i came across an old mp3 file i have of stern's 9/11/01 show.
six years after the fact, this is the first time i tried listening to it.
somewhat surprisingly, it's not the live news reports they're playing or howard & robin's on air commentary that's upsetting me.
it's the people calling in freaking out.
it brings back with amazing clarity the pain and anger and frustration and sadness of that day and the weeks and months following.
the missing persons flyers, makeshift streetside memorials, late night candle light vigils.
god damit that shit fucked me up good.
that shit really changed me.
just sayin'.clevohardcore - 8-22-2007 at 11:47 PM
ya. Can you sned it around to us? I was listing to him that very morning and had the tv on mute. The TV was already showing the carnage and I remeber
Robin saying something happened to a building. Like a helicopter or something. Then I turned them down and watched the tv while talking on the phone
for pretty much the rest of the day.clevohardcore - 8-22-2007 at 11:49 PM
I remember watchign the sky that night and not seeing a single thing in the air except a periodic military something or another. It was crazy.JawnDiablo - 8-23-2007 at 12:11 AM
I hear ya dude.
I really started thinking things differenly for a while after that.
How nothing is safe and we're all vunerable.
My cousin's husband was on a flight that left the same airport going the same place as the one plane that crashed. My cousin thought he was dead for
sure. He was grounded in Chicago, rented a car and drove the fuck back to the Boston area.
We watched that same image of people falling / jumping on the news all night.
Duane, can you send it to the email I have listed in my profile?
When I got up for work the next day, like Clevo said, there was nothing in the sky, and I live near Philly International. Some military jets swished
by at one point.
One of my old friends kinda lost it after all of that. He was never right since for one reason or another. I mean he had emotional / mental /
substance abuse problems as it was, but I think it was his point of no return. He currently is awaiting sentencing for shooting his girlfriend in
coastal Florida somewhere as we speak.Muttley - 8-23-2007 at 12:15 AM
Still cannot bring myself to listen to that show. I listened that day until they mentioned that something happened, then turned on the news and
watched it for a week straight.
I have the show, I've tried listening to it but it just freaks me out too much.
I knew two people that were both supposed to be in the towers that day and both missed it because they overslept. I don't know if I could live with
that if it was me.
I also have a friend who was stuck underground on the subway for two hours. All the madness, sounds, and the smoke when each tower came down, and no
knowledge of what was going on above.
You can never understand just how truly deeply fucked that day was unless you were in NYC that day.BDx13 - 8-23-2007 at 12:37 AM
I listened to that show again about a year ago and had to turn it off. It was too hard to get through.MikeCore - 8-23-2007 at 08:12 PM
My companies van broke down that day on North Ave in Baltimore around 9am and I no idea what was going on until I called my then girlfriend, now wife
and she told me something was going on in NYC and the first station I turned on had Stern on. I don't really remember what they were saying. I
changed to a news channel and got the scoop. Then the tow truck guy who came to get me was a total hick and said he had called his son at home to
make sure all his guns where loaded.BDx13 - 8-23-2007 at 11:10 PM
yeah, cause, you know... they're comin' for his hayseed ass next.MikeCore - 8-24-2007 at 12:25 AM
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yeah, cause, you know... they're comin' for his hayseed ass next.
BKT - 8-24-2007 at 03:33 PM
911 was a messed up day and I have never really shaken it out of my head and I dont think that I really want to. Things like that should never be
forgotten and to this day I still get chills when I think about it and I am still pissed off about it as well. A childhood friend of mine worked in
the building across the st. from the towers and saw the whole thing go down from beggining to end. It is crazy to hear him recount the day and you can
tell it is still fresh in his mind. Its hard to fathom that it will be 6 years this sept. man time really flies by huh?
MM.XHonusWagnerX - 8-27-2007 at 08:09 AM
I wonder if they will replay it again this year on 9/11 like they did last year.Muttley - 8-27-2007 at 05:50 PM
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A childhood friend of mine worked in the building across the st. from the towers and saw the whole thing go down from beggining to end. It is crazy to
hear him recount the day and you can tell it is still fresh in his mind.
I can't even imagine what it was like down there. I was sitting in my living room in the Bronx and I remember every second like it was yesterday.
