Federal Communications Commission

Yeah.

And I guess I can say that because, you know, I don't have to worry about the FCC, you know, coming down on me for saying that.

But that is what they look like in your yard when they are deflated.

Because I like people to decorate if they want and it makes them happy and all that.

And it would, like...

The FCC regulates this stuff really heavily.

There was an incident in 2024 when there was a Joe Biden deepfake voice, and that person got fined, and all of this stuff happened.

So I think...

What happened is he was basically told that, Hey, look, We are willing to do this.

And to quote Trump's own head of the, was it the FCC, Brendan Carr? I think he's the FCC.

We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.

And Nixon chose to do it the easy way.

format.

You don't have to give the FCC notice about format changes.

No.

That was long before you were even born.

You don't have to audibly say them.

As long as they're on the website, you can say, for all of our contest rules, go to our website.

And that is the new ruling from the FCC, but it didn't used to be that way.

But, oh, my God, I just had so much fun back in the 70s.

She says crimes that involve government impersonation are exploding.

And indeed, the FCC just issued a warning about them in August.

These digital arrest or government imposter scams are so successful now because, of course, they're using AI and they're using the ability to manufacture these kinds of outfits or even purchase them to make them look real.

They're working through these fake kind of calls saying you committed these serious crimes.

And I always tell people the station is still available.

If somebody really wanted to just take a chance on it and to file for an FCC license, license for the city of East St. Louis, it's still available.

It's still there.

It's not even for sale.

It went dark because of some problems they had with, um, With the people who bought it.

And they took it, the FCC took it away from them and darkened their 1490.

Oh,

okay.

Somebody get Jimmy Kimmel on the phone.

Get Stephen Colbert on the phone since Donald Trump is going to stand for anti-censorship positions as he's sending Brendan Carr, his FCC chair out there to harass and violate the First Amendment at every turn.

Reopened the floodgates of waste, fraud and abuse after he cracked down on it.

While he's giving his sons, his fail sons, his loser children, hundreds of millions of dollars in government money.

You ought to go.

The only thing that's off limits are the words you can't say thanks to the FCC.

They don't know what the f*** they're doing.

Do you understand that? We've given away too much to arrive at these political compromises.

We'll see you next time.

Finally, a Friday for the return of Ted versus the FCC.

The lovely Jolene is up in just seconds.

Yes, indeed.