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  1. 1)
    Brad said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    Just about ready to roll! (Hey WP, looks like your "At a Glance" item has some formatting issues! 🙂

    Let’s hear from you guys today! Phone#: 323-650-1286

    Rock!

  5. 5)
    Harvey said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:11pm PT: [Permalink]

    The problem is on IBC network. Call Lou Gentile right away. This was happening to the show which came on immediately before the BradShow!

  23. 23)
    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:25pm PT: [Permalink]

    Accck! I thought it was just my computer — oh noooo.

    Hang in there guys! I know they’ll get it fixed before long!

  37. 37)
    Harvey said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:31pm PT: [Permalink]

    Just came on at 6:30 but then in came a network commercial. Now I have to wait and see.

  38. 38)
    Steve said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:32pm PT: [Permalink]

    I just talked to Desi and she told me they are (obviously) having technical problems but they are taping the show live and it will all be on tomorrow. "Michael Smith is amazing from London". Hope to be up soon.

  66. 66)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:47pm PT: [Permalink]

    Anyone else pick up on the fact that Jonathan Gold was a troll?

    I think maybe the stream I’m using is overloaded; I still can’t hear ANYTHING.

  71. 71)
    Torqued said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:54pm PT: [Permalink]

    Peg C #66 —

    Yep, he’s a bottomfeeder at ConyersBlog, gave him a welcome too.

  73. 73)
    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 1:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    Peg C. — Jonathan Gold is a regular at John Conyers’ site, and I really don’t think he’s a troll.

  81. 81)
    Harvey said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    This final part of the interview with Michael Smith went fine but then before the network commercial and news came on (incidentally it was fine) the voice began cutting in and out again every 10 seconds or so.

  86. 86)
    Jonathan Gold said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:07pm PT: [Permalink]

    My site is a very long story, but I’ll sum it up for you…

    I’m heavily involved in the 9/11 Truth Movement, and have been for over 2 years now. In September 2004, Howard Stern mentioned the "Missile/Pentagon" theory on the radio. As a result, his Bulletin Board became a haven for truth telling. There must have been 300,000 members, etc…

    Anywho, he eventually turned off the site for whatever reason (I don’t know). One of the users on his site started their own site called sternchat.com. It was similar, but not as many users.

    Anywho… I get harassed a lot. I did a lot on the Howard Stern board, and I did a lot on the sternchat board.

    So, I started my own board, and gave it a name that said "F-U" to the other board… Now I’m "the boss", and don’t have to worry about Trolls, etc…

  92. 92)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:12pm PT: [Permalink]

    I didn’t even get to hear Alvin! This is just dead air and pops…

    Sorry again, Jonathan, I’m with you all the way! "bb" can be interpreted in different ways, and I chose the wrong one…

  100. 100)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    Snap, pop, snap, pop…not even a crackle!

    Jonathan – Dr. Parenti’s name rings a bell, but you could refresh our memories for us…

  103. 103)
    Kat said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hi All

    I’m not in studio this week, so monitoring the situation with the show very closely. As you know, we are having some difficulties! WHAT A SHAME!!! Brad managed to get at least one promo in there for the Blogathon!!!

    The signal keeps dropping out — we were on for a few minutes there! Now, there’s an archived show broadcasting (it’s an auto function when there are problems).

    The plan is to continue recording the show right through all the problems so that we have a clean show for tomorrow’s rebradcast!

    Thanks for your patience. Please send your well wishes to Brad who can’t help but be disappointed regarding these continued problems!! Although, all this support here on the BradBlog I know helps tremendously!

    HANG TOUGH BRAD! You are the man!!!

  104. 104)
    Winter Patriot said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    This is a rebroadcast of a previous show … one that Kira missed! … John Amato coming up and he’s hilarious!

    there are two more great hours coming if they keep replaying the same show John was part of …

    we’ll see! ….. ;-(

  105. 105)
    Brad said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    Wow…Great timing! You guys should hear tonight’s show! It’s great! 😮

    If the network doesn’t fix the prob shortly…we’ll have it either way on tomorrow’s ReBRADCast…We’re pressing ahead with some great guests!

    Yeesh!

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    Jonathan Gold said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    Peg… Dr. Michael Parenti is a political scientist… he graduated from Yale, he was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. He’s written 17 books, and 100’s of articles…

    There’s a video I have of him giving a lecture in Canada that I like people to see…

    Click Here

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    Partridge said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:35pm PT: [Permalink]

    @Kat

    Well thats good to hear 😀

    @Brad

    These things happen (quite often on BradShow apparently). I’ll lay any money that its the work of the hobgoblins of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy 😛

    I look forward to hearing the new show tomorrow then. All the best.

    Keep up the good work.

  109. 109)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks, Jonathan #106 –

    I can’t do video – slow dial-up connection here in the boonies. But I’ll do some googling, unless you have some good links. And yes, I know I’ve read of him, but I’m a little distracted and frazzled at the moment.

  110. 110)
    Kat said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    Back on now! This is the live show. For how long, remains to be seen. I’m not breathing now.

    Sounding strong Brad — way to go!!

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    Torqued said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:46pm PT: [Permalink]

    Peg C., I’m skeptical of anyone claiming the Pentagon hit was a missile. It’s a possible disinfo campaign designed to discredit the real work being done to get the truth. The CIA acts in this manner, it is a well known fact. Be wary. Make them produce the facts or out them for who they are.

    Just my 2 cents worth.

  113. 113)
    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:49pm PT: [Permalink]

    Shucks is right, Peg! Out again.

    Hey — in light of the anonymous donor who is to match purchase amounts or donation amounts, I have just made a couple of purchases! If you guys out there intend to buy something from the BradStore, do it during the show to get in on the matched funds for Brad!

    ROCK ON — I got sound again. Yay – I love the horror channel commercial.

  115. 115)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:50pm PT: [Permalink]

    Torqued #112 –

    I’m afraid your reference leaves me scratching my head. Did I miss something? I haven’t even been thinking about the Pentagon just now. And never fear…I’m a skeptic to the core!

  116. 116)
    Kat said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    Folks

    We are recording a fantastic show tonight! Brad is doing a wonderful job and we’ve got great guests, as usual!

    You will not want to miss it tomorrow. The show is a tribute to our friend, Andy Stephenson.

    Thinking positively! Sometimes by Hour 3, we have worked out all the ghosts!

    WE ARE NOW LIVE AGAIN!!! with Victoria Parks

  117. 117)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 2:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    I’ve had to turn off the stream – I wasn’t getting anything anyway and posting here was slower than grass growing.

    I’ll try again tomorrow…

  118. 118)
    Torqued said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:01pm PT: [Permalink]

    Peg, Jonathan #86 is pushing the missile theory. He’s either CIA or belonging to someone equally destructive. He’s worse than a troll. But thats my opinion.

  119. 119)
    Peg C said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:10pm PT: [Permalink]

    Well, Torqued #118, there are some strange, unexplained things about the Pentagon hit, but I tend to favor (perhaps) the unmanned-drone idea because of the type of part found there. Howsomever, I’m just suspending all judgment until facts are produced. The towers – now THAT’S a fertile area of investigation!

    I didn’t know what Jonathan was alluding to, just that he was a 9/11 investigator.

  120. 120)
    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:20pm PT: [Permalink]

    Who knows what actually happened without having an independent investigation. It was ALL strange and there are TOO MANY unexplained things about every aspect of 9/11 and the days/events leading up to it.

    I think we should stop talking like we "know" what happened, since we can only speculate. (Is that what you mean, Torqued?) But, Sherlock Holmes once said, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

  121. 121)
    Jonathan Gold said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    Woah… wait a second. I never said I’m pushing the Missile/Pentagon theory. Those who know me, know I stay AWAY from what can’t be proven.

    I said Howard Stern mentioned it on his show, and as a result, his Bulletin Board lit up like a x-mas tree of truth tellers.

    I don’t subscribe to those kinds of theories. I don’t give them much thought.

  123. 123)
    Scott said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    I think there might be something to the missile theory and the pentagon. When you watch the 9/11 whitewash commission report, they go over at least 17 well documented but well missed facts.

    David Ray Griffin did an excellent plot summary of the circumstances. Whether the pentagon was hit by a shrapnel missile or a small military aircraft, there is certainly evidence that the real story about the pentagon bombing was covered up. They simply removed it from the files.

    Scott

  125. 125)
    Jonathan Gold said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    I don’t follow those stories because they can’t be proven. You can spend hours talking about explosives, and missiles, and remote controlled airplanes, and never come to a conclusion because all of the evidence is gone.

    Here’s a good example of what I like to focus on…

    Click Here

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    Scott said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:37pm PT: [Permalink]

    Also since we’re on the subject, it was recently reported that Dick Cheney was well connected to the 9/11 attacks. He may in fact have commissioned them to happen or, simply allowed them to happen in order to get his plans.

    According to http://www.fromthewilderness.com several MITs have extensive proof NORAD doing the war games right during the time period for 9/11. They were apparently running drills.

    Interestingly Bush had relatively little to do with 9/11 and didn’t even know the plan was actually being hatched, and to this day he may not have fully any awareness of this matter.

    Almost everthing was planned by military officials who were drafting the write-up of the PNAC plan, so in that sense what we’re dealing with here is some very greedy people using mis-guided religious afciandos to push and maintain their agenda.

    Although we’re now 4 years later, and the U.S/Britain are making plans to withdraw from Iraq. It seems PNAC’s plan is falling apart.

    http://www.waynemadsenreport.com goes into some striking areas of the conspiracy, including showing how a band of israeli neocons were involved in 9/11 and they call them AIPAC.

    Scott

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    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 3:57pm PT: [Permalink]

    Well — The BradShow is great in between the cutting out parts! Let’s hope the Blogathon brings financial help to Brad to get settled into a great studio so they can iron out the bugs.

    We are the Village here — remember to make your purchases before the show’s over to get in on the matched funds deadline.

  135. 135)
    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 4:20pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hey! Steve Viele is on now! Wow! It’s really good to hear him talking with Brad.

    We love you Steve!

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    Winter Patriot said on 7/9/2005 @ 4:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    re #122 — Don’t take it personally, Jonathan. It happens sometimes when people don’t understand other people … PLUS: we never even talk about what a "troll" IS, so I would be surprised if we could get up a consensus to what the word means… Personally I don’t think you’re a troll … but, like all my opinions, it’s not worth the paper it’s not written on. 😉

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    Steve said on 7/9/2005 @ 4:54pm PT: [Permalink]

    What happened? No one commenting. I think I put everyone to sleep! I want to apologize to Winter Patriot and Torqued especially, and all the rest of you (I should mention Joan who I had intended to add to Brad’s list of people, I think he mentioned Peg C.) who have helped. I was dead asleep after dosing off in my chair at the computer listening to Brad Show reruns when I was awakened by a call from the show saying that they couldn’t reach Sheila Jackson Lee and needed me to come on. My biggest fear in being on was that I would be too nervous or too tired to remember to thank everyone, preferably by name, and sure enough, I didn’t thank you all. Winter Patriot, Torqued you guys are the greatest. Truly special people and it has been my reward that I have gotten to know you as more than great pseudonyms while putting this together. I owe you guys!

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    Steve said on 7/9/2005 @ 5:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    Kira-

    Were you on the show? I really did fall asleep and lost track about half way thru the 2nd hour.

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    Kat said on 7/9/2005 @ 5:07pm PT: [Permalink]

    Can you believe it? The network switches into an archived Final Five?!? Too bad!

    Steve, appreciate the kind comments — YOU!! The interview with Brad was swell! Good to hear ya!

    Thanks everybody for your continued patience. We will work through these glitches — I just know it.

    Thanks Brad, Gregory, Desi and Jaime. I missed you in studio this week! See you there some time soon.

  142. 142)
    Kira said on 7/9/2005 @ 5:14pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hi Kat! It was kind of confusing tonight with the intermingling of live and "memorex!" :haha: Brad said you drove 14 hours to be on tonight! Oh — that must have been "memorex!"

    Y’all just need to get the chipmunks outta there!!! Too funny.

  143. 143)
    Brad said on 7/9/2005 @ 5:28pm PT: [Permalink]

    We’re uploading the show now to the network so the ReBRADCast should be perfect tomorrow (Sunday, 12noon-4pm ET, 9am-1pm PT).

    Yeesh. Not the studio’s fault. It all went *great* from here.

    Trying to figure out what was happening at the network.

    Frustrating to say the least. And both Kira and Steve were *great* by the way!

    My favorite hour was Bill Israel (HOUR 3), a friend of Karl Rove’s with some amazing insight and our tribute to Andy at the end.

    God bless you all. I need a nap.

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