Wow. I was just listening. Man, it brought back so many memories. I was listening to this and looking at the cloud of smoke through my boss' window.

Great broadcast.

Also remember that day. Wild Stuff.

crazy day I will never forget that broadcast

I'm not much of a Stern fan anymore, but I too was listening to him that morning and they really did a good job. I was glued to the radio, listening to him as I read the entire Internet, trying to figure out who was attacking us.

I remember sleeping in that day, waking to a friend pounding on my dorm room door shouting "they're attacking us! We're under attack".

I remember watching, wondering if the towers would stand when the sad answer was revealed. At the time I figured the death toll would be nearly 50,000...

It is sad what religion warps otherwise good people into doing.

Westfall

ummmm.. well not for anything but.. wouldn't you have been better off listening to an actual news station rather than Howard and the Human Laughter Can? September 11th 2001 and anything remotly humeous was the farthest thing from my mind.

I was directing news at a CBS affiliate out west back then (and still living at home at the time). My mom woke me up (mind you six hours before my normal wakeup time) and turned the TV on in my room just in time for the second plane to hit. All I kept saying at first was "un-freakin'-believable".

I was originally planning to be in the NYC area that week, visiting family in NJ. My uncle works in Manhattan, and I usually hang out with him at work at least one day when I go back, and that would have probably been it. Right before I booked plane tickets, I found out about a BBVD concert at BB King's and switched to two weeks earlier. The last day I was there, I was taking a NJ transit train out of the city, and coming up to Newark, I tried to get a picture of the WTC with my new digital camera, but the battery was too low. "No big deal," I told myself, "it's not like they're going anywhere. There's always next time."

This winter will be the first time I've been back since. I still don't know how it's going to affect me seeing the 'new' skyline (and Ground Zero, for that matter).

For the months afterward, CNN Newsource had a live shot of Ground Zero up 24/7 on their feed for affiliates, and I used to always have it on in the control room on a spare monitor during the shows I did. All hours of the day and night, through snowstorms, rainstorms and whatever else, it still hit me every time I saw the workers line up and watch the vehicles carrying body parts up the ramp.

I remember too, right before our 10pm show that night, a bunch of us in the hall outside master control discussing what we thought the death toll was going to be. I think our final consensus was somewhere in the 10-15,000 range. Never imagined it would eventually work its way below 3,000.

Second time I listened to Stern in a long time. All I have to say is that is great broadcasting.

What a great show today hearing that 9/11 replay

"ummmm.. well not for anything but.. wouldn't you have been better off listening to an actual news station rather than Howard and the Human Laughter Can? September 11th 2001 and anything remotly humeous was the farthest thing from my mind."
jeff

You must have been trying to listen to o&a than