

Has to be weird for people living on the west coast who were asleep or just waking up at 7 am local time seeing this and saying what happened??

[@isabellind1292]

@@MrDuds1984 If folks on the west coast had woken up at 7:30 am PST and turned on the news, the entire event would have been over. The second tower (1) had ust collapsed moments before @ 7:28 am PST and the Pentagon had been hit as well as Flight 93 had crashed. Also, the financial firm "Cantor Fitzgerald" occupied floors 101-105 in Tower 1 (the first tower struck) and suffered the greatest loss of life of any company occupying the WTC w/a staggering loss of all 658 employees who were present in the tower on that terrible day. RIP to all victims of 9/11.🌹❤

[@ggurks]

51:36 kamikaze pilots joke

[@sashizakura9124]

@@MrDuds1984I woke up hearing this very broadcast, and it was definitely weird. Quickly turned on TV and watched with my son, an elementary school student at the time, trying to figure out if the kids were going to be allowed to go to school that day. They did go, but only for a few hours, while the adults tried to calm down and figure out what to do from there. It was horribly shocking, even to us all the way out in LaLaLand.

[@danielgolus4600]

6:13:45 - Bill Handel's prediction is so true: Today is June 16, 2021 - two months short of 20 years later - and this atrocity is still fresh in my mind.

[@PhotonBread]

I’m just glad people are still listening to audio of this event. We will never forget

[@LimerickWarrior1]

@@PhotonBread I'm In Ireland and I remember everything I was doing that day.

[@dannigro8794]

Oh of course people don’t forget

[@eddieeclark314]

I'm from 2022 and it's still fresh in my mind here

[@microbios8586]

People absolutely have forgotten. Young people are sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden in this Tik Tok era.

[@jeffdonner1912]

I was listening to Bill Handle on KFI 640 on the morning of 9-11-2001 while I was at work. I worked in Huntington Beach, Ca. at the time. I was 45 years old on 9-11-2001. This was a Pearl Harbor type event. I thought we were going to be going to war for sure. I can't believe this event happened 16 years ago already.

[@turn74]

I was listening too on that day and was surprised to find this broadcast on youtube this morning!

[@kilaadams7354]

To quote Bill from this day..."We're in a whole new world!" Boy was he ever correct. I was 21 with a lot of growing up to do. It was just unbelievable to hear of all the multiple hijackings and crashes...I remember the feeling over panick coming over me. It thought the hijackings would never stop.

[@steventhompson2511]

@Jeff Donner I assume you're retired now then ;)

[@karlos6918]

The contras struck back

[@radaniel8923]

MORENO VALLEY CA THAT MORNING WAS CALLED TO MARCH AFB

[@robertebirch1]

I actually remember listening to this very broadcast as it happened. I used to go to sleep with KFI on in the background, as I would listen to the Art Bell Show as I went to sleep. In the morning, as I was waking up, I heard them talking about some kind of damage to the World Trade Center. At first, I thought it was a news report about the anniversary of when the towers were bombed from the parking garage below - but as I was waking up more and started listening more, it was apparent what was really happening.

[@iamthebestofall1000]

2:01:48 the South Tower collapses. 2:28:52 commercials are cut due to the North Tower collapsing live on air.

[@Matthew-oi6kz]

I have really only seen TV news broadcasts, listening to Radio is a whole different experience

[@jimmydeats9901]

Why ex girlfriend will come back

[@eddieeclark314]

No one cares

[@sambaker7703]

True dat @Matthew

[@caseycat]

This is how I learned of the terror attack that day, I didn't have TV service at that time but was listening to KFI that day. I remember it so clearly

[@SlickBlackCadillac]

Radio is so much better at digesting this. Not going back to the same roll over and over and passing it the reporter on the street who adds nothing new.

[@matthewmartin7639]

The thing that gets me is the instant AND gradual change in tone. From lighthearted jokes about kamikaze's and just general local news and opinions to "hey, there a plane crash in the world trade center. That's kinda weird. We'll be right back after these messages" to a more professional yet uncomfortable tone. Like that wasn't what they were used to doing but it's obvious there was a crises and they were now a source of information for their listeners. Even trying to compare it to a movie script since they were in LA. That slight tone of caution like "let's hope it doesn't get any worse". Then utter shock, disbelief, anger, and fright. Truly left speechless. Live on the radio potentially millions of people listening in.

[@motioncapped5045]

1:07:15 that chant of "its too darn hot" is utterly terrorfying to the core. you realize people are burning and suffocating from the smoke and heat at that very exact moment that jingle about heat and fire was playing

[@calilove5758]

Omg I know, I got chills. I can't imagine what those poor people want through. I would rather be in the direct path of the plane so I could just die quickly. I've listened to so many audio calls from people above the impact zone and they were slowly fkn cooking, the floors were heating up like being in a oven. Most horrible death. I am so afraid of heights but in that situation I think I would jump. Just like so many did. God Bless them all

[@nodical802]

The word is out new york is on fire

[@marinamccune4880]

​@@calilove5758I ran across the actual back and forth radio calls between the NYPD and their dispatcher during the attacks on the twin towers. So chilling, especially when the towers collapsed and chaos reigned, and yet I am amazed at the calm voice of the dispatcher as he communicated with the NYPD and the other first responders. So many brave people lost that terrible day. Real American heros!

[@calilove5758]

@marinamccune4880 absolutely correct. Those dispatchers had such a difficult job trying to keep people calm and yet relaying the urgency to the first responders. I know this is off subject but if I ever worked that high I would have a parachute just in case. I know it's a huge risk jumping out a building with a chute because the wind force would probably slam you back into the building but you'd have that chance to survive hopefully

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Said incinerated those poor people were god

[@computerwiz4]

1:44:30 When a radio announcer goes "Oh my god, oh my god" on air, you know that the seriousness of the situation has set in for everyone.

[@KinkssNCoilss]

Chrome Hokage lol This guy is hardly a “newsman.” Radio jockeys don’t typically follow the same kind of decorum as tv reporters and anchors, so him reacting emotionally isn’t really surprising at all. His coverage of this event is quite different in comparison to various 9/11 network coverage I’ve watched. It’s less professional, if you will.

[@edms3656]

Especially from Bill. Him being surprised is something to take very seriously

[@deoglemnaco7025]

@@KinkssNCoilss very unprofessional

[@1ZosoLZ]

@@KinkssNCoilss dat ass

[@christopherhall6471]

I was 14 at the time and when NBC broke the story that The Pentagon was hit, that's when the seriousness of the situation set in. I was getting ready for school with the TV on in California, and when they showed the first images of The Pentagon, I literally jumped up with my backpack on and screamed "THEY HIT THE PENTAGON!!" That was the first time I didn't feel safe in America from a national security standpoint. It shattered that false sense of safety that I carried with me my entire life.

[@colinafobe2152]

2022, still shocked now as I was in 2001. The horror is indescribable by words what happened in NYC on that sad sunny day. It happened just 2 years after I experienced how it is to live under American bombing my city. Maybe that affected me. Just cannot stay emotionless while seeing huge buildings collapsed perishing innocent people and brave firemen, paramedics and policemen. RIP all victims of 9/11 and other crazy attacks worldwide

[@ritchienavarro2920]

I remember listening to this sad day in american history 911 on kfi am 640.

[@chainsawteddybear]

what an experience

[@Ramblon2003]

Listening to this radio 📻 broadcast 20 years later… it definitely has that “War of the Worlds” grip on your thoughts… It feels like yesterday the further you get into this phenomenal 8 hour show

[@wreckless105]

I come here and listen to this every year in Sept. thank you for having this posted

[@mindlessgonzoalt]

You're very welcome

[@HannahMDixon]

We were actually listening on the day, my mom would drop me off at my grandmother's house on her way to work, then my gma would take me to school. She had this huge rear projection 72" TV in her living room. And I walked in right as the first tower was coming down. Being from California i didn't understand what the radio was describing. And then i saw..... this is bringing back crazy memories. Never forget.

[@keithcroissant5640]

I remember being sick on this day and watching the tv news from bed in London. My brother said that he was worried as in a large tower in the city of London but fortunately we weren’t attacked in this manner. God bless NYC.

[@Brandon-rq3ys]

I will never forget 9/11.... I was 18 years old, starting a new job that day in Boston. Was supposed to be there at 9am, but was lost trying to find the job site. I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the WTC, which was very strange because the previous Friday morning I had visited the WTC on my way back from Florida. And I got there just a little before 9am, too. Very Creepy. Whats even more CREEPY about it was that I was supposed to have left Florida on Sunday, but due to a new job I got, I had to go back early instead. Had I left on Sunday, I would have visited the WTC on Tuesday morning instead of Friday, probably right around 8am-9am. In a way, I wish I did go on Tuesday. I think its safe to say that I would have been fine, considering visitors cant even really get too far before 9am. But to have been there would have been....amazing.

[@Jenkdog14]

That’s creepy

[@eaglevision993]

I was driving home from school with a friend ( it was already afternoon in Germany) and we did not believe what we heard on th e radio until we saw it live on TV....

[@mariposamoreno]

@@Jenkdog14 amazing? wtf?

[@Rogervista100]

I was 8 years old

[@craigharris41]

I was 31 they shutdown our Surgery and everybody went to watch TV.

[@AroundSun]

51:50 wow!!! Talk about timing. Just minutes away. How weird is that???

[@travman3316]

Bill Handel is still on the this station. Same time!

[@desertdispatch]

Bill Handel has a huge ego.

[@nakyer]

+*desertdispatch* Potato slices can be amazingly fresh.

[@Mhel2023]

I've been listening to Bill since his kids were born (they're in college now) Handel morning show forever 😆

[@Henry_Fung]

@@Mhel2023 Who could forget the Handel sisters doing ads?

[@steventhompson2511]

Only being 9 y/o at the time of this tragic day, It felt the world was doomed after these events occurred. Because of the unpredictability of the attacks to many around the globe, I remember feeling anything can happen next

[@valiantv2897]

as a 31 year old at the time, i felt exactly the same

[@basedjiren3889]

I was 7 and still remember being afraid everytime my mom left for work and asking my mom if the people who jumped from the towers survived

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

I was 8, and even though I'm not from the U.S., we all know this tragic event flooded the news all over the world. I didn't actually understand what was happening at the time, but I remember thinking if grown ups were really worried, this must be bad. It took me some time to grasp the meaning of all this, but I'll never forget this day for as long as I live.

[@Missmel0dy1592]

@Based Jiren the 9/11 jumpers was what I remembered from that day, seeing it on the news coverage really made me feel nervous and nauseated. I was only 9 years old, and I vividly remembered seeing that on live television, so sad. I never forget them may they all R.I.P 🙏🏻

[@swimlaps1]

I listened to this on my car radio driving up the 405 to UCLA, before 6AM PST. All stations were vague as no one knew what happened! At UCLA hosp- saw on their tv.the 2nd plane hit ! The hospital went to code yellow, orange, then red!

[@caseycat]

This broadcast is how I learned about the attack that day. That morning, I was 13, my parents listened to KFI regularly every day. We did not have TV at that time, so i didn't see the TV images until later at my friends house. I distinctly remember Bill Handel's dictation of these events as they unfolded. I remember feeling hot and sick while i listened to what was happening.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

1:06:04 announces that the second plane has hit the towers but at 1:06:45 says the sports caster will have "shocking specifics" of the game from the previous night.

[@SonicAlchemy13]

9/11 is 9/11 but damn, KFI was a completely different beast back then. Handel saying he smelled like "an Armenian sheep herder", anti-gay marriage commercials, the station identification bumpers. Makes John and Ken sound like Sesame Street.

[@stephenknizek2651]

I was surprised that Californians circa 2001 still trusted Governor Davis to not be a corrupt man.

[@NitemareMoon]

Trevor Rosen lol those whiny liberals and their demands for equal rights

[@dangerous8333]

@@NitemareMoon Lmao... We already have equal rights. You're just a bunch of first world Karen's and beta males that are bored because your lives are so great in this country, you don't have to worry about surviving everyday. You're a bunch of naive sheltered busy bodies trying to tell the rest of us how society is.

[@JaxonSmithers]

Well that’s the whole country. Conservatives are basically considered terrorists now by a lot of people out there. 🤷‍♂️ It’s not the country I grew up in during the 70s and 80s, sad.

[@mattalgrand]

Conservatives have always been hypocritical freaks.

[@sarzielinski5911]

So chilling, just like that story played many years,ago. War of the Worlds, except this was,real. :-(

[@MatthewKeys]

TV and radio media did a great job covering the situation on 9/11 but Bill Handel did not.

[@sambaker7703]

“Cut, Ken, cut, cut……..the second WTC building is now collapsing” Bill Handel is priceless. 2:28:00

[@crispycream]

1:09:41 Announces second plane crash.

[@jamesgoss1860]

1:06:05

[@1ZosoLZ]

Wrong

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

Was that Rush Limbaugh doing one of his "morning updates" at the start of this broadcast? I had forgotten, but that's around when he was losing his hearing, so it made his voice distorted....it just doesn't quite sound like him at the start there.

[@mindlessgonzoalt]

It was the tail end of a broadcast of his, yeah, and as he said later on in a 2014 show, it was around the time his hearing was going out badly and he was just going by on hearing aids. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3nUmpKhnqt_d9E

[@justingug]

Hearing implants or not, he is still killing it and the left.

[@danatrent981]

That was not Rush. NO way

[@SehnsuchtYT]

One can certainly say he is killing it these days

[@AnthonyL0401]

@@justingug Rush Limbaugh was only killing himself. Succeeded.

[@johntroicuk4641]

This is really hard to listen to all I hear are commercials, I tuned in to hear a bunch of commercials and a news program broke out. Talk radio in LA must really suck hard

[@cuttersboi08]

Listening to this in 2020 on the anniversary of the attacks. I live in the Los Angeles area and listen to KFI every morning. Bill Handel, who still has the morning show announced today that the "only place" to listen to this particular broadcast on this day was by going to the station website. I was pleased to see the amount of people who had posted it on KZbin. He also bragged this morning about how this broadcast brought him nation-wide fame because it was heard all over the country. He's an absolute egotistical ass. You can just by the fact that he interrupts a moment of silence.

[@jaysantos536]

Bill Handel is likely the most talented and entertaining "talk radio" guy still on the air.

[@cuttersboi08]

@@jaysantos536 If you can excuse the rudeness, racist comments, lack of sentence construction, mispronunciations, stuttering and audibly spitting into the mic, sure.

[@jaysantos536]

@@cuttersboi08 Let me guess...a milennial snowflake??? LMFAO

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

What is posting? Download I know

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Bill and his diet soda and bagels in the morning

[@nostalgiaof98]

What is it about the production of media in the 90s/00s that makes me fall in love with the quality of how the technology was

[@celticsanster]

I was a radio listener in So Cal up until the mid-90s or so. That ad at the beginning reminded me of why I stopped. Nonetheless, this entire clip is a historical artifact of 9/11 that needs to be heard. Am listening in chunks, and still feel the echo of shock and horror from that day. I appreciate your putting this up.

[@hornetgamer8980]

I skipped to roughly the time the attack happened and am listening from there. Pretty freaky that they were talking about whether the Japanese still had Kamikaze units at roughly the time the networks were starting to break this.

[@mindlessgonzo]

Indeed. Incidental and very eerie.

[@hornetgamer8980]

A few other thoughts. Most of them relevant, but I'll start with one I just can't help myself with. If that traffic reporter normally spoke at that speed, it's no wonder that Southern California has such a reputation for gridlock. Americans do have a higher tolerance for faster speaking than southern England. California, New York and New Jersey especially so. But surely that's an extreme even by those standards? I thought the host was excellent. He went out of his way to separate his gut feeling, from what was being reported but unconfirmed, to what was confirmed. He communicated all three, but you just about always knew which was which. In particular he went out of his way to make the point that everyone was wrong about Oklahoma City therefore we shouldn't jump to conclusions on the origin of the attackers. Whatever you now think about the events of this fateful day, that is undoubtedly the way news should be done - you say what you know as soon as you know it, but you've got to be willing to be last to get the full story rather than to be wrong. The only big mistakes he made related to the widely reported and confirmed bombings in Washington, which to be fair I think everyone got wrong. Nonetheless, it does feel to me that they were too slow to get to full time coverage. Fair enough, after the first one they didn't know what was going on etc, but after being pretty sure that a second plane had hit the tower they said "we don't know for sure" (which as I say in the previous paragraph, I utterly respect), but rather than try to figure it out on the air whilst not jumping to conclusions, or to simply say what they see (bearing in mind they're on radio), they went back to sports news... And finally, while arguably stating the obvious, he was probably the first to point out that what turned out to be United 93 would normally have been the dominant news of the day (regardless of whether an accident or deliberate action) it was almost insignificant in comparison to the events in New York and Washington.

[@paigeleigh2554]

@@hornetgamer8980 Excellent!

[@michaelmeatheringham312]

West Coast/Pacific Standard Time broadcast

[@fredmar6436]

@@mindlessgonzo It was put in their minds to talk about Kamikaze units by A HIGHER POWER because of what was going to happen. Just like it was put in Myles O'Brian's mind to accidentally say the Columbia was going to '' hit'' Louisiana instead of ''go over it'. Everything is preordained, orchestrated by a higher power.

[@jasonkeenan4154]

Hearing them talk around 1:52:00 about if there was any significance to the day of September 11th was surreal, like they had to look at a calender to find the innocuous date.

[@lic2kil007]

@7:20 Ken talking about bad things happening. Didn't the KFi radio tower collapse after a small plane hit it about 10yrs ago....

[@mindlessgonzoalt]

The instance you're talking, after a quick google search, about was 12 years ago in 2004, and yeah... the sucker collapsed by a private plane. And the blog that covered it said it was just refurbished 7 months prior to it. That has to suck hugely.

[@Crispy99999]

1:57:17 yes, the WTC was out of action for a while....about 13 years! Fascinating, now, retrospectively, to hear the commentary and the complete inability to conceive how much worse the situation would get once the towers started to collapse.

[@davidmatheny1993]

I appreciate Gina's account of what occurred with the second plane. Some abused the confused accounts of already hysterical people as reason to doubt that it was a plane that hit the South Tower.

[@wwekane2468]

He says at the beginning how he’s being careful about what he’s reporting but then later keeps saying their was a bomb at the base of the building over and over without actually knowing that.

[@DP-hy4vh]

Wonder what this sounded like to someone without a TV set such as someone hiking in the desert or on a boat.

[@altfactor]

By day, KFI's signal travels some 250 miles over land, so yrs, it reaches places as far as Las Vegas, Fresno, Baja California, and Yuma. By day, because of the way AM radio signals travel over salt water, KFI can likely be heard on ships at sea as far out as 700 miles from Los Angeles. At night, KFI's signal can be heard almost anywhere west of the Mississippi River, and probably as far out over the Pacific as Hawaii.

[@r66f80]

@@pmbbmp Not exactly, KFI's signal would have had more static & interference, including interference from other AM radio stations on the same frequency, the farther away from LA the listener was.

[@alphabet_soup123]

In the desert or a boat? What about all the people at work? Radio was widespread, tvs tended to be something you'd watch at home. Some offices had tvs in break rooms, but not all. Radios were very commonplace. You can imagine truck drivers, taxi drivers all listening to radio. You don't need to imagine boats nor deserts.

[@greenamogus]

@@pmbbmp boat

[@jamesslick4790]

@@alphabet_soup123 👍😊👍

[@zero439]

I like when gonzo does these videos give perspective of different news casters and give a look into is seen through others eyes. Also help people in small towns like me get that perspective that didn't get much talk coverage when this horrible attack happened

[@Joseph-qb1es]

What small town are you from? I only ask because growing up in the middle east before the era of the internet I had access to all these talk shows on a radio station that used to broadcast for the US armed forces.

[@zero439]

@@Joseph-qb1es one in Canada on the border and cause guess at the time I was in high school too so only saw snip bits on the cafeteria tv durning free blocks

[@pastelskies99]

I forgot how different things were back in the early 2000s. Those jokes during the radio show and the commercials have not aged well such as the dyslexia joke as well as trying to stop same-sex marriage.

[@johnnydev9318]

1:02:00 Traffic report by Mike Nolan - was this guy paid by the number of words spoken per minute ??? Ridiculously fast - supposed to be conveying information and instead makes it borderline unintelligible 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@btstakescareofmewhenimsick4892]

1:28:00 he has a point in thinking this way actually, however none of those planes were hijacked from the nearby airports, and there were no guns involved

[@wreckless105]

I listen to this every year. 21 years later it still gives me chills.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

22 years later fears of that day

[@PianoMan4Life1982]

Wow, around 52:00 they were talking about Kamakaze pilots.

[@oknar1977]

Fox idiots.

[@nala3038]

@@oknar1977 amen to that

[@RestrictedAirspacePodcast]

1:01:22 First report. Strange thing is a guy was talking about kamikaze pilots as a joke about 20 or 30 minutes prior.

[@deangelobayley7079]

they just announce it n then go on w their scheduled stuff ..crazy how slowly it took for people to be like oh shit

[@RedHotMessResell]

The OMG when the third plane hit was like a serious panic, them realizing these planes could hit anywhere else at any moment not just NYC.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Pentagon and PA field

[@forgoatusbm5674]

I used to board op "Handel On The Law" @ a station on the east coast. Bill is as quick as they come. A part of me is looking forward to hearing this.

[@lynngregory393]

I remember when they ordered all commercial aircraft down so there were no planes in the sky other than military. It has always stayed with me how that was managed and I think there was a National Geographic documentary on how it was accomplished.

[@slamdancer1720]

I was in Hollywood at the time. it is in the area of numerous airports...so it was very eerie seeing no aircraft i saw maybe a couple law enforcement helicopters......was very odd feeling

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Last plane in air at time of attacks or just after was an air italiia ordered to land by fighter jets and ironically said a 4th plane was supposed to be headed for LAX

[@nakyer]

Obviously he hadn't watched the TV shots carefully when the towers collapsed. The top sections collapsed downwards into the firmly standing structures. The buildings didn't collapse from the bottom.

[@Godzillaman]

A good friend of my dad survived 9/11 and she attacks "Truthers" every chance she gets. She saw what she saw and she saw the buildings collapse from the crash.

[@katevand]

Godzillaman well.... she’s incorrect

[@wwekane2468]

Kate VD you can also see from some of the close up shots that the buildings started the collapses at the top.

[@SteveWard151]

Absolutely the buildings collapsed from the impact and not a planted bomb. These people say, are ya ready here we go........CGI, planes were switched in mid air , a hologram, an energy gun, and one guy with English accent says it was “a ball”. This is the type of “lack of intelligence “ we have to deal with. They say no other building collapsed from fire. No other buildings have had fully loaded 767s plow into it either. Keep in mind this was a different type of structure and the strength of the building was mostly do to the skeleton of the building whereas previous buildings strength was in the core of the building. So in order for what these lunatics to be correct in what they say........American Airlines, United Airlines, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FoxNews, the US military etc....... would all have to be on on this conspiracy. Remember if there were no planes used in the attacks then while people were looking up at the towers, some men in black came along and planted the aircraft engines and wheels on the streets of New York, along with seats of the aircraft some of which had passengers still belted in their seats. Enough said

[@zmancan5290]

Truthers just can't stand a prosaic explanation. Conspiracy theorists think every momentous event has to be the result of mysterious forces only they have the intelligence to unravel. They revel in the excitement of ignorance. Occam's razor: suppose you told a man on a desert island the fact jets crashed into the towers then ask him to guess why they fell. He'd be an imbecile to guess explosives and secret demolition squads.

[@alexsessa7437]

I really wanted to listen to this, but the commentary during the first 30 seconds really put me off... 🤢

[@michaelmartin4552]

First, KFI was never part of Fox. It was Cox until 1999, and was sold to what later became Clear Channel - iHeart radio. I still remember that morning, as KFI had been part of my morning routine since the early 1980's. It is chilling listening to this again after over 20 years, and it all comes back to me. Bill did a superb job continuing long past his normally sign-off of 9am. And as it was also an anchor station for Rush Limbaugh, he got a lot of national coverage as Rush was not available most stations across the country carried his show in place of Rush Limbaugh. And at about the 2 hour mark when the first tower collapsed they turned to a Fox broadcast, but they themselves were not a Fox affiliate. If I remember they (and other stations) turned to several national networks as they were giving information and videos that none others could at the time.

[@YoMommaHouse.]

He never said it was a part of fox. He said an affiliate which was playing the fox broadcast on his show. Hence why he kept saying back to the fox broadcast over and over

[@michaelmartin4552]

@@YoMommaHouse. No, it was not. This was the original broadcast, starting from the Bill Handel Show. Which was never syndicated or sent to other stations. And "affiliate" would only have picked it up hours later, as he continued after his show ended and hosted the Rush Limbaugh Show as Rush was flying at the time and got grounded in the midwest.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

And premier radio

[@hmbpnz]

Interesting to hear this from 22 years ago and realize that the right wing propaganda machine was already well into effect even in 2001. They weren't as batshit crazy back then but you can still feel it.

[@victormaitlin9636]

The crack about Latinos and beer was way inappropriate

[@RedHotMessResell]

That political commercial about gay marriage rights being questionable sure didn’t age well. I like listening to these for the commercials as well as the show because it’s like a time capsule.

[@SAoutlaw]

Sucks it didn’t age well

[@blu3_enjoy]

It aged very well

[@winser21]

Back when everybody wasn’t socially forced into a certain belief set.

[@bornanagaming3329]

@@winser21 back when everyone was more ignorant

[@blu3_enjoy]

@@bornanagaming3329 back when people weren't ignorant.

[@danielsheehan9511]

4:49:41 Really shocking when reality set in of the scale of what had happened

[@willmont8258]

Two planes hit the Trade Towers, (1:06:00), and they move on to sports?

[@SR-zc6lk]

I actually remember tuning in to KFI for coverage of the 9/11 attacks. This broadcast really captures the chaos of that day like nothing else on KZbin.

[@timemachinefan]

Like nothing else on KZbin? Give this FDNY radio feed a listen. This is a live feed from FDNY radio transmissions live as it happened... This feed captures the emotion and chaos more than these bozo's here at this radio station. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXu2ZKmDg5uYra8

[@SR-zc6lk]

@@timemachinefan I'm talking about from people outside of the ground level of the attacks. Ground level, obviously they had a chaotic scene to deal with.

[@markbrown4039]

Try the 24-hour aircheck from 1010 WINS in NYC.

[@timemachinefan]

@@SR-zc6lk Apologies my friend; I misunderstood. I was a bit premature in that reply and I should have used better judgement. Sorry S R...

[@FilmFanaticCommentaries69]

The Howard Stern show that aired during 9/11 is also worth a listen

[@damonsmigielski3236]

“Is there some holiday or significance to September 11th?” So strange to hear that

[@grantorino2325]

In 1986, President Reagan declared it *National 911 Day* to honor America's emergency workers. Before 2001, though, nobody really seemed to care.

[@PhotonBread]

I’ve watched many many many 9/11 broadcasts and this is the first one where they asked if the day has significance. It was an intelligent question

[@verabolton]

@@grantorino2325 I didn't know that. Thanks for the info

[@nickswedlund517]

6:40 sounds like a radio spot from a grand theft auto game

[@billkittleman9631]

If any West Coasters out there who habitually wake up/get up a little later in the morning, PLEASE tell me the level of surrealism you experienced upon turning on any TV news broadcast - whether prodded to do so or otherwise - at apx. 7:40 am PT or later and rather than viewing and listening to the usual fluffy banter of morning news talk shows you instead are greeted by the unbelievably horrific pictures of a completely destroyed WTC and of course a loss of life purely unimaginable .. I have fairly often wondered about that specific viewing dynamic for many years, obviously given the considerable time difference between the two coasts

[@mikemck4796]

I was a night owl and was watching tv from bed when the news cut in. I called my father and was discussing it when the 2nd plane hit. Without missing a beat he responded “well, that air traffic controller is fucked…” Can always count on him for a joke in a moment of craziness. Needless to say, I pulled an all nighter and was glued to the Tv and phone the rest of the day. As bad as it all was, it didn’t really register as historically bad until the first collapse. Also, because of how self important many of us feel in SoCal, mostly everyone I talked to was pretty convinced there was likely something coming our way. It probably took a week or so before people stopped anticipating.

[@wilkyisdashiznit]

I had just completed my Summer Term at Oregon State University in July or August and was waiting for Fall Term to start the following week. I do not know exactly when I woke up, but the North Tower was still up. The South Tower had already collapsed, but there were replays of the second crash and the tower collapsing. Honestly, after listening to this, it was nice to avoid the buildup to the true terror of what was going on. Most of what I experienced had already happened, so it was less horrific than I believe it would have been had I woke up earlier.

[@caseycat]

This was me! I was 13 in 2001, living with my parents in California. My parents listened to KFI every day back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I was homeschooled so I did not hear of the attack at school like many other kids. My mom woke me up, and she seemed concerned. She said "a plane flew into the world trade center!" I didn't know what the world trade center looked like, so I opened one of my illustrated books of a map of America to see what it looked like. I couldn't understand how an airplane could fly into a tower SO big! I listened to the radio broadcast with my mom, and when the second plane hit the tower, I got very scared. Even in our small town in CA, it felt like everything was under attack. I worried planes were going to start falling out of the sky. I felt hot and sick thinking about the people who died in the planes and in the towers. I didn't see any TV footage until I went to my friends house later that day. It was surreal.

[@markviereck4547]

I can’t believe how many commercials there are. 45 minutes out of the first hour is commercials..

[@traviscoates6878]

Hahaha I thought the same thing. 3 minutes of news, 5 minutes of commercials, 2 minutes of news, 7 minutes of commercials...For an hour straight!

[@emerybayblues]

That car bomb at the state department was reported by various new sources.

[@Sanctus_Manifesto]

It was Israel.

[@wilkyisdashiznit]

A lot of people mistook the sonic booms of the jets that created the Combat Air Patrol over Washington for explosions. Plus, there was at least one secondary explosion at the Pentagon, when the upper floors caved in on the three damaged floors below. One or the other loud booms mixed with people evacuating the State Department probably led to the misreporting. At least one other station stated that there were explosions behind the Supreme Court building, which also turned out to be one or the other.

[@brittanytanner9737]

@@wilkyisdashiznityep another station reported an explosion at the capital building before retracting that

[@VeryStupid4547]

​@@Sanctus_ManifestoDon't forget "Urban Moving"...

[@universalsoldier2293]

Very interesting to hear the perspective from outside the area. It's still so real to me even 20 years later since I looked at those buildings every day from my Jersey City office, but I had to chuckle a bit when I heard the host say that they could commandeer the planes with guns (@1:28:35) when it was actually even easier with box cutters!

[@ninaddemaio]

im from jersey tooo

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Eerie Handel was talking on of pearl harbor before the attacks

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I thought it was wire cutters

[@lorireece1970]

Definitely one of the darkest days in American history, if not THE darkest!

[@AroundSun]

Definitely the darkest.. Hijacked planes full of innocent civilians smashing into non military targets full of civillians. People jumping off burning buildings to their death and the collapse of 2 massive towers full of civilians and other people in one of the most populated areas in the world, crashing down and killing police, firefighters, bystanders, and first responders. Billions in damages and cleanup, thousands dead,, emotional scarring, ptsd, thousands of families effected, started 2 wars which killed millions, changed air travel, national security, and the world forever. Definitely the darkest day...

[@hotrocket1990]

Name a darker one ?

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

In history period!

[@timothycole5266]

Funny. At 1:06:00 as he's talking about the second plane "We'll have confirmation on those details just as soon as we can" "It's fairly obvious now Ken that a second plane has in fact struck the second tower, you can see that" (referring to a replay on TV). Just totally ignored him and repeats, "We'll have confirmation on that just as soon as we can." A little discord is seems.

[@Spokker]

Bill Handel is an on air personality who can give his opinion. The guy reading the news cannot give his opinion and has to rely on reports.

[@slamdancer1720]

@@Spokker the video being broadcast of the second building with a hole was not an opinion.

[@THE-X-Force]

@@slamdancer1720 There was a lot of confusion at the time

[@basedjiren3889]

Man the irony at 51:40 when they talk about Japanese Kamikazes :(

[@ZEREEUSLY]

Same happened on the Howard stern cast... crazy.

[@dangerous8333]

@@ZEREEUSLY They were talking about Pamela Anderson right before they announced the plane hitting. It wasn't until after the plane hit that baba booey said something about kamikazes. In this case Handel and them were talking about it before it even happened. I've listened to the Howard Stern one a dozen times.

[@ZEREEUSLY]

@@dangerous8333 I know that, but I'm not talking about that moment. I'm talking way before that. At the beginning on the show. Nice try though. Go watch it a "dozen" more times because your memory sucks. Way before the Pamela talk. Waaaay before.

[@irishpaddy555]

Well done bill on going to the news/break at 9:02… 9:59… and 10:28..

[@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn]

listening to this today is eerie one of darkness days in America history

[@rufuspipemos]

Weird that you posted a SoCal radio show. But glad you did because when I lived in The OC I listened to this station a lot.

[@stevedrums1675]

The announcer on this station was pretty tight on early on. I've never heard this broadcast before.

[@sambaker7703]

“No way our idiot militia men could have come up with this kind of a plan” 🤣🤣🤣

[@williamkeener713]

I live in NJ and took my two young sons to NY and statue of Liberty late August 2001. So sad

[@ryanlogan2911]

1:01:25 1:05:45 1:09:45 main cut in… Your all welcome They never did mention the dancing Israelis or why WTC7 imploded without being hit by a plane. James Perloff has the best analysis on the anomaly’s

[@trojanpony]

It’s fascinating to contrast this coverage with the coverage based in NYC. They spoke much more bluntly (some might say insensitively) about the events that were unfolding that day. It’s a stark example of how the gap between the east and west coasts is not only geographical but also, to some extent, cultural.

[@afxaloha89]

Do you mean the west coast or east coast broadcast was more insensitive

[@trojanpony]

@@afxaloha89 I meant this broadcast from LA was a little more blunt and graphic, arguably insensitive, in the way they described the events compared to the NY broadcasts. Even Howard Stern was more measured than this guy.

[@deedebdoo]

@@trojanpony Because the people in NY were in the chaos and couldn’t even get home or call their own families.

[@FilmFanaticCommentaries69]

Have you listened to The Howard Stern show that was broadcast during 9/11? It's way more edgy than this show.

[@bukboefidun9096]

Californians were already very woke so many were good with the attacks and millions went on like it was a normal day.

[@thewkovacs316]

i forgot how obnoxious handel always was his prediction of how the hijackings went down was all wrong and his flippant attitude was disgusting i was listening to stern

[@SageOftheSubway]

Giant F-Bomb at 2:02:06.

[@WillHendersonTX]

yeah, swearing on that day on radio and TV wouldn't lead to a FCC fine as the events of that day was a shared trama event and that they knew that sayings cuss words on the airwaves our way of letting out our expression of shock, anger and grief for the victims.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

@@WillHendersonTX it should. There is no excuse

[@itsdeanmachine]

There was no F-Bomb.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

@@itsdeanmachine I heard it. And when I did, I tore the computer from the wall and threw it down onto the street. I will not have that sort of profanity in my house.

[@ninaddemaio]

@@deoglemnaco7025 lmfao u good ?

[@6piecechickenmcnuggets23]

Weird question, I know. But by any chance do you have any 9/11 radio broadcast from the Rochester/Syracuse, NY area?

[@mindlessgonzoalt]

I don't think so, off the top of my head...

[@fattaman777]

I'm finding very little info on the fact that they saw an explosion at the BOTTOM of the towers. What were those?

[@Srilaurab]

Much of info on this program was incorrect.

[@3pointmvpshooter3000]

Does Kost 103.5 in Los Angeles have an aircheck from 9/11?

[@thatguywayoverthere4726]

For the first hour i would swear this was a gta radio station.

[@Thibbs136]

Where did you get the audio

[@mindlessgonzoalt]

Check desc. I have a link there.

[@Sk8rToon]

KFI also posts this on their website (kfiam640.com) every 9/11

[@RickinBaltimore]

48:30 - A colon cancer screening ad read by Benjamin Dover. Oh come on!

[@commensence3419]

In my town I shit you not, the gynaecologist name is doctor Poon!

[@lisagillette-martin2247]

I had my gallbladder removed by a surgeon named Dr. Gutman. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

[@thenewageriseth]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 ahh im deadt! 💀☠️

[@THE-X-Force]

There's a man here whose actual real name is Michael Hunt. Very wealthy guy.

[@seanlewis1148]

1:01:24 1:49:06 2:01:48 2:28:52

[@angelaturcios1138]

Starts at 1:09:44

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Thank you.

[@sambaker7703]

Thanks Angela !

[@davidbrothers2765]

Exactly what language was that traffic reporter speaking in didn't understand a word he said

[@ninaddemaio]

he was speaking just fine ?

[@kenspongebob3682]

This guy has the most annoying radio voice I’ve ever heard.

[@Sigmund1924]

Tough call between Bill Handel and Don Imus

[@calidude1114]

He acts like a drama Queen

[@Highvoltage764]

Then don’t listen.

[@Cagney68]

Driving to work that morning, this broadcast was how I intitally found out about the attacks. As someone else mentioned, Handel's reporting had such an unsettling 'War of the Worlds' feel, just left me numb. I remember trying to get a sense of whether other drivers on the road had even heard.

[@Southpaw658]

I’m surprised at Fluttershy as your cover photo when I was here to continue my studies on 9/11. Thank you for the video. It’s helpful to hear as many live reactions as I can.

[@milesium-487]

what

[@Southpaw658]

@@milesium-487 go into the channels main page... you can’t miss it. Lol

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

It’s funny kinda(well, I guess not really) but I hear him talking about all the stuff he’s gonna do this weekend like fly to nyc 🗽 and go see The Producers, and I keep thinking like, no buddy, you’re not gonna get to do any of that stuff 😔

[@vk2ig]

2:04 and 2:26 With commentary like this, it's no surprise that people believe the conspiracy theories. I wonder if this guy has ever realised the effect of his words ... ☹️

[@danielgolus4600]

4:06:27 - Bill Handel now sits-in for Rush Limbaugh for the next three hours. So every station across the USA that carried Rush's show was now going to air Handel. Handel's regular morning show ended at 9 AM, followed by Rush, till noon. (Handel had previously guest-hosted for Rush a few times before.)

[@Auguin]

48:39 I'm sorry can we talk about how a man named Ben Dover is talking about colonoscopies

[@saibisureddo5657]

Decent coverage however he seemed to not be able to resist getting a little fantastical about numbers. Started out saying thousands of people possibly in the wtc to tens of thousands to literally hundreds of thousands.

[@themerchantofengland]

I just heard him saying at least 10,000 dead and will rise.

[@BKNYSteph]

There were about 50,000 people in those towers daily, so even in NYC we feared that high of a number. Had they attacked those towers later in the day, it could have been way more catastrophic.